"People who bleed" - new guidance about periods

"What is 'female anatomy'? Who has it?"

That would be biological females not the I want to be a female type. The ones that want to be don't have female anatomy even though some wear tampons in artificial holes - mental health is a strange one.

People who bleed…so if you have a nosebleed shove a tampon up there. If you have bleeding from the rectum it’s OK above a tampon up there. If you get stabbed and bleed whack a sanitary towel over it.

No biological male will ever have a period. Some individuals who are born female and chose to identify as trans male/gender neutral/asexual/ploy this or that/or any of the other 100? or so connotations of gender etc etc etc will/might also bleed if they still have their original female bits and haven't taken drugs to block.

The PC thing to do is erase biological women and to try not to upset the tiny minority in the category who identify as one of the other 100 genders because it would be awful and since bleed because they are still in fact female underneath the gender identity.

Anyway men don't bleed. Many women do.

I think that's partly the plan. To come up with phrases so terrible akd inaccurate that the dehumanising bullshit before becomes something we actually end up being ok with.

Even 'people who menstruate' would be better (and I hate that phrase!).

Ludicrous

What happened to plain English and accessibility

Periods is the correct word not fudging and hiding behind the nonsensical to appease men

I just can't quite understand how they can write "'No more hiding, covering up or awkward euphemisms, we need some straight-talking.' " on one part of that website while also at no point stating that it is women and girls who have periods.

They're talking straight apparently yet from the outside it looks like fucking zig zags and slaloms. Quick quick go left we nearly stated biological reality there chaps!

Also have periods is surely not bleeding but shedding womb lining and blood? Makes me think of the revolting terms wound and gash for female genitalia.

If Transwomen/Girls are Women/Girls and Transmen/Boys are Men/Boys then whey do they need to say anything other than women/girls in literature in relation to periods? Surely anything else is transphobic?

Personally, I think its insulting to transgender men. They know they have female biology and therefore adverts and notices about women's biology refer to them. To imply otherwise insults their intelligence.

@Chersfrozenface

No worries!

I'm now visualising 'people' bleeding all over Wales - poor Wales, why are they doing it, are they doing it on purpose? Not a nice behaviour, you should really take yourself to the hospital if you're 'bleeding all over' something.

I do think it's an interesting approach to fighting stigma - let's pretend the stigmatised demographic does not exist, problem solved, no more stigma.

Amazing how 50% of population are expected to abandon their own words to describe themselves for a benefit of very few, and not even complain

I am trying to understand what “female anatomy” is? I thought transwomen considered themselves female?

I am also wondering when to see a doctor if my children bleed / don’t start to bleed from their genitalia?

so many questions….

I always think of the 1970s Alice Cooper song "Only Women Bleed"when I read this, specifically Julie Coventon's cover version. I wish someone would re release it.

The second paragraph was intended to convey how ridiculous the whole thing is. Sarcasm doesn't always come over well in typescript.

Everybody bleeds, what a stupid thing to say.

Totally hilarious.

They always look stupid when they pull stunts like this

I thought that too.

You can bleed from anywhere too.

Erasing girls and women one drop at a time!

These people can only do this shit because evil witches like us actually tell the kids the truth.

They hate us but they need us to keep doing what we are doing so that makes them hate us even more.

And how do "young people" know whether they're the type of young people who can expect to have periods?

"Emma, when you're older you will have periods because you're a... a... a person who bleeds. Liam, you won't have periods because you're a... a... a person who er.. doesn't bleed."

Is that how it's supposed to go?

If I saw an article headlined “People who bleed” I’d assume it was about haemophiliacs, and therefore nothing to do with me.
How did the NHS get dragged so far away from reality by a few misogynist activists?

People who bleed regularly from their vagina is even more ambiguous and regular bleeding outside of menstruation needs to be checked.

Women and girls works just fine. Seriously these snowflakes need to toughen the fuck up, sick of the pandering to their attention seeking.

Well, I suppose it can cover bleeding of all types. If you start spitting blood, colon cancers, Inflammatory bowel disease, haemophilia. All these chappies should have someone say it may be their periods and give them a tampon to stick somewhere. All natural, and 1 out of 2 people and all that.

Next, you could reduce sore bits to non specifics too. If you have a sore bit, (eg your wrist) you may have appendicitis, fibroids, etc, etc.

Then they could continue on until the notices say 'ug, ug, ug'. The people who are pushing this bs should have to be treated by medical personnel who pretend there is no finer knowledge or better science available either. 'Ah, your penis is inflamed. You are pregnant'.

The barbarians have breached the gatekeeping, and are destroying civilisation. Well for women and children, at any rate.

Don't some men who have had surgery on their penis call their genitalia vaginas. And I'm sure some women and girls who want to identify as men and boys like to refer to their vaginas using other words.

It's difficult to get all of the facts into a snappy slogan when we can't have words for sex and biology.