Boys Can Have Periods Too?

[webbo3]

It had to be Brighton.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/16/boys-can-have-periods-schoolchildren-taught-latest-victory-transgender/

[hereIam]

spath, I prefer to read SK's posts than jim's any day ! More utter tosh from the right on do-gooders of this crazy pc world we have to live in now ...

[Old_Geezer]

If society didn't go around claiming that individuals can change gender it wouldn't get the nonsense of thinking boys are having periods. The fact that an individual has a period is a massive clue that they are female/girl/woman. This society needs to get off its PC nonsense kick, and get back to reality.

[Old_Geezer]

If other cultures went PC in the past, more fool them. Seems they couldn't find the responsibility to teach the confused the reality of the situation and humoured them instead.

[jim360]

I'm sorry you feel that way, hereIam. All I can say is that there is a lot of literature out there that explores the history of transgender people, and you are welcome to read into it. The simple fact is that transgenderism has *always* been a feature of humanity. The fact that we've come to accept it more readily now isn't a product of "right-on" thinking, more a result of better understanding of other people's experiences.

Or you can go down SK's route, and deliberately and pointedly refuse to even consider the possibility that maybe there is more to life than your own experience of it, and disparage and insult other cultures in the process.

[naomi24]

Boys don't have periods. Everyone knows that.

[Fatalbertfixer]

This sounds like a monty python sketch,from now on I want to be called Loretta,its my right as a man to have babies.lololololol.
Will someone please stop the world,I want to get off.

[sanmac]

Yes there are lots of books out there to read and think about. I've read "Alice In Wonderland", but I'm not inclined to think that I want to jump down a rabbit-hole.

[hereIam]

I'll come with you fatalbert (lol).

[jim360]

It's not about a rabbit-hole. It's merely a result of the acknowledgement that who we are is a different question from *what* we are.

It's important that the lessons about periods are passed on to those who need to learn them. That applies to anyone with the necessary equipment, regardless of their gender identity.

[hereIam]

I am very happy with the way I am jim. So sorry it doesn't confirm to YOUR view of the world, in fact, no I'm not sorry, I really could not care less.

[Jackdaw33]

I think Jim360 may have a specific agenda.

[jim360]

You're welcome to your world view. What I find sad is how dismissive you, and others, are even of reading more deeply into it. Why? There's nothing to be lost and a great deal to be gained.

[jackthehat]

It appears that the main reason for giving these new Sex Education lessons is to impart information about Menstruation to girls AND boys (it would certainly dispel some of the peculiar notions boys grow up with about what happens to a woman once a month).

That a small number of pupils receiving this information will fall into the 'Trans-' bracket (heading in whichever direction) is really neither here nor there and certainly not a cause for more hands-in-the-air-throwing.

[jim360]

I have a different perspective. I don't think that equates to having an agenda, beyond generally wishing that people would learn and study more about what is a far more complex and historical issue than people give it credit for. I don't want young boys, in the biological sense, to grow up thinking that they, too, can have periods; nor do I wish to encourage people who were never remotely trans to suddenly develop gender identity issues to satiate some lust for undermining societal norms.

[gness]

Webbo....your title reminded me of a conversation with another eleven or twelve year old school friend as we walked to our Catholic school....

Friend: Did you know that men have periods, Gness?
Gness: Really!?
Friend: Yes. I was looking through my parents bedside tables and found these things that I thought were balloons. My mum caught me and told me that men had periods too and these were what they had to wear when they did.

I don't know how old she was when the penny dropped...I was a good age...... :-)

[vetuste_ennemi]

//... nor do I wish to encourage people who were never remotely trans to suddenly develop gender identity issues to satiate some lust for undermining societal norms//

You didn't finish the course, then Jim.

[Sqad]

Boys knew all about periods in women before the age of ten.

I am not sure that transgender men CAN have periods, as a part of the "transition" they have to have injections of testosterone, which stops their periods.

I stand to be corrected as thankfully this is not my area of expertise.

[Old_Geezer]

I suspect not "all" about, Sqad.
Just as much as they needed to know.

[jim360]

I suppose it depends on how far along the process of transition one is. As most people would argue, whatever their perspective on the matter in later life, that we shouldn't be intervening actively in pushing young children along the road, it is presumably possible (and preferable!) for a young girl to feel that they are "actually" a boy, and then express that identity, without having had any hormone or surgical treatment. So I'd expect that many young trans children probably will end up experiencing periods even if they later take hormone treatment.

[LadyCG]

Excellent BA