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Cry Me A Bloody River: Article about the Pathetic Plight of Period-Plagued Trans Men

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Durgasarrow · 12/01/2020 21:11

Lord, shrink me a violin so I can play my sad little heart out about the very very very special pain that our uteri having brothers have in getting and using period products. According to this article, period products are expensive, embarrassing, and inaccessible. Whereas for boring old Cisters, they are apparently free, and we gaily run through our offices waving tampons like torches and flapping our pads like happy handpuppets. Oh and we find them somehow "in stores?" Another interesting factlet: TM find it embarrassing to rip open tampon packages in the men's room. Much as women might feel if, um, males were allowed in the women's room? Just sayin.
www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/transgender-men-pain-menstruation-more-just-physical-n1113961

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Fieldofgreycorn · 13/01/2020 01:14

play my sad little heart out about the very very very special pain that our uteri having brothers have in getting and using period products.

You are literally and shamelessly mocking a person’s severe gender dysphoria.

MashedSpud · 13/01/2020 00:48

I’m also concerned about the environmental waste for these role play periods.

Melroses · 13/01/2020 00:37

I suspect his mum bought them anyway.

RedToothBrush · 13/01/2020 00:03

Perhaps they just need to 'man up' and buy sanitary products without being a baby like 'real men' do. Strangely enough, men can buy sanitary products just like the other 50% of the population, if they choose to do so. They don't spontaneously combust if they do so.

Or perhaps its all about ridiculous gender stereotypes and being in denial about biological sex (which is a social construct remember folks) and the whole story is utter bullshit which erases / distorts the actual everyday reality of women who are the boring gender atheists and don't believe in the gender fairy.

Obviously these transmen aren't proper trans cos if they were they wouldn't be bothered by mother nature once a month otherwise. Cos biology is all made up nonsense. They best get on the case and get that surgery and become true believers.

Honestly if you can read that trite with a straight face and believe in it, then I give up. You are beyond reason.

Melroses · 12/01/2020 23:35

How many articles can you make that into! LOL

Melroses · 12/01/2020 23:34

Quite! 12 boxes of tampons.

Findumdum1 · 12/01/2020 23:33

1 year!!

They're moaning about having to put up with 12 periods! Wow

JanuaryIsNotTheOnlyMonth · 12/01/2020 23:27

Well, there are actually free tampons and towels in my daughter’s school. A friend of hers started taking some in to leave in a box in the girls’ toilets, and now there is a ‘take if you need, leave some if you have spares’ policy.

They haven’t organised this for the boys’ loos, but in theory any transboys there could do the same, I suppose.

GothMummy · 12/01/2020 23:27

Im going off topic here I know but seriously, those of you who think using 36 tampons in one peroid is mad are so, so very lucky.... Mine have always been very heavy and last around 10 days. I use more than 36! So I think that's an unfair criticism. I actually have a lot of sympathy for anyone struggling with menstruation issues, however they identify. I suffer a lot each month and I'm sorry for any one else who does as well. It's expensive, painful and messy.

Melroses · 12/01/2020 23:26

And surely most of them would take the pill where you don't get periods anyway as they presumably have no interest in getting pregnant?!

Read my link upthread. This person's period stopped on taking puberty blockers at age 16 (having started at age 15)

So they didn't have that many periods.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 12/01/2020 23:23

With regard to the ‘embarrassment’ or ‘risk’ of having to carry tampons or towels to the loo - let’s not forget that the brave and strumming trans men get to wear men’s clothing - with their generous pockets!

Women don’t get that privilege.

Findumdum1 · 12/01/2020 23:18

And surely most of them would take the pill where you don't get periods anyway as they presumably have no interest in getting pregnant?!

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Melroses · 12/01/2020 23:13

The amount of transmen, globally, having periods is statistically irrelevant

Especially if they each only have them for appx one year.

DeeZastris · 12/01/2020 23:12

The amount of transmen, globally, having periods is statistically irrelevant. Why must we waste energy even thinking about it?

T0tallyFuckedUpFamily · 12/01/2020 23:12

*What are they using....

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zanahoria · 12/01/2020 23:05

Perhaps on the next episode of the apprentice Sir Alan can set his protegees the task of marketing tampons to men?

zanahoria · 12/01/2020 23:02

"Some transgender and gender-nonconforming people who menstruate, like Jones, say when the products are categorized as women’s products, they can feel alienated — and may even avoid purchasing them altogether"

There isn't much to be done about this level of stupidity but stop encouraging them

ContessaferJones · 12/01/2020 22:53

36 is mad! 3 or 4 heavy flow at the start, a few mediums, maybe a light and switch to towels at the end when it's a dribble (technical term). Or use a mooncup and washable reusable pads, as others have noted.

Yeesh.

BinkySodPlop · 12/01/2020 22:48

Surely the trans men will just tut and move away if any other men look at them funny in the toilets?

roonilwazlibismynickname · 12/01/2020 22:46

BeautifulBirds

36 tampons in one period?? What are they doing? Smoking them?!

Surely 36 is only 6x6? Not an unreasonable amount to be using each period?

Melroses · 12/01/2020 22:44

www.self.com/story/male-period-trans-model-kenny-jones

That's the transman that experienced periods only between 15 yo (late) and 16 yo Hmm

Aposterhasnoname · 12/01/2020 22:41

They need to get together with trans women, apparently they need only to glance at the toilets before they are being asked for, and passing round, tampons.

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