Can MtF/drags/crossdressers feel like they have periods?

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Biologically, even the most successful trans-women (MtF) won't have a uterus surgically installed into them (unless I'm wrong). So do transpeople try to feel they have monthly periods like normal biological females?

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I often had symptoms that were "period-like"

especially when I lived with a woman, I'd have sympathetic symptoms when they were having their periods - to the point I knew when their cycle was about to start as well as they did or maybe even better.

Cant prove those feelings weren't psychosomatic, but there you go.

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On the other hand, if you inject your hormones the level in your blood does cycle, and MAY have an impact on your mood (Not will have). The range of cycle is supposed to miss the highs and lows of someone generating their own estrogen... So the extremes are smaller. But, as has been said, nothing else due to the hormones.

That all said, there are documented cases where guys exhibit symptoms similar to the women they're around (sympathetic pregnancy)... But, I don't know whether they're caused by the proximity or coincidental (women eat more, so guys keep up. so guess what weight gain). And, I've not heard of any studies on the topic. So I wouldn't bet that they are real (or at least not common) things.

Annette

yeah, about that.

First off you are talking about three separate and distinct groups, it would be best not to get them confused. MtF, which stands for Male to Female can stand for pretty much anything but I am going to assume you mean transsexuals are a group all to themselves. Drag queens are performers who exaggerate female behavior (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_queen) and cross dressers which are usually heterosexual males who get sexual gratification from dressing in the clothing of the opposite gender (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_queen).

So it would be plainly obvious that the latter two groups would not have faux menstruation cycles because they do not identify as female.

Do transsexuals try to have faux menstruation cycles? I think that would be extremely rare and I don't even know why they would bother except if they are trying to deceive people into believing they are biologically female. And that would just go along the lines of calling the boss every 28 days and saying "it's that time of the month." But that wouldn't be feeling like they had a period. In fact, I don't even know how you would pretend that. How do you pretend to have cramps and bloating? I mean, maybe in sympathy every 28 days I can eat a pint of Ben and Jerry's but that really isn't the same thing.

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No

I don't. Why would I?

no i don't try to feel that

no i don't try to feel that way, However.

years before i "awoke" from a long repression, my wife noticed that my moods and back pain spiked once a month, she tracked this in private before later informing me and showing me i was in sync with her cycle.

post transition i'm on a constant level of hormones, so it shouldn't be chemical in nature, and yet this still occurs.

Can't say why this happens, for it to be psychosomatic i'd have to have known or wanted it, maybe its as far fetched as having a female brain and an ESP like link, even scientists don't know why a group of women living in close proximity have syncronised cycles.

yet another of life's mysteries.

This might be more real than you think.

Here is some information to chew on.

I found these two articles, that will raise a few eyebrows. The articles are about three different "men" whom were found to be intersex and have from just a uterus, to female organs, except for the vagina and external genitalia. But, they also had fully functional male organs. And they could father children. Something that "medical science" claims is an impossibility.

All three of the people mentions in these articles went to the doctor, complaining about "stomach pain".

This first article is dated August 2011, otherwise healthy man whom was a farmer was found to have farmer : http://www.naturalnews.com/033378_man_hysterectomy.html

From the article: Ryalu's stomach pain was the result of a full set of female organs developing inside his gut, complete with uterus, ovaries, Fallopian tubes, a cervix, and even partially-developed vaginal tissue.

The second article is dated November 2013, the article is about mainly a 65 year old "man" whom was found to have and uterus and fallopian tubes. There is also mention of a 14 boy found to have female organs inside "him". Here is the article: http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-man-65-operated-upon-fo...

Now, for decades, the medical community has been conspiring to hide the number of intersex people in the world. When someone is born intersex, the doctors take it upon themselves to do surgery on the child, to where the child fits the doctor's view how the child should be. Sometimes without the parents even knowing, or giving permission, beforehand.

This is done because intersex do not fit into their medical dogma of male and female.

Also, the medical records for the child are seal in the mother's records, and the child can never see them, or get access to such records.

It stands to reason that this coverup will continue in other ways. When a man comes to a doctor with stomach pains, baring a few rare exceptions, they either have an x-ray, or a colonoscopy. A x-ray will not show organs. And a colonoscopy will only show the insides of the digestive track, and nothing else.

But, from what I have read, it is next to impossible for a man to get a doctor to check their abdomen with either an ultrasound, CAT scan, or MRI. All of which will show organs.

I have read cases of intersex people that went to doctors, the doctors found something on the ultrasound, and the doctors refused to tell the patient what it is.

Also, it is a medical fact, that with female to male transsexuals that, testosterone will not always stop a ftm from having his/her periods. Instead, the periods become infrequent and random.

Using this fact about ftm periods as a starting point, that some "men" whom otherwise look and function as men, might actually have function female organs, such a uterus. And even periods. But, they are so rare, and so random, these "men" don't even realize it.

Except for the medical scans I mentioned above, there would be no way to tell. The "testosterone" in the man's system would not show anything on a blood test. Even if the doctor was looking.

And it would just be blood that is absorbed back into the body. Though, menstrual blood is not like normal, so it might make this sick for a few days.

On a side note, some recent evidence has surfaced that transgenderism could be views as an inborn from of intersex of the brain.

So, those of you on this board, that are mtf transsexuals, that sometimes feel like you might being having that time of the month. It might be just you mind playing with you. Or, there might actually be something happening down in your lower abdomen. You would have to see a doctor and convince that doctor to have a look. Though, that is up to you.

This is just food for thought.

I have times

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when I'm tetchy or more than usual, I also have times when I'm more sexually aroused or arousable than others - this about once a month, but I know I'm not ovulating. I've had times when bras felt tighter than usual or my tummy felt bloated, though I don't have cramps or pain. I've been on oestrogen for nearly forty years, coincidence or imagination--I don't know.

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I've joked in the past...

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...that I have the bloating and the mood swings without the cramps and the bleeding, but I'm pretty sure it's not the same thing. =)

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I don't believe it should

I don't believe it should just address TG/TS, cross dressers, et al; as there have been some recent medical studies that are now coming out saying that males do appear to have a monthly cycle very similar to females and even have a menopause as they age.
Further, it is well documented medical knowledge that many males do have sympathetic labor pains when their wives are undergoing them. My Spouse was a long time OB/GYN nurse specialist, as was a Sister-in-Law, and they both told me about these times they witnessed it happening. My youngest Son was an AF Medic who worked in OB and Nursery, and he said he had seen this on occasions as well. He said the first time he witnessed it, he first thought the man was having some medical issue other than what he was later told by a Nurse and Doctor was actually going on.
Although I am not a medical person, I do believe that as more and more advancements and studies in medical science regarding both female and male internal bodily functions are made, we may well all be shocked by what is found. Remember, we all, in the womb, start out the same and both sexes are the same (female) until the body hormones or chemicals start the break into either a female or male. Just my take on this issue. Janice Lynn

I do

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I get water retention [ bloating ] and moodiness on a monthly cycle.

when I started the hormones I even got morning sickness.

and, yes, even men have a monthly cycle, just not as strongly as women do.


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I did too...

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...especially when I was taking progesterone. Even now, my stomach can be sensitive.

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