[radfem-articles]

Submission by:

me (saw it posted by @avesblues2 on this post)

Title:

Hysterectomy: Bad for the Heart and Much More

Image:

Publishing date:

August 21st, 2025

Author:

WS

Website published:

hormonesmatter.com

Article length:

783 words

~ 3 minute read time

A Mayo Clinic study has shown that hysterectomy without removal of ovaries increases the risk of heart disease. Women who had a hysterectomy before age 35 are at a particularly high risk. Specifically, their risk was 4.6-fold for congestive heart failure and 2.5-fold for coronary artery disease. But this association is not new. This 1981 study showed a 3-fold increased risk of heart disease after a premenopausal hysterectomy. This would include most women who undergo hysterectomy. This 1982 study and this one from 1985 cite the uterine substance prostacyclin as the likely factor in women’s heart health. Since about 45% of women have a hysterectomy, it is no wonder heart disease is the #1 killer of women!

Heart Disease: Just the Tip of the Iceberg

Hysterectomy is bad for much more than the heart.

Hormone changes. Hysterectomy impairs the function of the ovaries which are part of the endocrine system. Multiple studies have shown this including this one and this one. This would logically predispose hysterectomized women to the same increased health risks and accelerated aging of ovary removal (castration). According to numerous studies such as this one and this Mayo Clinic one, the risks of ovary removal include heart disease, stroke, metabolic syndrome, osteoporosis, hip fracture, lung cancer, colorectal cancer, dementia, Parkinsonism, impaired cognition and memory, mood disorders, sleep disorders, adverse skin and body composition changes, adverse ocular changes including glaucoma, impaired sexual function, more severe hot flushes, and urogenital atrophy. Wow, what a list for such a common and rarely necessary surgery!

Figure changes. The uterus and its ligaments are key to the integrity of the pelvis. The cutting of those ligaments, the pelvis’ support structures, destroys pelvic integrity. As a result, a woman’s figure changes. The hips widen and the torso collapses until the rib cage sits directly on the hip bones. This causes a shortened and thickened midsection, protruding belly, and loss of the curve in the lower back making the derrière appear flat. These changes lead to back, hip, and leg problems, chronic pain, and impaired mobility. These effects are discussed here. Back pain after hysterectomy is one of the (many) “dirty little secrets” of Gynecology.

Organ dysfunction. The uterus sits between the bladder and bowel and keeps them where they belong. Hence, these organs drop and are adjacent to each other after hysterectomy. These changes can cause dysfunction as discussed here and here.

Sexual dysfunction. The uterus is a sex organ. Many hysterectomized women report a loss of sexual function – libido, arousal, and ability to orgasm – with or without ovary removal. Many also report feeling asexual and emotionally empty. This may explain why a renowned gynecologist referred to the uterus as a woman’s “heart center.” How ironic that the uterus is also essential to heart health!

Cancer risks. Last but not least, removal of the uterus increases the risk of some cancers. These include thyroid, renal cell (kidney), bladder, rectal and brain cancers.

The Devastating Toll of Hysterectomy

Women’s experiences are also compelling evidence of the devastating effects of hysterectomy. It can affect every relationship and aspect of life having far-reaching societal repercussions. Here, here and here are some heartbreaking stories of shattered lives. The Bleeding Edge documentary chronicles the stories of a few women who were harmed by Essure (tubal sterilization coils) and subsequently had hysterectomies. The HERS Foundation’s recently launched “In My Own Voice” project includes some women’s stories. Hopefully, more will come forward and share their experiences.

The uterus and ovaries are essential to a woman’s whole life. Female organ removal has been proven over and over again to be incredibly harmful as far back as 1912. Yet 45% of women end up having a hysterectomy. And over half are castrated at the same time which further increases the risk of heart disease. Additionally, more women have ovaries removed during separate surgeries. It is no wonder heart disease is the #1 killer of women.

Female organ removal is the biggest healthcare con as discussed here. Lack of informed consent is standard. And even worse, gynecologists commonly use unethical tactics such as instilling fear of cancer and intentionally misinforming women about the consequences. If women knew the facts, very few would consent to hysterectomy or oophorectomy.

In conclusion, the medical industry can no longer put its head in the sand or deny the horrific harm of these surgeries. Only 10% are done for a cancer diagnosis. Yet, it appears that they are gearing up to do even more. The Graduate Medical Education (GME) hysterectomy minimum was recently increased from 70 to 85. When will the ethical medical professionals or authorities address this intentional harm and sexual assault of almost half of U.S. women?

[captain-price-returns]

A real page on the White House website

[nimashkawizii]

Oh no, this *is* real. Also, apparently it's not just the White House anymore, it's Trump's White House...

[standwithdaanes]

Link to the page (archived just in case).

Everything is fine here guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nansheonearth]

Reblog this if you’re 30+ years old and in the radfem tumblr orbit.

[vintage-bentley]

I don’t even know what to say except that we see this exact same thing from religious groups. Don’t ask questions, be wary of those who do. Blindly believe or else you’re The Enemy.

[vintage-bentley]

This is how you can tell an ideology isn’t based on truth: they discourage asking questions about it. Blind belief and obedience is the only way they can stay afloat, because once you start asking questions, things start to not make sense. They say that asking questions is dangerous, because they know that all it can lead to is a loss of faith in their belief system.

[butterflyfault]

"Always be wary of people who are just asking questions." Gay people don't say this when people question if homosexuality is real. Feminists don't say this when people ask what it means to be oppressed as a woman. Scientists don't say this when people wonder what the research really means. The people who do say this: - Mormons: "So-called friends can introduce doubt by asking hurtful questions." (2017 Ensign) - Moonies: "It was dangerous for someone in my position in the organization to ask questions that couldn’t be answered. The other group leaders filled me with so much fear about deprogrammers that my questions were shelved. I believed my spiritual survival was at stake." (Combating Cult Mind Control, Steven Hassan) - Jehovah's Witnesses: "In that environment, she began to thrive, ask critical questions, and challenge assumptions—none of which is permitted in the Witness world." (Combating Cult Mind Control, Steven Hassan) - Scientologists: "I rapidly found out that if I asked 'hard' questions, such as the relationships between their corporations, various churches and other companies they deployed at that time, I was discouraged politely but firmly from ever asking those kinds of questions again. If I persisted, and I did upon several occasions, I was ignored entirely. Several highly-veiled threats were made of what would happen if I persisted in asking questions, most of which I ignored." ("The Scientology Revolution," Dave Laird) Rejection of rational analysis, critical thinking, and constructive criticism is a form of thought control, used by high-control groups to keep their members from questioning the beliefs and doctrine of the group. https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/bite-model-pdf-download/

[naistensaari]

"Just asking questions" is also a tactic often used by insincere participants.

Nobody Who Says They’re “Just Asking Questions” Actually Wants an Answer

Social media has given rise to armies of self-proclaimed skeptics and truth-seekers who wouldn’t know the truth if it slapped them in the…

But saying that "just asking questions" is ALWAYS a tactic is also stifling genuine conversation and stopping people from pointing out dangerous, illogical, or criminal activities.

Asking questions is also a polite way to actually try to understand someone else's point of view and can be quite genuine. It's just that sometimes, when having to answer a question or having to explain yourself/your actions, your ideas and actions get challenged and that might make you think. Evil.

[vintage-bentley]

The point that asking questions is often just a polite way of understanding somebody else got me thinking about how the “queer” community actually views questions in the first place.

Many “queer” people have this pretentious attitude of being Educators and feel they need to ✨Educate✨ people (which really just means lecturing at them and expecting immediate agreement with no questions asked). When they’re asked a question, they see it as an Educational Moment where they now get the opportunity to lecture somebody and change their heart. They don’t see it as a conversation with an equal power dynamic. They are the Educator and the Expert, you are the poor ignorant soul who must learn from their wisdom.

This means when they have a conversation where somebody asks questions, they expect it to essentially be a classroom setting where they educate, and you say “yes, teacher” and don’t question their knowledge because they’re the expert and you’re the student. They expect you to come away from the conversation grateful for having learned something new, and they expect you to agree with them.

But that’s not how questions work, especially in relation to ideology. Just because someone asks a question and you give an answer doesn’t mean they have to find that answer acceptable. It doesn’t mean they need to agree with you—in fact your answer may actually do the opposite and make them disagree with you more strongly than they might have before. I’ve had Christians ask me questions about being an atheist and while my answers are perfectly acceptable and sensible to me, I wouldn’t be surprised if they came away from the conversation shocked at how sad and godless my life must be.

And I think this is why so many radfems get told “you need to talk to trans people”, even though most of us are where we are ideologically because we’ve spoken to trans identified people. The “queer” community has immersed themselves so much in this culture where it’s demonised to ask questions and actually want to think critically about the answer instead of blindly accepting it, so they don’t even consider that form of communication as a possibility. If somebody disagrees with them, it’s because they’re uneducated, they don’t have the magical knowledge bestowed upon them, and their minds will be easily changed if they just listen and learn.

And unfortunately for them, their arguments usually are incredibly nonsensical, contradictory, sexist, and homophobic, and can’t stand up to critical thought. So of course they’ve arrived at the conclusion that asking questions is Bad—almost everyone who asks questions seeking to think critically about the answer, ends up disagreeing with them. And it would be too world-shattering to consider the possibility that maybe their answers are the problem.

[capricorn-season]

UK: Woman Who Was Sexually Abused By Transgender Pedophile Has Her Objection To His Early Prison Release Rejected - Reduxx

A woman who endured years of sexual abuse at the hands of her father has had her pleas to stop his early release from a UK prison denied. Ce

[bichoplaza]

*puts 3-4 privilege modifyers in front of the word woman so you dont notice how my comment is misogynistic*

[shes-unforgettable]

*puts 3-4 privilege modifiers in front of the word man to distract you from the fact that its a male problem*

[radfemyjasdottir]

This is Emily Willis, an infamous rape on tape actress who suffered a cardiac arrest in a drug rehab facility. She suffered brain damage while unconscious and is now in “locked in syndrome”. She cannot walk or talk and probably never will. She is 26.

Naturally, men are asking if she will keep doing porn in this state. She cannot consent, at all. Her “doing porn” would be her getting raped, having it filmed, and then uploaded for other men to masturbate to. Some are even volunteering themselves to rape her.

Never ask me to ever give a single fuck about men’s rights while they’re saying this shit without shame on the internet. They're admitting they either masturbate to rape or would rape given the chance. This is the demon that the porn industry creates. Women and children, disabled or able bodied, dead or alive, have to suffer from this disgusting and inhumane industry. A porn actress dies, or is left permanently paralyzed, and all men say is “I wish I could fuck/rape her” “I’m going to masturbate to videos of her clearly suffering”. This just proves my theory that the ultimate male sexual fantasy is rape. And I’m supposed to care about Men’s Mental Health?

Emily, who’s actually Litzy, was my friend, though a brief friendship. And I must add that she was ALSO sex trafficked by a John who was involved with Girls Do Porn, which had been investigated and found guilty of human sex trafficking.

[antiporn-activist]

This is what you support when you defend pornography.

[leonardcohenofficial]

audre lorde, from “uses of the erotic: the erotic as power” included in sister outsider: essays and speeches

[lesbianerin]

i wish every woman could experience being in a true female only space at least once. a space away from men in a secluded area. cooking, eating, dancing, creating, swimming, existing only among women. no need for make up, clothing that’s not comfortable and practical, no bras, no shaving, no artificial femininity. if you wanna walk around naked you can be, no one’s gonna stare at you, no fear of a man sitting in the bush filming or masturbating. no body shaming or pointing out any part of your body. no pressure to look perfect. no need to look perfect. just existing and being enough, living without fear and in harmony with our bodies and nature.

[kiefbowl]

here's some more unsolicited adult advice as someone in her 30s who knows there are a lot of twenty somethings and teens that follow her: if you're trying to build a new habit you really want, and are struggling, you have to break it down to the smallest building block possible. If you're failing, you haven't thought small enough. I know it's possible to hear stories of people who just snapped into new life mode one day by "just deciding", but truly what's happening there is a confluence of events and experiences that force the brain into some sort of epiphany. You cannot will an epiphany. It'll never work. For most times of your life, you will need to build habits intentionally, and that means not working against yourself and to set micro goals. like laughably tiny goals. because once that easy tiny goal is met, you can build off it, tiny goal after tiny goal until you reach your big goal.

so for example, if you want to be a morning person that gets up at ass crack dawn so that you can work out, eat brekkie, shower, and get to work at a leisurely pace, and you're not that person because you will hit your snooze button 800 times, you have to get the big picture goal out of your head. think smaller. "I want to get up 15 minutes earlier than I normally do." If you can't do that, make it 5 minutes. "I want to cook breakfast every day" hell no too big. "I want to eat something, anything, before I leave the house" hell yeah, fantastic. When you go to the grocery store to make sure there are things in the house for breakfast, if you keep buying bagels and microwave sandwiches that you ignore, you gotta think smaller. SMALLER. What's something so easy to eat that you'll never say no to. Is it a yogurt? Is it a handful of grapes? Is it a hostess ho ho? is it hot cheetos? FORGET the big picture of the fantasy put-together woman preparing a full nutritious meal that you'd be proud to admit to. Think only of the smallest goal you can achieve. If you know you can't say no to an ice cream sandwich, put a ton of ice cream sandwiches in your freezer and have one for breakfast every day until it's so instilled in you that you gotta get up to eat something you can start diversifying.

It sounds like, from the lack of habit place, that must take forever. But really it doesn't take too long to form the habit once the discipline kicks in. the trick is that you have to give your brain something easy to become disciplined to. If it's too hard, think easier and smaller. No one has to know. Literally no one in the gd world has to know that for 4 weeks when you were 22 you had an ice cream sandwich for breakfast every day. who cares. If it gets you eating oatmeal with fresh fruit in a few months who cares. you did it, yay. smaller, easier. if you can't do it, think smaller and easier. smaller!! EASIER!!! You are not thinking smaller and easier enough. break your brain thinking how small and easy you can go. SMALLER. EVEN SMALLER, SIS.

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

about that "male firefighters actively sabotage equipment that female firefighters use"you said... were there documented cases or just something you personally noticed?

This isn’t the article I recalled, but an example anyway:

Morningstar was hired but given a 90-day probationary period; for men it was 30. Then the gear theft and tampering started. Her gloves, hoods, and radio vanished (2007); her mask was sabotaged (two weeks after 9/11). She found what appeared to be semen on her bed (2012). Clothes continued to be stolen and destroyed. Word of the harassment rose all the way to Mayor Don McIlroy, and the department issued a warning against equipment tampering, but nothing substantively changed. 

Another:

Her concerns included having her firefighting gear tampered with several times

And another:

Ever since Judy Brewer became America’s first female firefighter 45 years ago, women have been hazed in the fire service, including sabotaged oxygen tanks and glass in their boots.

More:

You’re living twenty-four hours a day in a firehouse and nobody will talk to you. Shit in your boots. Women at the front end of a fire hose and a fire scene and the water gets cut off from her.

I can’t even find the article I had in mind (it was around four or five years ago), but it looks I didn’t need to.

[swedepea]

And men wonder why women don’t want to go into male-dominated career fields. 🙄

[officialweatherwax]

I love when MRAs are like “women make men do all the hard and dangerous jobs” while the women who do enter those fields have to put up with men trying to kill them

[greenwire]

Not to mention that women make up the majority of sweatshop workers, prostitutes, and slaves in the world. Men only do more of the “deadliest” professions because prostitution, sweatshop labor, and human trafficking aren’t catalogued as real jobs nor are they subject to any safety oversight.

Additional source: prostitutes have a higher risk of fatality and violence than the official deadliest profession, which is mining, I believe.

[chadradfem]

This firefighter thing is so terrifying cos not only are men putting their female colleagues at risk, but also putting the people they’re trying to save at risk of harm and death. Men are so fucking stupid and hateful

[femclasscirce]

I know this is in the realm of personal anecdotes, but last year I went on a date with a girl back in France who had done firefighting training and quit the force afterwards specifically because of shit like this. She explicitly told me that if her place goes up in flames, firefighters will be the last people she calls for help. Which gave me chills.

This problem clearly isn’t restricted to the anglosphere, I’d be interested to hear from other countries if any of you gyns have info on the topic

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

I would too.

[thesinisterspinster]

In my area several years back we had a female firefighter who comited suicide because her male co workers treated her like shit. Now i wonder what else they where doing

[fortitudinis]

London Fire Brigade was found to be institutionally sexist and racist during an Independent Culture Review in 2022.

https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/media/8183/independent-culture-review-of-lfb-report.pdf

‘We heard from women who had been verbally and physically assaulted, bullied, harassed, intimidated, abused online and held to a different standard. This ranged from being groped during training exercises and kicked and punched to having their uniforms urinated on and men keeping diaries of when they suspected women were on a period and telling them they “didn’t want to be around women who were bleeding”. It was reported that some men had explicitly said they didn’t want women on their watch and there were multiple accounts of women being subjected to unwanted sexual attention.’

One female firefighter said: ‘It’s now reached a point with me that I tell my female friends not to let male frefghters in the house. I would advise any single woman not to let them in to check smoke alarms. Why? Because I know what they do. They go through women’s drawers looking for underwear and sex toys. Then they will spend hours bragging about the dildo they found and they will refer to the women as sluts. We hear it all the time and I’m sick of it. You shouldn’t have to listen to this all the time in any workplace.’

[watermelinoe]

if it's so unethical to want to avoid giving birth to an unhealthy baby why should women avoid drugs and alcohol during pregnancy

[watermelinoe]

what it all comes down to is the belief that pregnancy is god's will, that babies are gods creations, and women's bodies are just the vessels he uses to make life. it's the belief that pregnancy is passive. anything the woman does to actively interfere with god's plan is her playing god and acting above her station.

but we know this is bullshit, that women's bodies make unconscious decisions regarding pregnancy, from conception to miscarriage, prioritizing her welfare above all else. if binge drinking during pregnancy is an active choice that creates a disabled child, materially so is continuing a pregnancy that you know will create a disabled child. there is no difference in outcome for the child who has to deal with the lifelong disability. and there's no material difference between miscarriage and abortion, either, except that one is a conscious choice. fundamentally, what people are uncomfortable with is women defying what they see as divine authority by exerting her own will over creation. but she's the only god in this scenario, because nobody's getting created without her.

[joyforshort]

[certifiedmanbeater]

“No one hates women more than other women.” has to be the most idiotic take because when men/women use this line, it's always in the context of women calling each other ugly, fat, basically criticizing one another, but we all know damn well no one hates women more than men.. It’s a fact. Women calling each other mid doesn’t measure up to half of the things men do out of pure hatred for women.

[evenlesssentimentaltranslator]

Victoria Smith rewired my brain when she said that society has decided on a division of labour where men commit violence against women and then it's women's job to fix it. Women are supposed to dutifully pick up the pieces after men's rampages. Not call men out, that makes us evil feminazis, but just quietly tidy up so that no one has to think too hard about the fact that every beating, every rape, every murder was perpetrated by a sentient human being - not a random weather pattern - against an equally sentient human who thinks and feels just like everyone else.

[evenlesssentimentaltranslator]

(This is also why my take on gendies and libfems who ostentatiously yell at women like tradwives and I'm Just A Girl girlies is "if you're not going to actually name men's role in all this and oppose forms of misogynistic oppression that left wing men like, don't act like you have moral high ground over those women.")

[dailymarvelheroes]

get you a man who can do both

[nitramaraho]

one of my patients came in for an emergency visit, because she snapped the wire on her retainer watching the movie when MBJ took his shirt off she clenched her teeth so fucking hard she snapped it. that is the fucking funniest shit ever to me this tiny 17 year old girl thirsting so goddamn hard she busted steel

[crystalitesummerstar]

Y'all, it gets better. She found out.

[buzzfeed]

We interviewed her, obviously.

[buzzfeed]

update:

[rainbowselfies]

[blvckgeezus]

Such a developing story.

[pastdueeverything]

I love this story

[athenadcvell]

This was a wild ride from start to finish

[gambit-of-a-small-rabbit-deacti]

I know I say this a lot, But this is one of the best things on this website

[nitramaraho]

Sophia is currently doing great in college, and I still get about one kid a month in the office who asked if this really happened.

[demigoddessqueens]

I found it!! The original post!!

[urcadelimabean]

HAS SHE SEEN SINNERS

[madenthusiasms]

Preferably when she wasn’t wearing the retainer.

[mich3454fest-deactivated2020110]

Not to be a freak but why isn’t anyone into being.. gentle and not evil in bed

[rosedustd]

Also why is it that sex that isn’t wildly misogynistic or otherwise sadistic and borderline/actually abusive is immediately referred to as “boring”??? What does that say about you as a person?? What does that say about our society?? Also tmi but to be honest if things get too rough my body literally goes numb anyway. The lack of nuance in sensations is boring to me like the what fuck has porn done to people???? The definition of modern “exciting” sex is just beating someone and at least hinting at some sick parody of rape. Just because you have a boner doesn’t mean it’s any less fucked up.

[maslows-pyramid-scheme]

In the 1980s, when many women were graduating with professional degrees, anger against women crackled the airwaves [popular culture recast tender, intimate sex as boring]. We saw a stupendous upsurge in violent sexual imagery in which the abused was female … In a world where both sexes’ guilt and angry fear surrounded the sense that women were getting out of control, the public quickly lost interest in ordinary unharmed nakedness. Presented as more compulsively engaging to the attention of men and, eventually, women, was imagery that played out anxieties from the sex war, reproducing the power inequality that recent social changes had questioned: male dominance, female submission. Female nakedness became inhuman, ‘perfected’ beyond familiarity, freakishly like a sculpture in plastic, and often degraded or violated.

Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

[friendlyfreakazoid]

It’s actually funny as hell that you can successfully ragebait like 99% of the human population just by existing as a woman and not altering your natural body. Like people get SO MAD about a woman having leg hair but like… thats a natural part of all human bodies 😭😭😭 it’s a human trait, it’s part of the package of being a mammal…

[marbleguard]

there is a synonymizing of "butchness" with "mastectomies" happening in our current day and age that I find highly disturbing. I see butch representation photosets going around where almost all of the women have elective mastectomies. People in the notes find this aspect specifically inspiring.

[bushpropaganda]

gnc women being pressured into a dangerous surgery with a difficult healing process that removes perfectly healthy tissue just to look more male because masculine=male in the year 2026 👍 this is progressive apparently and somehow rejects???? gender roles????

actually fucking insane. nice to know homophobes have finally figured out how to trans the gay away without being seen as homophobic.