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Feminine label on Tampons not inclusive

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MsGreying · 10/07/2026 11:23

https://www.telegraph.co.uk./news/2026/07/10/waitrose-rebrands-feminine-care-products-after-complaint/

Waitrose drops ‘feminine’ label from tampons after trans complaint
Waitrose has dropped the word “feminine” from its sanitary products after receiving a complaint that it was not inclusive of transgender people.

Period products will no longer be marketed to females following an internal complaint that said “not all people who have periods are women”.

In the document, the complainant wrote:
(Just one?!)

A spokesman for Waitrose said the term “feminine products” was changing because the range now included incontinence products for men.

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Minasama · 10/07/2026 12:10

I feel that there just might be more important things to worry about?

Although if this has been done after a trans complaint this irks me since I don’t see why anything that affects me as a woman has to change because someone else wants to become a woman then doesn’t like it.

MyThreeWords · 10/07/2026 12:06

I think they should call them blood plugs.

itchyelbowsandswollenankles · 10/07/2026 12:05

UnaOfStormhold · 10/07/2026 11:51

I have to say I've always hated the coy label "feminine products". It makes it sound like I need something pink and scented to help me mince through the fields in a floaty dress (or possibly rollerblade in white trousers). Dealing with one of the annoying consequences of being a woman with a functioning reproductive system has nothing to do with the stereotypes of femininity. "Feminine hygiene" is even worse as it suggests this basic biology is somehow unhygienic. For once the alternative term, period products, is actually an improvement. Can't imagine why my complaints to this effect haven't been taken this seriously...

Agree. They’re menstrual products or just call them by what they are

MyThreeWords · 10/07/2026 12:04

Dropping the word 'feminine' is fine by me. 'Feminine' does actually mean what the trans lobby would like 'female' and 'woman' to mean. It relates to a gendered performance, not to sex. I've never been 'feminine' (at least I've striven to avoid it!) but I still needed something to mop up my menstrual blood.

Trans men and butch lesbians can feel happier buying tampons if that nasty Barbie word is dropped. And perhaps it will also make tampons less appealing to the transwomen who mistake 'feminine' for a sex.

GreyskySexRealistsky · 10/07/2026 12:03

I totally agree @UnaOfStormhold . Feminine products/feminine hygiene - ugh, so coy and giggly and blushing! Like a proper demure laydee! Perhaps that's why some TRAs have a tampon fascination.

Much prefer the term period products. That's what they're made for. The end.

UnaOfStormhold · 10/07/2026 11:51

I have to say I've always hated the coy label "feminine products". It makes it sound like I need something pink and scented to help me mince through the fields in a floaty dress (or possibly rollerblade in white trousers). Dealing with one of the annoying consequences of being a woman with a functioning reproductive system has nothing to do with the stereotypes of femininity. "Feminine hygiene" is even worse as it suggests this basic biology is somehow unhygienic. For once the alternative term, period products, is actually an improvement. Can't imagine why my complaints to this effect haven't been taken this seriously...

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