Feminine products, including tampons and pads, will be placed in all boy\u2019s restrooms at Oregon Public Schools starting in the 2022-2023 school year to comply with the state\u2019s 2021 \u201cMenstrual Dignity Act\u201d law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The law requires \u201cthat both tampons and sanitary pads are available at no cost to students through dispensers located\u201d in all student bathrooms, including boys\u2019 rooms at elementary, middle, and high schools and every other public school building in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Currently, the law requires that tampon and pad dispensers are placed \u201cin at least two student bathrooms of every public school building.\u201d \u201cStudent bathrooms\u201d in the legislation refers to girls\u2019 rooms, boys\u2019 rooms, and unisex bathrooms. The change goes into effect on July 1, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Portland Public School (PPS) announced in an April 17 release that it had begun preparing for the upcoming requirements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Starting next year (2022-23), products will be available in all restrooms (male, female, and all-gender) in every PPS building where education occurs. To ensure timely compliance, PPS ordered 500 dispensers. Dispensers have been installed in all elementary and middle school girls\u2019 restrooms, and more will be installed in all remaining bathrooms, including boys\u2019 restrooms, next year. Instructions for how to use tampons and pads will be posted in all bathrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The release later added that all K-12 schools are receiving \u201cbasic lessons around the four pillars of Menstrual Dignity including Privacy, Inclusivity, Access, and Education\u201d from the \u201cHealth and Adapted\/Physical Education team.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oregon has also published a 26-page Menstrual Dignity for Students Tool Kit, the introduction of which reads in part:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Importantly, this law affirms the right to menstrual dignity for transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and two spirit students by addressing the challenges that some students have managing menstruation while minimizing negative attention that could put them at risk of harm and navigating experiences of gender dysphoria during menstruation. Research also connects gender-affirming bathroom access to supporting student safety at school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bridget Barton, who is running as a candidate in the state\u2019s Republican Gubernatorial primary, ripped the law while speaking with Fox News Digital:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Radical leftist woke policies are destroying Oregon from our streets to our businesses to our schools. But as a mom, a new grandmother, and a Republican candidate for Oregon governor, I can\u2019t believe we\u2019re even discussing this \u2014 America\u2019s most unpopular governor, Kate Brown, is putting free tampons in the boys bathrooms of Oregon\u2019s elementary schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Clearly Brown cares more about what\u2019s going on in the bathrooms than what\u2019s going on in the classrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A similar law was also passed in Illinois last year. Republican Illinois state Rep. Avery Bourne noted at the time that elementary school-aged boys were likely to misuse the products, the Center Square reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen you give a grade school boy something that\u2019s adhesive, they\u2019re going to put it in places,\u201d Bourne said. \u201cThese products are not inexpensive and they are going to be misused if they are placed in elementary school boys\u2019 bathrooms.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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