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The law, which was passed in Minnesota last year, includes language requiring menstrual products to be available in bathrooms of all schools for grades 4 to 12 as a way to accommodate transgender students.

As part of their effort to portray Tim Walz, the new Democratic vice-presidential candidate, as a far-left liberal, the Trump campaign attacked the Minnesota governor on Tuesday for signing a bill last year that provides access to menstrual products for transgender students.

At issue is broadly inclusive language in the law, which states that products like pads, tampons and other products used for menstruation “must be available to all menstruating students in restrooms regularly used by students in grades 4 to 12.” Republican state lawmakers in Minnesota had tried — and failed — to amend that bill so that it would apply only to “female restrooms,” though some Republicans went on to vote for the final version of bill.

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[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

This is what those idiots got to say?

[–] loutr@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

“As a woman, 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,” Ms. Leavitt said. “Those are radical policies that Tim Walz supports. He actually signed a bill to do that.”

I'd say making women bleed to death on the hospital parking lot because doctors are forbidden from practicing abortions would be a greater threat to women's health, but what do I know.

[–] Lycist@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Big Tampon must have something in trump to get them campaigning for personal purchasing instead of socialist-provided comforts.

Not-so-edited-edit:

spoiler(trump prolly has a tampon stuck up his ass)

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago

What a monster, treating women like humans.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm just a little confused, is this for assigned sex women who are male gendered so they still have their "lady bits" but feel more comfortable using male restrooms to match their gender? I guess it's obvious, assigned sex males can't have this issue regardless of surgery right?

I'm not 100% on the correct language so sorry if I wrote anything offensive.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I believe you're correct. You could just say it's for trans boys, because that implies both that they were assigned female and that they identify as male.

As for terminology, it's typical to refer to the gender which with someone identifies as simply their gender, and their originally presumed gender as their assigned gender. The terms AMAB and AFAB (for "assigned male/female at birth") are common, too.

One subtlety that's almost always overlooked is that assigned gender at birth can involve surgery, too, because it's unfortunately common for intersex people to be assigned female and have their genitals "fixed" to look female, leading to problems later in life. That's not relevant to the topic at hand but I wanted to mention it for the sake of completeness.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 3 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the info! :)

[–] MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world -5 points 1 month ago

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