Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 SMI; site sun.uucp Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!sun!sunny From: sunny@sun.uucp (Ms. Sunny Kirsten) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: PMS & transexuals Message-ID: <2599@sun.uucp> Date: Sat, 10-Aug-85 10:46:49 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.2599 Posted: Sat Aug 10 10:46:49 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 22:58:21 EDT References: <291@SCIRTP.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 20 I believe you're confusing the physical effects of cramps of the uterus, about which your questions are relevant, with the mental, emotional, and psychological effects resulting from the monthly changes in levels of hormones. > Just out of curiosity- can a transsexual get PMS? > If my knowledge of sexuality doesn't fail me, a transsexual > on appropriate doses of female hormones cannot menstruate. > > It makes me think twice about taking Sunny Kirsten's > opinions on comparative hormonal evils seriously. > > I seems biologically improbable that an individual > could experience, at separate times, the full effects of both > maleness and femaleness. Any female-to-male transsexuals > out there to refute or concur? > > -todd jones -- {ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!sunny (Ms. Sunny Kirsten)