the same time every month i'd always get really irritable and eat a lot of chocolate and red meat and it took me so long to realize what was going on 😭 the week before is always distinct too 🤭
Yup lol, not on HRT yet but I do find the possibility of getting them at some point pretty affirming. Kinda wack but hey, I'll take whatever euphoria I can get at this point 😆
We do talk about this though. Nobody listens, thinking "silly transgirl, you need x body part to get a period".
Like, no. It's not how it works. It's not how any of this works, dear imaginary cishet I'm arguing with.
Basically - turns out most period symptoms are related to periodical neuronal sensitivity, experienced by all genders.
Periods are not just shedding of the uterus, it's just one of the symptoms.
This obviously causes the fact, that your period is different without a uterus, but it is similar enough.
Woah! That's super duper cool! Or.. maybe that isn't the right phrase but it is cool, I guess what I also mean to say is interesting. I love learning new things!
People lose their shit when you call it a period. If you want to be technically correct, say "period-like symptoms." But aside from blood, it's a period. I've had one for me than two years on hrt now. It's always the same time and symptoms. It's a period
So you get mood swings, but as far as actual "period" cycles go, not so much. No blood pee (if you do get your ass to a doctor) but you do experience intense emotions. Ps mine lined up with election night 😭😭😭😭
It can even induce you faux pregnancies if the dose is higher than the one you need.
Or so told Stephanie Sterling in a video some months ago.
Tbh, if I were to start hrt, I would make sure to make as much possible contributions to research on the matter.
People deserve to have all the info on hand
I've been on hrt for years, I've done sub lingual and injections and I've never experienced anything I'd remotely describe as a period. I grew up with a mom multiple sisters, I've lived with girlfriends and I've never had a period.
Yeah, i kept chalking symptoms up to 'coincidence' and telling myself 'it couldn't be *that*. Then my wife started tracking them and kept lovingly trying to tell me 'girl,you're on your period, that's what's happening.' After accepting it i was able to handle them better haha
Yep, and I am synced with my fiancée. It's a great time for both of my boys. To hormonal women who want to kill everyone while crying about those poor animals in the shelters.
Yeah, I've never heard of intentionally inducing them. I got one pretty bad early on. On reflection since I commented, I think it's possible I've been having them without realizing the cause.
Yeah, my first really bad one i was complaining to a trans masc friend about how i was feeling and he was like "love that sounds like a period". Which is how i found out tgirls can have periods
That's insane and actually kind of cool. As a genderfluid but biological girl I find this super interesting. When I first read the post I was so confused but now I a learning a bit more this is actually super cool.
Factually both sexes actually get periods. Bio men are just sensitive about realizing their hormones and moods fluctuate the exact same way.
Thus all of us have periods, so yes, you may call it what it is, and ignore the misinformed.
this is all just other peoples experiences that ive talked too, but it seems like around 6 months is when it started happening for them, please dont take this as fact tho !!! Also everyone is different so who knows
HRT causes the body to attempt to menstruate, itll do everything except the bleeding (since there is no Uterine lining to shed) but you'll still get cramps because the Muscles that shed the lining are present
Yeahhh bitches be cramping (it sucks rlly bad and telling someone you’re having period symptoms as a trans woman always results in some annoying conversations)
because lots of transphobic people forget a period and menstrual cycle can be two diff things- that a period isn’t just compromised of bleeding but also hormone fluctuations, breast tenderness, mood swings, etc (reposting comment bc my first had wrong info!)
obviously you don't have the bleeding components due to a lack of requisite parts; but the rest of it you can go along for the ride... cramps? yep. headaches? yep. bloating? yep. mood swings? yep. cravings? yep.
wait whattt i didnt know that😭that’s honestly cool that we get periods it’s probably not fun to deal with but that makes me want to take hrt more😭i feel like it’d be so affirming
Did you know that cis women who have their uterus removed still have periods in the same way that trans women do? There are a bunch of symptoms besides bleeding
You did read what I said right? I did mention that it would be symptoms. It is also not the same as what cis women go through who have had their uterus removed.
What I'm saying is that you're using the term menstruation to refer to a narrow set of experiences (bleeding) when this person is using the colloquial term (period) to describe a set of symptoms which IS the same as what post-hysto cis women experience. i.e. a period w/o the bleeding
That is what I was referring to. Symptoms associated with menstruation such as psychological symptoms and physical.
However, there is no evidence that supports trans women having such physical symptoms and trans women's hormone levels are artificial and should be stable.
Has anyone ever studied this? Absence of evidence doesn't equal evidence of absence, and many many many trans women attest to having that cluster of symptoms on a sort of monthly basis--etymologically that is menses. Their bodies still produce hormones like estrogen, too, so not artificially stable
On the opposite but equally annoying end I got top surgery and promptly discovered I STILL get sore chest before my cycle except with added scar hollering. I am now working toward a hysterectomy lmao
Terfs get very very mad about it mostly, but you won't just possibly get periods. Periods are explictly going to happen. On HRT you are biologically identical to a cis woman. Chromosomes only turn on and off hormones. That's it.
Because transmisogyny. I get the pseudo-periods too. Gas, cramps, mood swings, diarrhea, bloating. My cramps mostly appear in my thighs.
They're caused by something called prostaglandins that are independent of the womb, but cause smooth muscle contracture meant to push tissue out of the uterus.
i think part of it is lack of awareness that it can even happen? i had all the pbvious symptoms from cramps to breast tenderness for years before i noticed the clear monthly cycle, just cause i truly didnt realize how common that is for anyone with estrogen dominant.
I talk about this all the time actually. Mostly because I was clinically diagnosed with PMDD and most don't know what that even is or what the signs are.
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Like, no. It's not how it works. It's not how any of this works, dear imaginary cishet I'm arguing with.
Periods are not just shedding of the uterus, it's just one of the symptoms.
This obviously causes the fact, that your period is different without a uterus, but it is similar enough.
Or so told Stephanie Sterling in a video some months ago.
Tbh, if I were to start hrt, I would make sure to make as much possible contributions to research on the matter.
People deserve to have all the info on hand
Thus all of us have periods, so yes, you may call it what it is, and ignore the misinformed.
is a thing.
obviously you don't have the bleeding components due to a lack of requisite parts; but the rest of it you can go along for the ride... cramps? yep. headaches? yep. bloating? yep. mood swings? yep. cravings? yep.
However, there is no evidence that supports trans women having such physical symptoms and trans women's hormone levels are artificial and should be stable.
If I'm gonna suffer, might as well have fun with it
I have a partner I need to apologize to immediately, brb.
They're caused by something called prostaglandins that are independent of the womb, but cause smooth muscle contracture meant to push tissue out of the uterus.