The basic human right to pretend to menstruate
No they don’t.
Hospitalization for cramps is not a thing, and if it were, it would not be a thing that happens to men. Men don’t get cramps.
There are many basic biology lessons in the replies.
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No they don’t.
Hospitalization for cramps is not a thing, and if it were, it would not be a thing that happens to men. Men don’t get cramps.
There are many basic biology lessons in the replies.
Perhaps he’s stabbing himself with acupuncture needles. Which would explain the need for hospitalization.
So if I know wtf I’m talking about, I can take away plastic’s basic human rights?
I didn’t realise that’s how it worked. It’s certainly going to make this all a lot easier.
The tweet was from Plastic Doll, and their understanding of biology would seem to be informed by experience with plastic dolls which typically lack…you know…external genitalia or internal organs…
Maybe this whole trans thing is nothing more than people playing with their bodies the way little kids play with dolls. cf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGoXyXiwOBg
My guess is that a transwoman’s “period cramps” are complications resulting from bottom surgery. The idea that they could have undergone such an invasive, drastic procedure and not thereby forever qualify as women in every way might be too hard for some to bear. If they’re in the hospital, something’s gone wrong (assuming we can apply a standard of care to experimental surgery.)
I have heard some trans women state that they get cramping pains from their hormone treatments, as well, which wouldn’t completely shock me. But even then, those aren’t menstrual cramps, but rather hormonal cramps as a side-effect of the treatments they’re receiving.
I wonder how much patience hospitals have for transvestites who eat too many cupcakes and get tummy aches.
I had minor abdominal surgery 7 months ago. Recovery was tough, and I still get twinges reminding me that things were cut up inside and not all healed yet.
I was on hormone therapy for a while 10 years ago. In retrospect, there probably weren’t good indications for this, but at the time I was going with the medical advice that I had. The hormones made me want to crawl out of my skin. Eventually, I stopped taking them and found a new doctor.
This is small stuff–there are people who have much worse–and it hit me hard. The idea of anyone taking on this kind of intervention for frivolous, ill-considered, or dubious reasons makes me shudder.
Perhaps Sastra’s hypothesis about botched surgery might provide some explanation. It is disconcerting to contemplate that medical professionals are actually suggesting that a uterusless person’s abdominal pain is due to menstrual cramps.
It has been nearly 30 years since I had my uterus removed. I kept my ovaries, so still had all the hormones, but because there was no uterus, there was (of course) no menstruation. I recently just started taking prostaglandins* (which are normally produced by the uterus as part of lining shedding). But still no menstrual cramps.
*for a condition completely unrelated to gender, sex, etc