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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (11 children)

Fyi, the reason it's noteworthy is he put them in boys toilets and boys don't menstruate. Which is weird

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (11 children)

Imagine boys picking up tampons for their girlfriends or just good friends because they couldn’t.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Transmasc students who use boys toilets still menstruate unless on some serious hormone therapy.

Really this country should gave gone to unisex toilets generations ago

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

That is a fraction of a fraction of a percent of people. Making all toilets wheelchair accessible would probably help more.

Problem is, women hate it when men use their toilets

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (9 children)

Bro have you ever been in a ladies room? Consistently more nasty then the men's, nobody's trying to be in there. You just need a Boogeyman

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wow your post history is weird.

Cis this cis that, election fraud, echo chamber, echo chamber, echo chamber! ( and it goes on )

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (9 children)

Have you gone to a public event. Women’s toilets have long lines and men’s have short to no lines. Makes me think men wouldn’t like women sharing their toilets either.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (33 children)

This guy also doesn't support free lunches for kids in school. Says the majority don't need them, so we shouldn't provide them at all.

I gotta say, you sure have some terrible takes, my friend.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

When my kids were in elementary school so many of the students were on free or reduced price lunch they just decided to give every kid a free breakfast and lunch. And even though I could afford the lunches it was great because I didn't have to get them breakfast before school and I didn't have to make sure their lunch money account was topped up.

So even if you don't need them they're a really nice thing to have, IMHO.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh, so not only do you not want people who need them to have access to menstrual supplies, you also seem to think bigotry against trans people is an acceptable reason why.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think we will disagree on what constitutes "bigotry against trans people"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

I don't doubt that.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Who actually gives a shit? Not the least because transboys do exist, but also because having people reduce the stigma around feminine hygiene products is a net benefit to everyone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

If women know you always have a tampon or pad you will meet so many more women.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Actually, he didn't explicitly do so.

"The products must be available to all menstruating students in restrooms regularly used by students in grades 4 to 12 according to a plan developed by the school distric"

That sounds like a perfectly reasonable phrasing.

There is no particularly pro-trans wording or explicitly declaring mens rooms to also have it, the phrasing is supremely neutral.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Back at my school, we use to have fight club in the bathroom. If we had tampons it would have saved a bunch of TP to stop bloody noses. We weren't so forward thinking back in the 90s sadly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I'm not deleting your comment just so you see how many people disagree with you and keep reading the replies. It's 2024, not the nineteenth century, and transphobia and misoginia only makes you and everyone else worse off.

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[–] morphballganon 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for revealing your transphobia so I can block you.

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