Just when you thought things could not get any crazier:[PuffingtonHost] A transgender artist released a powerful photo
Gotta' hit the link for this one!
last week in an attempt to broaden the cultural understanding of the different types of people who experience menstruation.
Cass Clemmer, who uses they/them pronouns, posted the photo of himself/herself/itself/shplxself/themself on Instagram on July 12, depicting them free-bleeding while holding up a sign that reads "Periods are not just for women #BleedingWhileTrans."
If you're a woman dressed up as a guy, maybe you're still a girl.
The photo was accompanied by a poem the artist wrote for a spoken word event at a menstrual health conference last summer.
"I popped a tampon
into the air.
It fell to earth,
I'm not sure where..."
Clemmer, who works as a menstrual health activist,
Obviously a highy trained medical perfessional.
told HuffPost that they decided to stage the photo after the backlash to The Adventures of Toni the Tampon: A Period Coloring Book a coloring book they created to introduce kids of all genders to the human experience of menstruation.
"Kids of all 57 genders."
"I remember sharing for the first time with a friend of mine that I wasn’t able to wear my binder that day because I was on my period and my boobs had swelled up so much that it made it hard to breathe," Clemmer told HuffPost.
I coulda gone to my grave without ever achieving that knowledge... but it does seem to indicate that there's still only one gender that requires monthly trips to the drug store...
"We had been friends for awhile and she’s a feminist activist, but when I realized that not even she had considered what it was like for people like me to experience bleeding on a (ir)regular basis I knew that I had to go public with my story to help shift the mindset around tying periods to womanhood and femininity. Not all people who menstruate are women, and not all women menstruate."
The second statement is true...
It continues, if you can take it.