Transwoman claims Tampax have offered sponsorship

[DomesticatedZombie]

Dylan, currently on 'Day 47 of being a girl' claims Tampax have been in touch.

www.instagram.com/p/CbiQWjUpXXd/

Why?

'Dylan was using a public restroom when a fellow woman called out if she had a tampon, Dylan shyly replying ‘no’.
Afterwards, she decided to buy some to keep in the house and in her purse for all her girlfriends, ending the video with “women support women.” It seemed that Tampax were quite interested in working with Dylan afterwards. What an incredible outcome!'

www.boredpanda.com/trans-tiktoker-documents-journey

How would having a tampon be helping another woman out.

Who asked another woman, let alone a man for a tampon.
It just never happens.

on another note. Where is Dylan planning to stick this tampon and for what reason.

I can only think of butt plug

Also I find Cis anything is a highly offensive term to describe a man or woman.

Nah, never asked anyone for sanpro in my 30+ years of menstruating. Maybe helped myself to one in a friends house if on show. Just do the toilet roll wad ting until I can get to a shop or machine.

Also never ever been asked for one. Helped a friend out giving her my long cardigan as she had leaked onto her jeans, but never mentioned among friends.

Definitely a fantasy thing rather than actual female reality.

Disappointing to see a good post by marshmellow removed. But hey, just keep cancelling valid comments.

""Disappointing to see a good post by marshmellow removed. But hey, just keep cancelling valid comments.""

Yep.
Apparently we're not allowed to discuss things that actually concern women, and the thing that we're not allowed to discuss is a REAL thing BTW, not something that us terfy harridans have invented.
And its a REAL problem that a lot of REAL men have, some even admit to it.
But keep burying the truth.
That means it doesn't exist right?

Just throwing a statistic out here. 90% (if not more) of trans women keep their penis.

Why would that be?

You'd think by now it would have dawned that just trying like whackamole to hide unwanted words that everyone else can be controlled into compliance is never going to work. And that it just makes the silenced people steadily more fed up and determined to be heard.

I have never experienced this.

Once heard my SIL ask my other SIL for one during an extended, unplanned drinking session.

If Dylan is so keen to support access to hygiene for females, then perhaps Dylan could train in public health, or as an engineer, and work in parts of the world where women really don't have access to sanitary products and clean water etc. Oh - hang on - that would require work - and they would be the wrong sort of women, wouldn't they?

rolls eyes

Please Mumsnet HQ can you just let us raise this possibility (probability), as it needs to be said… You don’t really think this ridiculous story is all fluffy and lovely, do you?!

Too right @Artichokeleaves I honestly feel like scattergunning the crap out of it today with my thoughts. I’m getting more and more incensed by this nonsense. It’s degrading and insulting to adult human females

If Dylan is so keen to support access to hygiene for females, then perhaps Dylan could train in public health, or as an engineer, and work in parts of the world where women really don't have access to sanitary products and clean water etc.

The question would be whether this would offer Dylan the experience that Dylan is seeking.

Which brings us back to the same repeating question: where is the boundary on making use of others to gain a desired personal experience in which those others are necessary but non consenting props?

If this forum is to be believed, every single "trans" person is truly trans because they say they are, even if it's only been for 5 minutes every third Wednesday if its raining .
No trans person has ever committed a crime against a woman
No trans person could EVER be doing it for nefarious purposes or to gain access to women and girls
No trans person wants access to female spaces for any reason other than they consider themselves female
Biological males have NO reason to dress and act as females
There is no such thing as the thing which I am not allowed to mention, even though the thing is a recognised thing in psychology and many many men do this thing.

Why can't we have an open discussion about this? We all know it's happening, blatantly, and yet THEY are protected and we are not even allowed to discuss it because it's "wrong speak".

Who are all these men that supposedly keep san pro on them or in their car?!

I’ve bought packs of pads for my daughters when they’ve mentioned running out, (so it wouldn’t embarrass me to carry them), but I have never thought of doing so on the off chance some random woman needs one AND then actually asks a strange man for one!

I mean, how would I know this fictional woman needed one? Would she shout it out into the street on the off chance a passerby would take pity on them? Or would she discretely approach every passing man to ask? Not very likely, is it.

I don’t know any of my male friends and acquaintances who carry it, nor have I ever seen SM posts boasting about it. Just a bizarre thought.

I'm still very much enjoying the pp's scenario where Mark in accounting has only light flow tampons so he liaises with Jim in marketing who often has extra long pads....

Absolute fantasy.

It's utterly incredible.

There's the very odd one off situation where it might happen. I can imagine someone buying an emergency packet say at an airport waiting lounge and then sticking it in a male partner's hand baggage just because there's more room in his bag. I'm sure there are other one- off situations where packs have ended up in men's cars and bags but it's of no use other than to the parties involved- who probably don't even remember there might be the odd item lurking in a glove box/ bottom of rucksack.

@MarshmallowSwede nothing to see here, move along please.

what do the 90% do with their penis? Hmmmmm I just can’t imagine????

I think what needs to be said too is that Dylan is one of those people - the type of person who is desperate to be famous but has little noticeable talent. Trying to be in musicals, making sob story TikToks about addict father (who gave up drugs when his child was born, so Dylan hasn’t actually been affected by it) constant social media engagement etc. So it seems more like an attention seeking problem/desperation for fame.

Is it "coming on to the Feminism board of a women's platform to tell women to be nice or be quiet"?

This made me chortle (quietly) to myself.

I watched the video that another person mentioned further up the thread. The woman speaking in the podcast was really articulate, she impressed me with how articulate she was. There’s another as Dylan made a response on their tiktok to their podcast (as you do).

It definitely is. They are completely obsessed with chatting with other 'ladies' in the public loos about periods etc. Like it actually EVER happens .

Of all the things that never happened, a woman asking the person in the stall next to her for a tampon, and men carrying around sanpro for just in case are two such examples.

I know when I was suffering with the delights of unpredictable flow recently I damn well didn't ask a random man for sanpro when I had run out of the 3 spares that I carried in my handbag. I didn't ask stranger women in the public loos. I did ask a very close friend female colleague for a spare, while I made excruciatingly delicately phrased arrangements with my male colleagues so that I could pop to the shops to stock up. Funnily enough none of them jumped up and produced a sodding tampon out of their back pocket for me (thank goodness). If it had been lighter flow I would have used loo roll and/or paper hand towels.

This, THIS is the lived experience of women. Not navalgazing buying a product that one has no personal use for to show solidarity.

Oh and not every woman uses tampon, the one time I had to ask it was a close colleague and I only use pads. luckily she did too but not the wing version but I made do just so I could get to the end of the day and home. If a tampon was offered I would turn it down, never used one and rather wad up toilet roll. But again majority of toilets have vending machines in them just a problem if you dont have cash

Someone upthread said that this person, by carrying tampons, is “probably feeling more included by being part of the process”. The idea that someone (male or female) wants to be part of the process of another woman’s period really is very weird. It’s up there with talking to someone through a cubicle door when you know they are doing a shit and want you to go away. Women in the toilets want to just do their business and get out (much like men I expect).

Agree!

By the time of your post, 3 comments had been deleted. Best not to over-egg your position if you want to get a point across.

I’ve never heard of a guy carrying san-pro.

I’ve been asked, roughly, two or three times by women in the last 35 years of being a bleeding woman. Always colleagues at work - people I was close to, and always asked discretely. Never in the toilets, called out between cubicles.

The more crap I read, and the more some parts of society seem to be twisting themselves into pretzel-shaped reasoning, the more I worry that I’m going to end up with a permanent brick shape forged into my forehead.