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Let's say a women (as in an actual female woman) started having symptoms of needing to urinate more frequently, finding it difficult to start urinating, finding blood in her urine, and having back pain. She looks up these symptoms on a medical website and considers that she might have prostate cancer.

Does she have prostate cancer? Can she have prostate cancer? No, because she is female and does not have a prostate gland.

Same principle applies to these males pretending to have premenstrual syndrome. It simply does not and cannot apply to them. That they claim otherwise is just part of their sad effort to roleplay as female.

No, it's an argument from what premenstrual syndrome actually means.

If these transwomen claiming to have premenstrual syndrome had looked at any medical resource, or even just the Wikipedia article, they'd have read that it precedes menstruation, that it involves contraction of the uterine muscles, that it isn't experienced during pregnancy or after menopause, and would have realized that, being male, absolutely none of this applies to them.

Plenty of people have told them all of this since that video was released, and instead of being grateful for the correction, they have instead doubled down. So it's not even a case of being ignorantly mistaken, this is an intentional appropriation and trivialization of a uniquely female experience.

The menstrual in premenstrual syndrome is a reference to menstruation, an essential characteristic of the uterus. Males don't have a uterus, they don't get uterine contractions, they don't menstruate, so they can't have any sort of premenstrual condition.

Whatever side effects transwomen are getting from their hormone medication is a male experience, not a female one. Just as women can't know what it feels like to be a male dosing estrogen, transwomen don't have insight into the natural female experience of the menstrual cycle. It makes no sense for them to misappropriate the terminology of female reproductive health.

I'm not saying that these males are lying about experiencing pain around the abdominal area. That may well be true. But it can't be the uterine muscle cramps that women with premenstrual syndrome endure, because that, and every other condition of the uterus, does not happen to males, by definition. This is an appropriation of a female-only experience.

They're not "hormonally female" either. The hormonal profile of a male taking high doses of a single exogenous hormone is nothing close to the same as that of the natural female experience: a cycle of multiple hormones, mediated by the female reproductive system.

The muscle cramps women get in premenstrual syndrome are caused by contractions of the uterine muscle, triggered by prostaglandins. These contractions help release the endometrium (uterine lining) from the uterus, which produces the menstrual blood and tissue that exits via the cervix and vagina.

Transwomen are male. Anyone who is male does not have a uterus, by definition. Therefore, no male can get contractions of the uterine muscle, because it doesn't exist in males. No uterine muscle, no uterine cramps.

Whatever these males who are dosing estrogen are experiencing, it is not premenstrual syndrome. This is a female-only experience, one that males will never endure.