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View all search resultsTrans and non-binary individuals talk the pain of periods
From the emotional to physiological sides, trans and non-binary individuals share their experiences about "that time of the month."
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rom the emotional to physiological impacts, trans and non-binary individuals share their experiences of "that time of the month."
For some trans and non-binary individuals, menstruation and its accompanying period pain is not only a painful physical experience but also causes emotional challenges.
Erik Nadir, 29, a communications officer for the Asia Pacific Transgender Network, said he had always felt he was assigned the wrong gender at birth, which was female.
From a young age, Erick believed he had been wrongly assigned as female at birth until he started getting his periods in the third grade. Erik said that he substituted tissues for pads during his first period to hide it.
"After my first period, I felt like I was being 'struck by lightning,' as my body was betraying me; and I didn't tell my mother until I started experiencing period 'leaks' in my fourth month [of experiencing my period]," Erik says.
"I wished that the period would never come so that [my mother] would think that my gender was wrongly assigned at birth," he adds.
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