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Trans women and periods

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MhairiV · 08/03/2019 17:02

I'm just going to throw it out there - few things make me more angry than reading about trans women and their 'periods'. Now I know I've had them my whole adolescent/adult life and I know plenty about how they work (and how they impact your life when they're not straightforward, god I know about that) but where does this trans period bollocks come from?

Without a uterus or ovaries or eggs or uterine lining or any of that stuff, where does any sort of cycle come from? Do they take oestrogen on an artificial cycle with progesterone or something? Or am I basically affording way too much time and thinking to something which makes zero sense in the first place and should just ignore it altogether? 🤨

Even if there is some element of truth in "sore breasts and dreadful moodswings" I'm still going to be angry anyway, I guess. That's not a period. That's sore boobs and a moodswing.

Help me o wise ones.

Trans women and periods
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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 08/03/2019 21:46

It's all, please tell me that's not a thing.

If you are sure you want to know...

archive.fo/VuWtE

TurboTeddy · 08/03/2019 21:41

I'm shuddering like side show Bob! (Simpsons)

TurboTeddy · 08/03/2019 21:37

OK I believe it now. Just found this. It might be of interest to an entrepreneurial GC feminist.
Yes I am joking. It makes pretty grim reading.

^ There is a whole sub business of selling used tampons, stockings and underwear through mail order. I long suspected that AGP men were among the customers of such items. Some men claim that the hormones in menses and pee affect them. So, women's public washrooms will become more dangerous.

Buddy up and/or back off if you have to. The first thing, Buddy up with another adult woman.

Second, as someone who worked[for the money] as a monitor on fetish boards, get out of there. He is hanging around for the sex rush. I thought stories of intruding on women's spaces was just a made-up fetish, but now, it is being coded into law, especially worded that women must submit to it. He pretty much will force his fetish on anyone that enters.

I find it alarming that he is so open with his kink in a meet up group. Googling the name just brought up porn, sooooooo- this is just his fetish, and he uses transgender laws to access these things. What happened to, "This never happens?"

Should you let an 8 year old go to a public washroom by themselves? Not in this day and age. ^

67chevvyimpala · 08/03/2019 21:37

Ew. Just ew.

Used San pro. Ugh.

I donate San pro the the red box project for girls who can't afford to buy it so they can go to school during their period.

Maybe TRAs could do that rather than buy San pro and squirt fruit juice on it to fulfil their fetish?

67chevvyimpala · 08/03/2019 21:35

(Flocks hair)

Totes, babe

Ereshkigal · 08/03/2019 21:34

YouTube is awash with men saying how they suddenly cry at Andrex puppy adverts, need to eat chocolate, and bounce up and down on the bed flicking their hair.

So grim, the fetishisation of their male imagination of what women's lives are like.

67chevvyimpala · 08/03/2019 21:29

Tbh they are doing us a favour.

Many, many people are reaching peak trans who were once very sympathetic to TRAs.

If only I'd known when I was 13 that losing clots the size of chunks of raw liver and that pain so bad it left me curled and rocking in a foetal position was something to be jealous of!

I'm sure I'd have felt much more appreciative of the years of medical misdiagnosis, disinterest and physical pain if I'd only realised how lucky I was!

(Eye rolls into another dimension)

This is pure fetishism.

As if being a woman is simply having long hair, wearing make up, wearing skirts and lingerie and san pro.

Its sad. Really sad.

I'd have far more respect for TRAs if they really wanted to live a woman's life.

Working for 2 months a year for free?

Real menstruation. Shedding uterine lining every month for approx 45 years. Gets really tedious really quickly tbh.

The only options to avoid pregnancy being altering ones hormones via oral, subcutaneous or surgical hormones, unless your partner consents to wearing a condom, and none of which come without significant side effects.

Constant misogyny, asual sexual assaults, threats of sexual and physical violence, being overlooked for promotions simply because you are a woman, lack of awareness of womens health issues like endometriosis, pelvic floor injuries, the crisis in maternity care which is costing women their lives every week....
I could go on.

But they just want to wear pretty dresses and be told they can be something that they can never be.

Biology is not bigotry.

MhairiV · 08/03/2019 21:25

I can't decide if I'm furious or if I'm going to throw up right now.

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Datun · 08/03/2019 21:21

Dear Lord. It's not a period, it's a fetish.

Some men fetishise women's biology. And try every which way they can to mimic it.

One of the ways is to say that their artificial hormones give them a period without the blood.

No it doesn't. A period is the shedding of your uterus lining.

You can buy knickers online, with a plastic vagina in the front, and... I want to say pomegranate juice, being released, in order to mimic menstruation.

YouTube is awash with men saying how they suddenly cry at Andrex puppy adverts, need to eat chocolate, and bounce up and down on the bed flicking their hair.

And, unaccountably, have to have sex too at the same time.

Funny that.

Once you have read the accounts of men identifying as women trawling through sanitary bins finding used products in order to wear them in their underwear, you can never un-read it.

It's a fetish. It's nasty. And it needs sunlight.

tobee · 08/03/2019 21:18

Men have no fucking idea about periods.

I've said on here before about my male acquaintance who said "yeah but we have to shave!" when a conversation about periods was being had. This man has a double first from Cambridge University. This man also now has a beard. Angry

BentNeckLady · 08/03/2019 21:17

Q. where does any sort of cycle come from?

A. Their imagination

Men do not have periods. Trans women do not have periods. Women have periods.

JessicaWakefieldSVH · 08/03/2019 21:17

She had to do some research to see if it was possible for transwomen to menstruated. Are you fucking kidding me. She said ‘yet’. What the actual fuck is this shit?

JessicaWakefieldSVH · 08/03/2019 21:14

Cyborgseadog I’m so sorry you had that experience too. Women have gone through horrendous crap for so long because the health profession is unbelievably sexist. Last year doctors were told in a NHS report to ‘listen to women’ when it came to endometriosis. Ummm, you’re doctors, I thought listening to patients symptoms and recording them was the first thing you’re supposed to do! I paid £20 for a copy of my notes, my GP did not even record what I told him about my severe pain during ovulation or my lump around my hip area or the increase in blood loss.. so many things. Grrr.

Persifleur · 08/03/2019 21:14

And Flowers and Gin for you women who are really suffering from the crap hand that genetics dealt you.

Ereshkigal · 08/03/2019 21:11

Some people appear to prefer them pre-owned.

Persifleur · 08/03/2019 21:11

Oh the poor loves. They just need to take a couple of aspirin and lie down for a bit.Wink

sue51 · 08/03/2019 21:11

Just when I thought I'd peaked along comes some new madness.

67chevvyimpala · 08/03/2019 21:10

Fetishised fantasy.

Pathetic.

I've decided I have testicular torsion.
Very , very painful.
I haven't got testicles, but so what?
I CAN HAVE TESTICULAR TORSION IF I WANT AND YOU ARE ALL HATERZ

Jesus.

TurboTeddy · 08/03/2019 21:09

It's all, please tell me that's not a thing.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 08/03/2019 21:05

How to stimulate a period, or how to mix water and food colouring to make it look a little bit like blood and put it onto a pad or into a menstrual cup

At least that's better than rummaging through sanitary bins...

Cyborgseadog · 08/03/2019 21:03

JessicaWakefieldSVH I thought the debilitating symptoms of each and every one of my periods were par for the course. I put up with it all, much like I imagine your mum did. And then I had my oophorectomy, and the misery was suddenly cut by 50%.

I find it absolutely revolting that these people would be fantasising about the process (menstruation) as if it's some secret token, something to lust after.

Gingerkittykat · 08/03/2019 21:01

oops @TurboTeddy you got there just before me!

Gingerkittykat · 08/03/2019 21:01

www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=679&v=BcNco-mM700

How to stimulate a period, or how to mix water and food colouring to make it look a little bit like blood and put it onto a pad or into a menstrual cup.

TurboTeddy · 08/03/2019 20:59

Jessica🤗
What the hell............

HermioneWeasley · 08/03/2019 20:53

It is a fetish.

I almost feel sorry for them - they don’t realise people are pissing themselves laughing at them

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