An inclusive period product policy is good health care, helping the neediest and making puberty less awkward for girls.
Gov. Tim Walz takes questions on July 23, 2024, in New Hope, Minnesota. Walz has signed a bill ensuring free period products in Minnesota public schools.Within hours of Vice President Kamala Harris announcing her running mate, certain corners of the internet had exploded with “Tampon Tim” memes, a reference to a bill that Tim Walz signed ensuring free period products in Minnesota public schools.
Nevertheless, in an interview with Fox News, Karoline Leavitt, a Trump campaign spokesperson, suggested something nefarious was afoot. “As a woman,” she said, “I think there is no greater threat to our health than leaders who support gender-transition surgeries for young minors, who support putting tampons in men’s bathrooms in public schools.”
Let’s start with affordability. According to the Alliance for Period Supplies, 1 in 4 students in the U.S. do not have access to period products because of their cost. Experts call this “period poverty.” No politician should want to be associated with unhygienic rags. And yet some Republicans governors are actively preventing efforts to help kids get appropriate products. Most recently, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed funding that would have established a pilot program providing free pads and tampons in the state’s public schools.
And while we’re long past the point where the taboo around periods should be shed, the truth is, adolescence is just an embarrassing time. Even the most body-positive kids might not want to ask their math teacher for permission to grab a pad from their locker or if he has any spare tampons in his desk.
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