On trans periods and changing sex at menopause

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My friend is on a women's discussion group and has been observing the education of women by some transwomen (and sending me screenshots...).

Apparently the effect of estrogen on transwomen's bodies (mood swings, bloating, cramps) is an actual period. It is the same thing as expelling menstrual fluid from your person. You can use "period" to describe any or all of these symptoms, and even doctors do so.

There are multiple types of sex including chromosomal, gametic and hormonal. And get this, when a woman goes through menopause her gametic sex changes. Wow!

Health information such as that on NHS pages re cervical cancer is actually clearer since it removed references to sex because "people with a cervix" is the correct descriptor over women. Information on men's cancers has been subject to the exact same treatment.

Anyone who disagrees with this is following their feelings and not the science. Oh yeah and they are also a t* and want trans people to die.

And there endeth your lesson....

I like terfyn too. It sounds like surfin' and I shall spend the next few hours investigating Beach Boys' songs and rewriting them for the terfhood "Surfin' USA" becomes "Terfyn' USA" naturally. Now, what else ....?

Laughing at the fact that the original poster will not accept Dr Hilton's corrections to their dangerous misinformation. (Although, I am not laughing that this person called her a nazi.)

But the blatant inability to accept fact that doesn't fit the needs to shape reality to suit you is very clear.

I have terfyn. But women are not allowed to have terfyn, hence we are branded TERFs.

Go Team Terfyn!

This Article includes some interesting arguments about how queer theory shifts the concept of ‘evidence’ in unhelpful ways

I don’t necessarily agree entirely with any of it - I think to some degree it’s overstated, and purposefully ignores some aspects of the post structural arguments at the end (in particular) - but I do think it is relevant to stuff like this. In fact, it’s relevant to the approach on both sides of the popular debate in various ways.

TRAs and their allies do want to redefine evidence and dismiss everything they simply don’t agree with. But the other side (and I’m gender critical) can tend towards caricaturing queer theory in ways that aren’t always entirely helpful to the debate.

It is perfectly possible for scientific knowledge to be constructed in ways that are absolutely entangled with (and productive of) power relations and for that to apply equally to the theories and evidence preferred by TRAs as much as to the evidence they want to dismiss. They can’t have it both ways.

This feels relevant.