"women are people who menstruate" oh fuck OFF, even IF you're only looking at cis ladies that's dumb as hell. You gonna say a little cis girl isn't female until she bleeds? That menopause kills femininity? That medical conditions preventing menstruation take away womanhood?
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returning to the"some women have medical conditions that stop menstruation" thing, a lot of those conditions can be intersex conditions also! it's an area where medical science is still learning a lot! but I'm guessing TERFS don't want to consider intersex stuff as common!
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and yet, shockingly, a woman doesn't magically become intersex or nonbinary by going to the doctor and learning about her lack of ovaries or non-functional uterus!! HOW ASTONISHING IT'S ALMOST LIKE IDENTITY IS MORE COMPLEX THAN THAT
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don't even get me started on object permanence around oophorectomies/hystorectomies!! "ah yes, a woman is someone who has these internal bits, and she can stay a woman even if they're removed because she's clearly unchanging, except when she's a child b/c puberty doesn't count"
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"oh, but it's different if you CHOOSE to use the pill/have a hystorectomy, because then you're DELIBERATELY unwomaning yourself" oh so medical necessities just have to be tragedies now?? ladies just gotta feel sad about not being Real Ladies anymore if a bad thing happens??
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here's a fun fact, did u know that trans women who take oestrogen experience basically the same hormonal cycles that drive the menstrual cycle in cis ladies, just without the bleeding? did u also know that men have hormonal cycles too from testosterone?? HMM..
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I do not know how to explain to u that every word u know is a tiny circle someone drew around a concept with a mouth-sound way back when, in ONE culture, not an Absolute Truth. sometimes we learn stuff and have to eraser that shit out, or draw new lines, or make new mouth-sounds.
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also, this pill thing isn't much of a choice given the hell that is having periods I can bleed or I can function on those days, pick which!
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