Natkat: Interesting question. For me, I know that I can never experience menstruation and the subsequent energetic/psychic/root chakra cycle that surrounds that.
I already have two children and easily/naturally adopted the role as mother/nurturer for them.
Earlier in my transition when researching the sociological history of transsexual / transgender, I considered what it would be like to observe a monthly blood ritual, but it never took hold of me in a way the brought me to try it. Here is a bit of info:
Quote...early ethnographers observed a Mojave two-spirit man who was also faking a woman's menstruation by scratching his inner thighs until he bled thus faking menstrual bleeding.
My note: I don't agree with the use or tone of the word 'faking' which in my mind makes the ritual seem delusional. That being said, from the research I've done on native American 'trans' folk of all types -- they had a rough time being accepted in the societies (tribes) they lived in as well, so perhaps the seeming derogatory use of the word 'faked' is not so far off the mark. In any event, point being, 'to each his or her own'. I try to see the truth of an individual and how they reflect and represent their true inner self. Trying to judge what is 'right' or 'authentic' in others is a slippery slope, because to make differences is a disease of the mind (Sengstan) it infects you, and then you are caught up in endless differences, when the truth is found in wholeness, oneness and other such inner contemplations.
quote source:
http://www.dancingtoeaglespiritsociety.org/twospirit.php
