Academic branded ‘transphobic’ for stating biological fact
A university academic has been accused of ‘abhorrent bigotry’ after she posted on social media that only women can have periods.
Dr Eva Poen was commenting on a post on Twitter which called for a fitness app to change its wording from ‘female health’ to ‘menstrual health’. It claimed: “Not everyone who menstruates is female. Not everyone who is female menstruates.”
Poen responded: “Only female people menstruate. Only female people go through menopause. ‘Female health’ is exactly what this is about.”...