Artcow Life of Bria / Sabrina Barker Fairley Symington / Stephen Symington - Creator of the longest running Halloween Special

[Positron]

"It is quite clear that what is going on in our bodies is the exact same thing minus one organ" -- No. Mensuation involves at least four organ systems: the brain (hypothalamus), the pituitary gland, the ovaries, and the uterus. You are minus at least two of them. Indeed I suspect you're missing the brain also.

 

[Someone]

Bria gets constipated at least once a month and thinks that's a period

 

[Meowthkip]

Truly, where do they believe these "cramps" they have are coming from? "Just lacking one organ" is hilarious when the symptom women experience is uterine cramping. Any intestinal symptoms that some women get on top of that is due to the uterine lining (which contains a ton of prostaglandins, responsible for cramping) shedding and entering the body, or because the progesterone/estrogen cycle is flipping.

The period isn't just about blood, either. When people call the vagina a "self-cleaning organ," part of how it engages in this function is through the period itself. By changing pH at the time of the menstrual period versus the rest of the cycle, the vagina uses the two contrasting environments to keep pathogens from setting up shop for too long.

"We get every symptom except one." No, you get exactly the symptoms you could make up if you wanted to, and literally zero objective evidence you're feeling anything but sorry for yourself.

I'm waiting for them to start claiming that their manopause is just as significant as women's menopause.

... Is Bria trying to imply her constructed vagina is bleeding out every month?

 

[Tragi-Chan]

So how is this period supposed to happen? Is it a function of the hormones Bria takes? Because that would be no more real and natural than a steroid user’s huge muscles.

When I read shit like this, I start to sympathize with the TERFs. I’d be pretty pissed off if an ignorant troon started mansplaining my body.

 

[AnOminous]

So how is this period supposed to happen? Is it a function of the hormones Bria takes? Because that would be no more real and natural than a steroid user’s huge muscles.

When I read shit like this, I start to sympathize with the TERFs. I’d be pretty pissed off if an ignorant troon started mansplaining my body.

It's a function of hallucinations caused by psychosis. It's as real as tumblr DID where people have "alter" personalities that are always coincidentally from currently popular children's shows.

 

[Sissy Galvez]

Hey Bria, you literally don’t have a uterus and therefore no tissue or blood to shed like real women. It’s not transphobic or transphobia, your body is male end of story. You have male genitalia and chromosomes. Taking estrogens by no means give you periods, it’s not physically possible.

What you have are bad tranny farts.

 

[AvocadoToast]

He's being completely delusional as usual. He's not lacking ''one symptom'' of a period, he's lacking THE PERIOD itself. Women can have varying symptoms, but we all bleed. He's severely projecting, the ''transphobes'' are not fragile, he is. His existence doesn't upset us, but noncompliance to his delusions upset him. This raging narcissist is obsessed with being a woman and nothing will ever be enough for him. Socially transitioning not enough, getting his dick chopped off not enough, getting breast implants not enough, now he also needs people to ''acknowledge'' he menstruates even though it's physically impossible. You don't even have the organ that cramps up, Stephen, and having ''mood swings'' isn't having a period. It's a symptom of basically every mood and personality disorder though, just saying.

 

[sperginity]

Let's say for arguments sake that a uterus isn't required for a period, hormonal cycles are, and troons take the same hormone every day so there is no cycle.

 

[killmeme]

In case this needed to be said.
But I'm sure that's just transphobia. I find it funny Stephen seemed to have transitioned into your standard dumb as bricks white trash only instead of sperging about vaccines he spergs about how much of a girl he is.

 

[Positron]

Now that Stephen has all the attention of the Rat Kings and Chris Chan, the curtain rises for The Period Piece, Act II:

[Text]
Loving the ppl saying I must have some other medical issue. Yeah, trans girls all over the world experiencing period symptoms on a regular, monthly cycle all have some unrelated bowel condition. Sure. Cis women who see the idea of trans periods as some kind of trivialization of/attack on their womanhood should realize that is not what is going on. Trans women are PAINFULLY aware of the difference between ourselves and our cisters. This is a source of solidarity, not division.

Yes, we are aware we have no uterus/ovaries. Yes, we know we can't get pregnant. But we DO experience these shared, regular symptoms as a result of of our hormonal cycles. How does that take away from you? How does that not give us increased commonality? You do not need to have a uterus to experience these effects from hormones. And you do NOT need to experience these effects to be a woman. But these effects DO happen to some of us. That is DOCUMENTED. And no amount of saying "Nu uh!' can change that.

The entire point of writing this thread was me realizing that I'd been having these symptoms for a long time, but I didn't understand what was going on. I thought there was something wrong w/ me. Understanding my period changed my entire outlook on myself. Just allowing myself to recognize my period for what it was helped me feel so much better about the regular cycle I had of feeling generally terrible each month. It was tied up with my eating disorder - the bloating, cramping, craving sweets - I chalked up to me just binging...I just assumed bloating/cramping was from overeating (even if I wasn't overeating). Once I realized that it was just a natural thing my body did, I stopped shaming myself for feeling the way I did. It helped undo so much negative conditioning I had around my stomach & food.

Having a bloodless period practically renders it invisible - even if you have all the other symptoms. What results is many trans girls having a period each month but not understanding what is going on and just feeling bad about themselves as a result. I want to change that. I hope every trans femme reading the "rebuttals" to these tweets feels validated by the fact that they all basically amount to either "Nu uh!" or some regurgitated inaccurate statement about uteruses that ignores the actual science behind cramps. These losers got nothing, girls.

I find it interesting that (cis) ppl seem to think that I am celebrating or making light of periods. I am not. I am simply acknowledging my own period and those of other trans ppl. And in that acknowledgement I am able to break free of previous negative feelings I once had. Kinda flabbergasted that (cis) ppl have such a hard time understanding that other parts of the body besides the uterus are involved in period cramping. Yes, we are aware that the cramps we get are not our uteruses. They're just from ALL THE OTHER STUFF THAT CRAMPS ON YOUR PERIOD.

What can we expect from those who are still locked into a non-existent gender binary? They can't even conceive how someone lacking some essentialist criteria they were taught defines a woman could experience something similar to what they deem a woman to be?

[Positron note: I'll present the last part as a screenshot because it contains a quote to an other tweet]

[End of Act II]

So TL;DL - Stephen invents the period story because he wants to binge-eat without feeling guilty (no wonder he has fans like Chris), and he will continue to shout about his "periods" because that pisses off anyone with a mediocum of biological knowledge, oops, I mean "transphobes".

Meanwhile the "transphobes" have been stirred into action:

 

[FitBitch]

"Violence-Prone Troon Makes Biologically Impossible Claim, Chimps Out and Doubles Down When Corrected. Click here to read more."

I don't understand why Stephan thinks being a troon gives him a magical deeper understanding of the human body than anyone else in the history of ever. That's not how bodies or knowledge work.

 

[killmeme]

"cisters"
I cringed.

 

[Positron]

"Cisters"
So he doesn't consider genuine women as equals, just pretending to do so because he think that will score him sympathy points.

 

[Tragi-Chan]

I don't understand why Stephan thinks being a troon gives him a magical deeper understanding of the human body than anyone else in the history of ever. That's not how bodies or knowledge work.

Were she a cis man, this would be called “mansplaining.” But of course she is totally a woman so it’s not you transphobe TERF Nazis.

 

[AnOminous]

I don't understand why Stephan thinks being a troon gives him a magical deeper understanding of the human body than anyone else in the history of ever. That's not how bodies or knowledge work.

"B-b-b-but muh lived experiences."

This is why your lived experiences mean shit to me. Anecdotes are not data.

 

[FitBitch]

"B-b-b-but muh lived experiences."

This is why your lived experiences mean shit to me. Anecdotes are not data.

What's getting to me is he's chimping out about how transphobes are denying his lived experience by letting him know it's impossible for him to have a period and in the process he's denying the lived experience of a fucking endocrinologist who took the time to interact with him.

Stephan thinks he has more knowledge about hormones based on his imaginary periods than someone who specifically specializes in hormones and has studied their effects on the body for 12+ years. The inflated ego is real.

 

[FierceBrosnan]

What's getting to me is he's chimping out about how transphobes are denying his lived experience by letting him know it's impossible for him to have a period and in the process he's denying the lived experience of a fucking endocrinologist who took the time to interact with him.

Stephan thinks he has more knowledge about hormones based on his imaginary periods than someone who specifically specializes in hormones and has studied their effects on the body for 12+ years. The inflated ego is real.

Honestly what Bria think's is a "period" sounds like withdrawals. If Bria won't listen to serious medical advice then she sure as shit doesn't keep up on her meds and HRT.

 

[FitBitch]

Honestly what Bria think's is a "period" sounds like withdrawals. If Bria won't listen to serious medical advice then she sure as shit doesn't keep up on her meds and HRT.

I wonder if he skips days on accident and then doubles up to compensate and that excess is causing his cramps.

 

[FierceBrosnan]

I wonder if he skips days on accident and then doubles up to compensate and that excess is causing his cramps.

All those meds can't be good for the liver or kidneys either, plus the constant flux of hormones just makes a mess of the brain's chemistry. I don't doubt for a minute that Bria is in pain but a good chunk of it is self inflicted so it's hard to feel sympathy. Bria wanted the full female experience so complaining about it or looking for sympathy for it is just lame. You don't choose to irreversibly alter your body and then get to whine about it, toughen the fuck up.

 

[FitBitch]

I just want to point out those other muscles he's talking about that cramp during a period are the walls of the vagina. The abdominal cramps are a result of menstrual constipation. In commercials for period relief medication women hold their stomachs just because clutching your hands to your nether regions is commercially unattractive but it gives the common misconception that period cramps are abdominal. Stephan however doesn't have vaginal muscles, he has an open wound.

Spoiler: :powerlevel:nitty-gritty period talk inside

My periods hit me hard and my vaginal walls, inner thighs, and lower back get so sore I can barely walk correctly.

Abdominal cramps during periods are common because of constipation but they themselves are not menstrual cramps. Stephan just needs to take a shit and I'm sure he will feel better enough to calm down on Twitter for a bit.