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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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WearyAuldWumman · 21/11/2025 13:29

Oh. Have now caught up the thread. That explains a lot.

Re: period underwear. M&S period pants have improved. (I'm ancient, but I had problems with my HRT and uterine polyps plus hyperplasia until it was sorted out last year.)

Zippedydodah · 21/11/2025 13:29

Could always ram a tampon up their penis I guess?

Lalgarh · 21/11/2025 13:28

"Why isn’t the medical community looking into this phenomenon?"

Spoke too soon. They are already appropriating the disparity in how females symptoms are ignored

https://theestablishment.co/yes-trans-women-can-get-period-symptoms-e43a43979e8c/index.html

From the inevitable Animé picture profile source

nitter.net/Kitsu_Maru/status/1972244639756501477#m

Yes, Trans Women Can Get Period Symptoms

Why isn’t the medical community looking into this phenomenon?

https://theestablishment.co/yes-trans-women-can-get-period-symptoms-e43a43979e8c/index.html

Zippedydodah · 21/11/2025 13:28

JudgeBread · 21/11/2025 12:44

It's the one thing that as a woman if I had the power to give it to a man I absolutely would. If you want to spend a week every month cramping, bleeding, headachey and nauseous and dealing with the absolute joy that is period shits by God here you go, take it from me.

Alas with all the will in the world, it's not to be.

I totally agree, should be compulsory for any of these men wanting to be a woman.
I bet 99% of them would change their minds pdq.
Full on dysmenorrhea with nausea and diarrhoea would be non negotiable, every month for at least 7 days.

MavisBarrel · 21/11/2025 13:28

catontheironingboard · 21/11/2025 12:50

FFS. However, as I was just poised to buy some new period pants for DD, this is very useful as I will definitely buy from a different brand. Thanks, Modibodi, for clarifying my decision not to buy from you! 👍

[Honestly, do they not know their market? How many “gender diverse” customers do they have compared to mums buying pants for themselves and their daughters? Go woke go broke as they say.]

Argh I feel the same but theirs are way better than any other we have tried !! Do I need to try wuka ? Please recommend as this is not making me want to be a loyal customer .. idiots !

intrepidpanda · 21/11/2025 13:27

Thank you for that. I have always been a bit ignorant of this. This helps and makes a bit more sense now

ThatCyanCat · 21/11/2025 13:27

roseyposey · 21/11/2025 13:25

Is this our current deputy Prime Minister?

Yeah. Formerly Foreign Secretary. Thank God he was our emissary for peace in the Middle East, eh?

Ghostmartin · 21/11/2025 13:26

roseyposey · 21/11/2025 13:25

Is this our current deputy Prime Minister?

Yep, this is where we are as a country 😱

Burnnoticed · 21/11/2025 13:26

Many trans women have periods. Some trans women don’t have uteruses, so they won’t bleed as part of a monthly menstrual cycle. But the hormonal experience of menstruation can still be very real
so the company are accepting that trans women without uteruses (ie all of them) might experience hormonal swings but no bleeding, and then they still want to try to sell their bleeding-related products to trans women?
Not sure if that's the ultimate in cynicism or pure genius.

orangemapleleaves · 21/11/2025 13:26

Given that they link to the period pants twice, it's a basic marketing exercise targeting a very niche market using highly specific keywords

GROSS.

catontheironingboard · 21/11/2025 13:25

Littlejellyuk · 21/11/2025 13:23

How is this violent?
I honestly don't understand? 😕

Can someone please clarify?

@Littlejellyuk Gender ideologists claim that being misgendered is a form of violence that is just as violent to the person as actual violence is. (Don’t ask us why, we don’t make the gender rules 🤷‍♀️)

FashionVixen · 21/11/2025 13:25

Could the marketeer behind this be a terf queen, diverting $ from the pockets of delusional TiMs into R&D for products for actual women?

roseyposey · 21/11/2025 13:25

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 21/11/2025 13:20

The same David Lammy who though that the next monarch after the death of Henry VIII was...Henry VII and Marie Antoinette won a physics Novel Peace prize!

Is this our current deputy Prime Minister?

charcoalandsugar · 21/11/2025 13:24

Screamingabdabz · 21/11/2025 13:23

Does it breach advertising guidelines do we think? Is it worth a complaint to the advertising standards?

It’s a blog on their site.

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ThatCyanCat · 21/11/2025 13:24

WearyAuldWumman · 21/11/2025 13:22

Is this the 'my cross hormones are giving me the runs so I'm saying that I have period cramps ' that I've seen on Twitter?

They're quite literally full of shit.

roseyposey · 21/11/2025 13:23

Ghostmartin · 21/11/2025 13:17

They are basically encouraging men to buy their products so they can feel affirmation.

Yes.
It is turning a fundamental female bodily process into a fetish for men.

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Reminds me of that total freak who should not be allowed within 100 miles of any child man who said he could breastfeed his baby with the chemical concoction he squeezed from his nipples [vom-tastic]

Screamingabdabz · 21/11/2025 13:23

Does it breach advertising guidelines do we think? Is it worth a complaint to the advertising standards?

Littlejellyuk · 21/11/2025 13:23

HermioneWeasley · 21/11/2025 12:51

That would be violent misgendering. You can’t say trans man is any sort of woman.

How is this violent?
I honestly don't understand? 😕

Can someone please clarify?

WearyAuldWumman · 21/11/2025 13:22

Is this the 'my cross hormones are giving me the runs so I'm saying that I have period cramps ' that I've seen on Twitter?

Northquit · 21/11/2025 13:22

My only question back is it evri or royal male who deliver it?

Newmeagain · 21/11/2025 13:22

Ghostmartin · 21/11/2025 13:09

Let's face it, the company has confirmed themselves as fetishwear providers

Like Snag

Euuuw

Yes, exactly. There is something really icky about that text and I have just realised why.

Ghostmartin · 21/11/2025 13:22

I was finding it quite funny at first but having typed this, it now seems to me that
they just want to expand into the fetish market at the expense of the dignity of girls and women and now I think of it that way, its just a creepy, icky, gross sales tactic.

Totally this @MattDillonsEyebrows

At first, things like this do seem sort of amusing and stupid. Then we realise what's actually driving it.

MattDillonsEyebrows · 21/11/2025 13:21

So they acknowledge there is no bleeding.....

"Many trans women have periods. Some trans women don’t have uteruses, so they won’t bleed as part of a monthly menstrual cycle".

But then under tips it says:

"period underwear can help you feel comfortable, affirmed and empowered throughout your cycle."

So the only reason for the period pants is affirmation which as we know, for the penis people who would even contemplate using period pants its 'affirmation of fetish'.

I was finding it quite funny at first but having typed this, it now seems to me that
they just want to expand into the fetish market at the expense of the dignity of girls and women and now I think of it that way, its just a creepy, icky, gross sales tactic.

ArabellaSaurus · 21/11/2025 13:21

BurnTheWholeThingDown · 21/11/2025 12:53

It also says SOME transwomen don’t have uteruses.

hahahahahhahaha what even are words anyway

You have to wonder why they employ copywriters, when they could just empty the contents of the kitchen drawer over the keyboard and hope some of it lands.

Lunatics.

Anyway, supermarket period pants are cheaper and more comfortable.

ThatCyanCat · 21/11/2025 13:21

This kind of absolute shite is one reason why I stopped buying Modibodi products. The other reason was that it was shit and fell apart quickly. But even if it had been brilliant, I'm not giving my money to these insane tosspots.