Just when you thought Everyday Transactivism could no longer surprise * title edited by MNHQ*

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They come up with this.

First post - Why Transwomen Aren't Biologically Male.
www.facebook.com/everydayfeminism/

The comments are encouraging though, that is, the ones that haven't been deleted. Lots of people questioning and calling this out.

I blame feminists for this misogynistic bullshit gaining such ground- liberal feminists have made space for transactivists and vilified radical feminists as transphobic when they challenge trans ideology. I have been vilified fro rejecting the term 'cis' and questioning the inclusion of MTT males to attend Reclaim the Night events.

Unfortunately, period-positive people often make the mistake of being cissexist too, especially when efforts to destigmatize periods often frame menstruating as “celebrating womanhood” and “embracing femininity.”. Um no.

Sometimes I avoid seeing menstrual blood, and sometimes discussing periods make me feel teary and nauseas – but that doesn’t mean I believe periods are shameful. Talking about periods makes you feel sick???

Once again, people with these issues shouldn’t be made to feel ashamed for not enjoying their periods.

Was this written by a 10-year-old?

I needed a trigger warning! Cheers Datun!

venus I was just about to apologise to you!

Don't worry I had already succumbed and peeked! It's as mind bogglingly shit and inane as I thought it would be.

Who the fuck 'enjoys' periods? WTAF?

I can't even be arsed to say why, because WOMEN know why

What a load of old stream of consciousness, utterley confused, mind-bogglingly immature bollocks.

Periods produce PTSD, are sick making but we need to reduce the stigma because they celebrate womanhood but we mustn't talk about them because they are so enjoyable, yet very exclusionary and hurtful.

The writing is also so fucking twee.

If I was that's tweenies mum I'd be grounding her for making such an arse of herself.

People who feel ill at periods or menstruating in general shouldn't feel shame, we need to discuss why it is a woman or girl should ever have negative feelings towards a natural bodily function/process.

I started mine just before I turned 10, I used to get horrendous pain that I needed time off school for so yes I didn't enjoy it, I saw a specialist at 11 and of-course it was a man, and before they even bothered to look into the history properly, they tried to insinuate that my periods might have dissapeared because I was pregnant, no compassion or anything, just very rudely kept asking if I'd been having sex, really? at 11? is it really called sex at that age? surely some sort of abuse has happened if that was the case, my answer was no but they still insisted a nurse did an examination, I felt like a criminal not a child with severe menstrual problems .

They can fuck off with their badly veiled misogynistic language and their homogenizing and censoring of women's bodies. Periods happen, they're messy and probably painful, they are an important female experience which for many women around the world causes hardship and fucks up their education. Anybody that needs it explaining or finds it offensive should seek psychological help ,sorry I'm a 'terf' so I obviously mean conversion therapy.

bigboobutch.com/2013/10/02/assuming-butches-into-extinction/

Wow.

This is.... unbelievable.

A non-gender-conforming lesbian woman takes a peak at her medical notes when going to the hospital. The notes say "48yo Trans [Male symbol] Chart will say female."

I don't even know what to say any more. Lesbians are literally being erased.

That's terrible. How dare they.

First lesbians are erased and then women are. It'll become illegal to be a woman. We'll all have to be "people"

Hey, look what's being shared on Twitter. One profile pic, one piece of wisdom.

I had a rage explosion at that EF article. I couldn't read all of it. I spend so much of my professional life hearing from women who have put up with horrendous periods for years. Women who have become anaemic because they've lost so much blood each month. Women who have set alarms to get up in the night to change sanpro so they don't wake up in a blood soaked bed. Women who feel ashamed and humiliated when their period leaks through into their clothes and onto their seats. And that's only women in the U.K. They've put up with so much because they felt it was just part of being a woman. And now we have to exclude the words we use to describe our experiences because it upsets others? No. Just no. How fucking dare they lecture women on not being inclusive enough when they talk about their periods when (at least in my experience) it takes them so long to come and talk about it at all? Fuck. That. Shit.

Poppyred85

The most unbelievable part for me was they were desperately trying to toe the feminist line by saying we should destigmatise periods, whilst at the same time saying but we can't say anything out loud about them at all really, in case it offends trans-people - for example having sanpro decorated with flowers (never actually seen this), is offensive.

Flower's on anything is just a design choice. Plenty of men like flowers (Alan Titchmarch, my dad to name two), so where's the issue?

Even if Sanpro products all had neutral designs on their packaging, which would be fine by me, it doesn't erase the fact that only people with female bodies need it and will always be inherently problematic for those who are at odds with their sexed body and therefore, Sanpro design is kind of irrelevant.