Why does this make me so angry?

[mypoosmellsofroses]

Trans related - why do I get so angry about people who have never had ovaries talking about being on HRT?

I keep seeing it and it winds me up so much. Is it appropriation or is it just that it is so minimising of women's experiences?

I had a hysterectomy and my ovaries removed due to illness and family history of ovarian cancer at 41. I'm on HRT, R being replacment, ie replacing what my body used to make.

I wouldn't have an issue with the phrase Hormone Therapy, why the fuck do they keep adding in the R?

Sorry just need to vent to people that (hopefully) won't go "meh, what's the problem"

[Ekphrasis]

I guess it is appropriation. It's not nice having to be forced to go on it due to medical need and having that experience minimised. I'm aware a trans person (might say) they feel forced to go in it due to medical need, but really it's psychological need. It dies make me think of Rachel Doezel (sp?)

Is not a replacement of anything lost for a trans women, they never had it in the first place.

Do they have to slowly reduce as we do and come off it later in life?

[TheCountessofFitzdotterel]

I know exactly what you mean. It's nonsensical.

[Ekphrasis]

Listening to Friday's women's hour and it really brought home that there's no way in hell a trans woman is ever a woman.

Liked the tip about masturbating twice a week to keep your vagina healthy during the menopause!

[SmartiesHaveTheAnswer]

Elk who was speaking, do you know? I'm listing podcasts to listen to on my drive to and from work.

I'm peaking my peak trans

[Terrylene]

There were people on all week. Monday was Dawn Harper, Tuesday was Louise Newson , Weds was Eileen Belot and Heather Currie , Thursday was DianeDanzebrink, , Deborah Garlick, and Ruth Devlin and Friday was Daisy Mae, Myra Hunter and Meg Matthews. All worth listening to.

[Terrylene]

Cross-sex Hormones seems to be used in non-trans circles.

[Hassled]

Well I suppose they are replacing their male hormones with female ones - or vice versa? In the range of trans issues to have to stop and think about, this isn't one I'm bothered about (and yes, I am on HRT).

[Ekphrasis]

I'm not sure but she was married to a Gallagher brother I think?! The whole week has been about menopause.

[Ekphrasis]

Ah thanks terry!

Yes - it was a truly women only space funnily enough...

[SophoclesTheFox]

It's not AIBU, but YANBU, mypoo. It does exactly the same to me. I really hate it. I am not fond of the phrase, but it feels appropriative.

[TammySwansonTwo]

I do understand what you're saying in a way.

I spent a couple of years on GnrH analogues in my mid 20s which put me into temporary menopause and literally destroyed my health, my libido, my career and nearly my marriage. When I hear them referred to as "puberty blockers" that are "harmless" and "totally reversible" I want to scream.

I have a great deal of sympathy for trans people, I can tell they must be suffering enormously to be willing to endure so much physically, mentally and socially in an attempt to make themselves feel "right". I know the havoc that hormone manipulation plays on the body and your life so I can understand how awful it just be to take hormones that biologically would never be produced in their bodies to that extent. Personally I think it erases their experience just as much as it erases biological women's experience when people pretend that the experiences are identical. What saddens me is that it's impossible to have a civilised discussion about all this without being branded a TERF.

[AngryAttackKittens]

It's part of the pretense that trans women were always female in some undefined way, thus medicine is "replacing" the hormones they "should" have had. Same thing as the switch from sex reassignment surgery (which was already nonsense, cosmetic surgery on the genitals doesn't change a person's sex) to "gender confirmation surgery".

[ladyballs]

I've never had kids and I'm furious when some clueless TIM says 'so women who don't have babies are men?'

And on this site, someone famous for me-railing told me my pain at infertility was easier to bear than theirs because at least I have a womb. This person had previously fathered a child.

Fuckers all. You're not women, bellends