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What the heck! Trans women get periods apparently

487 replies

charcoalandsugar · 21/11/2025 12:42

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."

How some trans women get their period

How some trans women get their period – Modibodi EU

Menstruation is a part of many people’s lives. Find out how some trans women get their period and how you can be a supportive friend.

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

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MelOfTheRoses · 21/11/2025 14:06

Zippedydodah · 21/11/2025 13:29

Could always ram a tampon up their penis I guess?

I remember a You Tube video where someone, recently surgically affirmed, tried a tampon in the newly created orifice, then complained it hurt. 🤪

Dollymylove · 21/11/2025 14:07

Here's what happens. Frozen tomato puree inserted in poop wound.
Tomato puree thaws and just like that, period pads are needed!!

AngelinaFibres · 21/11/2025 14:07

Dgll · 21/11/2025 14:01

It is written like a parody. I bet someone in marketing was pissing themselves laughing when they wrote it?

Tryjng to be clever often backfires. Gerard Ratner tried that when he compared the earrings his company produced to an M and S prawn sandwich.He said the sandwich would last longer. His company went bust shortly afterwards.
I doubt modibodi will survive for very long if their only customer base is blokes. If I still had periods I wouldn't buy from any company that suggested transwonen were women.

Gymnopedie · 21/11/2025 14:08

Now listen up. You're not being kind to the men who might be 'on' when they go for the cervical smear they've demanded (and sometimes got.) Cos they're a biological woman, innit.

AmandineChamallow · 21/11/2025 14:08

Whether you’re a woman, a man, non-binary or agender, your body may menstruate too.
They mean a woman who is a trans man or non binary or agender I think

toottoot3 · 21/11/2025 14:11

catontheironingboard · 21/11/2025 12:56

They’re not cheap, either! I actually have some Modibodi period pants, bought way back when they were one of the only companies making them. But no way would I buy from them again after reading this absolute nonsense. I don’t like to be lied to by brands who are courting my business whatever the subject. Treating your potential customer like a fool is not a good look…

Going by that logic it must be hard for you to buy anything, what large brand companies do and lie about it pretty obvious from food to fashion. How do you navigate that?

pigsDOfly · 21/11/2025 14:11

When I had my hysterectomy over twenty years ago I stop having periods. Why? Because I no longer had a uterus. I had HRT but the hormones I took didn't cause periods because, I no longer had a uterus.

So how the hell do the people from a company selling period products seriously think it reasonable to claim that some trans-women may menstruate because of the hormones they take. Trans-women are biologically men, and like me, do not have a uterus.

Prime example of magical thinking.

charcoalandsugar · 21/11/2025 14:11

AmandineChamallow · 21/11/2025 14:08

Whether you’re a woman, a man, non-binary or agender, your body may menstruate too.
They mean a woman who is a trans man or non binary or agender I think

I thought that too at first but then I read the bit about not all trans women have uterus’s and stared like this 😲

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Dollymylove · 21/11/2025 14:11

Gymnopedie · 21/11/2025 14:08

Now listen up. You're not being kind to the men who might be 'on' when they go for the cervical smear they've demanded (and sometimes got.) Cos they're a biological woman, innit.

Can someone explain where they insert the speculum? Its a bit large to fit up a blokes dick 🙄

Mydadsbirthday · 21/11/2025 14:12

briq · 21/11/2025 13:00

Ooh, the part about how to support and affirm them is... 😡

Made me so angry to read that. Fuck off Modibodi. I will never buy products from a company spouting so much shit. Great way to reduce your sales.

ThatCyanCat · 21/11/2025 14:13

Dollymylove · 21/11/2025 14:07

Here's what happens. Frozen tomato puree inserted in poop wound.
Tomato puree thaws and just like that, period pads are needed!!

What?

You what?

AudHvamm · 21/11/2025 14:13

Oh FFS, I do like the Modibodi pants 🙄

AngelinaFibres · 21/11/2025 14:13

AmandineChamallow · 21/11/2025 14:08

Whether you’re a woman, a man, non-binary or agender, your body may menstruate too.
They mean a woman who is a trans man or non binary or agender I think

Surely if you feel that you are non binary and yet your body menstruates/ does not menstruate ( because you are in fact a man) that somewhat blows the whole non binary shite every 4th week of the month.

PersephoneSmith · 21/11/2025 14:15

That is the biggest loads of bollocks I’ve heard for quite a while.

Laura95167 · 21/11/2025 14:16

RaininSummer · 21/11/2025 12:46

Who are the 14 percent so far who think YABU? I hope they just read it differently.

Im assuming they misread and thought transmen (biologically female) may menstruate.

Malvarrosa · 21/11/2025 14:16

I agree with the linked article that taking cross-sex hormones may and often does result in significant mood and even physiological changes not encountered prior. But this shouldn't be conflated either with a menstrual cycle or with the effects of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) - that is, replacing hormones that would have naturally occurred but are depleted due to menopause, age, or various health conditions.

We've only very recently started to see wide public acknowledgement and analysis of how so many aspects of life (healthcare, urban and rural planning, product design, public policy, etc.) have been biased and women's needs overlooked for centuries because the focus has been on the male, almost exclusively, as the default human being. (See, e.g., Caroline Criado Perez's Invisible Women, Elinor Cleghorn's Unwell Women, or Misty Pratt's All In Her Head, just for a start!) Whether it's an unfortunate coincidence or an intentional disinformation campaign (or a little of both), statements like "Yes, anyone can get their period!", coming now, are a regressive step backward rather than a progressive step forward.

Modibodi didn't start this trend, but whether they are genuine "useful idiots" or are still blinded by a male-centered worldview and the data bias it engenders or are knowingly trying to capitalise on a (manufactured?) cultural "moment" for profit, they are doing actual harm (1) to women, who have the right to and need for a clear medical focus specific to our bodies and health without being buried again by the archaic "everybody = men" delusions of the past and (2) to trans people, who also have the right and need to discuss, understand, and communicate medical (physical, mental, and emotional) issues related to transition and to access help as required, without their experiences being conflated with other situations or obscured by opportunism, politics, or mythology.

Let's hope Modibodi reconsider their position and start behaving as responsible corporate citizens.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 21/11/2025 14:17

charcoalandsugar · 21/11/2025 13:13

Oh yes I forgot about David Lammy.

How do intelligent adults believe this stuff?

Hardly any compulsory biology at school. Dh attended an elite, highly academic boys’ school, where biology was looked on as a ‘soft’ girls’ subject. Exceptions were made for those planning to be medics.
Physics, chemistry, maths, were robustly masculine, of course.

This was in the late 60s, though - I would hope that attitudes have changed.

Until a few years ago, when there was a fascinating TV programme about the IIRC early 1800s man who discovered the fact of plants taking in CO2 and giving off oxygen, I hadn’t realised that dh literally had no idea about photosynthesis - the basic foundation for life on earth.

Grammarnut · 21/11/2025 14:18

It sounds like they've got their terminology mixed up and think a transwoman is a woman who thinks she is a man. I suspect that mix up is at the base of a great many problems with how people see 'transwomen'.

AngelinaFibres · 21/11/2025 14:21

Laura95167 · 21/11/2025 14:16

Im assuming they misread and thought transmen (biologically female) may menstruate.

Transmen may well menstruate ( although I believe testosterone changes it somewhat) but the only reason that they menstruate is because they are women and have a uterus. They aren't a special subset of people who have periods. They are women and women are the only ones who can do that. They also have the shaping in the genital area that makes the pants fit. No room for a cock and balls in there. Which is fine because they don't have them

jeaux90 · 21/11/2025 14:21

I am effing livid and will be voting with my wallet. I have spent a lot of money with them trying to get my ND teen comfortable with the changes in her body, her periods are an absolutely awful time with her ADHD and here they are effing gaslighting us about the menz with their special feelz. Nope.

saffglass · 21/11/2025 14:23

At best it's an absolute joke and at worst it's extreme fetishization of women's bodies and lives and something they try to use to undermines women's rights to single sex spaces. For once and for all it is impossible for any male, even if he identifies as trans, has HRT and all kinds of surgeries to have a period. Males do not menstruate. If anything this kind of nonsense should expose what is relly going on with them to more people.

3peassuit · 21/11/2025 14:24

I bet they wouldn’t want my endometriosis. Ludicrous gang of clowns.

pinkksugarmouse · 21/11/2025 14:25

PrawnofthePatriarchy · 21/11/2025 12:55

Some years ago I came across a discussion on one transgender discussion group where men were saying they retrieved used sanpro and used it themselves. Presumably they put the tampons up their bums. There are few limits to what fetishists will do.

I heard some root through sanitary bins and put used pads in their underwear.
🤢🤮 And we are expected to not only accept but actually celebrate these agps and their featishes.

ruffler45 · 21/11/2025 14:26

Quick send for the Guinness Book of Records..

pinkksugarmouse · 21/11/2025 14:28

3peassuit · 21/11/2025 14:24

I bet they wouldn’t want my endometriosis. Ludicrous gang of clowns.

Nope but some do pretend they have terrible period cramps. After supporting my daughter through very painful periods for several years after she first started this makes me livid. 🤬

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