"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

https://hackertimes.com/newsguidelines.html

It does define the term later, and includes a breakdown.

'e.g., those on menstrual suppression therapies or postmenopausal people'

'This sample included 35,572 (90.9%) woman-only identifying and 3557 (9.1%) gender-diverse respondents'

> formerly menstruating people

is that referring to post menopausal women?

Among others, but the thing I’d guess the parent was referring to is a specific kind of culture warrior who loses their absolute shit when anybody uses the term “people” in relation to any topic that primarily involves women; some trans men may menstruate or have done so in the past, for example, so there is a tendency in the field to avoid gendered terms unless it’s necessary.