Mere women
Sigh. Yes it is. Of course it is. Men don’t need to shed the endometrium every month. Men don’t have any endometrium, because they don’t have any uterus.
Menstruation isn’t just a women’s issue, say Lib Dems
But it is, just as pregnancy is “just” a women’s issue. Women aren’t being selfish and mean by hogging all the menstruation – they’re stuck with it because of being women. It’s idiotic, insulting, frivolous, fatuous, rude, absurd, grotesque, for adult political parties to start whining that men get to bleed out their uterine linings every month too.
Sir Ed Davey’s party will vote on a policy proposal that insists period poverty is an issue that affects “some trans and non-binary people” in addition to biological women.
It’s not “in addition” to biological women, it’s just biological women. They can call themselves trans or non-binary but if they menstruate they’re women. Calling women trans or non-binary doesn’t create more women or new categories of people who used to be women. It just sticks a new and stupid label on existing women.
An agenda published by the Liberal Democrats for their annual gathering in Bournemouth includes a motion on period poverty which is to be debated on Sept 23.
The document states: “Conference notes that… menstruation is not just a women’s issue, and also affects some trans and non-binary people.
Why the need to insult women? Why the need to say women are mere? Why the apparent belief that if something is for women it’s not worth doing because meh, women don’t matter? Why the relentless insults??? I for one am beyond fucking tired of them.
Who keeps insisting that sex and gender are not the same? Both T advocates (when it’s convenient for them, or when gaslighting others) *say* all the time that sex and gender are different. People who know that sex is real also say, 100%of the time, that sex and gender are not the same. Geez Louise.
To the extent that some women say they are trans, women can be trans. Also, some women say they are non-binary, whatever that may mean. So, yeah, of all the people who menstruate, every single one of them is a woman. By definition, the sex called women are the only human beings who menstruate. That some of those women claim, in addition, some ill-defined “gender identity,” doesn’t stop them from being women (the sex). Therefore, menstruation *is* an issue that only affects women, notwithstanding that some of those women claim a “gender identity ,” in addition to their sex. Jiminy Christmas, think better.
maddog @1 I’m justified in knowing that sex is real — but I suppose I’m one of those who thinks sex and gender mean the exact same thing (so maybe not 100% of the time), and by the same token transsexual and transgender also mean the exact same thing. I see no need to confuse things or split hairs about how many shades of gender there are. The boring truth of it is that here are only the two, both genders and sexes (in humans) for all intents and purposes. I have heard that gender means something different, such as presentation or lived experience or whatever, but I don’t buy it. A trans woman or man is someone who does not believe they are the sex/gender that they were born as. Fine and dandy. People believe all sorts of things that aren’t true, and they are entitled to believe what they want, just as I am entitled to pursue the truth of things (along with whatever degree of error that entails (but in this case I’m content with the facts)). Sometimes language games are tedious and unnecessary, so I could be accused of oversimplification. — Maybe, but the old fashioned definitions of sex and gender still work fine for me.
I’ve been engaged on Australian twitter with this topic.
They have been quoting an article from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5833878/ that has found a grand total of 16 men in all medical literature who have suffered endo. This, they seem to think, is a grand gotcha!
Perhaps iknklast can offer something more on the topic.
But these cases don’t move the dial at all. A tiny number of men get breast cancer, too, but we don’t screen men for breast cancer the way we do women because that would be far too costly for the vanishingly small return.