What the heck! Trans women get periods apparently

I agree but some do have uteruses

This diagram needs to be shown to many nowadays, sadly, facts are being lost, poor children, no wonder so many are confused.

The bollocks that men and their handmaidens push through the trans ideology. You cannot change sex. Biological men don't have periods or uteruses. Unbelievable that this needs repeating.

And not forgetting, of course, to add a pair of really short gleaming white shorts.

Those short will be an essential part of every trans-woman wardrobe for when they go rollerblading as per all those sanitary towel ads that we used to see all over our televisions, just to show how very effective those modibodi period pants are.

No, they mean trans women, and they understand the difference. The link in the OP takes you to the full text, but this is a more expanded quote:

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. Some trans women undergo gender-affirming treatment in the form of feminising hormones. These hormones can result in a range of physical and emotional symptoms - there’s a list of symptoms, none of which are bleeding, then - For many trans women, this is their period.

I’ll bite, as a card-carrying TERF (ie no entry to female-only spaces. This does not mean ‘No entry anywhere, under any circs, and kindly go away’)

Biology matters above pretty much everything else, really, given the demands made.
But on your specific point, yes we all know chromosomal anomalies do occur and this has never been denied nor was it ever wished away.
These cases though are not transgender individuals.
‘Transgender’ is dangerously and irresponsibly being employed increasingly as a catchall term for anyone not adhering to the strait and narrow in terms not only of gender presentation, but also sexual orientation, and as we see here, chromosomal idiosyncrasy.

Quite why this'd be the case is open to question, though census findings spring to mind, and the uses to which resultant statistics are put.

Anyway, Enjoy your wine.
Ive certainly used up a month’s allowance of ranting for one day.

@Caplin My mention of GCSE biology upthread was nothing to do with chromosomes: it was to do with having to draw a nice labelled diagram for my GCSE biology, way back in the early 1990s, of all the hormone variations during the menstrual cycle, including the release of the egg and the production of the corpus luteum (which then goes on to produce progesterone and trigger the pituitary gland to produce more, and so on.).

Didn’t you ever do this? (Is your biology education not up to scratch?) Hint: taking oestrogen as a trans woman is nothing like a period and has nothing in common with any of the cycle that produces a period or period “symptoms” in women.

You’re welcome. Enjoy the facts along with the wine!

They probably also sell tomato sauce snd pads/tampons so that periods can be “authenticated”.

Modibodi simply doesn't seem to understand the difference between transmen and transwomen.

Obviously many trans men have periods.

That's one of the real issues. The treatment of women worldwide is not a side issue. It's up there with war, pestilence, death and whatever the other one is...Seriously, women's issues are not side issues, they are important. Women are more than half of humanity and we are constantly told that our niche needs must wait upon the great upheaval being sorted - whichever one it is. Fed up with waiting, thanks. We'll deal with our issues and then sort out whatever is left (it won't be much).

basically calling something that isn't a period a period.

Its those pesky words having meanings again that's causing the problem.

I am so fed up with people 'innocently' trying to redefine words to mean what they want them to mean, then getting all pissy when anyone notices.

So modibodi are trying desperately to be inclusive of men. Why stop there? Why not market their tat to post menopausal women who wish they were younger?

I mean, it makes as much bloody sense (more, really).

Its ageist of them to only market their products to young people

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What kind of zoo animal is a uterus haver? I have a uterus and Im a woman.

they can however get PMS. Trigger by the synthetic hormones they take.

They can't.

Women experience PMS due to fluctuations in hormone levels throughout the month due to their menstrual cycle.

Men don't have menstrual cycles. Those who take female hormones take a consistent level throughout the month. Ergo, no fluctuations.

They cannot experience 'pre menstrual' anything as they do not menstruate.

It is hard to express just how furious all this makes me. I started periods when I was 13 and the first few years especially were very hard. I suffered from nausea and severe pain - the worst pain I have ever been in in my life (probably because I never went through a 'natural' childbirth).

Still had to get on with school/studies/work regardless. Like millions of other girls & women like me....there is no way any man can possibly understand, though it is no surprise that a few are arrogant enough to think they can. One of the 2 best things about being in my 60s (alongside less harassment from men) is no more periods.

If I was still having them I wouldn't touch Modibodi with a barge pole, and I hope through the power of MN the consequences of their insulting, belittling and patronising women come back to hit them hard. You would think that the provider of a service which is specifically dedicated to meeting the needs of girls and women, would be 100% focused on girls and women; if only because they constitute their customer base. But no.....instead women have to suffer this patronising claptrap exhorting us to focus on the needs of trans women instead and 'be a good ally' to them. Women must 'be kind' after all....even in managing a process which is exclusively about them, they are instructed to prioritise men.

I'm so sick of men and their allies appropriating everything.

And @Caplin no, no I won't think of the poor men.

Men do not have periods, not even men who identify as trans women. I am very sorry that this upsets you so much you need to drink wine.

But seriously, if you can't see how offensive this nonsense is to women, I literally have no words.

I had a hysterectomy years ago. I still get some hormonal symptoms, like sore breasts and weird headaches, but I haven’t had a period since - because I don’t have a uterus any more. They can fuck right off with “Trans women’s periods are just as real and valid as anyone else’s”. Of course they’re bloody not. The symptoms of an artificially induced hormonal fluctuation are a side-effect, not a fucking period.

Having a period feels totally normal and fine for many trans women. Some even find it deeply cathartic and validating.
“Cathartic and validating”? Fuck sake. I couldn’t leave the house on my heaviest days, and I had to set an alarm for the middle of the night to get up and change the pad and tampon I was using simultaneously, just to avoid ruining another mattress.
Great to have the option to “chat with your doctor about adjusting your hormonal regime so that it doesn’t trigger a noticeable cycle” though. Just like a real woman dealing with her (equally valid and almost identical) problematic period symptoms. 25+yrs of debilitating pain and anaemia, with periods lasting 7+ days on a 28 day cycle (and only when that became 9+ days every three weeks, with extra unexpected bleeding at random points, was I able to finally - after a bit of a battle - persuade my GP to refer me for further tests). Totally the same experience as “chat with your doctor about a simple tweak to make your self-inflicted symptoms entirely disappear!🥰” The similarities are uncanny; it must be so affirming and validating for them.

Being a good ally to trans women during their period means being respectful, understanding and supportive.
Understanding of WHAT exactly? What “support” does an attention-seeking male pretending to have a period need?

You posted your "ranting screamy hate filled nonsense males can have female reproduction processes because you are not ignorent crap". 👍

Enjoy the fermented grapes

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They are very much the 'I'm a lady you know' caricature of Little Britain ... that strange looking over the top male version of what a woman is. Again they got it wrong.

Thats more acute than you might think!
Wouldn't this be typical of the way so many transwomen ape femininity by dressing up as exaggerated, cartoonish ladywomen, never as short-haired, lipstick-free hoodie ‘n’ jeans wearing regulars?
They want seem to want a fantasy of frills and furbelows, stilettos and false eyelashes, and imaginary female frailty wilting onto the nearest chaise longue.
Thus, a period care kit like you describe could be a huge money spinner!

(Im sure I recall a very famous British sex symbol years ago going on about buying Tampax after her menopause in order that visiting studs would see them in the bathroom and be reassured as to her likely age.
Wouldn’t this be a simpler ruse for trans women than ingesting alarming quantities of hormones?)

I’ve not read the whole thread but why was the even a question on their website anyway.

Are you experiencing menstruation? Yes. Then buy this product. No need to bring anything else into. Only those who have periods will need it so it, and 100% of those people will be people with a uterus.

To be fair, taking hormones that are not naturally occurring in the body surely must have hefty side effects. HRT is meant for women and solves an intrisically female issue so of course you'd feel better for taking it. I can't imagine what sort of havoc would be wreaked by getting on a hefty course of testosterone or if I were a man, how female hormones would make me feel. That article takes something which has a degree of truth but twists it into something else (Having had adenomyosis for decades, reading this does make me think they're comparing apples and carrots).

Many trans and gender-diverse people menstruate. Whether you’re a woman, a man, non-binary or agender, your body may menstruate too.

This is the biggest flaw of the article basically saying anyone can menstruate…. We all know only women menstruate

Tbf I think they should double down and start selling a Tans Woman Period Kit that contains

• chocolate because women always eat chocolate when they have a period,
• tissues for all the weeping,
• some pink pyjamas and fluffy pink slippers for all the lolling about women do when they have a period,
• a hot water bottle with a fluffy pink cover for those cramps
• a dvd of some soppy romance

Just awful.

It is mindblowing that society has let this be done to women and girls. Particularly at the younger, more impressionable end, who may not have the life experience to see how damaging it is.

He can't 😅

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