Last year, Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed a bill that jettisoned math, reading, and writing requirements for graduating high-school seniors.
This year, apparently, the state schools are ready to scrap basic science. Pursuant to the ridiculously named Menstrual Dignity Act that passed last year, schools have until July to ensure that every restroom in every school has feminine hygiene products available for “free.”
They aren’t “free,” of course, but in any event every restroom means that the men’s room in every school will have a dispenser. Thus, boys who have “periods” have the means to protect their tighty-whities. Or panties, as the case may be.
And so tranny madness ratchets up another notch.
The Menstrual Dignity Act
The emergency help for “menstruating students,” as the schools now call them, came when Oregon passed its “Menstrual Dignity Act.” Oregon’s “menstruating students” needed that bill because “menstruating students” everywhere are suffering through a crisis.
“1 in 5 menstruators in the United States cannot afford the price of menstrual products every month,” the legislative presentation explained:
Among those menstruators are the students that attend Oregon’s public educational institutions, who may be subject to ridicule and shame from their peers because of their lack of access to sanitary products. According to a joint survey by Thinx and PERIOD The Menstrual Movement, 1 in 4 teens have missed class due to a lack of access to period products. It becomes a choice of attending class and facing stigma or simply staying home to deal with their lack of products in a private space.”
That was some nettle for the state’s school marms to grab, but they were equal to the task of ridding the state of “period poverty.” Where Herbert Hoover promised a chicken in every pot, Oregon promised a tampon in every lunch box:
HB3294 will help eliminate period poverty by requiring all public institutions of education, including middle schools, high schools, public, post-secondary schools, public charters, and educational services districts to provide menstrual products in dispensers in school restrooms including gender neutral restrooms, available at no cost to students.
Deadline: July this year.
The school system’s “Menstrual Dignity Toolkit” explains just what was at stake in the schools. It was nothing less than protecting kids from “shame”:
House Bill 3294 Menstrual Dignity ActImportantly, this law affirms the right to menstrual dignity for transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and two spirit students by addressing the challenges that some students have managing menstruation while minimizing negative attention that could put them at risk of harm and navigating experiences of gender dysphoria during menstruation. Research also connects gender-affirming bathroom access to supporting student safety at school.
And, importantly, the “toolkit” warns that girls aren’t the only students who menstruate, no matter what the science books say. “Avoid talking about menstruation as only a ‘girl’ or ‘woman’ thing,” the toolkit says:
Not all people who menstruate are girls, and not all girls menstruate.
And so the men’s restrooms now have feminine hygiene products, although calling them “feminine” is most likely a microaggression that merits a visit from the gumshoes of POTUS Brandon’s Disinformation Governance Board. Come to think of it, so does using “men’s” to describe a restroom.
Wrecking the Schools
The latest madness from Oregon’s schools comports, again, with permitting students to graduate high school without demonstrating proficiency in math, reading, and writing.
The schools enacted that policy because black and Hispanic students failed tests at too high a rate. “Testing on essential skills has historically hurt those with poor test-taking skills who would otherwise graduate,” advocates said. A spokesman for Oregon’s wacky governor, Kate Brown, imprudently described the students with poor test-taking skills, as The New American reported last year.
“Oregon’s Black, Latino, Latina, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Tribal, and students of color,” he said.
Data show that Asians test very well, generally speaking, but that truth aside, it appears that Oregon’s school officials, as former President George W. Bush put it, will never set aside the “soft bigotry of low expectations.”
Then again, they’ll make up for that shortcoming. Every student will have “menstrual dignity.”
H/T: Yamhill Advocate
