Anemia's Not Because You're Female

Hat tip to rosefox.

Why yes, if someone had taken my anemia seriously, I might have less intestinal and nerve damage because my celiac disease might actually have been discovered.

Money shot (emphases are in original):

"They found a whopping eighty-six percent of these women had a gastrointestinal disease that was likely causing their IDA [iron-deficiency anemia]. Therefore, menses likely had nothing to do with their IDA, and the assumption that menses made them pathological actually obstructed a correct diagnosis.

The majority of the women in that study were bleeding internally, and no one had figured it out until then because they had periods."