Endometriosis affects at least 1 in 10 women, and likely far more, since it is heavily under diagnosed. Yet most doctors receive little to no formal training on this disease. Because of this gap, women spend an average of 7–10 years searching for answers while their health, fertility, hope, every aspect of our life are slipping away.

If my first doctor had been properly educated about endometriosis, I and countless other women might have had a chance at motherhood. A change of being able to work. And so much more! Instead, too many of us are left with irreversible damage to our bodies because our pain was dismissed. This is not just ignorance, it is negligence.

The lack of education is hurting us. It is disabling us. It is killing us. Women with endometriosis are at higher risk for:

1. Severe depression and anxiety from being told our pain is “in our heads.”
2. Causing irreversible physical harm including: nerve involvement, bladder and bowel damage, and life-altering chronic pain.
3. Suicidal thoughts and attempts, because living in untreated pain is inhumane.
4. Infertility and lost change at motherhood, when this disease silently damages reproductive organs for years and could’ve been easily prevented.

Little to nothing is being done to change this reality. Endometriosis is still treated like a “minor period problem,” when in fact it is a systemic, whole-body disease that robs millions of women of their health, their futures, and too often, their lives.

We are calling on medical schools, licensing boards, and healthcare leaders to:

1. Require comprehensive training on endometriosis in medical education.
2. Mandate continuing education for practicing physicians.
3. Update diagnostic guidelines to reflect current research and patient realities.
4. Treat endometriosis as the serious, multi-system disease it is—not just a gynecological condition.

We REFUSE to accept another generation of women losing their fertility, their mental/physical health, their careers, their relationships, and their lives as a whole because doctors aren’t trained to recognize this disease.

Please sign and share this petition to demand action. Women with endometriosis deserve doctors who are educated, compassionate, and capable of providing real care. Enough is enough.