Some kind of writer of fanfic...

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.

hey guys im back from my grave. my... mixi grave... heh, get it?? get it?? please get it

here is a clip from legs’s stream earlier today.

i’d highly recommend watching the vod. there is a section in the middle that has a lot of heavy topics, but he gives a warning before discussing them.

yeah, they were an awful person who did more than horrible things, but the character and creator are completely separate now, especially with avid quitting content creation. these characters no longer belong to them, they belong to the fandom.

i've seen talk of replacing v!avid with a collective oc, and i really dont think this is something we can or should force on people. if someone wants to participate in this, i can't and won't stop them, but we should'nt act like this is the correct course of actions.

i've also seen many people try to remove avid from all their fanworks. now, if people are uncomfortable writing them, that's obviously perfectly fine, but i don't want to see ANYONE claiming that anyone else with an avid character in their fanfiction or comics or drawings or whatever supports them. it is a character, not the creator.

Murderbot: Things I say in the shared working space stay in the shared working space!

ART: Murderbot 2.0 is part of you, it is the only one I told.

Murderbot 2.0: I needed help, Three is the only one I told.