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."

Cheeky Wipes are way better. I've had those pads and pants and wipes for years, still going strong. Modibodi was crap.

I'm not aware of any men-get-periods nonsense from them, but someone do say if I'm wrong. I'd honestly rather go back to disposables than encourage this. I know it's bad for the environment but while people are going around claiming men have periods, we probably deserve the meteorite. Anyway, there are so many washable period products/nappies/wipes etc businesses now, I can't believe there's nowhere that sells a good product and doesn't claim that men menstruate.

Edited because fuck you, autocorrect.

It's pandering to their fetishes again. I'm long past menopause still on hrt - female hormones and I certainly don't get periods or any period symptoms.

"Why isn’t the medical community looking into this phenomenon?"

I wonder why…. 🙄 possibly because it’s literal bollocks?

I’ve not met many actual doctors who are into gender ideology. I’m fairly sure most don’t want to make themselves and their careers into a laughing stock by proposing a research study that goes something like “do men without any of the required reproductive apparatus or actual hormone cycles really get “period” symptoms caused by said reproductive apparatus and actual hormone cycles?”

Wouldn't it be great if Modibodi spent their time energy and resources ensuring that women (the real kind, you know, their actual target audience) were 'comfortable, affirmed and empowered' Imagine what that might do for their sales!

And this is why I have no sympathy for the situation the bbc has found itself in

Yes. Aren't we lucky 🙄.

Wow, so bigoted. What about uterus-havers who identify as men who identify as women?

Now I am pissed off I’ve bought pants from this company! Honestly…

But where are the 'progressive' social credit points in that? 🫠

It didn't find itself in it, it created it over several years.

Premenstrual syndrome

No man can get PMS.
Ever.
the male human has a male reproductive system.

Males who take drugs can suffer side effects which do not and can not include hormone changes of the female reproductive system.

They are just choosing to be another wanker brand upselling a fake story to justify the marketing choice to provide men with fetish underwear.

My brain just broke 😭

Except didn’t it turn out they’d never actually tested it, but had read a couple of highly speculative papers from the 70s which were based on one anecdotal case and had no substantiating data?

So much actual nonsense circulates in this “gender” discourse where actual facts ought to be.

If Blur were to release Boys & Girls now this would probably be the lyrics!

I read a piece a while ago where men really were taking whacking great doses of female hormones with the express intention of experiencing period pains (in what organ, you’d wonder).
Just so they can hang out with each other and their deluded female enablers and commiserate with each other about the woes of womanhood.

I also read a thing on some blog (more fool me) where some trans women were trying to whip up some angry activism about scarce HRT bring ‘wasted’ on post-menopausal women instead of it being more readily available for MtF transitioners.

I dont know how JKR keeps her cool; I really don’t. I can feel my eyes cross and my brain clench up in fury when I read more reports about men seeking to wrest our basic experiences from us for their own dilettante whims, and thereby further erase more of the map of womanhood.

Wherever you look, just on AIBU alone, never mind ‘out there’, we find men who feel the day is wasted unless they have in some way diminished a nearby woman and restricted her right to occupy space.
(If you have a good ‘un, sisters, don’t let him slip away! They'll be going at €1m per kilo soon)

Thanks for creating today's earworm.

🎵 And when you put it all together there's the model of a charmless assigned male at birth...🎶

If a male human of any gender identity is bleeding from the genitals, that person needs to see a doctor.

Shameless marketing at the gullible and those with period fetishes from this company. Clearly they failed to consider how many women boycott companies who spout this nonsense.

this is good to know

I am wondering what else was incorrect from my biology lessons. I mean many men have denied having sex with women who have given birth to their child/children

Lying to people with no experience of periods that wearing their very expensive pants is all part of the authentic experience is pretty cynical marketing, verging on the exploitative actually. Obviously it's on the customer if they buy in, but it's pretty distasteful to think that people sat round a table and thought how best to profit from them while pretending to be their allies.

This. I'm on HRT tablets that I swallow daily and HRT I take vaginally ( everyday for 2 weeks initially then every 3 days). That's a nice lot of HRT and I feel well because of it. I never get ( nor have ever had) in the last 10 years of being on these drugs, a single twinge, cramp, discharge or anything remotely resembling anything menstrual of any kind and I am an actual woman and still have an actual uterus so how any of that could possibly happen to a biological man is ridiculous.

Words are actual violence
stating facts is violence

calling for women to be punched in the face and doing it is not violence

I had spotting post 60 and finished up needing a D&C with polypectomies and - two years later - a series of uterine biopsies.

I felt a bit 'off' at some points when my HRT needed to be tweaked - a bit like PMS - but that was it. When my Mirena coil was inserted, I had a bit of cramping for a while, but not all women get that. (I'm taking HRT as long as I can - there's horribly severe osteoporosis in my family and biphosphonates are contraindicated because of another family condition.)

A man taking female hormones is certainly not going to get the symptoms associated with having a uterus.

The men who are reporting cramping have bowel trouble. it's blatantly obvious when you read their gloating comments on Twitter.

Shame really, because if they did, sure as eggs is oops missed you this month eggs you can bet your life savings that within the year there would be legislation guaranteeing a paid week off every month for menstruating women, sorry people. .

Bizarre. Won't be buying any of their products again. Seems like they have a target audience that is bringing them more revenue than women so good luck to them.

This isn’t the first time I’ve heard this claim. A few years ago I worked in a secondary school that had a company come in to talk about relationships with the kids as part of PSHE, including talking about LGBT relationships. Part of the day included a performance and then once back in the classrooms a member of staff from the company came to chat to the kids. A male member of the company came to the classroom I was in and a girl asked if it was possible for a transwoman to have periods. His answer was ‘that would depend on what their doctor says’, he left after that question. I was furious and told the kids it was impossible for a biological man to have periods as they don’t have a uterus. I complained to the PSHE lead but they didn’t really care. I wasn’t sure whether he purposely gave that answer as he believed it or he was just too stupid to understand but it really annoyed me that someone who came to the school as an ‘expert’ talking to the students about relationships was giving incorrect information and confusing them!