Something else? Ask Aunt Vadge – bottom left of your screen!PRESS RELEASE – 14 November 2025
In July 2025, OpenAI — the company developing some of the world’s most widely used AI systems — permanently deactivated My Vagina’s business account for “policy violations”. The women’s health clinic and education platform appears to have been flagged for using standard anatomical terms such as vagina, labia and discharge in clinical contexts.
The deactivation occurred without warning, explanation, refund, or access to a human review. Founder Jessica Lloyd received a single email from OpenAI’s Trust and Safety team stating that its automated moderation system had “identified ongoing activity… not permitted under our policies.”
Despite lodging a formal appeal through OpenAI’s required process, Lloyd received no reply — not even an automated confirmation — after repeated attempts. More than four months later, My Vagina’s account remains deactivated with no communication from the company.
The sudden termination left years of integrated work inaccessible and disrupted services that rely on OpenAI’s technology.
“It’s difficult to understand how an educational health platform can be banned for using medically accurate language,” says Lloyd. “The system can analyse complex queries, but if you ask it about vaginas or sex, alarms go off. Women’s bodies are still treated as inappropriate by default.”
Lloyd highlights what she describes as a structural issue in AI training and classification, where women’s health content is routinely sexualised by automated systems.
“These systems have been trained within frameworks that don’t recognise the difference between health and sex,” she says. “It’s a technical problem with real-world consequences.”
Independent research supports this pattern. The CensHERship White Paper (2025) reported that 100% of femtech companies surveyed had experienced rejection, suppression, or account suspensions for educational women’s health content. The Center for Intimacy Justice (2025) found similarly high rates of suppression under broad or ambiguous “explicit content” policies.
“We see women’s-health providers forced to write ‘v@g1na’ just to make their content visible online,” says Lloyd. “When those same patterns migrate from social media into AI systems, the impact is far greater.”
According to Lloyd, this case demonstrates that women’s health censorship has moved beyond social platforms and into the foundations of emerging AI governance.
“The next frontier of women’s censorship isn’t Instagram — it’s machine learning,” she says. “If AI systems are not trained to distinguish sex from science, they cannot deliver reliable or equitable health information.”
My Vagina has had no further communication from OpenAI and remains locked out of its account and accumulated credit.
About My Vagina
My Vagina is a specialist naturopathic clinic and education platform founded in 2015, providing evidence-based resources and support for vulvovaginal health.
Media contact
Shereen Kiddle, PR Consultant
shereen@milkk.com.au
+61 413 875 776
References
- Censorship revealed: The impact of digital suppression and censorship of women’s health, CensHERship White Paper, Clio Wood, Anna O’sullivan, Cristina Ljungberg, Aleksandra Lundqvist, June 2025
- The Digital Gag: Suppression of Sexual and Reproductive Health on Meta, Amazon, TikTok and Google, Jackie Rotman, Carol Wersbe, Mneera Saub, Ja’Loni Owens, 2025
- OpenAI Model Spec 2025 published February 12, 2025 by OpenAI
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