*People who menstruate*
“People who menstruate” includes cis women, trans men and nonbinary people who menstruate.
It also correctly excludes post-menopausal people.
It’s only used in the context of people menstruating, not as a general term to designate all women (same applies to “pregnant people”).
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@vogelbeere I think this is an unpleasant way to categorize people if used for any reason other than to sell menstrual products. We don't define humanity as "people who defacate".
I also object to splitting women/XX people into 2 arbitrary groups using a private bodily function that others would have to guess - and what about perimenopausal people?
@AmandaSiegel and you just quite happily used the phrase “peri-menopausal people”, so it seems you don’t object to referring to menstrual status as a category when it is relevant to the conversation.
@AmandaSiegel and the tweet that you’re replying to explicitly states that the expression “people who menstruate” is only used in the context of menstruation 🙄
@vogelbeere good point. Who needs menstrual products? People who menstruate.
@AmandaSiegel women includes people who do not have XX chromosomes and do not menstruate. If you’d read the whole thread, you’d know that I said “people who menstruate” is only used in the context of talking about menstruation.
Talking about XX chromosomes is massively reductive.
And I would talk about humans as people who defecate in the context of defecation, except that all humans defecate, so there’s no need to make that distinction.