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ArabeIIaScott · 27/05/2023 12:16

They call us pupils
they call us students
they call us young people
they call us 13-18-year-olds
they call us learners

That's not my name.
That's not my name.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-65695115

Article on period products works very hard to avoid using the word 'girls'.

Photo shows Tilly, she has blonde hair and a white jumper. She is smiling.

'No pads at school, so my period leaked on exam chair'

Some pupils are struggling to access period products in schools, data shared with BBC News suggests.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-65695115

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continentallentil · 27/05/2023 13:40

WorkinMumsince4ever · 27/05/2023 13:11

Who edits this work should be ashamed! They don’t even dare to say “girl’s toilets”.

“In some schools and colleges, the Period Products Scheme is working well.
At Harlow College, in Essex, a tote bag filled with pads and tampons hangs on the back of unisex toilet cubicle doors.”

What’s the fact that the school has unisex toilets got to do with the journalist?!

If the are unisex toilets it wouldn’t be correct to call them girls’. The journalist is including the fact that they are unisex specifically because this is part of the problem, otherwise you’d just write toilets.

continentallentil · 27/05/2023 13:38

A recent survey of 1,007 13-18-year-old girls, by period-equality charity IRise International, suggests:

They do use girls here. Admittedly they use it less often than they might, but referring to them as pupils in the school context is fair enough, it’s the fact they are pupils dictated to by school rules that is causing problems.

AnarchoTyrannosaurus · 27/05/2023 13:17

WorkinMumsince4ever · 27/05/2023 13:11

Who edits this work should be ashamed! They don’t even dare to say “girl’s toilets”.

“In some schools and colleges, the Period Products Scheme is working well.
At Harlow College, in Essex, a tote bag filled with pads and tampons hangs on the back of unisex toilet cubicle doors.”

I would not want to touch pads and tampons that had been left in a mixed sex toilet.

WorkinMumsince4ever · 27/05/2023 13:11

Who edits this work should be ashamed! They don’t even dare to say “girl’s toilets”.

“In some schools and colleges, the Period Products Scheme is working well.
At Harlow College, in Essex, a tote bag filled with pads and tampons hangs on the back of unisex toilet cubicle doors.”

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