My friend is transsexual and we get into a lot of arguments, help?My friend is a male, who wants to be female. He constantly says that he gets "period-symptoms" around the full moon cause that's when 28 days is, and he gets really cranky and bitchy (like having PMS) but after 2 days (normally the day after the full moon) he's perfectly fine and apologizing.
He says he can understand fully about my own period problems to which I agrued that he can't fully understand or KNOW what it feels like to have the kinds of pains I or any woman has. He might have sympathy pains, but he's also been known to use certain things such as his asthma and panic attacks to gain attention. I think this is another one of them. He called me arrogant for not understand and I said "I can understand maybe having sympathy pains, but you can't know the full extent of a period, and its just like I wont know the full extent of getting kicked in the testicles. I can think "OH GOD, that must hurt" but I'll never know what it feels like"
What should I do? I don't want to back down
-Agent Archer
This can't be more than a psychological condition. Even post op trannies don't have periods. It's impossible because they don't have ovaries.
If your friend really did have a period, I wonder where he stuffs the tampon.
-((hansonfanson))
umm wow. there is nothing that you really can do but just keep sticking up for what you believe in!!
and he will never know what its like to be bloated or have cramps!! and we will never know what it feels like to be kicked in the balls!! i agree with you!
-Diane
Well, it's very unlikely, but not totally impossible, for your friend to have 'period-symptoms'; some transsexual people do have natural hormone imbalances, and if your friend has unusually high levels of oestrogen, s/he MAY experience mood swings and other symptoms (although not, of course, cramps; cramps are caused by uterine contractions - if you don't have a uterus, you can't get cramps)
It's also possible that there is a psychosomatic element to it; but that wouldn't make it any less subjectively real to your friend.
I'd be inclined not to argue with your friend; s/he can't experience REAL period pains, but is it worth losing a friend over?
Just nod politely and change the subject.
["Agent Archer"; there's no such thing as 'post-op trannies'; a 'trannie' is a rather impolite term for a transvestite, and transvestites don't have surgery.]
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