Would This Serious Health Risk Have Been Diagnosed Sooner If I Had a Penis?

Asking for myself and about 4 billion friends

Photo by Karolina Grabowska on Pexels (*Nowhere NEAR as bloody as my pads on heavy days... but let’s normalize period representation.)

As a kid, I spent so much time playing sports that when my first period came, I was in the middle of a game of American football with the neighborhood boys. I stopped at home for a bathroom break, noticed some light staining on my underwear, slapped on a pad…