There, she talks about what she suffered during her adolescence due to menstruating and transitioning. She began her transition at 14, and by 16 she had shaved her head and changed her name. Before taking hormone blockers at 17, the model menstruated every month.

Binarism and social stigma

“Assuming that menstruation inhibits people from doing things perpetuates the aura of shame surrounding the topic and makes it so that no one wants to talk about it. For me, it was even more difficult because, in addition to the general social stigma, I felt that as a trans man, I had to hide it. I think trans men should talk more about our periods.” Jones went to an all-girls school, where he refused to wear a skirt. At age 11, he was sent to a psychiatrist. As a teenager, he changed schools, and that's when a certain liberation came. Now he is a highly sought-after model in the British fashion world. Research by the company I'M ON showed that only 8% of online content about menstruation includes the experience of the trans community. The other 92% is based solely on a binary perspective.