Transwomen have periods too you know! Just no bleeding

Whoever said that they hate us but want to be us is right. Scarily, the first thing to come into my mind was the character of Jame Gumb from Silence of the Lambs.

Some people have imaginary friends too, though they've usually grown out of it by the age that person appears to be.

@thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter

Just pure stupidity.
Thats basically why I can never take this shit too seriously. I can't forget everything I've learnt since I was about 10.

@Potplant2 Just identify as a unicorn hun, I don’t think they get periods 🦄✨🌟⭐️

orchid Mines used to always fall on the 1st of each month, in the evening, like weird fucking clockwork. I pretty much never get one now though, despite no hormonal contraception and being 27.

I still get the damn pms though and cramps but I’d never call that a period, because it’s not.

ALL THE OTHER STUFF THAT CRAMPS ON YOUR PERIOD. . What?! Good fucking grief. What a load of old guff.

I wonder what will happen when these young transwomen hit perimenopause?

Yeah righto

Gaslighting deluded fool.

Duggees
Not sure if it's the same one but there is Dr Laidlaw
mobile.twitter.com/MLaidlawMD/status/1017267943598579712

I’m curled up on the sofa feeling sorry for myself because my period has just started and I’ve got awful cramps.

Tomorrow I’ll need to be at work for 10-12 hours so I’ll be using super plus tampax, night pads, and waterproof period pants, all together as I’m not sure when I’ll get loo breaks and day 2 is always very heavy. Just in case, I’ll also be wearing black trousers.

But bleeding is incidental to the experience of having a period. Obviously.

BettyDuMonde any chance you could link to the Twitter thread?

Always good to see when an actual health professional talks sense on these matters.

Nonsense on stilts.

Ballshit

I have an implant. I still bleed every month, twice some months because of the medication I take. But I never know when... But hey, the 10th of every month...

They are welcome to my junky uterus with the massive fibroid in the lining that I've had for, oh, going on twenty years now...

I'm still at the angry stage I'm afraid.

Happy to be open and say I don't know anything about HRT but I don't think it replaces anything cyclically, instead it just replaces hormones through an even and consistent dose?

I can almost just roll my eyes at the biological impossibility of this, but the tone of the post is really upsetting. I wasn't sure I'd actually seen the hate towards us, but it's very much there. They want to be us, and they hate us.

I just don't understand.

I’m not a transphobe, my partner is “gender fluid” but that’s a load of shite. “Because we lack one symptom”. Yeah the one that means you’re having a period!

Anyway that post is just out to start threads like this. Reacting to it basically validates it in their minds I’m sure.

Wonder if endometriosis is next...?

Endometriblokesis?

Will I be banned or censored if I express my personal opinion that this person is utterly delusional?

I’m not weak, angry, upset or a bigot. I just happen to think that the actual, science based definition of a period is when a uterus sheds its lining which exits the body via the vagina as blood.

I really don’t care what people wear, or what is or isn’t in their pants. Live your life as a woman if you want to. It’s your life. I don’t mind what you do, but I won’t stay quiet and be told I’m hateful becuase I don’t want to join in with the groupthink. It doesn’t make you a woman, and it doesn’t make you have periods. Since when did the truth constitute hate speech?

Fairly sure I've seen this shared before, probably on here. Doesn't get any less bonkers on second reading though.

The most annoying and quite frankly offensive aspect of it for me is this transwoman seems preoccupied with explaining to us actual women how we know nothing about how periods really work. If that's not mansplaining I don't know what is.

The fact that this person wrote Really this gets down to ppl wanting to think they're special & separate from nature and thought it was descriptive of us and not themselves

Men have been mixing up PMT with actual periods for years. Even DH used to jokingly ask “aah, are you on your period?” if I was short-tempered about something. He stopped eventually when I explained the biological difference every single time.

The only thing this article shows is that the person who has written it is a man. Kinda the opposite of what they intended, I’m guessing.

If they had written about PMT I could have half understood....

What a self indulgent crock of shit. I have a contraceptive implant. I still get monthly cramps and bloating but I don't bleed. I therefore don't have a period. Medically, when we talk about periods, we're talking about bleeding, not fucking abdominal discomfort. And I find the idea of not needing the correct physiology to have uterine cramps utterly bizarre.

Wonder if endometriosis is next...?

I read that thread with my head in my hands.
Periods don't follow the calendar, like payday. And since I had a hysterectomy nothing cramps because there's nothing to cramp.