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The Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) just awarded a Menstrual Equity Grant to the Diaper Bank of Connecticut (DBCT) in the amount of $1.95 million over the next two years to help supply eligible public schools with period products.
Connecticut's Menstrual Equity Law was passed in 2022 (Public Act No. 22-118) as part of the massive, 739-page budget (H.B. 5506), but compliance isn't officially required until September 1st, 2024, just in time for returning students this fall.
The Menstrual Equity Law requires boards of education in the state to provide free menstrual products in "women's restrooms, all-gender restrooms and at least one men's restroom" and to ensure that those products are accessible to students in grades 3-12 in each school in the district so that no students are "stigmatized" when seeking such products.
The state created a set of guidance materials to support implementation at the school level, including toolkits and links to plenty of information about achieving menstrual equity from progressive third parties like Planned Parenthood, and from other states that have implemented Menstrual Equity laws, like Oregon and California.
The guidance materials embrace Marxist gender ideology... for instance recommending the use of "gender-affirming language" that favors trans people at the expense of biological girls, and claiming that "people of different genders menstruate".
Connecticut DPH also recommends using information from "PERIOD." which is a group of activists struggling to make systemic changes to bring an end to period poverty for "people who menstruate."
PERIOD. provides educational resources steeped in critical race theory for "menstruators and allies" who want "to explore intersectional approaches to menstrual equity"... just want Connecticut needs, more Marxism.
Coincidentally, PERIOD. presented at the 2024 Connecticut Menstrual Equity Summit on July 25th along with representatives from The Diaper Bank of Connecticut, CT DPH, The Association of School Nurses of Connecticut, PeerPride, Trans Haven, and Connecticut State Representatives Kate Farrar and Bobby Gibson.
One of the presenters addressed the question of why menstrual products need to be in boys restrooms.
"Hygiene products need to be available to everybody who needs them, and in every possible location that it's possible to access them," said Kirill Staklo, the Program Director for PeerPride and Trans Haven, and also a staunch believer in menstrual equity.
"The existence" of "transgender boys and non-binary children who menstruate" should not be debatable, according to Staklo who believes that people "of all genders" might need menstrual products... even in the third-grade boy's bathroom.
Staklo further called for punitive measures to be put into place for any school that is not in compliance with the Menstrual Equity Law, and suggested doing an audit of schools and grading them on how welcome they were to transgender students.
A menstrual equity audit of all schools in Connecticut?
Well, if it comes to that, be sure to thank the Connecticut state senators and representatives who voted in favor of this legislation.
