Queer Menopause – Where Gender, Sexuality and Age Collide - Tania Glyde
Channel: Dominic Davies
Date: 2020-03-29

Psychotherapist, Tania Glyde asks: "What is menopause? Who experiences it? How do queers experience menopause? Is menopause itself queer? And how does the ageing process affect how we have sex?

Think of menopause and you may think of something that happens only to cisgender heterosexual women. The media frames it as a manifestation of grief – for loss of fertility, loss of attractiveness to men, and loss of capacity for penis-in-vagina sex. This popular representation of menopause represents both a colossal failure of mainstream sex education – and a failure to recognise both queer identities and queer sex.

For me, menopause is biopsychosocial and sits under the Critical Sexology umbrella. I decided to research Queer Menopause when I realised that there is almost nothing out there, whether peer-reviewed or anything else."