hello well today i woke up and surprise! i got my period. Ive been feeling kinda ill today because of it i always get terrible cramps, bloating and headaches- not to mention cravings for nothing but sweets,  fatty foods and  pickles I was just thinking ive read some posts from people here who would really like to experience menstruation. I think its crazy personally haha, but i just wanna know why? why does all this seem so intriguing..... i just think it sucks 

To understand this you have to realise that it isn't the period itself that people want but the fertility that they imply. Most of us would like to be able to bear children. Sadly even those of us who are intersexed usually cannot.

What Jenny said.

I just think its useless since transwomen can't bear children yet.

What?? period??

I.  Think.  Periods.  Have.  Their.  Uses.  But.  Can.  Be.  Overdone. 

I told a few of my cis female friends about how trans women have them too just without the blood, and when I asked if it was weird that I looked forward to it, their responses broke down in a curious way: the women who had particularly painful periods or had PMDD looked at me like I said I thought The Room was a good movie. The ones who would describe their periods as, at worst, annoying and troublesome were outright enthusiastic about supporting my curiosity.

I think it's one of those things where individual experience colors it a lot more than you would think from the "outside."

If I could bear my own children, I would gladly choose to have a period.  Otherwise, I would not... though I would still like to experience a few just to understand what it feels like.

I agree with the above, and I don't think it's for the sake of just having periods, that would be a little silly.  Just anything to feel closer to normal.

I like my hormones nice and even. I have had them fluctuate while on HRT and go "female nutty". I get to deal with my wife's cycles. Since I have kids I think I'll just stick with the HRT. The moodiness of hormone fluctuation is not fun. Glad to have had the experience. Not looking forward to having it again. Just three little blue E pills a day for me and all is ok with the world. LOL
-M

Quote from: LifeInNeon on April 03, 2011, 09:42:56 PM
I told a few of my cis female friends about how trans women have them too just without the blood, and when I asked if it was weird that I looked forward to it, their responses broke down in a curious way: the women who had particularly painful periods or had PMDD looked at me like I said I thought The Room was a good movie. The ones who would describe their periods as, at worst, annoying and troublesome were outright enthusiastic about supporting my curiosity.

I think it's one of those things where individual experience colors it a lot more than you would think from the "outside."

Do u get bloating or fatigue? i think thats what sucks the most.... Also extremely painful cramps, my doctor told me they are slight uterine contractions. I cnt imagine bearing children!

Quote from: Marta on April 03, 2011, 10:59:36 PM
I cnt imagine bearing children!

Dear Marta now you're just showing off! - j/k

I get the following on a (semi) regular basis: drowsy kind of tired, mood swings, water retention, cravings of pickles and/or buffalo wings ( )
Less often: sensitivity to sound and sometimes light, bouts of depression.
How that works and why is a mystery to me!

Quote from: Karla on April 03, 2011, 11:19:22 PM
Dear Marta now you're just showing off! - j/k

I get the following on a (semi) regular basis: drowsy kind of tired, mood swings, water retention, cravings of pickles and/or buffalo wings ( )
Less often: sensitivity to sound and sometimes light, bouts of depression.
How that works and why is a mystery to me!

haha i really cant, i cant even stand having cramps i cnt imagine the pain honestly! I might be one of those women who just doesnt find interest in children i mean i love my nieces and nephews but i dnt think having kids is my thing lol. Honestly ive noticed i dnt really get mood swings during that time of the month, even my boyfriend thinks its weird cuz i think mood swings are sorta like a stereotypical symptom, but were all different. I do get kinda cranky a few days into it though just cuz after the 2nd or 3rd day it just gets really annoying and old.

Hi Marta 

No-one's pain is better or worse and/or more or less than another's pain... Pain is pain

I have several injuries... I deal with rather severe pain on a daily basis... It does not go away after a week or so... I would gladly trade you my injuries for your monthly visitor but obviously I cannot do that... I would also be very happy to be able to bare my own children and not have to rely on someone else to do so

Quote from: Virginia Marie on April 03, 2011, 11:45:50 PM
Hi Marta 

No-one's pain is better or worse and/or more or less than another's pain... Pain is pain

I have several injuries... I deal with rather severe pain on a daily basis... It does not go away after a week or so... I would gladly trade you my injuries for your monthly visitor but obviously I cannot do that... I would also be very happy to be able to bare my own children and not have to rely on someone else to do so

Hello i totally understand what you mean, my mother deals with arthritis and some other painful conditions pretty often and i just feel really bad sometimes cuz i feel helpless. But i see ur point. Im sorry you go through that

I don't know about the others marta but I dislike the feeling that I'm different. The fact that most women can claim to know what a period is like and I can't moreover it's something I will never know.
likewise I will never know what it's like to be able to bear children. It's part of that feeling that your body is inadequate.

And also because I can't I have to jam a needle into my leg weekly. :/ I did ask my cis-friends which they'd prefer.

I'm at the same stance as adele. I'd optout and I don't feel it would make me less of a woman for me I already have 3 kids (lol they drive me nuts) and having the ability to bear children would be wonderful, but it's another stress in life for me right now at least. But on the flipside it makes my gf and my other friends look at me and say you suck! lol

I was staring to think I was pregnant...mines a week late

Now I'm just grumpy

It was NOT getting periods that sent me flippy!

You see, from earliest childhood, I thought I was a girl and when people started trying to convince me I wasn't, I just thought "You'll see!" and everything would be alright at puberty. That didn't happen and that was the beginning of my battle to get medical help.

I wanted nothing more than to grow up, get married, and have babies. Life didn't turn out the way I wanted:(

Periods. Why? Because they would be a part of normal that is denied regardless of the quality of the physical and chemical transition. Surgical transformation at it's best is still exceedingly incomplete. But why periods? The old saying applies: "It goes with the territory."

Susan Kay