A transgender artist has delivered a powerful message about who is affected by periods after posting a photo of themselves menstruating.
“I’m not tryna bring up something shallow, periods are honestly pretty traumatic for me,” Cass Clemmer writes in a poem posted to Instagram earlier this month.
“See my life is very clearly marked, Like a red border cut up a nation, A time before and a time beyond, The mark of my first menstruation.”
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Seriously can this topic not be discussed without having to show a period stained crotch??? Is this the new normal, last week it was a midwife showing us her stained trousers, weeks before it was a yoga teacher. I DON'T WANT TO SEE YOUR PERIOD. I am not a prude, I am not transphobic nor do I have anything against midwives or yogis but for Pete's sake can we please keep our monthly bleed in our pants?! I understand it takes extreme things to get a response or make a point these days but I find it gross and unnecessary. Surely I'm not alone in feeling this way?
We are one over-share away from an article that involves photographs of poo or vaginal discharges.
What exactly *is* this concept, 'transphobia'?
I'm now officially done with using any of these terms; Islamophobia, homophobia, fatphobia, unless they genuinely reflect an irrational fear of the subject. I'm opting out of this game, and I'm a gay man who has used such terms in the past, and sometimes benefited from their use. Too often they've become blanket terms to convenient shut down challenging discussion, and to characterise critiques as either irrational or hateful, when they are definitely not these things.
I'm officially off the 'phobia' wagon. What about you?
Yes! Also 'shaming'! This word is used in the same way to shut down any other opinion.