The Tampon Tax has been allocated for this year

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BadPennyNoBiscuit · 28/03/2019 10:04

Very few women only charities on the list.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/28/victims-grooming-gangs-benefit-tampon-tax-disbursement?fbclid=IwAR2dwI0Ogdk8k10_P7vy1G2x3eHN6__g-NKaZarV24lAbFwt8Eya_d3Kb8Q

www.thirdsector.co.uk/dcms-announces-charities-share-15m-latest-tampon-tax-fund-round/finance/article/1580379

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OVAgroundWOMBlingfree · 28/03/2019 19:49

Is there anything more hateful than taxing menstruators for menstruating but insisting that the tax be used to benefit ejaculators or else?

This all day long.

EverardDigby · 28/03/2019 16:06

I was a bit WTF when they first announced it, using women's tax to clear up the mess caused by men - SV / DV etc., but I guess that's worse than the money actually going to men.

Barracker · 28/03/2019 15:16

Is there anything more hateful than taxing menstruators for menstruating but insisting that the tax be used to benefit ejaculators or else?

EverardDigby · 28/03/2019 14:41

Neither of the applications I have seen for Tampon Tax funding made you state that you were trans-inclusive, one didn't mention it, and the other had a category for female that included transwomen but didn't ask for a breakdown of transwomen versus women for expected beneficiaries . It also said that a small amount of funding could go to men and boys and transmen.

Ereshkigal · 28/03/2019 12:14

Male people should not be getting a penny. Imagine the outcry if trans specific funding got diverted to a women's group.

SonicVersusGynaephobia · 28/03/2019 11:51

It was the Government's policy Ereshkigal, but I can't remember if it was the Scottish Gov or the UK Gov.

Hopefully one of the other Scottish MNers who were at the meeting will see the thread and remember. A woman stood up and said that she was involved with a period poverty charity and had applied for TT funding from the Gov and was told she was not allowed to be trans-inclusive of transmen, had to be transwomen. I think the funding came from the UK Gov via the Scottish Gov (and Scotland got a disproportionately low amount).

Ereshkigal · 28/03/2019 11:13

What bullshit. Who has decreed that?

SonicVersusGynaephobia · 28/03/2019 11:11

If I remember correctly from the For Women Scotland meeting in January, in order to apply for the funding from the Tampon Tax the group had to state they were "trans-inclusive", and it wasn't acceptable to say that you were inclusive of transmen and non-binary people (ie, the actual people who need tampons and sanitary pads).

jay55 · 28/03/2019 10:52

Why would comic relief get a cut? Surely that is a way to hide how the money is being distributed.

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