In the developing world, it isn’t uncommon for girls to drop out of school when their periods start. It is often driven by both a lack of sanitary pads AND lack of privacy. Girls who have to “hold it” all day to avoid using public shared bathrooms can’t cope with that AND menstruation.
I would say that the erosion of female privacy in favor of transgenderism is a far greater concern than “I want you to pay for my Maxi pads”. If you can pay for college, you can pay for menstrual pads. But if you don’t feel safe in the bathroom, shower or dorm, you don’t want to attend.
The fact that you are not allowed to say anything about the biologically intact mentally ill man in the shower beside you ... who unironically is called a lesbian because he’s sexually attracted to women is just another reason to just leave.
I had heard of the situation in the developing world, and that’s the first thing I thought of when I read this. I assumed they had some way to deal with the issue, even if it is not what is considered the modern way.
Every woman I have known well enough to know such personal habits has always bought her own feminine products and kept some in her purse just in case. When I was a kid, I ran errands for the neighbor lady and purchased them for her before I even knew what they were for. I’ve heard that there are vending machines in some women’s restrooms. None of these women were/are of exception means, yet all have been able to provide the products for themselves without any hardship.
You are correct about the gender-confusion issue and the privacy of women. I don’t know how women, or the parents of girls, let these intrusions stand. A couple of times at our local Target, I have seen a person who is obviously a man dressed in women’s clothing. I always alert my wife about him in case she needs to use the restroom. Ad a man, I don’t care for the intrusion of “transgender men” in restrooms or locker rooms either, and I have read of cases where schoolboys who have this inflicted on them also don’t care for it.
Did you notice how the free products advocates here never use the terms “feminine hygiene products” or “women”? It’s always “menstrual products” and “persons who menstruate.” I guess that’s to be inclusive of “men” who menstruate, or people who identify with neither sex who menstruate.