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The early part of the article says, "The United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) states that a period is the part of the menstrual cycle in which blood, comprising uterine lining, leaves the body. People who do not have ovaries and a uterus do not experience periods."

Later the article says, "How do trans women experience a period?" implying that transwomen DO have periods. This is internally contradictory to the prior statement, but likely is an example of the attempt to shift the dictionary definitions of sex-specific words so as to eliminate their sex-specificity and make them more "trans-friendly" (i.e. eliminate words that allow anyone to communicate about experiences or events specific to biological females).

Unfortunately I'm familiar with this website and it's fairly mainstream so when this site changes how they use words, then it is likely the commonly held meanings will also change, which means the dictionary definitions will then change.