Another Massachusetts college now has tampons in a men's bathroom. .Bristol Community College now offers tampons in some of its bathrooms on campus, including men's, women's, and single-occupancy gender-neutral bathrooms, the school's Women's Center announced on Facebook last month.The products are available in multiple bathrooms on the Fall River campus. The first-floor men’s and women’s bathrooms in the G Building, the second-floor single-occupancy gender-neutral bathroom in the same building, and the first-floor women’s bathroom in the C Building all now provide free tampons and pads.Schools and municipalities put tampons in men's bathrooms to affirm transgender identities, even though only females can menstruate.Bristol Community College gets its menstrual products from Mass NOW, a left-wing political advocacy organization that supports putting menstrual products in school bathrooms, including men's bathrooms.The organization's Menstrual Equity landing page contains a form for schools and organizations to request free tampons and pads for their bathrooms.Here is what the organization's web site says about its free menstrual product program:We have a vision for a world where menstrual products are considered a basic necessity and are available in all bathrooms, just like toilet paper. That's why we're partnering with community organizations, schools, state agencies, and local governments to distribute all kinds of free menstrual products.Our goaI is not just to end period poverty and make period products free and available. Our goal is menstrual equity: we want people not just to have free products -- but to have choice about what products they use. We want everyone to have menstruation education so they can make informed decisions about their menstrual health. Last year we purchased tampons and pads from Aunt Flow, Femly, and Viv for you V, pads from Pads on a Roll, Menstrual Cups & Discs from FIHRI and Period Underwear from the Period Co. We're interested in feedback on these products from returning partners. Bristol Community College is a public two-year college with more than 6,200 students, with campus locations in Attleboro, Fall River, New Bedford, and Taunton. Fall River, which is where Bristol Community College puts tampons in men's bathrooms, is a city of nearly 94,000 people, located on the South Coast of Massachusetts. Bristol Community College isn't the only place in Massachusetts that puts menstrual products, including tampons, in men's bathrooms.Brookline Town Hall, Boston Public Library, Emerson College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and UMass Dartmouth do the same, among others, as NewBostonPost previously reported. Additionally, Pembroke Public Library briefly stocked tampons in its men's bathroom in December 2022, but stopped doing so due to public backlash.Massachusetts Family Institute communications director Mary Ellen Siegler slammed MIT last week for putting tampons in men's bathrooms.“The placement of menstrual products in men’s restrooms and the allowance of biological females, who identify as male, into those facilities contradicts both scientific understanding and common-sense privacy standards. It is not charitable to affirm individuals in a state of gender confusion by reshaping institutional policies around subjective feelings rather than objective truths," Siegler told NewBostonPost via email. "True care involves offering those struggling with gender dysphoria the psychological support and professional help they deserve, not policies that may reinforce confusion and cause harm."A Bristol Community College spokesman could not be immediately reached for comment on Sunday.
Another Massachusetts college now has tampons in a men's bathroom. .Bristol Community College now offers tampons in some of its bathrooms on campus, including men's, women's, and single-occupancy gender-neutral bathrooms, the school's Women's Center announced on Facebook last month.The products are available in multiple bathrooms on the Fall River campus. The first-floor men’s and women’s bathrooms in the G Building, the second-floor single-occupancy gender-neutral bathroom in the same building, and the first-floor women’s bathroom in the C Building all now provide free tampons and pads.Schools and municipalities put tampons in men's bathrooms to affirm transgender identities, even though only females can menstruate.Bristol Community College gets its menstrual products from Mass NOW, a left-wing political advocacy organization that supports putting menstrual products in school bathrooms, including men's bathrooms.The organization's Menstrual Equity landing page contains a form for schools and organizations to request free tampons and pads for their bathrooms.Here is what the organization's web site says about its free menstrual product program:We have a vision for a world where menstrual products are considered a basic necessity and are available in all bathrooms, just like toilet paper. That's why we're partnering with community organizations, schools, state agencies, and local governments to distribute all kinds of free menstrual products.Our goaI is not just to end period poverty and make period products free and available. Our goal is menstrual equity: we want people not just to have free products -- but to have choice about what products they use. We want everyone to have menstruation education so they can make informed decisions about their menstrual health. Last year we purchased tampons and pads from Aunt Flow, Femly, and Viv for you V, pads from Pads on a Roll, Menstrual Cups & Discs from FIHRI and Period Underwear from the Period Co. We're interested in feedback on these products from returning partners. Bristol Community College is a public two-year college with more than 6,200 students, with campus locations in Attleboro, Fall River, New Bedford, and Taunton. Fall River, which is where Bristol Community College puts tampons in men's bathrooms, is a city of nearly 94,000 people, located on the South Coast of Massachusetts. Bristol Community College isn't the only place in Massachusetts that puts menstrual products, including tampons, in men's bathrooms.Brookline Town Hall, Boston Public Library, Emerson College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and UMass Dartmouth do the same, among others, as NewBostonPost previously reported. Additionally, Pembroke Public Library briefly stocked tampons in its men's bathroom in December 2022, but stopped doing so due to public backlash.Massachusetts Family Institute communications director Mary Ellen Siegler slammed MIT last week for putting tampons in men's bathrooms.“The placement of menstrual products in men’s restrooms and the allowance of biological females, who identify as male, into those facilities contradicts both scientific understanding and common-sense privacy standards. It is not charitable to affirm individuals in a state of gender confusion by reshaping institutional policies around subjective feelings rather than objective truths," Siegler told NewBostonPost via email. "True care involves offering those struggling with gender dysphoria the psychological support and professional help they deserve, not policies that may reinforce confusion and cause harm."A Bristol Community College spokesman could not be immediately reached for comment on Sunday.
