#menstraution

[ph-cutie]

wwwough agh

[rjalker]

wow covid19 and/or the vaccine for it really fucked up my menstrual cycle. what the fuck is this bullshit. it's the 29th. the fuck are you doing, body? couldn't you have just gotten rid of it entirely.

[afriendshapedseal]

It’s wild to me how often people in fiction talk about ruined clothes in regards to periods. And their response is to just trash it. Like blood really isn’t that hard to get out, and if your underwear is stained what does it matter anyway, it’s not like anyone’s gonna see it. At this point I swear at least 1/2 my pairs of pants have had blood on them at one point or another and they’re all fine now.

[07170]

come ON NOWW (got my period)

[necessary-behavior]

There is more to a period than what it is and a quick explanation of what a pad and tampon are..

What kind of education of periods should people add to their knowledge?

[coochiequeens]

What It’s Like to Have a Period as a Non-Binary Person: 'We Need to Stop Associating Periods With Womanhood'

Being born with a uterus doesn't automatically mean you're a woman.

Being born with a uterus doesn't automatically mean you're a woman. By Caroline ColvinMarch 23, 2021

When I first started menstruating, I figured all I'd have to worry about would be keeping track of predicted bleeding dates and how to expertly stick down a pad. I never could have guessed that my feelings toward my periods could become so heavy. But that's exactly what happened when I began menstruating as a trans and non-binary person. One day after school, during the fall semester of sixth grade, I felt a little off. I went to the bathroom to pee and found specks of blood on the toilet paper in my hand. While I didn't feel any elation or disappointment that my period had come when it did, I do remember being nervous about sticking my head out of the bathroom door and ask my mom for a pad.

From both my family and media (see: the period scene in The Clique), I'd picked up the idea that my cycle was dirty, my pain was invalid. I should live in fear of my pad making a crinkling sound, as no one should ever know that I'm bleeding. And yes, bleeding is natural, but it's still something I should be ashamed of—hence all the visual and verbal euphemisms. For example, in TV commercials, who thought it was a great idea to pour blue liquid on a pad to show its efficacy?

Growing up is often depicted as a loss of innocence. The only innocence lost with my menarche was realizing how cruel and complicated the world could be. That scene in The Clique where the popular girls sabotage new-kid-on-the-block Claire by smearing red paint on the back of her white jeans—plunging Claire into social humiliation—was forever burned into my pubescent mind.

Prior to the tight-knit group of progressive friends I've cultivated in adulthood, the only safe space I had regarding periods was the all-girls Catholic school I attended as a middle-schooler. Christianity can often uphold "purity culture," which is the antithesis of open, honest communication about bodies labeled female and reproductive health.

But my warm, welcoming, Catholic school teachers never made menstruating kids feel bad about ducking out to the nurse for a pad or needing to sit out during P.E. because of cramps. I do say menstruating "kids" intentionally to honor myself and other alums who later came out as gender non-conforming, and to also honor the openly trans and genderqueer kids who are now embraced by the school—which I moved far away from for high school and college.

Menstruating while trans

During my adolescence and young adulthood, I tested the waters to see how other people reacted to periods, noting the shame and disgust they exhibited. So I started being frank about my periods around my cis male peers. It wasn't in the name of feminism; I was just sick of the sexist shame. However, my fourth-wave feminist irritation only lasted so long. My undeniable gender-queerness came to a fever pitch in 2019 and I came out that summer.

By that point I'd been taking birth control pills for about six months. During the decade of menstruation leading up to my ob-gyn visit for the pill, my periods had become pretty debilitating. I was prescribed Levora, and while the physiological symptoms of my cycle eased once I went on it, a different kind of discomfort flared up.

Navigating the period aisle

I became acutely aware of how transphobia compounds period stigma. This phenomenon is hard to ignore when retailers consistently label menstruation-related products "feminine hygiene" and "women's health care."...see rest of article.

A trans woman is uncomfortable with the way society treats menstruation and thinks the answer is to make products gender neutral.

[kitvinslakte]

blergh. why do i have to have so much blood

[marieabanga]

Menstruation and #mentalhealthmatters

Maybe some of you ladies didn’t grow up in a society which stigmatizes menstruation; maybe it wasn’t a taboo to talk about menstruation in your community; maybe you didn’t lack a sanitary pad ever; or maybe just maybe you always had the right information about your reproductive organs which are largely affected by your menses? But in my community and many many others around the world,…

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