When a professor and biological anthropologist asked on social media if anyone besides her friend and herself had experienced changes in their periods after getting a COVID shot, she expected a few hundred responses, at most.

But when she got over 165,000, she knew something serious was going on. The changes were varied, severe, and scary, to the point that some women even feared they had cancer. Yet, when the women tried to report the changes, they were ignored and even ridiculed.

In an opinion piece for The Washington Post, the anthropologist, Kate Clancy, explains that until she and other feminists pressed for answers after their COVID shots, the nuances of women’s menstrual cycles have basically been ignored through the ages.

But things changed after Clancy and her peers began demanding research on the shots’ effects on periods, and, she says, “Without our intentions, or our methodologies, the National Institutes of Health might not have been inspired to release funding to support research studying this reported phenomenon, and we wouldn’t have multiple studies and surveys supporting our early findings that the coronavirus vaccines can induce short-term changes to the duration and flow of menstruation.”

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The Washington Post April 18, 2023