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Hello Art Fighters!

Thank you for providing your feedback regarding our rules as requested in a previous newspost in late May. We have finished processing the feedback, and have made the following adjustments to the rules:

Tracing and guidelining for posing help/referencing are now allowed on Art Fight, with restrictions.

The rule relating to DNIs (“Do Not Interact” lists) has been reverted. Only age-related DNIs are allowed.

Photobashing and collaging are now allowed to be used in attack and character image backgrounds, as well as in tracing, guidelining, and visual referencing resources. Characters whose designs are comprised of photobashed or collaged elements will continue to be disallowed.

For a detailed look at the results of the feedback form, as well as a full explanation of the updated rules, please refer to the newspost itself here:

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.

I need these!

Chris Fleming & Matthew Rhys