Reddit - TIMs and Periods

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Stumbled across this thread on Reddit. A load of TIMs sharing their experiences of having a period.

www.reddit.com/r/MtF/s/twwZf1AH3c

I might send the fencing photo plus this modibodi link to people I know who are still insistent about men being women.

Of course it’s not a fetish, how dare you claim that the actions of this special group of very special men are anything other than pure and sincere? 😁

Quite

Deeply ironic quote from near the end:

Educate yourself about trans experiences, including menstruation, and help correct misinformation.

Some men may not have uteruses

🤣🤣😁😁😁😁😁

From a period product company!!! 😁

edited to add, with that amount of ignorance, they'd be the last people I'd listen to about women's stuff

Oh priceless 😁😁😂😂😂😂😂

🤣🤣🤣

Come on transphobes, it’s up to you to cure the suffering!

Apart from anything they are listing physical “real” symptoms that are being experienced and in “affirming” them they’re removing the possibility of another medical issue which needs actual treatment. And there’s no caveat saying seek medical advice - so clearly the marketeers think it’s all in their head?! So cynical

I refused to click.

Which transwomen are getting Frankenstein undocumented, unresearched and unethical womb transplants from women, because I think that's a hell of a news story that no news outlet has managed to cover. Why all the secrecy in covering up this, since no transwomen ever had been born with a uterus and every single one has been born with a penis instead.

I really want to know where this is happening and who gave approval for this to happen so we can examine the effectiveness of this treatment and give hope to all transwomen everywhere that they took can one day have their own period.

Fuck me if it really says that (as I say I refuse to click) it's an out and out lie and a half.

The thing is, the Modibodi stuff is clearly blatant “ooo, look, a shiny new set of consumers to give us money.” It was probably pushed by TRAs, but what company in its right mind would turn down the idea of a new consumer group.

But that whole mentality is at least part of the medicalisation push too - trans patients are money earners (particularly in the US). There are medico-pharmaceutical companies that make big donations to trans activist groups. It’s all about making a buck and damn the consequences.

Sickening weirdos

And yet more strangeness on simulating a period. (Edits to add: I’m slightly worried about the presenter here theres a heavy neurodiversity vibe so be kind although she was running business selling period products so is looking for click bait possibly)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BcNco-mM700&pp=0gcJCfcAhR29xXO

And somewhat sinister old school misogyny on show “menstrual blood infecting everything” here:
https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2013/designandviolence/menstruation-machine-sputniko/

I can’t look any more. I was hoping you were all wrong and this wasn’t real but apparently not. This is really quite disturbing.

It's all of a piece.

Woman is a human with female biology. Men are not female. End of.

Except wangle wangle wangle, it's social, it's feels, it's all kinds of bits so men can own it too!

Periods involve bleeding from a uterus. Men don't have them. End of.

Except wangle wangle wangle, men have moods, men have tummy ache, men want chocolate, it's all kinds of bits so men can own it too!

The word 'no' is the real issue here. Unwanted reality.

Talk to a woman with an endometrial ablation. She has all the bits. Fully functioning. But her uterus is currently not shedding. So she does not have periods. Even moody chocolate eating tummy achy ones. She just doesn't. She does not bloody bleed.

But there is no point talking sense and reality to someone with their fingers in their ears with their inner life focused on a delusion.

This is the bit I find most offensive to be honest - the reduction of a menstrual cycle to a few days of cramps and crankiness. Ignoring the actual purpose of a menstrual cycle (biologically, to enable reproduction). It just points to one of the fundamental problems with gender ideology - the brushing aside of women's reality.

I'm reaching back into dimly-remembered feminist analysis (and threads I've read on here over the years) but doesn't it also speak to the argument that men's oppression of women stems in part from the fact they both fear and revere our role in reproduction. That's why they have fought to possess us and supress us(in structural/historical terms), because they both need women's ability to grow humans and fear the power it gives women. This feels like just another part of that - they appropriate what they revere (softness? pink? ) but deny the bit which actually makes women different and possibly powerful (again in structural terms - as I say I'm trying to reach back and remember this to say it coherently but not really succeeeding)

We all know how difficult it is to get help for female gynae medical issues. It's often just brushed off as "women's stuff" that we have to deal with. There's an ongoing government enquiry into the inequalities in women's healthcare:
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cdp-2025-0038/

My main concern about biological men experiencing period symptoms and needing chocolate and TLC to cure it, it that it minimises serious health issues that women go through relating to gynae issues. If they are trivialising our symptoms, it makes it harder for women with actual symptoms to get medical help.

Yes @YorkshirePuddingsGreatestFan it's absolutely this - trivialising something which is real and undermining the real problems which women face and struggle to get support for.

Then we are co-opted into helping 'correct misinformation' and show support for men trivialising and fetishising our lives.

I wish before/during my period all I had to worry about were cramps, moodiness and wanting chocolate🙄 They can happily have my endometriosis and pmdd

I am at the stage now where I can't see the difference between these groups. I'm not even sure 'gender dysphoria' is real, TBH.

They did that already and put a man in charge of an endometriosis charity he even when on BBC radio to talk about it and his appointment. There have been 29 cases globally of men with end stage prostate cancer who have been taking pbs (amongst many many more drugs) for years who have developed tissue similar to (but not) endometrial tissue, this man then used that fact as a reason to higher him and open the charity to men with special gender identities

Gender dysphoria is a symptom of a mental disorder. It’s a delusion as no man has any idea what it feels like to be a woman & vice versa. In fact no man has any idea what it feels like to be a man. You just know how you feel personally.

Yes I know that's how it is defined, I'm just not convinced that it exists without the sexual element. 'Feeling like a woman' is in and if itself a fetish, isn't it?

Yes, I know exactly what you mean. The entire edifice relies on rampant sexism to even exist.

And when you get people like Juno Dawson, India Willoughby, etc, who are, supposedly, the HSTS type of trans, it still seems to be highly sexually motivated.

@Datun absolutely with those two. I don't understand why people can't see it.

Back to the cramps, nausea, bloating and other symptoms described on that reddit thread - assuming they are real - can be signs of gastroparesis linked to Type 2 diabetes due to hormone treatment in both Trans males and females. Given that type 2 can have some really horrible results if untreated (I'm pretty sure that your foot going black and having to be amputated isn't a sign of menstrual tension) at which point would these folks be pointed towards proper medical advice?

Nitter version. https://nitter.poast.org/fondofbeetles/status/1908066933376721334?t=A2fpFNgDRyXF2d6ye97wEA

This section made me LOL. https://nitter.poast.org/FondOfBeetles/status/1908209388982047004#m

Actually, I think Blanchard eventually said that one of the reasons why HSTS transition is because of internalised homophobia and wanting to attract a 'straight' man.

So still sexually motivated. But perhaps not a fetish.