War on Womanhood: Where are the Feminists?

My articles about the attack on pregnant women by BigPharma propaganda and NZ 'expert' BigPharma shills like Professor Nikki Turner have triggered multiple personal emails from my readers. Heartbreaking and horrifying stories include family breakdowns, disabilities, harassment, gaslighting and bereavements. There's no doubt this global war against womanhood - whether it's on our bodily sovereignty, gender identity, political history or natural fertility - is carefully orchestrated. Let me provide some further evidence (that shocked me) of the unethical surveillance, exploitation and manipulation of women's bodies. The scope and intimate nature of this control makes the Big Brother character 'Christof' on The Truman Show seem harmless by comparison.

Femtech: "There's an app for that!"

...is the common retort. Whether it's checking the weather or feeding your chooks, our phones are never far away. I've written before about the dangers of NZ patient apps: MyIndici and ManageMyHealth. And some women readers may already be aware of (or be using?) apps that allow them to track their monthly period. It's easy to promote [free?] apps that claim to take away that 'inconvenience' of a marking a date on our calendar or 'listening' to the regular, recognisable signs our bodies provides. (Of course it would be easier for women if this kind of thing was taught in schools, but that's another topic). But nowadays, tracking 'monthlies' isn't the only Female Technology (branded 'femtech') that's available for women.

The femtech industry markets a wide range of services, tools, and diagnostics including period tracking apps, fertility testing kits, breast cancer diagnostic technologies, pharmaceuticals, and more, with the aim of advancing women’s health while making a profit. [Source]

N.B. No apologies, male readers! You definitely need to know about this stuff. Whether this is for your partner, wife, mistress, daughter, daughter-in-law or grandchildren - this knowledge is for the sake of humanity.

Venture capitalists and impact investors recognised the enormous potential for femtech a few years ago - women in the 21st Century are so busy, right? Juggling family, work, home and other modern commitments means health and wellbeing is not given the priority it deserves - having an app with your 'personal AI companion' is so convenient - 24/7. Anyway, don't you know how women are suffering in healthcare systems? We are underserved, delayed, discriminated against, misunderstood and gaslit. So femtech is a Godsend - these companies really are there to help and support women. Or are they?

Some women using period-tracking apps are learning about aspects of their bodies whilst planning/trying to get pregnant. I'm not criticising that, it can be a positive experience. What I strongly object to is the lack of voluntary informed consent, people cannot understand the T&Cs or security settings on these apps (something I'm writing about for next week's article) - nor are they aware of their own risks from exploitation through data harvesting.

Adding to the complexities for these app designers, some women use period trackers to avoid getting pregnant. But unless the data they input is extremely regular and accurate, this has been shown to lead to unplanned pregnancies. It's important to consider who funds these apps:

As hinted at in the above screenshot, in a study of the potential exploitative structure of these apps, it was discovered that many women were not providing informed consent. Many app companies were found guilty of selling personal period data to Meta, Google and other corporates that target women with adverts for sanitary and related products.

Then there's women's bodily secretions, all in the name of The Science™. Let's take this example:

NextGen Jane is a [US] diagnostics company that hopes to harness what they call the “menstrualome” — a collection of quantified data extracted from menstrual blood — to develop precise diagnostics for menstrual and gynecological health conditions.

Difficult though it may be for some of us to understand, especially after the 23andMe story, there are women who genuinely think that posting their used tampons to a group of unknown 'researchers' in a laboratory is "for the greater good". I kid you not. These 'worried well' have no symptoms but are convinced that BigPharma genetic testing can save them from some future disease. The CEO of NextGen Jane, Ridhi Tariyal, is (of course) ex-BigPharma herself and specialises in genetic AI for the Broad Inst, so she knows how to play the game of selling a 'solution' to a problem that doesn't exist. Tariyal is NOT a social justice entrepreneur. She worked with impact investors in emerging markets in the African continent where BigPharma interventions are spun as addressing gendered health inequalities. But more on that in a moment.

Another App Know Your Lemons records a woman's self-examination of her breasts, monitoring signs of potential breast cancer or other disease. Again, I'm not critical of these types of educational platforms per se, what I'm highlighting is the informed consent that seems lacking and the protection of this very personal information.

An interesting Israeli company, Hera-MED and HeraBEAT monitors the heartbeats of the unborn. Leveraging the common fear-factor of pregnant women anxious about their baby's development, this app with ultrasound device is linked to an AI 'Dashboard' where regular virtual check-ins apparently lessen the risk of 'unscheduled' hospital visits.

CEO of HeraMed, Anoushka Gungadin has a background in China and lawfare and inevitably an 'academic' on Australian Deakin University's Council. Again, hardly a 'rags-to-riches' entrepreneurial lifestory. Lawfare is important in femtech, as I explain below.

Imagine if Truman had been a woman. Better yet, what if Truman had been a pregnant woman? Maybe it is 'entertainment', overseeing millions of women from pre-conception, to every semester of pregnancy, to birth and beyond. But this type of entertainment has a dark side. Women's health assessments and decisions - including their children not-yet-born - are being voluntarily handed-over to AI. Humanity's transition to a transhuman equivalent of our caring, wise grand/mother, aunty and knowledgeable midwife is now complete. And once 'caught' by this technology, where and when does it end? Just like our hero Truman recognised, every dataset is a potential marketing opportunity, every clinical outcome, a new lifelong customer. But wait, there's more...

I've left what I frankly consider the most depraved femtech product for last. The Lioness is marketed as a women's sexual health tool. Ann Summer parties have turned transhumanist. TMI? I don't need to go into too much detail here, but here's an explicit clue from their website, encouraging women to "use AI and biofeedback technology to better understand and discuss pleasure..." (nuff said?)

So, it's not just sleep patterns, biometrics, iris scans, weight, diet and exercise data that is being collected from women, analysed, manipulated and sold. The Technocrats now have our blood tests, unused uterus linings, hormones, heartbeats, genetics, emotions and the most intimate of women's bodily functions... What is it all being used for? One element is creating Digital Twins. Will Hanson Robotics' Sophia (that Michael Ginsburg and I wrote about here) be designed with the ability for 'lifelike' orgasms? Maybe it already is? (I think I'd rather not know tbh):

African Women's Health Data

Many readers will know about the multiple ways that developing countries continue to be exploited for BigPharma profiteering. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is just one of many examples where outcomes from unethical medical experimentation caused widespread death, disability and infertility. Where is the accountability for that harm?

But by strategically re/framing femtech with positive financial terms such as 'investment feminism' BigPharma can leverage astroturf groups to promote the claim that it is women entrepreneurs (especially those of colour) who are driving the development of 'female-centric' interventions. Yeah, nah. Here are some examples of those successful 'start-ups':

MumsVillage, or Malaica, maternity care in Kenya provides 'support' for mothers' physical, emotional and mental wellbeing. Uteroo is a (South African) app addressing menstrual and reproductive health through digital (AI) tools. Babymigo is Nigeria’s largest pregnancy and parenting app links expectant mothers with healthcare professionals while offering a 'judgement-free space for shared learning.' Users can access 'expert' articles and find local service providers, from hospitals to lactation experts. Hamil guide offers tech-enabled pregnancy education and tracking ...informed mothers make stronger health decisions.  {source - my emphasis}

I don't need to tell you that all of these apps are 'partnered' with BigTech, BigFood and BigPharma. Promotion of milk formula are repeated and some of the content is concerning. This quote is from the Uteroo Privacy Policy:

Your mobile device data informs us about the device that you use. This information includes the model, manufacturer, operating system, disk size, and IP address. This information is also collected by third party services such as Firebase and Google Analytics. 

And it also goes without saying that these apps all promote clinical interventions, alongside "essential vaccinations at key milestones":

What can we do?

The laws relating to medical devices and wearables is fraught with complexities and ambiguities. The definitions of clinical interventions and treatments quickly becomes outdated and femtech apps often land in that grey area between legal classifications. Caselaw is weak. It's not a coincidence that many of these femtech companies are headed-up by legal experts. The way these apps are described by the manufacturers and the cleverly-worded disclaimers included, often mean women are vulnerable to marketing propaganda, especially in developing countries. In reality, there are multiple risks, on individual and population levels.

Why (as others have pointed out) are prominent feminists absent from this topic? Ironically, having read alot of the femtech propaganda, it seems like women are themselves exploiting other women. Sensible, retired nurse Debi Evans coined the hashtag #ScrapTheApp when referring to the NHS app - which is now controversially partnered with globalist military BigTech company Palantir. And if Streeting secures his position on the UK's Podium of Truth soon, capture of our health data will only increase. Now, more than ever we need to encourage people to #ScrapTheApp - wherever you are in the world, and whether it's general health info or more personal data - delete it and encourage others to do the same. It's a simple, cost-free action of peaceful non-compliance that (at the very least) could delay this evil, creeping technocracy.

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