menstruator

plural menstruators · alternative menstruater

1. A person who menstruates.

   Retrograde menstruation has been defined as a universal, physiological phenomenon that occurs similarly in about 90% of menstruators during the reproductive period.

   2024 July 28, Paola Viganò, Francesca Caprara, Francesca Giola, Giorgia Di Stefano, Edgardo Somigliana, Paolo Vercellini, “Is retrograde menstruation a universal, recurrent, physiological phenomenon? A systematic review of the evidence in humans and non-human primates”, in Human Reproduction Open, volume 2024, number 3, Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →PMID, →PMCID, page 1

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   Today she would probably be diagnosed with menorrhagia or Von Willbrand disease, a rare blood-clotting disorder, but then, she would have been viewed as a perpetual menstruator, eternally unclean, contaminating, and forbidden to have contact with any man.

   2011, Chris Bobel, Samantha Kwan, Embodied Resistance: Challenging the Norms, Breaking the Rules

   The most obvious population of menstruators affected by period poverty is homeless women, who struggle to afford any basic necessity, including shelter. And as we just discussed, period poverty for homeless women can be dangerous and detrimental to their health.

   2018, Nadya Okamoto, Period Power, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 132