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What the heck! Trans women get periods apparently

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charcoalandsugar · 21/11/2025 12:42

https://eu.modibodi.com/blogs/womens/transwomen-period

AIBU that this is the most ridiculous thing for a company to claim.

"Can a transgender woman have a period? Absolutely. Many trans and gender-diverse people menstruate. Whether you’re a woman, a man, non-binary or agender, your body may menstruate too."

How some trans women get their period

How some trans women get their period – Modibodi EU

Menstruation is a part of many people’s lives. Find out how some trans women get their period and how you can be a supportive friend.

https://eu.modibodi.com/blogs/womens/transwomen-period

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AudHvamm · 21/11/2025 14:13

Oh FFS, I do like the Modibodi pants 🙄

ThatCyanCat · 21/11/2025 14:13

Dollymylove · 21/11/2025 14:07

Here's what happens. Frozen tomato puree inserted in poop wound.
Tomato puree thaws and just like that, period pads are needed!!

What?

You what?

Mydadsbirthday · 21/11/2025 14:12

briq · 21/11/2025 13:00

Ooh, the part about how to support and affirm them is... 😡

Made me so angry to read that. Fuck off Modibodi. I will never buy products from a company spouting so much shit. Great way to reduce your sales.

Dollymylove · 21/11/2025 14:11

Gymnopedie · 21/11/2025 14:08

Now listen up. You're not being kind to the men who might be 'on' when they go for the cervical smear they've demanded (and sometimes got.) Cos they're a biological woman, innit.

Can someone explain where they insert the speculum? Its a bit large to fit up a blokes dick 🙄

charcoalandsugar · 21/11/2025 14:11

AmandineChamallow · 21/11/2025 14:08

Whether you’re a woman, a man, non-binary or agender, your body may menstruate too.
They mean a woman who is a trans man or non binary or agender I think

I thought that too at first but then I read the bit about not all trans women have uterus’s and stared like this 😲

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pigsDOfly · 21/11/2025 14:11

When I had my hysterectomy over twenty years ago I stop having periods. Why? Because I no longer had a uterus. I had HRT but the hormones I took didn't cause periods because, I no longer had a uterus.

So how the hell do the people from a company selling period products seriously think it reasonable to claim that some trans-women may menstruate because of the hormones they take. Trans-women are biologically men, and like me, do not have a uterus.

Prime example of magical thinking.

toottoot3 · 21/11/2025 14:11

catontheironingboard · 21/11/2025 12:56

They’re not cheap, either! I actually have some Modibodi period pants, bought way back when they were one of the only companies making them. But no way would I buy from them again after reading this absolute nonsense. I don’t like to be lied to by brands who are courting my business whatever the subject. Treating your potential customer like a fool is not a good look…

Going by that logic it must be hard for you to buy anything, what large brand companies do and lie about it pretty obvious from food to fashion. How do you navigate that?

AmandineChamallow · 21/11/2025 14:08

Whether you’re a woman, a man, non-binary or agender, your body may menstruate too.
They mean a woman who is a trans man or non binary or agender I think

Gymnopedie · 21/11/2025 14:08

Now listen up. You're not being kind to the men who might be 'on' when they go for the cervical smear they've demanded (and sometimes got.) Cos they're a biological woman, innit.

AngelinaFibres · 21/11/2025 14:07

Dgll · 21/11/2025 14:01

It is written like a parody. I bet someone in marketing was pissing themselves laughing when they wrote it?

Tryjng to be clever often backfires. Gerard Ratner tried that when he compared the earrings his company produced to an M and S prawn sandwich.He said the sandwich would last longer. His company went bust shortly afterwards.
I doubt modibodi will survive for very long if their only customer base is blokes. If I still had periods I wouldn't buy from any company that suggested transwonen were women.

Dollymylove · 21/11/2025 14:07

Here's what happens. Frozen tomato puree inserted in poop wound.
Tomato puree thaws and just like that, period pads are needed!!

MelOfTheRoses · 21/11/2025 14:06

Zippedydodah · 21/11/2025 13:29

Could always ram a tampon up their penis I guess?

I remember a You Tube video where someone, recently surgically affirmed, tried a tampon in the newly created orifice, then complained it hurt. 🤪

Brefugee · 21/11/2025 14:05

to be fair to them, in this economic climate, every sale is a small success, right?

01Name · 21/11/2025 14:04

I'm still waiting for the day when a TW sues the NHS for having the audacity to diagnose her with prostate cancer.

Dgll · 21/11/2025 14:01

It is written like a parody. I bet someone in marketing was pissing themselves laughing when they wrote it?

eqpi4t2hbsnktd · 21/11/2025 14:01

We need to boycott this pervy shit. It's the same as adult nappies.... it's not ok and it's not part of women's lives.

Men using sanitary products is perversion.

TamarindCottage · 21/11/2025 14:01

AgentPidge · 21/11/2025 13:52

He's not thinking his woman-ness hard enough. Has he tried period pants?

My husband was affected by my night sweats as the heat I generated in the flush woke him up every time. He was thrilled when I started on HRT! 😂

Pedallleur · 21/11/2025 14:01

I'm not a Doctor but has human biology suddenly changed? Egg, uterus, womb. Where are these periods coming from assuming a biological male?

MelOfTheRoses · 21/11/2025 14:00

PrawnofthePatriarchy · 21/11/2025 12:55

Some years ago I came across a discussion on one transgender discussion group where men were saying they retrieved used sanpro and used it themselves. Presumably they put the tampons up their bums. There are few limits to what fetishists will do.

Oh dear - I remember this too well 🤢

Millytante · 21/11/2025 14:00

JaneOfGaunt · 21/11/2025 13:38

Wow, so bigoted. What about uterus-havers who identify as men who identify as women?

What a cunning ruse!
Yet Alice Through The Looking Glass absurdity is going on already is it not, where burly, even bearded transwomen are calling themselves lesbians, and insisting not only on right of access to exclusively lesbian spaces but to a legal right to be embraced by the women as equally biologically female, failing which any reluctant and dismayed lesbian lover is denounced as bigoted, homophobic and transphobic, and no doubt also stereophonic, alcoholic, and all the other ‘ics’ as well.

AngelinaFibres · 21/11/2025 13:59

charcoalandsugar · 21/11/2025 13:55

I tend to incline my head and squeal in delight at nothing after the pillow fight in my tiny nighty. Do you?

I get my bicycle out and cycle through the cobbled streets of a sunny city whilst wearing tiny white shorts and waving my beautiful long hair about sexily....and then I pop off and have a swim.
What I actually did was curl up in a ball of agony for the first 2 days and pray I didn't have PE or swimming at school until it had finished.

TamarindCottage · 21/11/2025 13:59

Crocsforlife · 21/11/2025 12:43

lol

First post nailed it! 😂😂😂😂😂

LarryIsMyRomanEmpire · 21/11/2025 13:58

charcoalandsugar · 21/11/2025 13:55

I tend to incline my head and squeal in delight at nothing after the pillow fight in my tiny nighty. Do you?

Absolutely whilst swapping our modibodis for extra affirmation.

MatronPomfrey · 21/11/2025 13:57

I don’t buy this brand because of rubbish like this. I do wonder if it’s a marketing strategy to sell period underwear to men.

What the heck!  Trans women get periods apparently
viques · 21/11/2025 13:57

I want to know if modibody are adjusting the ahem, fit, of the period pants for men to accommodate the structural differences between male and female bodies, or are the poor chaps just going to have to get used to feeling a bit constrained one week in four.

Will help those who find a higher register voice hard to maintain I suppose. “Charmaine must be on his period this week, his voice a has risen by an octave.”

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