What the heck! Trans women get periods apparently

hahahahahhahaha what even are words anyway

Exactly!

I used to waste a lot of time on Twitter before it was X and it was very common indeed to see some deluded male talking about having his period and various empty-headed #bekind types lapping it all up. As far as I could make out it was all about abdominal cramps, feeling a bit out of sorts, needing a great deal of attention and a big bar of chocolate. Anyone sane who mentioned what a period actually is, i.e. shedding the lining of the womb as part of the menstrual cycle, would be told that the bleeding was a relatively unimportant part of having a period and not to be a hateful bigot. Well, as someone who found periods almost literally a curse for several decades (I had endometriosis), I beg to differ. Thank god for the menopause. That is all now behind me.

I won't buy this brand... if they are that stupid and offensive to women then I van't believe in their products.

Let men buy their products for their periods... see how fast they go bust!

There is a research team in London etc fund raising on how to do this ( as experimentation on babies is what a cool father decided is the best start in life ).

Gosh I have, every month just before having a sleepover in a tiny nighty with pillow fights and then we all scissor.

They don't.

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

This is so stupid.

The defining characteristic of menstruation is the loss of blood etc shed by the lining of the uterus when it breaks down. Things like mood swings, food cravings, cramping etc etc are not necessary for menstruation. Of course lots of women get those things but they are not essential.

If we allow to these idiots to redefine our biology like this they'll be removing bleeding from the diagnosis for menstruation, so that won't be recognised as a part of it, while the defining characteristics will be mood swings, tenderness etc because men can experience those things. If men can't do it, it doesn't signify.

Modibodi more than Budlight and all the rest deserve cancellation. Boycott.

Totally. All yours fellas

I recently started reading The Knowledge by Dr Nighat, unfortunately this wonderful, informative book was ruined for me by the unscientific bullshit about Trans people experiencing illness which only women have. I have lost two children, suffered years of pain/bleeding due to medical gaslighting when I was eventually diagnosed I lost an ovary and part of my bowel in emergency surgery. My tolerance for men thinking they have/can any understanding has completely disappeared.

When I was looking for period swimwear earlier this year, I came across that absolute bollocks and immediately added Modibodi to the list of retailers I won't purchase from.
They make their profit from periods yet apparently fail to understand basic female biology.

This isn’t the first time I’ve heard this claim. A few years ago I worked in a secondary school that had a company come in to talk about relationships with the kids as part of PSHE, including talking about LGBT relationships. Part of the day included a performance and then once back in the classrooms a member of staff from the company came to chat to the kids. A male member of the company came to the classroom I was in and a girl asked if it was possible for a transwoman to have periods. His answer was ‘that would depend on what their doctor says’, he left after that question. I was furious and told the kids it was impossible for a biological man to have periods as they don’t have a uterus. I complained to the PSHE lead but they didn’t really care. I wasn’t sure whether he purposely gave that answer as he believed it or he was just too stupid to understand but it really annoyed me that someone who came to the school as an ‘expert’ talking to the students about relationships was giving incorrect information and confusing them!

Bizarre. Won't be buying any of their products again. Seems like they have a target audience that is bringing them more revenue than women so good luck to them.

Shame really, because if they did, sure as eggs is oops missed you this month eggs you can bet your life savings that within the year there would be legislation guaranteeing a paid week off every month for menstruating women, sorry people. .

I had spotting post 60 and finished up needing a D&C with polypectomies and - two years later - a series of uterine biopsies.

I felt a bit 'off' at some points when my HRT needed to be tweaked - a bit like PMS - but that was it. When my Mirena coil was inserted, I had a bit of cramping for a while, but not all women get that. (I'm taking HRT as long as I can - there's horribly severe osteoporosis in my family and biphosphonates are contraindicated because of another family condition.)

A man taking female hormones is certainly not going to get the symptoms associated with having a uterus.

The men who are reporting cramping have bowel trouble. it's blatantly obvious when you read their gloating comments on Twitter.

Words are actual violence
stating facts is violence

calling for women to be punched in the face and doing it is not violence

This. I'm on HRT tablets that I swallow daily and HRT I take vaginally ( everyday for 2 weeks initially then every 3 days). That's a nice lot of HRT and I feel well because of it. I never get ( nor have ever had) in the last 10 years of being on these drugs, a single twinge, cramp, discharge or anything remotely resembling anything menstrual of any kind and I am an actual woman and still have an actual uterus so how any of that could possibly happen to a biological man is ridiculous.

Lying to people with no experience of periods that wearing their very expensive pants is all part of the authentic experience is pretty cynical marketing, verging on the exploitative actually. Obviously it's on the customer if they buy in, but it's pretty distasteful to think that people sat round a table and thought how best to profit from them while pretending to be their allies.

If a male human of any gender identity is bleeding from the genitals, that person needs to see a doctor.

Shameless marketing at the gullible and those with period fetishes from this company. Clearly they failed to consider how many women boycott companies who spout this nonsense.

this is good to know

I am wondering what else was incorrect from my biology lessons. I mean many men have denied having sex with women who have given birth to their child/children

Thanks for creating today's earworm.

🎵 And when you put it all together there's the model of a charmless assigned male at birth...🎶

I read a piece a while ago where men really were taking whacking great doses of female hormones with the express intention of experiencing period pains (in what organ, you’d wonder).
Just so they can hang out with each other and their deluded female enablers and commiserate with each other about the woes of womanhood.

I also read a thing on some blog (more fool me) where some trans women were trying to whip up some angry activism about scarce HRT bring ‘wasted’ on post-menopausal women instead of it being more readily available for MtF transitioners.

I dont know how JKR keeps her cool; I really don’t. I can feel my eyes cross and my brain clench up in fury when I read more reports about men seeking to wrest our basic experiences from us for their own dilettante whims, and thereby further erase more of the map of womanhood.

Wherever you look, just on AIBU alone, never mind ‘out there’, we find men who feel the day is wasted unless they have in some way diminished a nearby woman and restricted her right to occupy space.
(If you have a good ‘un, sisters, don’t let him slip away! They'll be going at €1m per kilo soon)

If Blur were to release Boys & Girls now this would probably be the lyrics!

Except didn’t it turn out they’d never actually tested it, but had read a couple of highly speculative papers from the 70s which were based on one anecdotal case and had no substantiating data?

So much actual nonsense circulates in this “gender” discourse where actual facts ought to be.