Occasionally, Americans need tampons – sometimes even at a young age. Thanks to a demand-meeting plan, California school districts now offer them with unprecedented altruism. Via dispensers, even third graders can nip in the bud any issues of female flow. This includes female boys, as the cost-free containers bedeck boys' bathrooms.
At this school year's outset, districts bore the burden of a washroom overhaul. Subsequently, students would soon discover the Tampon Fairy had landed in their latrines. And make no mistake: That progressive pixie is positively unprejudiced.
The move toward unbiased bedecking began in 2021, when California inserted itself into pupils' periods. The Menstrual Equity for All Act required schools with "any combination of classes from grades 6 to 12" to freely furnish pillowy provisions in powder rooms – and not just the ones labeled "Girls."
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Then a 2023 amendment announced as follows:
On or before the start of the 2024-25 school year, a public school, including a school operated by a school district, county office of education, or charter school, maintaining any combination of classes from grades 3 to 12, inclusive, shall stock the school’s restrooms at all times with an adequate supply of menstrual products, available and accessible, free of cost, in all women’s restrooms and all-gender restrooms, and in at least one men’s restroom.
The alteration was introduced by Majority Leader Eloise Gómez Reyes, who'd been approached by an Inland Empire Girl Scouts troop.
The Girl Scout Troop 76 of San Gorgonio Council have tackled menstrual equity through their Silver Award Project by destigmatizing periods and by providing emergency menstrual kits to young pupils in need.
The Silver Award is one of the highest awards that a girl scout can earn and it requires the girl scout to identify a need in the community and engage in 50 hours of community service.
Through this work, the [troop] realized that there was a greater need related to the lack of access to menstrual products to young pupils and have advocated to increase access to menstrual products through legislation.
So thanks to socially-conscious Girl Scouts, the state legislature, and signee Gov. Gavin Newsom, now third-grade boys can benefit from cotton-pickin' progress. There's been a leak in the levee of LGBT accommodation; but California is plugging the dike.
The update honors our era's new notion: Not only does everyone have a sex; they possess the novelty of a "gender identity." It's far from an adults-only idea:
Children's Hospital Boasts 'Gender-Affirming' Hysterectomies
Portland Schools Five-Year-Olds on 'People With Penises,' Tells Kids Their Families Are 'LGBTQIA2S+'
Cartoon Network Schools Kids on Pronouns: They Define You and Make You Feel Safe
Knitting Group Offers Plush Prosthetic Penises Transgender Children Can Wear in Their Panties
As for absorbent implements: Gavin isn't alone in his executive fondness for fellas' cavity occlusion. In the lead-up to Election 2024, much was made of vice presidential hopeful Tim Walz – tagged "Tampon Tim" – and his menstrual mindfulness. As Minnesota governor, he signed leglisation allowing for free tampons to be placed in lads' lavatories.
Elsewhere in the country, a few other equitable examples:
Coed Clogging: Oregon Education Stocks the Boys Room With Tampons
Women Demand Justice: University Hosts 'Menstruation Equity Summit'
Back to budding California classmates and policy compliance: On X, Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin shared a reported letter from Long Beach Unified School District. Touting the tremendousness of Take-One tampons, LBUSD linked it to learning:
At LBUSD, we are committed to reducing barriers to learning and fostering a supportive environment for all students. By implementing this policy, we aim to ensure that any student who menstruates – including transgender boys and nonbinary students – can access these necessary products with dignity and discretion.
Will tampons help 8-year-old Golden State guys learn? Or will the items only discreetly assist if there's a dignified nosebleed? Either way, California and its leadership are categorically committed to the intimate needs of little boys – period.
-ALEX
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