"Mental Menstruation? An Unexpected 'Menstruation' Controversy Ignites SNS with 'Too Unpleasant'"

Controversy Over Some Transgender 'Mental Physiology' Tweets on Twitter
Women Express Outrage: "Horrific Pain, Femininity 'Instrumentalized'... Cannot Understand"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Han Seung-gon] A controversy has arisen on Twitter regarding whether transgender individuals who have transitioned from male to female can experience menstruation.

They claim that through a so-called 'mental menstruation' process, they can virtually feel the pain that women experience during menstruation, sparking heated debate.

Women have expressed outrage, saying that some transgender people have chosen menstruation?a painful process?as a kind of tool to emphasize their 'femininity,' and have created the term 'mental menstruation' to make claims that are hard to empathize with.

One Twitter user raised their voice, saying, "The reason the term 'mental menstruation' is unpleasant is because △ women struggle with premenstrual syndrome even before menstruation, suffer during menstruation, and yet people casually say 'mentally menstruate'."

They continued, "The loss of time, mental, and physical resources during menstruation is immense, but instead of understanding the real pain of menstruation, it has been used as a tool for self-pity."

Another Twitter user questioned, "Phantom pregnancy is said to occur in women who long for pregnancy and believe they are pregnant, so does mental menstruation appear in people who long for menstruation and believe they are menstruating? Why? Why do they long for menstruation? Why do they believe they are menstruating? Why?? Because they are women? Because menstruation is a symbol of womanhood?"

Another netizen said, "The term 'mental menstruation' really makes me so angry. Has the transgender person who first used that term ever experienced menstruation (bleeding)? Do they know the cost of sanitary pads? The feeling of bleeding, uncontrollable depression, lethargy, and for some women, menstrual pain severe enough to require emergency room visits... How can something inevitable due to biological sex be treated like that..." expressing frustration.

However, some Twitter users argue that 'mental menstruation' actually exists. One Twitter user said, "I saw transphobia again on the real-time trending topics, so I'm leaving this information for my timeline followers so you don't misunderstand," and added, "Even without a uterus, if estrogen is administered long-term, you can experience premenstrual syndrome. You don't menstruate, but you can feel menstrual pain!"

They continued, "Conversely, if testosterone is administered consistently, menstruation stops within as soon as 1-2 weeks, and premenstrual syndrome does not occur. If there is no breakthrough bleeding, there is no bleeding. And the exact same post circulated a year ago. I'm so tired of this."

Another Twitter user said, "(Mental menstruation) is just a term used because there is no word to describe the symptoms of feeling down caused by female hormone administration. I wonder if next they'll come up with mental ovulation pain."

Meanwhile, as of 11 a.m. on the 4th, there have been 662 tweets related to 'mental menstruation.'

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