What are your thoughts on this image?

[Crocsandshocks]

Apparently Facebook allow this despite apparently not allowing female nipples. I'm so confused!

To me, this photo is a representation of the current mental health crisis. We're treating the wrong issue.

There are of course exceptions, but this photo is how "we" have responded to this phenomenon. We're cosmetically altering bodies but are we doing enough to explore the mind first.

It's a load of old bollocks.

That they need to use sanitary products and learn how hard blood is to remove from white underwear.

do we really need to see the blood image.. ffs

If there’s one way that’s stone cold guaranteed to display to the world that you’re a woman, it’s period blood leaking through your pants.

It’s so easy to avoid that, if you wish to.

You don’t even have to take a load of testosterone. You can just take the pill.

And if you find the pill triggering, but you don’t find period blood leaking through your pants triggering, well I can’t help you, and you clearly don’t even know what you want.

Given the choice of mastectomy or hysterectomy, I'd go for hysterectomy. The days, weeks, months of my life lost to womanhood were not due to my tits.

Well, you can just use sanpro, but that obvious solution seems to have passed that lot by……………

Hi all, we are getting a lot of reports on this thread. Please keep it civil or we will have to take it down.

Surely you mean top surgery and not mastectomy unless you intended to offend these men.

Apparently words trigger gender dysphoria but being photographed faking a period doesn't.

Your mistake is easy to make, the rules are all very confusing.

That’s the medical term. So it’s ’triggering’ to not use a medical term but the pout red ink in your pants to imitate a period?

no it’s a euphemism to try to dampen the actuality.

MAKE LESBIANS GREAT AGAIN!!

Then this shit wouldn't happen.

That’s a shed load of tattoos was my second first thought.

There are so so many things that I could say. So many discussion points in just one photo.

I get it is supposed to be an uplifting inspiring sort of photo but I just find it melancholic.

Hmm, "people have nipples" - would that work for FB?

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Shown maybe 10 or more years ago, I believe this photo would have been interpreted as medical patients recovering from some kind of violent conflict, perhaps victims who were forced into becoming child soldiers.

My friend had her post-breast cancer reconstruction surgery photo deleted on facebook for sexually explicit content.

(Hint: it really wasn't sexual.)

Serious question - if a transman is taking testosterone for long enough and in sufficient doses to grow facial hair, with that individual still mensturate?

You beat me to it!

Getting a lot of reports on this thread. There's a surprise.

So, I'm on the tail end of my bleeding years, shall I post a grungy photo of my pants and the grim contents on fb tomorrow and see how long it lasts? I'm def more pantone1545 than the jolly 1795 used in that photo.

Friend had her post op photos removed from our private fb group. Stupid. Whole world gone stupid.

We should all change our profile pix to the Pantone colour they should have used 😂

It looks like misogyny to me :( not the trans men or the pseudo shocking “blood” stained white underwear or the lack of women in a period advert or the mastectomies. But all of it together. It’s blatantly to make a point but it seems so unnecessary. It could have had more diversity and been more inclusive. Oh the lrony :(

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Variations on Pantone 1945, 491 and 168

As someone in survivorship following extensive treatment for breast cancer, which included two surgical procedures, I find the mastectomy scars really upsetting.

I was thrown into early menopause due to the chemo, so my periods as a biological female ceased - I suspect the hormones these transmen will likely be taking will stop their periods too eventually?

So I have loss of my natural breasts and loss of fertility in common with these people but for much different reasons. We all remain biological women though.

I find the image really hard to look at, and can't comprehend why doing what happened to me as a result of a life threatening disease to healthy bodies is celebrated, and espoused to young teens so casually.

Hear hear.

God some of those scars are brutal.