BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s Catalonia region rolled out a pioneering women’s health initiative this week that offers millions of women and girls reusable menstruation products for free. About 2.5 million women and girls in northeast Spain can receive one menstrual cup, one pair of underwear for periods and two […]
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STORES sell most products intended for personal care by describing them based on their function. Toothpaste, bubble bath and toilet paper or tissue are some examples that come to mind. Based on those names, we have a good idea of their intended use. However, there is one exception: menstrual products. […]
Trans tennis coach Sasha Yates, who changed near female students in locker room and asked them about underwear and menstruation, is REHIRED at Gettysburg Area High School Tennis coach Sasha Yates was rehired at Gettysburg Area High School in a 6 to 2 vote on September 5 Nearly 40 people […]
While two dozen women took big, synchronized breaths, stretched their arms up and wobbled, one of the sheets covering the street-facing windows occasionally fell. Several of the women scurried over to tape it back up. This was necessary, after all, since everyone inside, at a dinner earlier this month on […]
Florida lawmakers are considering a draft law to strengthen state control over sex education that its sponsor says would ban any instruction in schools about menstrual cycles before the sixth grade. The proposal comes as Florida’s Republican-dominated legislature, backed by Governor Ron DeSantis, has already passed a raft of laws […]
NAIROBI, Kenya — The sight of a red bloodstain on Kenyan Senator Gloria Orwoba’s white pantsuit was so startling that a female security guard rushed over to hide it. It was an accident, Orwoba said. Just before walking into parliament, she looked down to discover that she had been caught […]
Florida schools will no longer ask student-athletes to share their menstrual histories in order to play high school sports, following months of opposition from parents, physicians and advocates. On Thursday, the Florida High School Athletic Association’s board of directors voted 14-2 at an emergency meeting to adopt a proposal that […]
Kathryn Clancy got her first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in early 2021 and 10 days later found herself sitting uncomfortably in a work Zoom meeting during one of the heaviest periods she’d experienced. “I had what’s often called menstrual flooding,” says Clancy, a biological anthropologist at the University of […]