TiM Young Adult author,"i wish i lived in a world where i didn't have to have sensitive zoom meetings during my period because i'm crying at the drop of a hat *and* incredibly irritable.the next time someone tells me trans women don't have periods im gonna dump a whole tub of period diarrhea on them

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[–]WhiteRose 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I used to get ‘period shits’ before my hysterectomy, and I didn’t mind too much. It felt like a cleansing of my bowels, a relief to constipation.

It also blows my mind that TRAs act like having a period is this magical ~uwu~ experience when it’s absolutely hideous for many of us.

I’ve also been told that radfems think that women like me are no longer a real woman due to my hysterectomy. Is this legit or just TRA propaganda?

[–]aloris342 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

In order to have a hysterectomy, one first has to have had a uterus. This, to me, is part of an argument that sees people as mere collections of cells outside of space or time, like dolls with parts that can be attached or detached with surgery. Attach one part, add some hormones, and you become a woman. Remove a part, you become a man. In reality, human beings are a unity of all our parts, adapted along a lifecourse that is either male or female. Just as menstruation is a normative part of the female lifecourse, so is menopause. It's very strange, the idea that since men do not have a uterus, then any person who does not have a uterus must be a man (unless the person is a transman, in which case they can have a uterus and still be a man, by some reasoning process that I don't understand).

[–]WhiteRose 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You’re right. The idea that simply removing a woman’s uterus = she’s now a man is more aligned with TRA propaganda than it is with GC feminism, from what I’m starting to learn.

(unless the person is a transman, in which case they can have a uterus and still be a man, by some reasoning process that I don't understand).

And they can carry a pregnancy to term, give birth, and breastfeed a baby and still be a man.