Ok so someone educate me about neo vaginas **Title edited by MNHQ at the OP's request**

Ovulation pain, like a stitch,

Yes! Ovary ache we called it.

I remembered another!

Ovulation pain, like a stitch, it alternated sides each period. I used to make a note in the calendar because the time from ovulation to period (14 days) was always much more predictable than period to ovulation, which varied for me from 7 to 10 days.

I always thought that was so cool, knowing which ovary had popped one out that month.

Does/did anyone else get that?

I also want to add about the fact that breastfeeding a baby after childbirth contracts the womb and prevents hemorrhage and the reason I want to mention it is because a lot of doctors still don't know about this or about how breastfeeding puts everything back in its place and helps shrink the womb down .
The afterpains when you breastfeed are just so incredibly powerful that you realize how connected your nipples, breasts and womb actually are. The stuck on silicon breasts that surgeons create are such a mockery of female anatomy

Perhaps the ‘masculinisation’ that a woman experiences post menopause isn’t physical, but attitudinal?

Oh yes. Definitely.

Nah, I've been a bolshie female all my life. I think our friend has seen the jellybaby chart and just because all females thicken up round the middle as we age, and tend to wear our hair shorter, that means we're morphing into GI Joe.

I've seen some tosh spouted on these threads from time to time and that word salad is up there with the daftest.

I wondered what this old thread was doing at the top of the board for much of the day - now I know . What a lovely celebration of women and our sex this turned out to be.

I've never known any post-menopausal woman say she feels 'masculinised'

I've never heard of this either. It's not a thing. Unless it's someone who obsesses over female biology??

What masculinises? I can't think of anything. Women, right the way through, even very old women, look just like women!

Weird.

Now caught up to rest of thread - wonderful posts especially from Barracker - what a lovely note to end the day on

Perhaps the ‘masculinisation’ that a woman experiences post menopause isn’t physical, but attitudinal?

Giving no fucks for the opinion of others has been culturally gendered masculine...

Unless you are Northern, probably, according to Meg-John.

Yes, I can see the giraffe too Floral - much nicer than a mantis!

The burning sensation when the baby crowns. No one told me, and I actually thought something was seriously wrong and panicked!!!

I'm toying with posting a pic of the head of a mantis for comparison but it's possibly triggering for insect refusers so I'll post this instead to go along with the rest...

I can't see a mantis, but I can see a giraffe's head.

I am obviously over tired and am now giggling at the thought of a giraffe in me nethers.

Barracker - YY to the memory of all those sensations! It's visceral, isn't it? Those feelings can be recalled so easily.

I'll add another - the feeling of the womb contracting during childbirth. Plus the feeling of the crowning during childbirth - DD3 was a big baby, and I felt every agonising moment - but the body just takes over.

The female body is incredible.

I've never known any post-menopausal woman say she feels 'masculinised' - bar a few chin whiskers. My mother certainly hasn't complained of it, and is still as feminine as she ever was.

itsallgoingtobefine that is an excellent article you posted on page 10

And of course your uterus contracts when you orgasm - I remember that from what I was pregnant!

if you actually met me in person and realised my struggle and suffering, you might actually start to understand.

Right back atcha.

I cannot see a face!

Yikes Lang that pic puts me in mind of the head of a praying mantis...it's giving me the fear!

I'm I the only one cursed with always seeing faces in things...?

Then there's this one in celebration of all my wonderful FWR sisters, for giving no fucks.

Jeez Lang we fecking are 💪

Continuing on from the beautiful 3D clitoris, here's our whole reproductive system. We are beautiful.

Ah, I love that post Barracker. I am well past the menopause, but can still remember most of these. Thank you.

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I'm ten years post menopause. I didn't realise that meant I was becoming masculinised

Is that why it's always me who puts out the bins? Am I going to have to mend the car too?

Will our new friend go through a neo-menopause or is that just something that happens to aging females and in Transworld you stay gloriously orgasmically feminine forever more?

To be serious, quite frankly, I find that 'masculinised' statement grossly offensive.

So that's why I think surgeons are getting away with convincing unsuspecting patients that they can replicate female experiences and anatomy

I'm idly wondering how many of these surgeons are male, and how many female