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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      Bob Dole spent his last years shilling for viagra, and that’s considered normal and cool. Gingrich is on his third wife after cheating his way through the Clinton blowjob impeachment. Donald Trump is out there shedding donor cash to hush up the porn star he took to pound town on the campaign trail.

      But god fucking forbid a teenager girl have access to a sanitary napkin in a public setting.

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            At this point, it seems pretty clear that they don’t even care about the fetus. Republicans just want to to control women.

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                That also works. I was taking more a long the lines of George Carlin’s quote:

                Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren’t they? They’re all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you’re born, you’re on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don’t want to know about you. They don’t want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you’re preborn, you’re fine; if you’re preschool, you’re fucked.

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    Believe it or not the Conservative rank and file love this kind of attack. My sister, who lives in the states but can’t vote there (and flew back to Canada to have her kids, who needed medical care they could never afford stateside) , Is all on the Trump train and was just last night going on and on about how “there ain’t no boys on my daughters gymnastics team in south Carolina” and “the other side wants tampons in boys washrooms”. They’re so obsessed with it, it’s fucking bizzare.

    But honestly I should have known she was getting this from somewhere, the girl has never had an original thought in her life, a personality sponge if I ever saw one, always has been.

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    Only a male idiot would come up with something like that. There’s no short supply in the Republican party.

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    You know, maybe I’m getting old but I remember a time when the Republican Party wasn’t running on a platform that consists of nothing but batshit crazy. I’ve never been a Republican but there was some semblance of sanity there and not this soup sandwich of bathrooms and genitals. Jfc.

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    As a kid, I had frequent nosebleeds. Both from natural causes and homophobic bullies. Tampons in the boys bathroom would have been great for me, and I’m not even trans.

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      For anyone who might need to hear this, plugging a nose bleed might be one of the worst ways to stop it. You have a high chance of ripping it back open when you remove the plug.

      Pinch right under where the cartilage meets the bone for a full 60 seconds. Rinse and repeat until it stops.

      Don’t tilt your head back either, as this causes the blood to pour into your stomach which can cause nausea and potentially vomiting (which can restart the bleed).

      Source: used to get daily nosebleeds every winter for like 20 years.

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      Just like curb cuts, making an amenity available for everyone helps * checks notes * everyone

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    Don’t you fool liberals know you’re just encouraging young girls to be sluts!

    /s

    If people are dumb enough to criticize Walz over this kind of thing I really need to use /s.

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    oh god fucking forbid we help out adolescents who aren’t allowed to know about menstruation until they’re running to the bathroom crying and dripping blood

    jfc i still can’t comprehend how GOP can possibly get worse every. fucking. day.

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      Then all the kids laugh at you and make you feel shame about basic bodily functions, just like Jesus would’ve wanted.

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        guilt, fear, and shame are pretty much baked into the foundation. no matter what you do, if you were born human, then you’re a sinner, and the only hope is jesus. all this make-believe crap works best when shoved down the throats of kids who dont know how to think for themselves yet. hence their rabid relentless tooth and nail battle to force jesus into public schools. it’s not enough to indoctrinate their own kids. they want yours too. also the jesus kids can bully the less than jesus kids without fear of consequence

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    Obviously this is bad, but a lot of the people commenting here are missing the fact that this is specifically about accomodating transgender students by providing mentrual products in all bathrooms.

    Of course we’ve all probably heard/read conservative men who don’t understand female anatomy argue agaisnt providing free menstrual products at all, but that’s not what this article’s about.

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      Its good for trans kids, but also we should be doing it just to normalize menstrual products. I remember being a young teen and driven to the grocery store so I could shuffle in, bent over double with pain to buy what I needed because my father didn’t want to be seen touching the package. Seems a small price to destigmatize it.