Petition: Recognize Endometriosis & Adenomyosis — Fund Research, Improve Care, and Recognize Them as Disabilities in Canada

To: The Right Honourable Prime Minister of Canada; The Honourable Minister of Health; the Parliamentary Health Committee; provincial Ministers of Health; CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)

We, the undersigned, call on the Government of Canada to:

1. Officially recognize endometriosis and adenomyosis as conditions that can qualify as disabilities under federal and provincial disability programs when they substantially limit daily activities or the ability to work.

2. Increase and ring-fence dedicated federal funding for endometriosis and adenomyosis research through CIHR and related agencies, prioritizing diagnostics, non-hormonal treatments, and long-term outcomes

3. Create and fund standardized, evidence-based clinical care pathways and timely referral access across provinces (including diagnostic imaging access, multidisciplinary pelvic pain clinics, and timely surgical care)

4. Ensure public health coverage for proven treatments and allied-health supports (pain management, physiotherapy, mental health support, fertility care where medically indicated)

5. Mandate education and training for front-line providers (family doctors, emergency clinicians, gynecologists) to reduce diagnostic delay and to improve early recognition and management.

6. Period Pay Relief: Ensure employees receive three paid days off per month to manage menstrual symptoms, recognizing the physical and mental impact of conditions like endometriosis and adenomyosis.

7. Publicly Funded Fertility Care: Ensure that Canadians affected by endometriosis, adenomyosis, or other medical infertility causes have access to free or heavily subsidized IVF and IUI treatments. Funding should be provided until the parents have successfully had two children, similar to systems in countries like Spain, Denmark, France, and the UK, so that no one is denied the chance to have a child due to financial barriers.