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."

The trans women who DO have uteri are probably actually circumtranswomen: biological women (Modibodi would probably say AFAB - Assigned Female at Birth) who identify as biological men who identify as and present as women.

There was a Labour councillor in Lewisham who came out as circumtrans in 2019, but I think it’s still quite taboo. Circumtranswomen are of course a triply-marginalised minority as they (1) are women, (2) are trans, and (3) present as women to society.

This is not true.

Perhaps a member of their PR team watched the Danish Girl and assumed that uterus transplants in men were now a success? Lord knows.

While I don't doubt there's a research team of absolute fuckwits in London fundraising for this, surely anyone donating funds, if they thought about it for more than five minutes, would decide to donate elsewhere.

Having carried babies, my experience was that pregnancy and growing a baby involves more than a uterus. It's the entire endocrine system, digestive system, your lungs, your heart, your blood volume, your brain.

Where would the uterus go?

And what kind of research team would take that risk with a live foetus?

And what would be the point?

It's clearly never ever ever going to happen and anyone who thinks it might is insane. Certifiably.

[Not a pop at you AnSolas, but just something I ponder every time some idiot blithely talks about uterine transplants into men like it's ever going to be within the realms of possibility]

These are all good questions.

I have noticed that some people, researchers included, believe that a uterus is a plug and play organ. And that what would end up being a human grown in a bag is apparently something to be celebrated as progress.

Because as you say, growing a foetus to term is more than an embryo in a uterus. The fact that the embryo / foetus takes components from other parts of the mother as and when they need it, not just awash of hormones but a range of components, needs an endocrine system managing this. One that cannot simply be switched on. And how the fuck do they create these connections out of nothing as well.

It is madness that this has been considered. And it absolutely is experimenting needlessly on humans that cannot give consent. For what? A male person who has fetishised yet another female body function.

So they are confused women? What a mind fuck that is

I think "some" might be just about correct, when you factor in that some males with certain DSDs, but who presented as women, could reasonably identify themselves as transwomen.

But the article doesn't seem to be saying that, and is presenting it as if there's a reasonably large cohort vs an extremely rare instance.

I need more period underwear, so thanks for reminding me not to buy them from ModiBodi.

If any male is experiencing sustained, multi-day bleeding from his crotch, he needs to see a GP. I think ModiBodi's marketing here has been irresponsible.

What? No, that is incorrect. If they are trying to make that very exact distinction there, then they are presumably referring to individuals until recently referred to as ‘intersex’.
That is not the same thing as ‘trans woman’ as the term is used and understood currently. (Which is a biological man who chooses to adopt a female presentation and its cultural hinterland)

I said in another comment that there’s a push out there to use ‘trans’ as an umbrella term for any sexual orientation, voluntary gender presentation, or chromosomal irregularity/anomaly which departs from the more usual heteronormative body and soul. (A clumsy way of expressing a tangled idea; apologies)
Anyroad, I think this should be resisted, as it is distorting the recorded actualité in contemporary society. What’s more urgent is that it adds greatly to the existing confusion.

I think it’s this insistence on being validated as ‘women’ that makes me see red.
It’s such a bullying attitude: ‘agree with me, play a part in my fantasy, tell me what I want to hear, or I’ll bring the weight of the Law down on your head’

Good God almighty, what a farce.
But yes, a trans man is a biological woman. Though as you say, a transgender man is a trans woman. (And we thought pronouns were a minefield!)

I always change the word "trans" in transwoman/transman to "pretend" and that stops me being muddled up.

Saudi Arabia had been tinkering with this BC they don't recognise adoption as a concept. But it so far has only worked in female recipients. There's been about 100 done so far. Transmen are already being sized up as potential donors

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9605112/

There is someone in Brazil and another surgeon in India who is looking to try and implant one in a male from the recent social media factoids

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/indian-doctor-plans-world-first-womb-transplant-into-trans-woman-DWzDFZ_2/

The "big" issue is blood supply as womens bodies are designed with the correct pipework which can adapt to the change of carrying a baby

After that its getting the male body to mimic hormones etc.

And NHS Fife employes a male doctor along with other senior staff who claim under oath in a Uk court that it is not possible to Id what a female body is.

A teaching hospital was training nurses how to deal with a human male who was giving birth which did not involve calling the SS for an emengency placement of a child in danger or the police.

Dont underestimate what people will do for career advancement and money.

And the celebration at the end of a UK trial passing the ethics board :

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/07/grace-davidson-first-uk-womb-transplant-birth

Thinking about the film The Departed where DiCaprio is drinking cranberry juice and Ray Winstone asks him if he is on his period. Who knew art would mirror life?

Apart from anything else, it's so stupid to talk about womb transplants as if it was just a matter of getting hold of a womb and plumbing it in inside a male pelvis. We know how complicated pregnancy is! Any woman who's been through it can tell you how it affects her whole body. The complexity is mind-boggling. From conception on, female bodies have been built up to be capable of this. Obviously sometimes things go wrong and an individual woman can't become pregnant or give birth. But mostly human females can. Human males can't, in any circumstances. That's not how mammals have evolved.

We may have the biggest brains of any animal and the most complex social structures, but we are not exempt from biology and evolution.

@nauticant has been making the point below, very eloquently, for many years. This is the first post of hers I found using Advanced Search. It bears repetition.

nauticant · 03/02/2023 14:31

This is what I cut and paste whenever this gruesome subject comes up:
This business of uterine "transplants" into men appears to be about science but it is not. It's about getting the idea out there that men can give birth too, but not just yet, there are a few technical details to be sorted out first. So while we're waiting for the inevitable, let's get on with the social sciences side of things and accept that since men can give birth too (not yet, but soon, soon, it's bound to happen), then there are no real differences between men and women in terms of things that are material and significant, they're just bodies with an interchangeable set of parts. The actual significant differences are surface ones like the chosen forms of appearance.
It is about trying to change how people think by assuming a medical horror is a run-of-the-mill thing just round the corner. It's Overton Window stuff, not science.

The kind that will be renamed by the medical profession to be "inclusive".

Eg The Irish Cervical Cancer Board (which can only provide cancer screening and services to women) decided it would be a great idea to remove the word woman from their organisation and provide care to persons with cervix. This was after a TRA woman lobbied the Staff. Which is funny as they likely had no obligation to provide her with any services if she has obtained a GRC.

Also funny thing is that at the time they were being taken to court by people with no cervix to explain why said person without a cervix had no cervix (women dying of cancer due to poor testing which missed signs of cancer).

But on the upside if cervical cancer death change its metric and its not women but people with a cervix their death rate zeros out overnight🤷‍♀️

They do understand

They are choosing to market their women only product as fetish gear to men.

Not imo a good brand idea as most women would not wish to buy male fetish gear for themselves or their girls.

So the idea of marketing a male wank aid to a girl of 8 to 10 has Pedophilia vibes. And giving young girls sex aids is non-contact child sex abuse via grooming.

Why the brand management dont see the pedophilia association as brand risk as problem is beyond me.

Dont lend that man any money.👍

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g Thanks so much for sharing that. I have read it before but forgot about it! That's exactly what it's doing. As well as making anyone who falls for it look rather dim.

Mind you I had an actual doctor tell me I should dump my breast milk when I had pneumonia & a newborn as I was "poorly" so there is complete ignorance about women's bodies at all levels of society sadly.

I've seen biological men who identify as women claim to be having periods. They do things like wrapping up in a nice fluffy blanket with a hot water bottle and chocolate and and look for sympathy.

That's not living as a women. Most women say "oh FSS", take some painkillers and get on with their day as normal as much as they can. Said as someone who suffered from severe PMS and battled through each bad day.

Er I believe that's "kinkshaming" and "yukking someone's yum" as well as "denying their right to an existence."

See yourself out please.

Best of luck to you 🤞
Hope your girl comes to love her body and accept her self as she is without being caught up in the idea that medication which will push her into menopause is a solution.
❤️

Sure its been said before but the female vagina is not a body part which a male body can sustain as a transplant organ in the way a heart or kidney can plug and play with the support of daily anti-rejection meds

A male having surgically changed his penis and relocated into his pelvic region in a cosmetic process is not creating a vagina.

So actual women then. Women who identify as men identifying as trans who ....blah de blah. Biological women factually which is all that matters when it comes to periods and who needs period pants and who might have a uterus.