Bloody good period writes a painfully woke letter to JKRowling

[Clymene]

The charity which buys menstruation products to refugee WOMEN has written an open letter to JKR telling her to read some munroe Bergdorf. And no I'm not joking. It's an absolutely dreadful embarrassing letter, with arguments you'd expect in a gcse essay.

Signed by a load of misogynists like jolyon Maughan and some some that should know better like Jack monroe and that stupid guilty feminist woman.

docs.google.com/document/d/1EEbzyncbkIy27j8gAEQ03JNz0nla6EHZRU_Ng8zUuEY/edit

For shame.

Apparently it’s more gender neutral than folk is that to be aspired too? . Surely all this fuss is because gender is terribly important?

I think folx is supposed to cover all the multitudinous genders when referring to a group. It’s ridiculous basically!

Im early 30s and dont menstruate because i pump my body with hormones 3 years at a time so that i can actually live a normal life without 3 days a month in bed with dibilitating migraines.
My periods were never that heavy but the side effects were.
Tampax ultra light are purple.
Light are yellow.
The mid level pads i used came wrapped in green.
In fact i have never used a period product that is pink.
So seems a bit strange that trans men cant find all the other colours.
Its nonsense.
That letter is embarrassing.

This letter is so hilarious in so many ways. I love how they think that if a woman is not currently menstruating it means that she isn't a woman. No, honey, just the same way that a man is still a man, even if he isn't currently ejaculating. He may not be rubbing one out at the moment, but that doesn't mean he's going to be birthing a baby through his penis anytime soon.

The term "female reproductive class" is the same thing as "people who menstruate." It is the class of people whose lives intersect with menstruation, because menstruation is part of the female reproductive process. On a primal level, the most important task of any living being, after surviving, is replicating, and women's bodies are designed to be creators. Being pre- or post-menopausal doesn't make you male. Nor does taking birth control to stop your periods. And certainly, giving birth and nursing your infant does not distance you from the female reproductive process, of which menstruation is a part. You can't have babies if you don't menstruate. And they admit themselves that transmen and (some) nonbinaries are females who have just decided not to identify as such--as if they can magic away what is right in front of them (and everyone else. ) They admit that only females menstruate. Well, friends, females=women.

If we’re* the 'female reproductive population' because we’ve started to have periods, what are we before and after this time? Does the group name change for before and after?

Is ‘girl’ now just a defunct term and all children are just children or child until one half becomes the 'female reproductive population' at the start of menses? And I assume the other is then the default 'male reproductive population' which I suppose covers all the **population that never menstruate?

If this is all correct then what the hell are transwomen? Surely they’ve just ceased to exist? Or they are also now the ‘male reproductive population' or just ‘population’? Pop for short?

*I’m including myself for the moment, but I’m old enough that soon enough I’ll need a new label I guess.

**NB I realise that amenorrhea exists and I’m sorry that the brave new world seems to think you’re now not a woman

I grew up with folk music so don't mind the word folk but hate the Americanism "y'all"

I grew up in the American south. Sorry you hate the way I speak.

Y'all is fine spoken by someone from the South. Less so when someone's from Basingstoke

When I have the strength I will check out Hey Girls and ask if they still work with these fools. Sigh.

Period Aisle has transwomen talking about their periods:

periodaisle.com/blogs/all/6-transgender-women-talk-menstruation

Urgh, that article. Getting symptoms at the same time as their wives...

"After a few months on progesterone, I found myself having PMS-like symptoms, generally around the same time as my wife, a cis woman. Those symptoms include greater emotional extremes (both good and bad), sentimentality, defensiveness, an increased craving for certain kinds of food (salt! chocolate!), bloating due to water retention, greater likelihood of migraines, and less energy. This lasts five or six days. I think the experience actually causes a kind of gender euphoria in me. It was an unexpected development but it feels correct. Like something my body wants to do.”

They admit to wanting their wives' ability to have kids, and then lo and behold...

'Gender euphoria' isn't the specific term I'd use, but I will get banned if I say more.

@NewAccountForCorona

Surely most women who, due to body dysphoria, want to be thought of as men, want to present as male etc etc, would attempt to stop their periods, probably by use of a contraceptive of some type.

So few would actually need menstrual products.

All this changing of language for a minority of a minority (those women who want to be men but who still have periods).

I got fed up with having periods after 30 years so I went on the pill and stopped them.

"Period Aisle"..... Wanting periods?? Envying those that have them? And what's 'Gender euphoria' when it's at home?????
Periods are a pain in the ...... and I'm glad I don't have to manage them anymore.
Still a woman though. And not bloody cis either.

I did see a transwoman claim that there is a difference between having a period and menstruating. Transwomen have the former (all the symtoms) but not the actual bleeding (menstruation) of course.

More non-sensical word play.

@lionheart

I did see a transwoman claim that there is a difference between having a period and menstruating. Transwomen have the former (all the symtoms) but not the actual bleeding (menstruation) of course.

More non-sensical word play.

So very odd. I never had any symptoms of having a period except for bleeding for five days and that was that. Nothing else, ever, and this seems to be a family trait among the women (no knowledge of the men..).

So does this mean that I didn't have a period as I just menstruated?

Jesus wept. I just don't even have the words...

I hope for his clients’ sake that the fox killer doesn’t write his legal advice in that illiterate way. It’s incoherent ungrammatical nonsense.

Total fetishizing going on there. Ugh.

They've tweeted/RTed about fibroids and Endometriosis, isn't that something that'll get them cancelled/taken down etc for being trans-exclusionary?

*symptom

Trans women don’t have periods. I can’t believe there are articles validating this delusion.