In most public restrooms that I have used in my entire life, there is free toilet paper and free soap, but no free tampons. For a menstruating woman, a tampon is as crucial to hygiene and comfort as toilet paper. How many times have I had to rush to a drugstore to buy some tampons, make a DIY toilet paper “pad” that bleeds through, or otherwise been degraded or put out b/c I didn’t have access to menstrual products. And I’m a wealthy adult women. Just think what it means to women who have less money or to teenage girls not to have proper access. Missed gym, missed classes, missed swimming practice.
Where soap and TP are free, tampons should be free!! #FreeTheTampons [hyperlink redacted by administrator]