What the heck! Trans women get periods apparently

Our middle-aged, live action role playing brother, currently claiming to be a trans woman needs proper help. Companies like this do not help.
He has gone from bored, to frustrated that being a selfish idiot hasn't worn him happiness, to porn addicted, gender expressive and finally fully blown living the period dream.
He needs proper help for depression, addiction and strategies for managing stress. He does not need further rabbit holes to disappear down looking for kicks.

Thank you for the company name and the helpful PP who meant I didn't add clicks.
Boycotting this one along with Snag, and yes, I am the major purchasing department for work and my daughters.

It's very Gileadian, the suggestion that we should go along with groupthink, even when we know it's bizarre and just wrong.

“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.”

Modibodi thinks some Trans women have uteruses?

https://www.modibodi.co.uk/pages/contact-us

What are they thinking! Well they weren't thinking. Biological Men whom call themselves trans women, never have uteruses and don't have periods.

I've just sent them a message thru their chat telling them they are ridiculous. I suggest everyone does

surprisebaby12 · Today 15:47
Does it matter? Trans people are an extremely vulnerable minority that is persecuted on all fronts every day. Just let it go.

Yes it matters.

It matters because this company is absolutely peddling lies. Transwomen don't have periods and therefore don't need period products.

It matters because the people that actually need these products (you know, women) are fed up of being asked to shove over and 'affirm' the delusions of men.

Careful, expect a donut cushion for Christmas. Anything you mention this close could be given real consideration

I read an interview by, I believe, one of the first endocrinologists to do this. They said that their male patients were distressed that they lacked ‘periods’ so felt they were never going to be women.

The endocrinologists admit there is absolutely no medical reason to cycle the hormones. It is pure validation.

Very good point. False claims and all that.

Then why make it worse? Sympathy and support for the trans community will for sure erode steadily when ridiculous stuff like this emerges?

I hope they do, cramps, clots and all. Enjoy.

Maybe the company should be reported to the Advertising Standards Board

@surprisebaby12 Yes of course it matters. It matters because:

a) They are spreading misleading information. Some readers will take this information at face value- I know it’s hard to believe but some people, especially perhaps those who are young or uneducated will read this and believe that some male people have uteruses and periods.

b) You claim trans people are vulnerable- helping them affirm their delusions is the opposite of allyship.

c) It’s offensive to actual women. Those of us who deal with periods and everything associated with them (pregnancy, infertility, menopause) throughout our lives. You don’t find it insulting, but you don’t speak for all women (as you can see from the majority of responses on this thread).

Unfortunately, I believe it comes from top down and from the Sydney head office.

I've seen this claim that trans women have a monthly hormone cycle before. But is it actually true? Why wouldn't a doctor give a consistent daily dose? What benefit would come of varying it over the month? Just having female hormones doesn't make it a cycle. I no longer have a period or any other discernable monthly cycle since having a Mirena (and glorious it is too!) - clearly I still have female hormones but they are steady through the month.

Oh good grief, be reasonable.
Most transgender persons must have it pretty rough, I do not doubt, and I’m glad I never had to navigate my way through such confusion.

But not everything done or claimed under the umbrella of ‘trans rights’ is honourable, let alone logical.
No amount of empathy or generosity towards transgender people on my part will ever allow me to concede that a trans woman is a woman just as I am.
Not only is that fundamentally utter bollocks, to coin a phrase, but it is part of a broader strategy to erase women’s experience and annexe our identity (along with any necessary ‘privileges’ that has always necessitated).

If this bellicose and colonialist attitude, this well-known make entitlement, had not been prominent in so much of the trans activism we've see in recent years, the feeling would be very different.

But as it is, many of us have a hard time resisting the response that all this is just the patriarchy trying to do us down as usual, but this time in a dress.
Same old, same old. ✊🏻

Yup. For the validation.

I have done this multiple times now to Sydney head office. They send the same email about being inclusive.

Men who pretend they have periods for kicks sounds like they have a fetish or perversion, those type of men don't sound very vulnerable, because they aren't.

Do biological men (trans identified men) get periods - do they bollocks. They ought to get their prostrate checked though since wearing a dress and dangly earrings and shouting 'I'm a woman you know' doesn't offer protection against it.

All transwomen (trans identified men) don't have uteruses not one single one of them. men don't have uteruses.

Well, the company is gaslighting this extremely vulnerable minority into thinking they can have periods when they can't.

That's not very KIND is it?

It will have been given the green light higher up the chain nonetheless.

So that’s what was giving me gyp just now while I was hoovering - my prostate! I will tell dh that’s why I’m putting my feet up for a bit. 🙂.

I suppose this expands their market of potential customers.

Fetishists. And the delusional.

Too right it's an expanding market. 🙄

If a transwoman is bleeding from their penis or 'neo-vagina', what they need is a physician. Not period products.

I suspect it’s more likely to have been written by enthusiastic female interns or young marketing people at the company, who have been fed this stuff at university and from all the usual media outlets, from Tumblr to the late (not-lamented) Teen Vogue.