The Great Trump Tampon Hoax

[kpete]

Update from Daniel Dale:
All 15 of the 15 Minnesota school districts I reached today say they don’t provide tampons in boys’ bathrooms. There’s a broad consensus that, contrary to claims from Trump and others, the law signed by Walz doesn’t require tampons there.

Link to tweet

Scott Croonquist, executive director of Minnesota’s Association of Metropolitan School Districts, which says its 52 member districts educate more than half of public school students in the state, said Friday: “Our interpretation of the law is the same as what you have heard from the people you have talked to in school districts. The law does NOT require menstrual products in boys’ bathrooms.”

https://cnn.com/2024/08/16/politics/fact-check-trump-walz-minnesota-schools-tampons

[thucythucy]

1. This is another example of the GOP's obsession with women's bodies.

In their world, even junior high school girls don't get a break.

As boys they probably went "Yuk" at anything to do with menstruation.

And these boys have grown up to be dirty old men.

[Ocelot II]

2. The claim was ridiculous on its face.

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What do you suppose would happen to those items if they were left in boys' bathrooms? Has anyone ever met a teenage boy?

Anyhow, Walz should wear the appellation "Tampon Tim" as a badge of honor. The law does require schools to make the products available for free where they are likely to be needed - in girls' and unisex bathrooms and in the school nurses' offices. If you've ever been a teenage girl you'll know exactly why this is kind of a big deal - your body can do unexpected things and the results can be terribly embarrassing and inconvenient. And nobody has to pay for other hygiene items like toilet paper, soap or paper towels - things that everybody uses - but where girls and women are concerned, we get to pay extra for what we need. At least that won't be true any more in MN public schools (unlike when I attended them).

[AllaN01Bear]

4. sigh. another lable i wear proudly. from comunist pinko pig to libtard to this . sigh

[EYESORE 9001]

3. Another lie shot down in real time

Do they dare bring up old falsehoods instead? Remember the ‘kitty litter boxes in every classroom for the furries’ farce from recently? Try that again and end up with kitty litter on your faces. Not today, weirdos. Not today.

[GP6971]

7. Morning....

[Kid Berwyn]

6. One Big Lie spawns legions of little lies.

Thanks to Corporate McPravda, the little ones’ babies spread, too.

[BrianTheEVGuy]

8. The average Republican is stupid and will believe anything

This is basically an updated version of “litter boxes in bathrooms,” an effort to dehumanize and target transgender people — a very small and relatively visible minority — for abuse.

That it is laughably false and obviously so doesn’t matter. It’s about telling the lie and having their brain-dead followers repeat it endlessly, so that there’s no room in their small brains for any independent thinking nor skepticism.

[SpankMe]

9. Everything Trump says is a lie. Everything. n/t