“Is there any chance you could be pregnant?” a GP asked Yorkshire-based Lena (she/her) at a first-stage assessment for endometriosis. She shook her head. “Are you absolutely positive? Do you use contraception?” the doctor replied. Lena is a lesbian and hasn’t slept with a man since she was 17. Embarrassed, she explained that she took a contraceptive pill to manage period pain, but her girlfriend being a cisgender woman meant that she was in the all-clear. “Oh,” the doctor blushed.
Lena couldn’t
