Modern problems, via HuffPo:

I am a nonbinary trans menstruator ― someone with a uterus that bleeds monthly, but who identifies outside of the fixed categories of male and female. Because of that, I have to navigate the challenges of getting my period every month in a world that refuses to acknowledge that not everyone who gets their period is a woman, and not every woman gets their period.

Goodness gracious. More:

But what does a nonbinary trans person do when our period comes rolling around once each month and instantly reminds us that no matter how hard we try much of the world will still see us as women just because we get our periods? The persistent gendered messages I regularly encounter hit me like thousands of metal slivers piercing through my skin: the feminine hygiene signs, the lack of disposal bins in men’s restrooms, the sanitized advertisements featuring thin white women preserving their femininity with dainty white pads and periwinkle “blood.”

The representation of periods in the media has never matched the reality, but that’s even more true when you’re a trans person just looking for something that doesn’t scream, “You’re a W-O-M-A-N.”

Bette Davis has some news for this poor confused uterus-having dear:

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The author of this cry for help, Cass Bliss (née Clemmer), goes on for paragraph after paragraph after paragraph. Which is frustrating, because it’s keeping her from writing a sequel to her hit song “Let Us Bleed”, and a follow-up to her 2016 classic volume:

I don’t think Cass Bliss thinks about anything else. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

UPDATE: I took the gross photo from the HuffPo essay out, to avoid causing readers to inadvertently upchuck.