Putting the 'men' in menstruation. Brilliant! But OMG! Our public bodies have literally no idea the deal with the devil they have made when they let these deluded narcissists, most of them still kids, run the show. 'Plenty of men menstruate'. They might as well write 'Plenty of pigs fly'! And how telling that when it comes to perimenopause we're back to women: 'Women start perimenopause at different ages.' Men don't want to be part of that unsexy process, do they. But bleeding from your down below, well now, that's something they can get into and off on imagining themselves doing, all the while minimising women's actual pain and difficulty with this more feminine - or, rather, female - experience than pretty much any other. And how much public money is being spent on telling us that loads of men have periods? SIGH!
Thanks Katrina. It's paying people to come up with this sort of rubbish that leads to our whole medical system going broke. What a ridiculous waste of our money.
The “plenty of men menstruate” but “women go through perimenopause” is the real cherry on all of this schlock.
I’m in the US, and I was speaking to a young woman age 28 recently who honestly believed trans identified men get a period. She thought they take medicines to make that happen. This is a college educated young woman. So the disinformation is actually taking hold.
So scary. And once the monumental fck ups begin happening, imagine having to unpick all the nonsense that has been taught. I wouldn't be surprised if there are young people here in NZ, too, who believe the same thing.
This article articulates the lengths that men will go to convince themselves and others that on the strength of a declaration, they are magically 'really' women: https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/private-spaces
So sex is "assigned" at birth. Assigned is a verb, so who DOES the assigning? Or is it self-evident that a greater force (ie BIOLOGY) has made the decision and we merely witness it? Sex is one thing. Your gender identity may or may not conform to your sex, and your gender expression may or may not conform to your gender identity! Open slather, apparently. And yet, as per Health NZ's own ghastly document, only women experience perimenopause. Go figure.
Once the path of gender-identity ideology gets taken, it throws everything into disarray, but we don't seem to employ public servants with enough intellectual rigour anymore to understand that.
I am a retired midwife, but out of the many, many births I have witnessed, I can honestly say that I have never "assigned" anything to any baby ever. I have observed, noted and registered a baby's sex as per the protocols. Fortunately, unlike some other mammals, human anatomy is nearly 100% glaringly obvious at birth in regard to the sex of baby humans so no guesswork required. I know there have been many changes to both midwifery and obstetric training over the last four or five decades, but I am not aware of any new requirements to teach health professionals how to assign gender to babies.
Robin, may I ask how many births you witnessed or were involved with over the course of your career where the baby was born with ambiguous genitalia? And in any of those cases (if any) how was a decision reached as to the sex of the child?
That would be none and I don't personally know, nor have I read about any colleagues who have had this experience. It needs to be noted that that some DSDs do not become obvious until normal puberty fails to occur, so it is possible that I have seen a baby born with this medical condition and didn't realise it at the time.
Here's another odd term that doesn't appear in any other medical literature: "natal estrogen-based puberty". I assume that is a woke term for normal puberty experienced by girls.
When will the PM respond to this utter rubbish and BS. Who the hell was given this job of policy writing. No doubt the comms department has all the new gender language to use and passed it along the line: Seriously who in health believes this, I actually don’t think I can take anymore BS!!!
Yes. The "agender" agenda. "Agender" is not a thing.
Because it's an agenda, and the tactics being used are a form of cultural Marxism, word definitions and paradigms are stolen, meanings turned on their head and weaponised. Or new words are invented (e.g. gender and its derivatives). This is to mess with peoples minds. There is nothing new in this.
As such none of the trans agenda will ever fit any existing or historical paradigm or lore. Tikanga or any other.
Remember, the aim is to create a "New World Order" which requires a new human - one that can't breed and will make a better slave. This is in the planners own words by the way.
Have a look at this for a good intro if this idea is new.
Menstruation is a bodily function, not a gender identifier. While most people with a uterus are women and girls, some transgender men, genderfluid, and non-binary people are also born with a womb and can menstruate. Intersex people may also menstruate if they have reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn't fit the male/female binary
Only female people - i.e. women and girls - menstruate, irrespective of whatever ‘gender identity’ label they may give themselves, or whether they were born with a DSD.
Mike, the only way a person can menstruate is that they have a uterus and ovaries. Men do not possess those organs except in the extremely rare cases of Persistent Müllerian duct syndrome, which is a disorder of sexual development that affects males. They usually have normal male genitalia, but also have a uterus and fallopian tubes (but no ovaries). They also do not menstruate.
Putting the 'men' in menstruation. Brilliant! But OMG! Our public bodies have literally no idea the deal with the devil they have made when they let these deluded narcissists, most of them still kids, run the show. 'Plenty of men menstruate'. They might as well write 'Plenty of pigs fly'! And how telling that when it comes to perimenopause we're back to women: 'Women start perimenopause at different ages.' Men don't want to be part of that unsexy process, do they. But bleeding from your down below, well now, that's something they can get into and off on imagining themselves doing, all the while minimising women's actual pain and difficulty with this more feminine - or, rather, female - experience than pretty much any other. And how much public money is being spent on telling us that loads of men have periods? SIGH!
Good observation about how "plenty of men" don't get perimenopause, only women do.
Thanks Katrina. It's paying people to come up with this sort of rubbish that leads to our whole medical system going broke. What a ridiculous waste of our money.
And one day it will all have to be unpicked, because it will become blatantly obvious that it causes eff-ups.
The “plenty of men menstruate” but “women go through perimenopause” is the real cherry on all of this schlock.
I’m in the US, and I was speaking to a young woman age 28 recently who honestly believed trans identified men get a period. She thought they take medicines to make that happen. This is a college educated young woman. So the disinformation is actually taking hold.
So scary. And once the monumental fck ups begin happening, imagine having to unpick all the nonsense that has been taught. I wouldn't be surprised if there are young people here in NZ, too, who believe the same thing.
This article articulates the lengths that men will go to convince themselves and others that on the strength of a declaration, they are magically 'really' women: https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/private-spaces
FFS !!!
So sex is "assigned" at birth. Assigned is a verb, so who DOES the assigning? Or is it self-evident that a greater force (ie BIOLOGY) has made the decision and we merely witness it? Sex is one thing. Your gender identity may or may not conform to your sex, and your gender expression may or may not conform to your gender identity! Open slather, apparently. And yet, as per Health NZ's own ghastly document, only women experience perimenopause. Go figure.
Once the path of gender-identity ideology gets taken, it throws everything into disarray, but we don't seem to employ public servants with enough intellectual rigour anymore to understand that.
I am a retired midwife, but out of the many, many births I have witnessed, I can honestly say that I have never "assigned" anything to any baby ever. I have observed, noted and registered a baby's sex as per the protocols. Fortunately, unlike some other mammals, human anatomy is nearly 100% glaringly obvious at birth in regard to the sex of baby humans so no guesswork required. I know there have been many changes to both midwifery and obstetric training over the last four or five decades, but I am not aware of any new requirements to teach health professionals how to assign gender to babies.
'Assigning a gender' would the rabbit hole to end all rabbit holes!
Robin, may I ask how many births you witnessed or were involved with over the course of your career where the baby was born with ambiguous genitalia? And in any of those cases (if any) how was a decision reached as to the sex of the child?
That would be none and I don't personally know, nor have I read about any colleagues who have had this experience. It needs to be noted that that some DSDs do not become obvious until normal puberty fails to occur, so it is possible that I have seen a baby born with this medical condition and didn't realise it at the time.
Worse yet, academics are now producing research that promotes prioritising the mental health of women claiming to be men, over the actual development and well being of their unborn babies: https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/defending-the-indefensible-or-its
Truly shocking, Robin!
Here's another odd term that doesn't appear in any other medical literature: "natal estrogen-based puberty". I assume that is a woke term for normal puberty experienced by girls.
I hadn’t heard that one before, but I expect you’re right. Woke language is usually convoluted, so it fits.
When will the PM respond to this utter rubbish and BS. Who the hell was given this job of policy writing. No doubt the comms department has all the new gender language to use and passed it along the line: Seriously who in health believes this, I actually don’t think I can take anymore BS!!!
Shocking!
"Gobsmacked is probably a better word"
Yes. The "agender" agenda. "Agender" is not a thing.
Because it's an agenda, and the tactics being used are a form of cultural Marxism, word definitions and paradigms are stolen, meanings turned on their head and weaponised. Or new words are invented (e.g. gender and its derivatives). This is to mess with peoples minds. There is nothing new in this.
As such none of the trans agenda will ever fit any existing or historical paradigm or lore. Tikanga or any other.
Remember, the aim is to create a "New World Order" which requires a new human - one that can't breed and will make a better slave. This is in the planners own words by the way.
Have a look at this for a good intro if this idea is new.
https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/planetary-regime-the-globalists-blueprint
Menstruation is a bodily function, not a gender identifier. While most people with a uterus are women and girls, some transgender men, genderfluid, and non-binary people are also born with a womb and can menstruate. Intersex people may also menstruate if they have reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn't fit the male/female binary
Only female people - i.e. women and girls - menstruate, irrespective of whatever ‘gender identity’ label they may give themselves, or whether they were born with a DSD.
Mike, the only way a person can menstruate is that they have a uterus and ovaries. Men do not possess those organs except in the extremely rare cases of Persistent Müllerian duct syndrome, which is a disorder of sexual development that affects males. They usually have normal male genitalia, but also have a uterus and fallopian tubes (but no ovaries). They also do not menstruate.