Today, on the Morning Update, some Dem Congresswomen held a press conference on a bill they introduced. It would force employers to pay the ladies if they needed a day or two off to deal with women’s period pain. I had some thoughts.
00:00 The Reproductive Healthcare Leave Act
00:58 Menstrual Pain
02:15 Gender and Menstrual Pain
03:32 Rhetorical Questions and Gender Constructs
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Ep 187 Link:
- https://dailycaller.com/2026/06/01/yassamin-ansari-rashida-tlaib-adelita-grijalva-period-pain-women-democrats/
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Transcript [ lightly edited]:
Welcome to your Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026 morning update. From the Daily Caller, “female Democrats assemble to whine about how much their periods hurt.”
Democrat Arizona Rep. Yasmin Ansari was joined at a press conference on May 21st by Democratic Reps. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Adelita Grijalva of Arizona to advocate for Ansari’s bill, the Reproductive Healthcare Leave Act.
The bill would force employers to let women take paid leave for reproductive health concerns. She means menstrual cramps, menstrual periods. I guess she’s not proud. Is that why they canceled the event in Boston, the Menstrual Pride event at the library? Because you shouldn’t be proud of your menstrual whatever.
Ansari kicked things off. Today we are here to talk about women’s pain and how long it’s been overlooked. Trust me, it hasn’t been. In the summer of 2015, while starting my career in New York City, I woke up on the floor of my local bodega drenched in sweat, being dragged into an ambulance. Two male paramedics hovered over me and continued to ask me if I was pregnant.
I had passed out from period pain. Even now, every month, I have days where it feels like barbed wire is tightening inside me. I’ve taken 2,000 milligrams of ibuprofen in 24 hours and still been in tears from the pain. Often end up on the bathroom floor in the fetal position, crying, moaning, and vomiting.
As the author notes, women’s pain, I was reliably assured that men can menstruate too.
As Republican Rhode Island State rep Marie Hopkins quipped, ladies, you can’t keep saying men can be women, but then also say that women are a special category. You’ve got to pick a lane. You’re very confusing to the rest of us.
So this bill would require employers to pay for days off when your period was so severe that you couldn’t work. How do we think that’s gonna go? Well, I have some suggestions. ⁓ Hope this doesn’t get me in trouble, but
I’ve dated women who changed their diet and made their awful period pain go away. I have dated women who almost entirely through sheer will willed it to go away. But it’s kind of I’m not saying it’s mind over matter. I’ve never had a period. I wouldn’t know. And I’m not saying I could or I can. In fact
On that very point, I have one more solution for democratic rep Yasmin Ansari Apparently, women who say they are men can have periods. Men who say they are women say they can, but they can’t. So I have an idea.
Why don’t you just be a woman pretending to be a man, pretending to be a woman? And then your period will go away. Of course it won’t. I think it’s your personal problem. And while I have a great deal of sympathy for women and their menstrual pain, because I’ve lived with women all my life and therefore lived with their menstrual pain, most of them
don’t want everybody to know that they had to take a day off because of menstrual pain.
but it is her party that believes that women can be men and men can be women, and they can change their mind anytime they want. and if it’s all the same in both directions, no matter what, maybe period pain is a social construct. That’s it for today. I’ll talk to you tomorrow.
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