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Apparently saying only women menstruate is transphobic

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TheWordWomanIsTaken · 06/03/2020 19:14

Seriously, just seriously???
Apparently, Ms Poen is taking a kicking on Twitter following her assertion that only women have periods and only women go through menopause.
Each day I think we have reached a new low but this one utterly flummoxes me that the Feminist Society at Exeter University believes otherwise. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8083431/Exeter-University-economics-lecturer-branded-transphobic-LGBT-feminist-students.html
I can only find a link in the Daily Mail to this story but at least it is reaching an audience who will call out this batshittery for what it is.

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OhMyDarling · 06/03/2020 19:45

Sounds like doublethink to me.

Taswama · 06/03/2020 19:44

Well of course it depends how you are defining ‘woman’ doesn’t it??!!!

Gizmo79 · 06/03/2020 19:42

So XY now menstruate. Who knew. Well, I guess that is going to mean we change our biology lessons....

maslinpan · 06/03/2020 19:42

Dr Poen sounds as if she doesn't take any shit and is unimpressed by idiotic students. All power to her!

Joisanofthedales · 06/03/2020 19:37

I despair I really do

Imnobody4 · 06/03/2020 19:35

Do you think the LBGT and feminist societies actually have any members anymore. I suspect most students now avoid them like the plague?

CheekyMango · 06/03/2020 19:24

FO uneducated idiots

EmpressAlexandra · 06/03/2020 19:23

Absolutely surreal.
The person who appears to be leaving this deranged pile on against biology and material reality is a 22 year old- basically an ignorant, naive child with no experience of the world.
How on earth does this young person envisage life working? You can’t identify out of bring overlooked at work in favour of men, or out of endometriosis, or the menopause. Or period pain, or blood on your knickers, or the need for contraception.
All this biological reality is basically waiting in the wings for these silly, destructive, ignorant, malice filled children to grow up.
And the fact that even the university feminist society claim that you can’t say only women menstruate! Jesus.
What can you say about such batshittery? About such arrant stupidity and short sighted foolishness?

ohwhattodowithmylife · 06/03/2020 19:20

Is it not a biological fact?

AnneJeanne · 06/03/2020 19:15

Only women menstruate and go through menopause. There.