Por Taylor Penley
Publicado el 05 de mayo de 2022
Oregon public schools will be required to provide feminine products along with instructions on "how to use" those products in all K-12 bathrooms regardless of gender, in accordance with the state's "Menstrual Dignity Act" signed into law last year.
El controvertido mandato, solidificado por la gobernadora demócrata Kate Brown, debía entrar plenamente en vigor durante el curso escolar 2022-2023. Una declaración de 2021 de las Escuelas Públicas de Portland detallaba cómo se aplicaría la ley a largo plazo.
FILE - In this June 22, 2016 file photo, Tammy Compton restocks tampons at Compton's Market, in Sacramento, Calif. California public schools and colleges must stock their restrooms with free menstrual products under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, Friday, Oct. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
"Starting next year (2022-2023), products will be available in all restrooms (male, female and all-gender) in every PPS building where education occurs," the statement read.
"To ensure timely compliance, PPS ordered 500 dispensers. Dispensers have been installed in all elementary and middle school girls' restrooms, and more will be installed in all remaining bathrooms, including boys' restrooms, next year.
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"Instructions on how to use tampons and pads will be posted in all bathrooms," the source added.
La declaración también subrayaba la necesidad de que los alumnos aprendan sobre el crecimiento y el desarrollo, señalaba que algunos cursos de educación física están aplicando lecciones sobre "los cuatro pilares de la Dignidad Menstrual" y animaba a los padres a mantener conversaciones similares con sus hijos para ayudar a reducir la "vergüenza y el estigma" que rodean a la menstruación.
El Departamento de Educación de Oregón también redobló la apuesta por el controvertido contenido publicando en marzo un conjunto de herramientas titulado "Dignidad menstrual para los estudiantes", con instrucciones sobre cómo utilizar productos menstruales, segmentos sobre formación del profesorado y del personal, instrucción en el aula y consejos para un lenguaje "positivo para la menstruación" dirigido a las familias.
El conjunto de herramientas también hacía hincapié en la necesidad de disponer de productos menstruales en todos los cuartos de baño, porque la falta de acceso afecta desproporcionadamente a "estudiantes de color, estudiantes con discapacidades y estudiantes en situación de pobreza."
"Es importante destacar que [la Ley de Dignidad Menstrual] afirma el derecho a la dignidad menstrual de los estudiantes transexuales, intersexuales, no binarios y de dos espíritus, abordando los retos que algunos estudiantes tienen al gestionar la menstruación, minimizando al mismo tiempo la atención negativa que podría ponerlos en riesgo de sufrir daños y navegando por experiencias de disforia de género durante la menstruación", decía un segmento de la introducción.
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"Research also connects gender-affirming bathroom access to supporting student safety at school," the toolkit said.
Republicans outraged by the bill spoke out on the measure. Gubernatorial candidate Bridget Barton slammed Brown for the policy, as well as her stance on abortion, in a statement to Fox News Digital.
"Radical leftist woke policies are destroying Oregon from our streets to our businesses to our schools. But as a mom, a new grandmother, and a Republican candidate for Oregon governor, I can't believe we're even discussing this -- America's most unpopular governor, Kate Brown, is putting free tampons in the boys bathrooms of Oregon's elementary schools.
"Clearly Brown cares more about what's going on in the bathrooms than what's going on in the classrooms," she said.
Barton noted another policy flaw among the state's education system, saying that Oregon's students rank 46th in the nation in reading and math after Brown revoked allegedly "racist" academic requirements.
"We’re at the bottom of the barrel and the career politicians spend our taxpayer money on tampons for little boys," she said. "I'm respectful of all, but it's fair to let little boys be little boys, and little girls be little girls. Instead, leftist education bureaucrats are pushing this radical nonsense, spending precious class time coming between Oregon parents and their kids, creating activist factories instead of strong community schools.
"Oregon's kids deserve so much better from their schools; right now Oregon's public schools don't deserve our kids."
Barton said she is running to "put a stop" to these leftist policies and to better education in her state.
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