Trump campaign criticizes Walz for state law providing tampons in schools

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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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Could they get out of kids pants and get to fixing the country?

"Think of the children, all ways."

-- #maga

"Fuck dem kids"

-Republicans

"Ok yeah sure"

-Matt Gaetz

"We're pro life until the child is born, then fuck them."

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

I was calling them pedophiles

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.

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.

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

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

Republicans think that Carrie went downhill after the first 10 minutes or so.

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.

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

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.

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.

Bruh, my political memory goes back to Iran Contra. They were always fucking insane, it’s just that they used to apply the thinnest veneer of normalcy. Newt Gingrich accelerated their unmasking.

Newt was most definitely an OG hypocrite, but hindsight makes everything even more clear: Nixon, Goldwater, McCarthy, Strom Thurmond, the list goes on.

Roger Alies and Roger Stone were on the Nixon staff. Helll, even Eisenhower is mostly responsible for the GOP co-opting Christianity. Before that they leaned left cus of the charity and and helping the needy.

Nixon was where it got wild. But yeah there was until the tea party and Trump a thin mask of civility.

Eisenhower was the last good Republican.

I have posted this very same comment from time to time. Substituting “decent” where you use “good”.

GOP: A party for the under represented morally corrupt and mentally deranged.

All the problems going on in this nation and this planet yet their minds are hyper-fixated on the inside of children's pants...that's creepy as shit.

Bunch of fucking weirdos. Constantly whining about government overreach yet they are all up in everyone's private parts, sexual orientation, and dictating how schools/parents/doctors should treat trans/intersex children as if these bunch of ignorant Trump cultists have any clue about the medical/mental needs of these children.

Pretty sure, we have a word for people who are fixated on children's genitals.

Wow they are so fuckin’ weird for making a big deal about this

Wasn't #45 wearing a tampon on his ear just a few days ago? So weird that they would focus on this when there are really problems at hand.

They're desperate and reaching. They need something.

They're needs and ours don't align. It is my sincere hope that they will lose so badly that they come back to reality.

Walz doesn't even have to campaign. All the Republican "attacks" make him sound great!

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.

Booooom! Trump campaign SLAMS Walz for . . .checks notes . . Ah! “basic humanity”!!!

Ha haaaa! Take that, liebruls!!

How dare he want to try and ensure that the basic needs of children are met? He probably also supports giving those children lunch and access to public libraries where they can learn.

I hate that any of the above are even remotely controversial and yet here we are.

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.

Diapers for Adderall-addicted smelly criminals though - that’d be fine with Old Diaper Donald

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.

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

What do you think is at the bottom of these weirdo's barrel? Do they just try to claim that Harris and Walz are both secretly gay? Or trans? Or both?

Gay, trans, commie, fascist, marxist, pedos, mean, dumb, elite, weak, powerful…

Take your pick, I guarantee every ‘slander’ you can imagine is on its way or already being used.

I wonder if he even still wants to win. Maybe he's smart enough to realize just how dangerous his plans are to him personally. Like the biggest outcry regarding the assassination attempt was that the shot missed, and project 2025 isn't even in full swing yet.

What do you think is at the bottom of these weirdo’s barrel?

NAMBLA

No no no this is "these weirdo's barrels at the (little boys) bottoms". So... Typical GOP closet stuff.

I feel bad for people who have to become culture war targets just so the republicans can have a platform because god knows conservatives don’t have any real standards, morals, values or ethics. Or if they do, I’d like to see that in their behavior

They have standards for others but not for themselves. Rules for thee, etc.

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.

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.

Shame on you for checks notes caring about youth for being hygenic and safe in a socially stressful environment.

Yeah. The next thing you know they'll want SOAP in the bathroom! Ugh!

Republicans: "We should be very concerned about childrens' genitals!"

Tim Walz: Provides sanitary products to children in school

Republicans: "Not like that!"

“As a woman, I think there is no greater threat to our health than leaders who support gender-transition surgeries for young minors, who support putting tampons in men’s bathrooms in public schools,” Ms. Leavitt said. “Those are radical policies that Tim Walz supports. He actually signed a bill to do that.”

I'd say making women bleed to death on the hospital parking lot because doctors are forbidden from practicing abortions would be a greater threat to women's health, but what do I know.

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

Not-so-edited-edit: ::: spoiler spoiler (trump prolly has a tampon stuck up his ass) :::

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.

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.