Trans women and periods

[MhairiV]

I'm just going to throw it out there - few things make me more angry than reading about trans women and their 'periods'. Now I know I've had them my whole adolescent/adult life and I know plenty about how they work (and how they impact your life when they're not straightforward, god I know about that) but where does this trans period bollocks come from?

Without a uterus or ovaries or eggs or uterine lining or any of that stuff, where does any sort of cycle come from? Do they take oestrogen on an artificial cycle with progesterone or something? Or am I basically affording way too much time and thinking to something which makes zero sense in the first place and should just ignore it altogether? 🤨

Even if there is some element of truth in "sore breasts and dreadful moodswings" I'm still going to be angry anyway, I guess. That's not a period. That's sore boobs and a moodswing.

Help me o wise ones.

My mum had a hysterectomy.
She had not yet been through the menopause.
She still had the same hormones. But, can you guess what happened to her periods?
They stopped. I know. Amazing!

MhairiV
Oh my god, that’s amazing! 😂

TurboTeddy hormone hell runs in my family! My mum had awful periods her whole life, I mean real bad, she somehow just kept going. I honestly don’t know how. She was a farmer, then looked after her elderly mother and 4 kids by herself. I can’t imagine. She had a hysterectomy in her early 40’s and says after that life got much better. I don’t want to have to do that, I think I’m coping ok, but I have hypothyroidism and tricky adrenals too. The pain I manage ok, if I take bladderwhack regularly it reduces that, as does exercise- when I’m not profusely bleeding! I’m extremely fortunate that I can do a bit of work I need to from home, and my DH works & takes care of me a lot. But I can’t believe the attitudes from medical professionals. It’s been so awful I get anxiety and shakes if I have to go to the doctor now, I usually avoid it if I can. Gosh, I shouldn’t really complain about my c** privilege huh I just find this whole sick yearning to experience and fake menstruation, like it’s a fad or lifestyle, to be utterly insulting.

MhairiV that is so funny! Brilliance

It is a fetish.

I almost feel sorry for them - they don’t realise people are pissing themselves laughing at them

Jessica🤗
What the hell............

www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=679&v=BcNco-mM700

How to stimulate a period, or how to mix water and food colouring to make it look a little bit like blood and put it onto a pad or into a menstrual cup.

oops @TurboTeddy you got there just before me!

JessicaWakefieldSVH I thought the debilitating symptoms of each and every one of my periods were par for the course. I put up with it all, much like I imagine your mum did. And then I had my oophorectomy, and the misery was suddenly cut by 50%.

I find it absolutely revolting that these people would be fantasising about the process (menstruation) as if it's some secret token, something to lust after.

How to stimulate a period, or how to mix water and food colouring to make it look a little bit like blood and put it onto a pad or into a menstrual cup

At least that's better than rummaging through sanitary bins...

It's all, please tell me that's not a thing.

Fetishised fantasy.

Pathetic.

I've decided I have testicular torsion.
Very , very painful.
I haven't got testicles, but so what?
I CAN HAVE TESTICULAR TORSION IF I WANT AND YOU ARE ALL HATERZ

Jesus.

Just when I thought I'd peaked along comes some new madness.

Oh the poor loves. They just need to take a couple of aspirin and lie down for a bit.

Some people appear to prefer them pre-owned.

And and for you women who are really suffering from the crap hand that genetics dealt you.

Cyborgseadog I’m so sorry you had that experience too. Women have gone through horrendous crap for so long because the health profession is unbelievably sexist. Last year doctors were told in a NHS report to ‘listen to women’ when it came to endometriosis. Ummm, you’re doctors, I thought listening to patients symptoms and recording them was the first thing you’re supposed to do! I paid £20 for a copy of my notes, my GP did not even record what I told him about my severe pain during ovulation or my lump around my hip area or the increase in blood loss.. so many things. Grrr.

She had to do some research to see if it was possible for transwomen to menstruated. Are you fucking kidding me. She said ‘yet’. What the actual fuck is this shit?

Q. where does any sort of cycle come from?

A. Their imagination

Men do not have periods. Trans women do not have periods. Women have periods.

Men have no fucking idea about periods.

I've said on here before about my male acquaintance who said "yeah but we have to shave!" when a conversation about periods was being had. This man has a double first from Cambridge University. This man also now has a beard.

Dear Lord. It's not a period, it's a fetish.

Some men fetishise women's biology. And try every which way they can to mimic it.

One of the ways is to say that their artificial hormones give them a period without the blood.

No it doesn't. A period is the shedding of your uterus lining.

You can buy knickers online, with a plastic vagina in the front, and... I want to say pomegranate juice, being released, in order to mimic menstruation.

YouTube is awash with men saying how they suddenly cry at Andrex puppy adverts, need to eat chocolate, and bounce up and down on the bed flicking their hair.

And, unaccountably, have to have sex too at the same time.

Funny that.

Once you have read the accounts of men identifying as women trawling through sanitary bins finding used products in order to wear them in their underwear, you can never un-read it.

It's a fetish. It's nasty. And it needs sunlight.

I can't decide if I'm furious or if I'm going to throw up right now.

Tbh they are doing us a favour.

Many, many people are reaching peak trans who were once very sympathetic to TRAs.

If only I'd known when I was 13 that losing clots the size of chunks of raw liver and that pain so bad it left me curled and rocking in a foetal position was something to be jealous of!

I'm sure I'd have felt much more appreciative of the years of medical misdiagnosis, disinterest and physical pain if I'd only realised how lucky I was!

(Eye rolls into another dimension)

This is pure fetishism.

As if being a woman is simply having long hair, wearing make up, wearing skirts and lingerie and san pro.

Its sad. Really sad.

I'd have far more respect for TRAs if they really wanted to live a woman's life.

Working for 2 months a year for free?

Real menstruation. Shedding uterine lining every month for approx 45 years. Gets really tedious really quickly tbh.

The only options to avoid pregnancy being altering ones hormones via oral, subcutaneous or surgical hormones, unless your partner consents to wearing a condom, and none of which come without significant side effects.

Constant misogyny, asual sexual assaults, threats of sexual and physical violence, being overlooked for promotions simply because you are a woman, lack of awareness of womens health issues like endometriosis, pelvic floor injuries, the crisis in maternity care which is costing women their lives every week....
I could go on.

But they just want to wear pretty dresses and be told they can be something that they can never be.

Biology is not bigotry.

YouTube is awash with men saying how they suddenly cry at Andrex puppy adverts, need to eat chocolate, and bounce up and down on the bed flicking their hair.

So grim, the fetishisation of their male imagination of what women's lives are like.

(Flocks hair)

Totes, babe