Free period products in the men's toilet

[Lizardonachair]

My government (not UK) has decided to roll out free period products and they are putting them in the men's toilets as well as the women's. I am absolutely furious. This means that men are welcome in our toilets. I just needed a space to vent where I am not called a bigot, I know there is nothing I can do.

🤪Oh Ffs, it's really not the point but a pp said that putting sanitary bins in the men's could mean the company had to pay extra to maintain them. I pointed out (correctly!) that not all countries use sanitary disposal bins. The OP is not in the UK either. I don't need anyone else to explain why the UK uses sanitary bins. I know. Not all countries use them. Maybe you think they should but frankly I don't care. Hope that clears it up for the pedants.

But as pp have said, plenty of other countries disagree with you and they are disposed of as normal waste. Since we don't seem to hear of any issues with this, your point is rather seriously undermined.

Since we don't seem to hear of any issues with this, your point is rather seriously undermined

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

You seem to suggest that the UK and similar countries needlessly require that used bloodied items are treated as hazardous waste, at significant expense, rather than because of good evidence that these things should be dealt with safely.

There are many places in the world where many things are done differently than they are here, for example it may be standard practice to defecate in the open fields. Just because we don’t hear much, if anything, bad about it, doesn’t mean it’s not unwise.

No, I'm saying I have lived in the UK, where it is done, and lived in countries where it is not. I've even worked in facilities management in the latter.

If there were regular outbreaks of...something (who knows what you are imagining?) I think I would know about it. You could explain to us the dangers of not having sanitary bins, if you'd like?

Given that some of those countries don't flush used loo paper, so bins are emptied very regularly and toilets often have attendants, it's all a bit different anyway.

I do call myself Grammarnut, true. Not being pedantic, though. Point of thread is men in women's public lavatories. I don't think sanitary products in men's loos are likely to suggest men can use the ladies, but TWs will take any rope.

No I think I would cautiously agree with this. If you needed one & the Ladies had run out, I could ask a male friend to get me one.
Of course in practice I suspect the men would, especially if drunk, soil the products so it would become irrelevant.

Before this, did women used to get free sanitary products?

I never knew this. Do other countries just have bins and those bags you get in hotels?

Is it me or do a lot of recent threads seem to have been started by covert TRAs?

I'm.sick of this madness.

If it's to encourage men to be able to buy the products for women when they can't get to the toilets? Then I guess it's fine. If it's for the tiny minority of people who are transmen and have periods then that in itself is helpful to some people. I don't think it means men are more likely to enter women's spaces?

I’m confused. Do some trans people wear sanitary towels just because they want to feel like a woman?? Or is this just for show?
I really don’t get it.

I do wonder if women started invading men's spaces, using men's toilets en masse with few mooncup slippages and they'd be up in arms about it.

The world's gone fucking mad. I'm
a big supporter of inclusion but fgs.

THIS THREAD IS A YEAR OLD.

It's so people presenting as men who were born female and still menstruate can access period products in their own toilets.

Men presenting as women would still want to/be able to use the women's toilet, for reasons unrelated to menstruation.

Then they should. Blood is dangerous and can cause all manner of ailments. The UK policy is to prevent disease and other countries would benefit from following it.