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National Trust & tampons

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oncemoreuntothebeachdearfriends · 10/10/2025 17:37

NT have made free tampons available in the gents' toilets in a castle in the Lake District. Not unisex toilets, but actual gents.

Not just any tampons, but vegan tampons (WTF are they?).
And they're also available in the ladies.

YABU They are demonstrating what a kind, caring organisation they are, & covering their arses.

YANBU They are bonkers, tossers... add your own words.

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DustlandFairytaleBeginning · 10/10/2025 19:08

My cousin is using gender neutral pronouns and taking testosterone. I have no idea what toilets they use. I don't think any guy cares what toilet they use. I may not understand how they feel but they are an awesome person. You are spreading hate about something that doesn't affect you in any way. Why?

Allswellthatendswelll · 10/10/2025 19:07

Omg I literally saw this headline and thought it was a spoof. Who cares?!

TequilaNights · 10/10/2025 19:06

I cant get angry over someone getting free period products if they need them.

Be that a man for him friend/partner or a trans person.

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MousseMousse · 10/10/2025 19:05

Nsky62 · 10/10/2025 17:58

Unimportant, most of us have more important things to worry about

This 100%

GasperyJacquesRoberts · 10/10/2025 19:05

I'm sure that forcing GC women to accept transmen male-presenting women into women's toilets will cause no problems whatsoever.

limescale · 10/10/2025 19:04

notthatoldchestnut · 10/10/2025 18:56

Trans men should not be in the gents toilets. They are female and therefore should be using the female or unisex toilets. Appropriate sanitary items can be found there.

men deserve dignity too and there shouldn’t be women in their single sex space.

I do feel for my son’s friend who is a trans man. I met him at 14 and thought he was a smaller lad who hadn’t yet gone through puberty. He is now mid 20s. I had no idea he was born female. He would attract way more attention and be more likely to be asked to leave the Ladies if he went in them.
I don’t know what the answer is (availability of any-gender loos?) but for some people the ruling has changed their life.

Poppins2016 · 10/10/2025 19:04

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I also go to NT places frequently. I've seen free san pro in about 25% of NT locations that I frequently visit (South).

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oncemoreuntothebeachdearfriends · 10/10/2025 19:04

Catsknowbest · 10/10/2025 19:02

Sorry but....even if this is real....who cares!?

It's real, & why are you bothering to read & post if you don't care ?

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ObliviousCoalmine · 10/10/2025 19:03

My god why does this matter to you.

Sunflower2461 · 10/10/2025 19:02

Why is everyone taking the OPs word for this? Even if it is true it is highly likely to be due to someone planting them there and there is no official statement by the NT about this.

Catsknowbest · 10/10/2025 19:02

Sorry but....even if this is real....who cares!?

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 10/10/2025 19:01

Transmen are much safer in the Gents. If you consider transmen to be women, and you care about women’s safety, you should support them using the Gents.

You're not serious.
Women are always safer in the ladies.
It's academic anyway. The Supreme Court has ruled that people must use the facilities which align with their biological sex.

Bagsintheboot · 10/10/2025 19:01

seaelephant · 10/10/2025 18:22

I blame the small boats and Meghan Markle

Don't be silly, it's obviously all the single mothers on UC who are to blame!

Saucery · 10/10/2025 19:00

Gives no excuse for men cosplaying as women to go in the Female toilet I suppose. No need to go in there on the pretext of ‘needing to borrow a tampon’ guys, there are some in the Male toilets.
Wonder what Charlie the Sizergh Garden Cat thinks of it all?

ERthree · 10/10/2025 18:59

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BauhausOfEliott · 10/10/2025 18:59

Bobiverse · 10/10/2025 18:37

A trans man should, by law, be in the women’s toilets.

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Where they will get shouted at and verbally abused - possibly physically abused - by women who don’t want to share facilities with someone who has a shaved head, a full beard and a bulge in their pants.

Trans men are much safer in the Gents. If you consider trans men to be women, and you care about women’s safety, you should support them using the Gents.

NapoleonsToe · 10/10/2025 18:59

GameWheelsAlarm · 10/10/2025 18:35

It does not do you any harm. It doesn't do anyone else any harm either. No harm is caused by anyone of either sex using the gents. No harm is caused by making the gents a welcoming place for anyone who wants to use it.

The SC ruling was clear that single sex toilets are exactly that, single sex.

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 10/10/2025 18:58

LemonJellyLegs · 10/10/2025 18:57

That means trans men can have a tampon. No? At least they are using their correct pretend gender

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Transmen have to use the ladies.

GarlicPound · 10/10/2025 18:58

seaelephant · 10/10/2025 18:22

I blame the small boats and Meghan Markle

😂😂

Orangepate · 10/10/2025 18:58

It’s an advertising stunt, and it’s the NT, of course they’re going to push the lack of plastics etc.

GirlonaCloud · 10/10/2025 18:58

LemonJellyLegs · 10/10/2025 18:57

That means trans men can have a tampon. No? At least they are using their correct pretend gender

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A trans man is supposed to use the women's loos as they are a biological female.

GirlonaCloud · 10/10/2025 18:57

oncemoreuntothebeachdearfriends · 10/10/2025 17:37

NT have made free tampons available in the gents' toilets in a castle in the Lake District. Not unisex toilets, but actual gents.

Not just any tampons, but vegan tampons (WTF are they?).
And they're also available in the ladies.

YABU They are demonstrating what a kind, caring organisation they are, & covering their arses.

YANBU They are bonkers, tossers... add your own words.

Have you been told this by a man using them the gents?
If I were you I'd write to the CEO of the NT and ask a lot of questions.

LemonJellyLegs · 10/10/2025 18:57

oncemoreuntothebeachdearfriends · 10/10/2025 17:37

NT have made free tampons available in the gents' toilets in a castle in the Lake District. Not unisex toilets, but actual gents.

Not just any tampons, but vegan tampons (WTF are they?).
And they're also available in the ladies.

YABU They are demonstrating what a kind, caring organisation they are, & covering their arses.

YANBU They are bonkers, tossers... add your own words.

That means trans men can have a tampon. No? At least they are using their correct pretend gender

notthatoldchestnut · 10/10/2025 18:56

Trans men should not be in the gents toilets. They are female and therefore should be using the female or unisex toilets. Appropriate sanitary items can be found there.

men deserve dignity too and there shouldn’t be women in their single sex space.

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