Male bodies and female bodies. Thread.
I was born a girl. I grew up to be a woman.
On the road to womanhood, any girl has to come to terms with her body in a way a boy does not have to.
By the time we are young women, we will have experienced the following.

The onset of our period. Our bodies change, every month we have to deal with bleeding, often painful and heavy. With our period comes our awareness that we are now sexual beings. If we are raped, or we have sex, we can get pregnant.

We have to go to the gynaecologist. We experience intimate examinations, often by a much older man, when many of us are still virgins.
Our periods can affect our sporting life, and our social life. And we are the lucky ones.

For all the history of humanity, periods were debilitating and nothing was available to women as a reliable and clean means to deal with them. Periods were also stigmatising, and women died, and still die, because of the stigma.

Contraception. From a young age, we know we are vulnerable to getting pregnant. We have to deal with this, though males are responsible for getting us pregnant. More doctors' visits, medications, interventions to deal with this aspect of our embodied experience of womanhood

By age of 30, many women will have experienced hospitalisation, interventions or medicalisation of female conditions, from endometriosis to breast cysts to pregnancy terminations.

And then of course pregnancy and birth. No matter how much a baby is wanted, pregnancy and birth affect a woman's body in a myriad ways, and expose her to risk of medical conditions and even death.

We are our bodies. We are our female bodies. Any ideology attempting to erase this fundamental aspect of our being is a dangerous ideology.
Any man, whose experience of embodied maleness does not include any of these, should have zero say in how we live our lives as women.