When girls and women complain of pain, they are liable to be dismissed, as the above research shows. The same plausibly holds for non-binary people, as well as many of the men who are not privileged, in terms of race, disability, sexuality, or class, among myriad other social factors. And, of course, for women who are subject to multiple, compounding forms of oppression on such bases, the situation is often far worse than for women who are privileged along these axes.
