Female health

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I don't even know how to properly title this post.

Daye, the period product manufacturer, has gotten hold of my throwaway email address somehow, and sent a mailshot with a link to this blog post about big tech censoring women's health.

This is the same company which panders to gender woo with SM posts such as those in the attached images.

Pandering to those who are dysphoric doesn't help us drive change in female health. If anything it hampers it because it's becoming more of a minefield with every new pronoun and/or identity. We bleed because of our biology. If we don't bleed despite our biology that could be cause for concern and required medical intervention. Gender identity does not affect our body's ability to bleed.

I'm sure many of you can word it better. But it really riled me.

Everyone has blood, everyone bleeds. Not everyone has menstrual blood. It's a nonsense statement. You could write and tell them why and tell them to unsubscribe you and remove all your data from their database.

Didn’t even make it past the 3rd sentence of this horse shit.

Women have periods. Do they think any woman is estatic when it comes? (Unless we don’t want to be pregnant).

These are the weakest, soft as cotton people I’ve ever seen. Everything triggers them.

The menstrual cycle is still one of the most understood and under studied processes of the human body.

But now we are directing much needed funding and can’t even say it’s a women’s bodily process for people who need intense therapy?

Oh ok.

Trans women don’t have periods.

Most misunderstood *

Surely the solution should be to provide mental health help for these females to be able to deal with getting triggered by being reminded of the inescapable truth that they are in fact female, rather then making the rest of us pretend that periods aren't a female only issue.

@Whatsnewpussyhat

Surely the solution should be to provide mental health help for these females to be able to deal with getting triggered by being reminded of the inescapable truth that they are in fact female, rather then making the rest of us pretend that periods aren't a female only issue.

Exactly this. However, MH support is woefully inadequate and I wonder whether all this affirming is to attempt to hide the fact that there isn't support available.

It's all utterly insane.
I read a blog post by a transwoman, in which they said periods are about so much more than just bleeding, and went on about the bleeding is such a tiny part of having a period, and if you have mood swings and cramps that's a period, and c* women should stop being so selfish.
Or some such nonsense

Mental health help sounds far more appropriate to me as well, Whatsnew.

I suspect this whole branch of medicine will be overehelmed eventually with scandal and will grind to a near total or total halt. While that might be negative for those who could have potentially benefitted, I for one will be thoroughly glad to see the back of these demands that we respect the fragility of people who supposedly have received treatment to alleviate their problems. If real life continues to be so distressing that the world has to change for you, the treatment is a resounding failure.

A trans identified male with menstrual cramps is a textbook example of Münchausen syndrome.

Cramps do not a menstruation make. Your body dumping the lining of a physically present cervix does. But that doesn't fit their imagined oppression narrative.

However, MH support is woefully inadequate and I wonder whether all this affirming is to attempt to hide the fact that there isn't support available

Which makes it even more absurd when you realise the amount of taxpayers money and funding that's being handed over to those pushing this niche ideology.

The amount of money to promote the beliefs of such a tiny % of the population is completely disproportionate.

Imagine if that money was instead used to increase and improve teen mental health support.

The answer to dysphoria has got to be therapy. Not pretending facts are not true, and not changing the language used by and for the 99.9% of the population who aren't dysphoric. My sympathy is fast ebbing away.

"So we decided to change woman to womxn but then some people told us we were wrong so now we use woman again but not all the time because we use people who do this or people who are experiencing that or when they're not doing it experiencing we just say people. But also women, not womxn, but actually never women when we come to think about it"

I'm exhausted.

Wouldn't the fact that this person is having periods "break" her? Because periods don't smash the binary. It's not like one day a Gender Fluid Individual has a period, next day They shoot off a huge load of wriggler-rich semen into the rafters.

It's not like one day a Gender Fluid Individual has a period, next day They shoot off a huge load of wriggler-rich semen into the rafters.

Interesting about Daye, I use their CBD tampons and they actually do seem to work. I hadn't clocked that they had all these silly social media posts (I don't follow them on Instagram) - everything they send is very clearly female health, women etc. They include cards in each delivery featuring inspiring women, not noticed it to include trans women at all. TBH it seems like those social media postings are just so they can be seen to talk the talk without getting cancelled every time they use the word women (which they do...often)

The irony of a period product manufacturer standing "unequivocally" with trans and non binary people - but not apparently with women.

Florence Nightingale wouldn’t be pleased at the imitation of her pie chart graphic.

Fuck me, I actually can't be arsed with all that and I pity the poor sap who feels they have to be.

Why (on that second image) are they reassuring us that 'women' includes 'trans women'? They don't need your products, Daye! Or - do they think transwomen are females who identify as men?

I've learned two things:

1. my hair cut is a "gender fluid" one

1. no one at Daye understands that it's perfectly simple to prevent menstruation for females regardless of now they identify.

Only, if they told females with (really rather nice) haircuts about contraception options which prevent menstruation - well, they'd sell fewer pads, wouldn't they?

I dont know why a tiny, tiny minority of people struggling with mental health are demanding the entire nation change their language. They just need to go to therapy to learn to love their body. Not continue to hate their body whilst re-writing the dictionary.

My boyfriend leaves me and I feel VERY sad. Therefore I demand that everyone else refer to their boyfriends as 'blimpens' as not to remind me of my own internal struggle.... Uhh no. Imagine thinking the world revolved around my delusions!

I don't think anyone is 'demanding' people change language - it seems mainly to come from the marketers. Also it looks to me from original post as though Daye is committing to keepping on using women, along with some other inclusive language, and I don't have a problem with that.

A friend of mine owns a menstrual cup company. She was absolutely hounded for using the word 'women'. She had to change every label on every product she had already made ( great for the environment!) it was very much a demand, and a threat.