Transwomen have periods too you know! Just no bleeding

[OrchidInTheSun]

I give you the latest in batshittery:

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FFS

What complete and utter bollocks.

The week before my period I am so fucking enraged I don't want anyone near me. Sex drive is like minus figures, the idea just repulses me. Makes me want to scream. Head feels fuzzy and I feel very anxious. These knobbers appropriating our things probably have blue liquid coming out of their winkles like on the telly that's about how much idea they have

GardenGeek

For me, personally, it's more about the fact that they are fetishising female biology.

It's a level up from pure appropriation. Many AGP individuals are quick to deny that it even exists. Despite it being practised all over the net. Quite openly.

It's bad enough appropriating female biology with this nonsense framing. But knowing it's arousing, at the same time?

I have too many ughs to be able to form an articulated response, to be honest.

it's just so fucking insulting. 'Crampy and sad' my FAT arse..

Anyway this 'around the 10th of the month' thing is a bit of a giveaway isn't it? since when did periods follow the calender? But then women know that , don't they? because they're..er...you know, women.

I Do not have anything against trans but Your just reacting to the hormone tablets that you take as a side affect as really men and women have set hormones and testosterone etc when you adding stuff into your body that really shouldn't be there in the first place it's reacting to it! Like what every person gets moody, eats a lot and cramps even if I'm not due on my period. I think it's abit to far to even call it a period when you do not have the correct amount of hormones a born women actually have.

Plus where's your uterus at?

GardenGeek

It's good of you to give them the benefit of the doubt.

I've read far too many identical narratives and skimmed vids, to do the same!

Ffs!

TheClient

That would be a very different Basemenr Jaxx tune

@GardenGeek There is no such thing a a "cis" person because we are human beings and not isomers.

Here is a pertinent part of the new guidelines that address using the term:

That said, it’s clear that most trans people find the use of pronouns or names that they or others have consciously rejected, to be hurtful and would therefore struggle to engage in a discussion with those who insist on using them. The same is true of the expression ‘Trans-Identified Male’ or ‘TIM’. Likewise, many feminists are affronted by the term ‘cis’ and ‘terf’, so using these terms will make civil debate less likely. As we’ve said, context is everything – but it’s likely that going forward our moderation team will delete these expressions.

But ‘a period’ is the body shedding the lining of the womb.

The reaction to the body of that process are not ‘period like symptoms’ they’re reactions of the body to the physical process.

Therefore ‘period like symptoms’ doesn’t really work. Yes I get the shits when I am on my period but if someone said they got ‘period like symptoms’ I would assume they meant the contraction of the womb and the feeling of heaviness and like your body is literally falling out.

Not the shits as that’s a secondary issue that happens as a reaction to the period.

You go ahead and keep thumbing your nose at the mods then, if that is what you choose. I won't bother you again.

'Yes, we are aware that the cramps we get are not our uteruses. They're just from ALL THE OTHER STUFF THAT CRAMPS ON YOUR PERIOD.'

What other stuff

The shits I’m guessing Buntyll.

They're just from ALL THE OTHER STUFF THAT CRAMPS ON YOUR PERIOD.'

I get bad IBS like symptoms around my period, but they are kicked off by my period and wouldn't happen independently. Seemingly leg and back cramps are also seen as part of the whole period experience based on that thread.

Somehow the actual bleeding, uterine cramps etc are just minor side effects and not, you know, essential components of the whole 'having a period' experience.

Appropriation once more.

Apropos of nothing did you know that in pre revolutionary France there was a delusion amongst some aristocratics that they had swallowed a glass piano and as such had to be careful to walk sideways through doors in case the broke it.

Batshit. End of.

Apparently, some of them are trying to argue that period means 'period of time' and so their 'period' of having trapped wind/IBS/nothing IS what women call a 'period'.

Some on another forum just pointed out that some of these deluded people are able to argue simultaneously that women shouldn't ever mention their female biological functions because it's hurtful and exclusionary to transwomen - and claim THEY have periods and freely talk about them.

It's good of you to give them the benefit of the doubt.

I've read far too many identical narratives and skimmed vids, to do the same!

Indeed! Me too.