9 out of 10 girls fear period shaming at school

My school had the rule about not going to the toilet in lessons so in the week or so leading up to my period I would wear San pro just in case. If bodyform wanted to sell more products they would encourage this if anything.

Even the ones which are sex segregated cubicles but mixed sex sinks are in my view very unpleasant for girls. I simply don't understand how anyone could think it's acceptable. Teenagers and teenage periods are unpredictable things and it's really easy to leak, flood, get blood in unexpected places, forget your pad or tampon, forget it's coming, think it's over when it isn't, need to wash out edges of skirts or shirts, get blood under your nails and so on. Walking out into whatbis essentially a public area to wash off blood in front of boys, that a very cruel thing to make a girl do. Very cruel.

GoldenMcOldie I would encourage someone to flush a few pads down the toilets. Or maybe leave a few soaked in beetroot juice in a strategic place.

If the school too faces the consequence and not just the girls, I am sure thngs will change.

Nothing wrong with a bit of civil disobedience.

Quite, Flowerpot.

I don't see what Bodyform's agenda could be.

Their findings will hardly influence the number of sanitary products required.

Maybe their agenda is an interest in girls, women and their periods. Things a lot of people don't seem to give a shit about.

I was merely pointing out that this wasn't a survey created in a vacuum.
So what is your acceptable number Bitter? Even if not 9 out of 10 girls, and a mere 4 out of 10 girls - surely that is still a big problem, as has been outlined and acknowledged here already?

I actually don't have any trouble believing a number like 9 out of 10.

At my DDs primary school they don't have sanitary bins in the stalls. They refuse to acknowledge that girls of 10 have periods and need to dispose of sanitary products in private.

Makes me very angry.

AverageWoman - I wholeheartedly (sp?) agree with all of your points, Biology matters and we need sex segregated spaces - which I fear will have to be rebranded as 'Penis free zones' if self ID becomes the law.

I was merely pointing out that this wasn't a survey created in a vacuum.

BitterAndTwistedChoreDodger:

Just keep female and male toilet facilities etc. separate, that's all it takes. Also, women's representation shortlists.

And keep female and male undressing, showering and sleeping arrangements separated, for the protection of girls, young women and women. Keep them safe from the assessed risk of male violence.

Worth noting that this survey was sponsored by Bodyform.

I'm not detracting from any of the very valid arguments that posters are making, just saying it is worth noting who sponsored the survey, and asking if they have any agenda to push at all...

I went to an all girls school so didnt know any of that. Shocking.

Women know that girls feel like this. It's men who don't

Yes. I remember those hellish days well. My first half of high school was in a mixed-sex school, the latter half at an all-girls' school. The difference was world's apart, as far as worrying about period accidents - no biggie at the all-girls' school.

Every single cycle, and sometimes in-between, was stressful at the mixed-sex school. Erratic cycles, heavy bleeding, and stuck in classes.

Teenaged girls need their own female-only toilets.

Or maybe sabotaging girls' education is part of the TRA agenda?

Women know that girls feel like this. It's men who don't - and look at who is pushing for mixed sex toilets!

I'm surprised it is only 9 out of 10. I would have expected 10 out of 10 in mixed sex schools.

This alone is reason enough to insist on single sex toilets, otherwise girls miss out on education.

It's a fucking joke.

It really is.