What the heck! Trans women get periods apparently

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https://eu.modibodi.com/blogs/womens/transwomen-period

AIBU that this is the most ridiculous thing for a company to claim.

"Can a transgender woman have a period? Absolutely. Many trans and gender-diverse people menstruate. Whether you’re a woman, a man, non-binary or agender, your body may menstruate too."

@surprisebaby12 Men who like to pretend they have periods for kicks are an extremely vulnerable minority? How? What’s vulnerable about them?

To people who don’t actually have periods?!

I mean, what is the harm that women and girls who cannot avoid the impact of menstruation on their lives have to let a group of male people fetishise their body functions?

What is the harm that women and girls have the support they need defocused from them to include a group of male people who make a considered choice to do this to themselves?

What is the harm to that a company that is set up to support female people just told female people that they should morally support male people in their considered choices that means that those male people can claim to be victims of 'periods'?

What is the harm that resources, including budget, that could be spent elsewhere is being directed towards male people who have absolutely no need for those resources.

yeah... we should just 'let it go'!

Men do not have periods. End of story.

Can I ask you contact Modibodi and call them out on their lying? They have a contact form.

This is blatant lying.

Men do not have periods. End of story.

Does a company promoting a factually incorreect understanding of biology (or lies as they used to be known) matter?

Of course it matters. As others have said, young people could read that and get a very incorrect understanding of how periods and reproduction works.

Words matter. Truth matters.

Plus women are sick of having our experiences minimised and mansplained to keep some troubled males happy.

So you think its OK that a bunch of advertising execs who all know full well men don't need period pants, sat round a table deciding how they could exploit their 'vulnerability' to flog them to them regardless?
That they are lying to men that certain medical symptoms they may experience are due to them actually being women?
A man experiencing abdominal cramps or mood swings may well be suffering from a real medical condition. To pretend it's a period to flog him some padded pants is irresponsible to say the least.

We need to publicise that women have prostates too, because why not. It's just incorrect, or worded incorrectly at best. However, if they play it right, the latex gloves industry could make a mint out of this.

Just read the whole blog from modibodi with my husband - what the actual F - the world has gone mad, never buying from this brand.

I said this in my email:There is no documented case of a trans woman having a uterus so saying 'some trans women don't have uteruses' is incorrect. No Transwoman have periods - your claim that many do, is factually incorrect:'The United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) states that a period is the part of the menstrual cycle in which blood, comprising uterine lining, leaves the body. People who do not have ovaries and a uterus do not experience periods.

No they can't. How can they get 'pre-menstrual' anything if they don't menstruate?

I suspect it’s more likely to have been written by enthusiastic female interns or young marketing people at the company, who have been fed this stuff at university and from all the usual media outlets, from Tumblr to the late (not-lamented) Teen Vogue.

I suppose this expands their market of potential customers.

Fetishists. And the delusional.

Too right it's an expanding market. 🙄

If a transwoman is bleeding from their penis or 'neo-vagina', what they need is a physician. Not period products.

So that’s what was giving me gyp just now while I was hoovering - my prostate! I will tell dh that’s why I’m putting my feet up for a bit. 🙂.

It will have been given the green light higher up the chain nonetheless.

Well, the company is gaslighting this extremely vulnerable minority into thinking they can have periods when they can't.

That's not very KIND is it?

Do biological men (trans identified men) get periods - do they bollocks. They ought to get their prostrate checked though since wearing a dress and dangly earrings and shouting 'I'm a woman you know' doesn't offer protection against it.

All transwomen (trans identified men) don't have uteruses not one single one of them. men don't have uteruses.

Men who pretend they have periods for kicks sounds like they have a fetish or perversion, those type of men don't sound very vulnerable, because they aren't.

I have done this multiple times now to Sydney head office. They send the same email about being inclusive.

Yup. For the validation.

Oh good grief, be reasonable.
Most transgender persons must have it pretty rough, I do not doubt, and I’m glad I never had to navigate my way through such confusion.

But not everything done or claimed under the umbrella of ‘trans rights’ is honourable, let alone logical.
No amount of empathy or generosity towards transgender people on my part will ever allow me to concede that a trans woman is a woman just as I am.
Not only is that fundamentally utter bollocks, to coin a phrase, but it is part of a broader strategy to erase women’s experience and annexe our identity (along with any necessary ‘privileges’ that has always necessitated).

If this bellicose and colonialist attitude, this well-known make entitlement, had not been prominent in so much of the trans activism we've see in recent years, the feeling would be very different.

But as it is, many of us have a hard time resisting the response that all this is just the patriarchy trying to do us down as usual, but this time in a dress.
Same old, same old. ✊🏻

I've seen this claim that trans women have a monthly hormone cycle before. But is it actually true? Why wouldn't a doctor give a consistent daily dose? What benefit would come of varying it over the month? Just having female hormones doesn't make it a cycle. I no longer have a period or any other discernable monthly cycle since having a Mirena (and glorious it is too!) - clearly I still have female hormones but they are steady through the month.

Unfortunately, I believe it comes from top down and from the Sydney head office.

@surprisebaby12 Yes of course it matters. It matters because:

a) They are spreading misleading information. Some readers will take this information at face value- I know it’s hard to believe but some people, especially perhaps those who are young or uneducated will read this and believe that some male people have uteruses and periods.

b) You claim trans people are vulnerable- helping them affirm their delusions is the opposite of allyship.

c) It’s offensive to actual women. Those of us who deal with periods and everything associated with them (pregnancy, infertility, menopause) throughout our lives. You don’t find it insulting, but you don’t speak for all women (as you can see from the majority of responses on this thread).