Silent Reassurance
Someone wrote…
I’m genderfluid, born female, and I have very bad luck. Once, for the entire week of having my period, I identified as male. I cried almost every night, just out of sheer frustration and dysphoria, and I had to remind myself that men can have vaginas, too.
“Besides,” I silently reassured myself, “One thing about periods is that they temporarily boost your levels of testosterone, so technically I’m even MORE of a man.”
It helped. A little. But the dysphoria didn’t vanish for quite some time…
What’s your experience?
Category: your voice 3 comments »
June 30th, 2015 at 7:24 pm |
Something Tumblr gave me that has saved my life figuratively and literally:
from NoGlitterInTheGutter
Note to men on their periods:
You are still a man. In fact, you are the manliest of men. Do you know how few dudes there are in the world who could even deal with all the shit involved in menstruation?? You are a studly, ass-kicking, chocolate-murdering motherfucking M A N because people with periods are fucking badass and don’t forget that shit!!!
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June 30th, 2015 at 9:08 pm |
*checks the list of ingredients on this post* 100% HELL YEAH
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September 26th, 2017 at 8:06 pm |
This is a really old post but as soon as I saw it I had to reply. I always feel more masculine during my period and my dysphoria always gets so much worse. I usually end up wearing a sweatshirt every day of the week and this one pair of baggy-ish pants for a lot of the week too. I will come home at the end of the day and just cry. I am so glad that there’s other people I can relate to on here.
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