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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

is it fair othat older transwomen get to stay on HRT for life?

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intheparcark · 23/07/2018 17:41

is it fair that NHS gps will more than likely prescribe HRT for transwomen for life?
On the other hand, middle aged women are often bullied into stopping it after 60.
even though for a lot of women, their mental and physical health depends on taking HRT.
A lot of younger women don't realize that for a large percentage of women, menopausal symptoms (hot flushes, low libido, depression, brain fog, insomnia and mood swings) NEVER GO AWAY.

I'm assuming that all these middle aged men who want to become women won't be 'getting the talk' from their GP after they've been on HRT for so many years Angry

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intheparcark · 25/07/2018 15:20

A lovely friend of mine and his wife are expecting a baby very soon. Whenever I ask him when his wife is due he answers "we are 36 weeks". It makes my toes curl and I hate it. Pregnancy is something only a woman experiences. Women don't talk about how 'we' had a vasectomy, or how 'we' have a prostate problem.
Of course I say nothing. He and his wife may be happy to say this to each other. But I despise hearing it because I am a woman, I have been pregnant and having to listen to a man talk about 'their' stage of gestation makes me cringe.

I find it cringey.
It's very similar to the barren wives in the handmaid's tale being so jealous of the handmaids going through real labour that they end up pretending to be in labour themselves, all so they don't feel 'left out'

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Prawnofthepatriarchy · 25/07/2018 15:50

When DH and I went to NCT classes many years ago, a couple came in to tell "their" birthing story. The bloke did all the talking. From his description you'd have thought it was him who'd given birth.

My DH ranted about it all the way home. Called the bloke a tosser. It was just one of the things that put us off the NCT. We didn't bother with DS2.

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