Republicans think tampons need to be taxed to limit women from buying too many
By Emily Singer -February 11, 2020 3:58 PM
Some Tennessee lawmakers are worried that women would abuse the tax-free status of feminine hygiene products.
Republican lawmakers in Tennessee are raising objections to a proposal that would add feminine hygiene products to the list of items that can be purchased during the state's annual sales-tax holiday, the Associated Press reported.
According to the AP, the GOP lawmakers worried that women would abuse the law and purchase too many feminine hygiene products during the pause on state sales tax on some items — including computers and clothing. The pause lasts only one weekend, starting on the last Friday of July, the AP reported.
"I would think since it's a sales tax holiday, there's really no limit on the number of items anybody can purchase," Republican state Sen. Joey Hensley said during a debate on the proposal on Tuesday, according to the AP. "I don't know how you would limit the number of items someone could purchase."
Eliminating the so-called "tampon tax" has been a growing movement in states across the country.
https://americanindependent.com/tennessee-gop-tampon-ban-feminine-hygiene-products-sales-tax-holiday-republicans/
Yep this dude and he is a dude and others are more concerned about tampons and that cost, while in his state there is presently a sitting US Senator, that voted to help enable a CON man to commit crimes against the Constitution and attack the same people in the state that are on disability.....................and to top it all off he has penguins screaming in his ear.................even if it is a picture...............
November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough....................
= new reply since forum marked as read
And she had a small basket of tampons on the back of her toilet. I asked her why she did that and she replied that all women occasionally get their periods unprepared and this solves the problem.
I thought that was incredibly kind. Because feminine hygiene products should be available everywhere.
Did anybody ask if this sales tax holiday includes condoms???
from Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, etc. to save a few pennies in tampon taxes!
Do they think they are sex toys or something? I am so sick of these ass-backward, ignorant rednecks who know absolutely fuck-all about women and their bodies trying to pass laws to harm and control us!
Meanwhile any psycho with a few bucks can go in and buy an assault weapon and all the ammunition he can carry no questions asked, while innocent people continue to get massacred on a weekly basis in this country and NOTHING is done about it. Fuck these right-wing troglodytes and the people who vote for them! 
https://scoop.upworthy.com/students-bake-tampon-cookies-protest-male-principal-menstrual-hygiene
"It is criminal that, in 2019, we're still debating whether menstrual products should be considered a necessity at schools. Free tampons at school help those with access to fewer resources to not skip school because of their period. Access to tampons in schools is a basic necessity but a male middle school principal decided against the idea when 7th-grade students asked for free tampons in their school bathroom. The principal said that they would 'abuse the privilege' if tampons were distributed for free, according to a report by Yahoo Lifestyle. And also, how does one 'abuse the privilege' of having access to free tampons?
Not willing to take no for an answer, students organized an innovative protest by making baked tampon-shaped cookies. National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) president and activist Ilyse Hogue shared an image of the tampon-themed cookies on Twitter lauded them for their effort. She tweeted: My friend’s 7th grader goes to a school where the kids organized for free tampons in the bathroom. The male principle said no because they would ‘abuse the privilege.’ The kids decided to stage a cookie protest. Behold the tampon cookies!”
......
Privilege is never knowing what it’s like to be caught in public without a tampon when you need one.
... ...
Ilyse Hogue's tweet and the image of the tampon cookies went viral with many praising their students for taking the fight to the authorities. The girls behind the protest announced that the protest had the desired effect and made a statement at their own personalized website: This is the Revolutionary Girls' Baking Society. We are three middle school friends who believe no woman or girl should be shamed by her period. She should feel confident and not secretive. It should just be the norm. Because it is. After our cookie protest, our principal and the school board are now working to make sure every girl in our town will have the products they need readily available so no girl misses a day of school. We are very grateful that the school has taken our action seriously and is making a change. Feminine hygiene is not a luxury or a privilege, and not having tampons and pads is a barrier to every girl’s education.
Claire Coder, the founder of Aunt Flow, an organization that provides menstrual products at school, supported the students' protest. “I appreciate that the students did speak out for this necessity. I love that they continued forward even when someone said no. No is not an answer anymore. That was remarkable of them.” Coder said that the access to tampons in school is "not just an amenity — it’s a necessity.”
Coder also said it was important to stock tampon supplies in the bathroom, a practice not followed everywhere. “That’s a problem when you get your period, especially unexpectedly. You don’t want to leave the bathroom, go all the way to the nurse’s office, and then all the way back to the bathroom,” Coder says. A study by Period, a menstrual movement organization, Period, found that 84 percent of students “have either missed class time or know someone who missed class time because they did not have access to period products.”
what's next? Prohibiting tampon sales to "virgins"?
(My Mom, bless her heart, forbade me from using tampons in my teen years, because I would "ruin myself".) 
