Yes, Tim Walz signed a law requiring Minnesota public schools to provide free tampons in school bathrooms
While the vast majority of the period products will be used in the girls’ bathrooms, the decision was made to structure the bill as gender-inclusive in order to ensure that trans and nonbinary students who menstruate would have equal access to the products they need,” Feist said.
Some Republican lawmakers in Minnesota pushed back against the legislation and attempted to amend the bill to apply only to girls’ bathrooms, but the amendment failed. The final bill passed 35-32 before Walz signed it into law on May 24, 2023.
The bill’s sponsor said “the vast majority” of the period products will be used in girls’ bathrooms but the law’s text is gender-neutral to accommodate all students.
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