How is endometriosis transphobic?

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SwearyG · 02/05/2018 22:48

I've just been to see a play about endometriosis - which was actually rather funny and much better than the subject matter suggests. As I was leaving someone said to me "gosh that was really transphobic". And I'm struggling to work out why, unless it was because it was about women's bodies and framing endo as a women's issue?

Is it really that simple? That talk of periods, ovaries, uteruses and hysterectomies is transphobic? I know we often take the piss about it a bit on here but to hear it said earnestly has me more than a bit

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TheSpottedZebra · 02/05/2018 22:55

It should have been about womb owners, not women.

FermatsTheorem · 02/05/2018 22:55

Was it just some random, sweary ? Could it have been someone who knows your role in ManFriday and was on the wind-up? Or someone saying it tongue in cheek?

Thanksforthatamazingpost · 02/05/2018 22:55

Surely a joke Sweary?

AngryAttackKittens · 02/05/2018 22:55

Women are transphobic. As in, the fact that we exist. We should really stop that, and if we absolutely must exist we should do so silently.

pannikin · 02/05/2018 22:54

Because men want to shut us up and silence us. We won't be shut up and we won't be silenced. Endometriosis has dominated my life for years. Will I FUCK bow to those who want to shut me up and say that discussing any aspect of female biology is 'transphobic'.

Eatmycheese · 02/05/2018 22:54

I can’t write what I really want to write here

ferntwist · 02/05/2018 22:53

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terryleather · 02/05/2018 22:52

Reality, the world and absolutely everything in it is now transphobic it would seem...

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