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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.

sometimes i really feel like tme people on this site do not understand that the fetishization of trans women is a huge crushing force that we all have to deal with. Our bodies are seen as sex objects, our transition is seen as sexually motivated. I know cis men do a lot of dick wagging abt how they wouldn't fuck us but the fact is for a sizeable portion of them we are a shameful fetish that they have to hide, that they hate themselves for, and guess who they take that out on.

i don't. entirely know what conclusion i want you to draw here. but i guess be aware that being attracted to trans women is in no way inherently radical, that treating us as sexual objects before anything else puts you in the same category of Alex Jones.

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