Genuine question - can trans women experience cramps during their ‘time of the month’?

[Picklemeyellow]

This is a genuine question as I am baffled.

I looking on Tik Tok last night (don’t judge me, I’m addicted lol)and I notice on my For You section there is often a trans women doing live Q&A’s. I stopped and watched for a while, out of curiosity tbh as DH has a couple of transgender people in his family and I do try to remain as ‘on the fence’ as possible with this subject.

However, this person on TT said something which does not make much sense to me.

They were saying they take HRT and this gives them ‘a time of the month’ when they experience a very emotional dip and have crying spells and feel low etc. I suppose that may make some sense due to the hormones they take but then they went on to say they also experience cramping during this time and started rubbing their lower tummy in the area where a woman’s uterus is located.
It was difficult to establish why this happens because anyone actually questioning this gets blocked and only those agreeing with them get to stay to ask questions! I appreciate they probably receive some very negative replies but blocking doesn’t answer the questions to people who really would like to know.

I genuinely can not understand where the cramps would originate in a person without female anatomy?

As someone who has been under the gynae department for 20+ years, has had to live their live around horrendous periods, has had endless hysteroscopies and uterine polyp removals, ovulation so painful I couldn’t sit properly, a failed uterine ablation, going through an awful perimenopause and now, at 50 only just discovering this is probably all due to the fact I actually have endometriosis and adenomyosis and have been gas lit for all this time having being told that some women just have awful periods etc, I more than understand where my cramps and pain come from. From my shit malfunctioning uterus and hormones which have never been my friend.

But where would a trans woman’s ‘time of the month’ cramps come from? What part of their body cramps due to the addition of female hormones? I’ve tried googling this but there’s very little. Can the hormones cramp the muscles or bowel in this area or something similar?

Bollock-ache.

I’ll have to keep scrolling from now on too. Going to see if I can block them from showing up on my For You pages.

It's "interesting" that society is trying to destigmatise mental health issues and support people in seeking treatment that can improve their lives, yet for at least this one obvious mental illness we're told that we're phobic if we so much as recognise that it is a problem. Instead, we're expected to nod along and pretend that the impossible is reality!

This, they don’t have a uterus, it’s the smooth muscle of the uterus which cramps during period pains.

I don’t even think it’s psychological, it’s part of a sex fetish which they get off on.

i only took HRT for a couple of months as didn’t get on with it but if I remember correctly it was a constant dose. So no “time of the month”. My 85yo MIL takes it, doesn’t have periods, doesn’t have cramps, doesn’t have a time of the month. 🤷‍♀️

Also, isn’t there a HRT shortage? I’m sure I read that menopausal women who actually need it are struggling to get their prescriptions filled! Maybe if they stopped giving it out unnecessarily to men people with an actual medical need would be able to have it?

Of course they don’t. It’s just part of the fetish/delusion/whatever.

Absolutely ridiculous. No uterus, no ovaries, no fallopian tubes, no vagina, no period, no cramps, not a woman. 😂😂😂😂

I would have presumed this is the same as women who have had a hysterectomy still experiencing PMS? If the overies are left in place they are the primary source of hormones that trigger the experience. Therefore it’s not impossible to me to imagine someone taking the same hormones would then experience the same symptoms.

It’s deliberately inflammatory to say “man saying he’s a woman”, you know that, right? The quiet majority of trans women do not pose a threat to anybody; statistically speaking, they are overwhelmingly more likely to be targets themselves.

You know what though, they’d be fucking welcome to them. (As long as they didn’t bang on about how “euphoric” it makes them feel.

My arse. Safest demographic from violence. Women on the other hand...

Maybe I’m the minority then. I couldn’t care less if someone was transgender, gay, straight, non binary etc.

What has sexuality got to do with it? Anyway, I couldn't care less if someone is transgender either, as long as they are honest about it - ie. they admit that they want to be the opposite sex, rather than are the opposite sex. They can 'present' as the opposite sex as much as they like, as long as they don't expect everyone else to be coerced into pretending they are the opposite sex.

@Picklemeyellow

As I understand it, for some trans women, the hormone doses they are on (much higher than HRT), can cause intestinal cramps (for the same reason as women sometimes get gastro-intestinal issues during periods, or "period shits").

And some of them claim that these are their "period cramps".

But no, not period cramps in the way women have them, on account of them not having a uterus.

I have never understood quite why it happens, as AFAIK their hormone doses are stable over time, but apparently it's a real phenomenon.

I'm having to push because I'm just being told it's my mental health. It's not, I know the difference and poor mental health has never to my knowledge caused menstrual flooding, missed periods now and again, headaches - but only just before and during bleeding, passing large clots, nausea and sometimes vomiting, feeling light headed. Some of the other symptoms can be attributed to depression and anxiety - like well, feeling depressed and anxious.
Maybe if I pretend I'm a man, who's pretending to be a woman, I might get some?

And as for this - it's all in their heads, they're just depressed, they can take some antidepressants and get on with it, they're crazy and making it up for attention, there's no need to make a big deal out of it - after all that's what many women get told about the symptoms and effects of periods - why should transwomen be any different? Being treated like that is all part of the 'experience' of being a woman, so off they pop after being dismissed for years!

Some trans women undergo gender-affirming treatment in the form of feminising hormones. These hormones can result in a range of physical and emotional symptoms, including:
Anxiety
Appetite changes
Bloating due to water retention
Cramping
Tiredness and fatigue
Listlessness
Mood swings
**
These symptoms may occur at the same time each month, just like premenstrual syndrome (PMS). For many trans women, this is their period.

The quiet majority of trans women do not pose a threat to anybody; statistically speaking, they are overwhelmingly more likely to be targets themselves.

Statistics please.

I worry that they are experiencing symptoms of a serious health problem, after all the human body was not designed to take cross-sex hormones, and in their delusion, not seeing a doctor

This!

Refreshing to read a thread in Chat rather than FWR where the vast majority have a sensible reaction to this anti-woman, homophobic ideology.

To the "binary mother" posting earlier: WTAF does that even mean? So you're a walking sex stereotype, is it? And any deviation from gender stereotypes should lead to cutting off healthy body parts to suit? Encouraging gender non-conforming children (who are often gay and/or autistic) to block their puberty and telling them they can change sex - is NOT kind or progressive, it's abuse.

Kids as young as 3 and 4 were seen by the Tavistock. THREE!

You don't change the body to suit a personality. Wise your head.

@Whyyoulyingfor "
Maybe I’m the minority then. I couldn’t care less if someone was transgender, gay, straight, non binary etc. It does not impact my life and as long as they are not hurting anyone else I do not see the problem."

That's nice for you that it doesn't impact you. It would be ridiculous to suggest it doesn't impact anyone else's.
Imagine you're going to give birth and you'd like to request a female nurse midwife obstetrician whatever and you're told you've got one. Then it turns out you're sent a man. Don't imagine a trans woman since it seems you don't care, imagine a man. Many women have male obstetricians, many don't care.

But many do care. It matters for the people who do care, regardless of the existence of women who aren't bothered by that.

Imagine you're sent to prison. Not the kind of person who'd be sent to prison so it doesn't impact you? Oh I suppose that makes it ok then. Joking.

Imagine you're sent to prison in a female prison because you're female and then a big athletic man is in your cell. Not a transwoman, as that doesn't seem like something you'd care about so won't have the same psychological impact. Imagine a man. All men pose a significant danger to women, the vast majority of men, a significantly greater risk than the vast majority of women. I mean more than 90%.

Saying it doesn't impact you doesn't make it ok just because you're not in those prisons or you're not an elderly lady recovering from surgery in hospital wanting her sponge baths done only by a woman.

Not being impacted doesn't mean you shouldn't care.

I'm not impacted by paedophilia because I'm not a child, they can't get me. Does that mean I shouldn't care about paedophiles?

Honestly, I don't believe in reincarnation - but it would make more sense to me for people believing they have been born in the wrong body, especially the young, to have past life regression therapy, rather than amputate healthy working body parts.

Load of nonsense. They don't have wombs so they can't have 'time of the month' cramps. They don't even have times of the month!

You need a uterus to have uterine cramps. HTH.
the rest of it is in their head, just like their belief that they are actually women

But you don’t need a uterus to experience PMS symptoms which is what they actually mean.

Of course they can't, because they're men.

Whatever fetish they have, they're still men OP!

No!!!