Smol (derogatory)

The answer is: the uterus isn't what causes your period, it is effected by your period. What causes your period and what causes trans women's periods is the same thing: the endocrine system.

HRT changes the sex of your endocrine system. Feminizing HRT makes it a female endocrine system, giving us a 28-day hormone cycle just like cis women. At the end of that cycle, the hypothalamus floods the body with prostaglandins. Those are what cause all but one of the period symptoms, because they make muscles inflame and contract. They are what make the uterus shed its lining, they are what cause intestinal cramps, they are what cause body aches, they are what cause headaches and migraines. The only period symptom not causes by the release of prostaglandins throughout the body is depression, and that is caused by your endocrine system simply not processing as much estrogen and from simply feeling like shit.

So, the only symptoms trans women don't get every 28 days is menstrual cramps, because yes we do not menstruate since we don't have uteruses. But migraines, depression, body aches, intestinal cramps, and the infamous "period shits" don't exactly add up to us having any better of a time. Except we have to pretend that we're fine and nothing is different because no one believes that we get periods, not even cis women.

1984 (1949) - jorjor wel

I took the cargo ops class at school but my teacher explained that it doesn't give a certification and I'd only be okay for ship's crane and the school forklifts. she said I could take an online exam and get my cert. I paid 60 bucks.

I'm googling and I'm seeing a lot of resources saying that the online programs cover the classroom part of the exam but not the in person practical aspect.

29 CFR 1910.178 (l)(2)(ii)

For example, have you seen how they respond to this diagram of what the results of vaginoplasty look like?

They say things like "its a crime to call that a 'vagina!'"

You hopefully are able to notice that a cis woman's vagina looks exactly like that after getting a hysterectomy. That alone should be enough for you to see how TERFism is bullshit. But if it's not, go ahead and ask them about cis women who get hysterectomies, do they no longer have "real vaginas?" At best you're gonna get a bunch of "divine feminine" bullshit about how they still have the "unalterable spirit of a woman" or whatever (aka: pseudoreligious nonsense that shouldn' t ever be used to set laws and policies.) But you're also gonna encounter plenty of them that straight up tell you that such women have "rejected their biological imperative" and thus "rejected womanhood."