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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.

like he's so used to his commands being somewhat followed and can control a room full of people speaking over each other with ease. maybe he even uses the damn bean bag when it gets really bad and stratt looks like she's about to start throwing knives instead of glances.

they're casually strolling back her office, and he yells "dr. sama, no running" and every single person in their immediate vicinity slows down significantly. grace doesn't skip a beat in his monologue and eva is watching it unfold with amusement, and warmth settles in her chest.

i love like every single way for how he finds out about his power tm, literally cannot get enough of it. yet another scenario coming to mind is them in her office, doing paperwork.

large stacks piled everywhere, though he gets through his smaller one a lot quicker. (he's sitting on the floor because it's comfortable and she kinda enjoy being able to look down at him without having to be wary of being caught)

"maybe i should just learn how to forge your signature so i can help out," he jokes, casually.

and she just keeps writing while saying, "your signature is quite literally as good as mine, so get to it then".

"pff, yeah right, nice try."

"i'm not joking."

"...what?"

grace doodle dump <3 grace is now hypermobile and lays unnaturally slinky sometimes <3 Like an angel or an autistic teenage girl (same thing) <3

+ projecting neurodivergency about scheduled events of the day (stratt brings her ESA to every meeting)