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Trump campaign criticizes Walz for state law providing tampons in schools (www.nytimes.com)

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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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[-] Lycist@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

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

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spoiler

(trump prolly has a tampon stuck up his ass)

[-] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 months ago

What a monster, treating women like humans.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 4 points 3 months ago

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 3 months ago

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 3 months ago

Thanks for the info! :)

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