Dr. Jen Gunter

And so I'm like 19 and I'm like, wait, what?

Like, that's the answer.

I was anemic.

I went to give blood and I was turned away.

And I was like, oh, really?

You mean like bleeding for eight days, a cycle is not normal.

I didn't know that.

And and so, you know, I I suffered with the bleeding because I was like, hey, I guess there's nothing you can do.

And I got into medical school and I was like, wait a minute, wait a minute.

Walked over to the OBGYN clinic, stole some pills.

Rest is history.

But I could not have got through a surgery that would be longer than two hours on my menstrual cycle without bleeding all over the place.

So, you know, is but should I be using that story to tell everybody they should be on the pill?

No, that's wrong.

That's what happened to me.

And so I think this idea that stories are absolutely powerful, but they have to be used in context.

And you also have to think, like, what's the message?

So if I was giving my birth control pill story and I had a whole wall.

Jen's birth control pills behind me.

Right.