I understand that it’s important that menstruation is destigmatised and that everyone (especially cis men) learns about the social, economic, and bodily realities of having a period.

I fully understand that a lot of young people are scared and uneducated about their bodies, and don’t know how to take care of themselves when they menstruate, and this is often a life-or-death situation that really needs to be rectified.

I know period supplies need to be more readily available; they need to be de-taxed in richer places, and just simply available in poorer places.

And as a person who has a period, I understand and am sympathetic to all this.

But as someone who is not a woman, as someone who is sympathetic to trans and intersex men who menstruate, as someone who is sympathetic to trans women and intersex women and others who may not menstruate, I need to tell you that you are alienating a lot of people.

Please use more inclusive language, stop equating periods with womanhood or femaleness.

For fucks sake,

A nonbinary feminist.

3:16 pm • 23 October 2015 • 183 notes