Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reportedly made good\u00a0in the week leading up to Christmas on his May 2023 promise to install dispensers for feminine hygiene products in men\u2019s bathrooms. Former Canadian Senator Linda Frum fumed that Canadian taxpayers were being forced to support transgender ideology:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Back in the day, when only women menstruated we had to pay for our own products. But now that men menstruate too, these products, as of this week, are mandated to be free in all Men\u2019s washrooms in all federal workplaces including Parliament Hill \u2014where this photo was taken today. pic.twitter.com\/YuIXVZnqH9
\u2014 Linda Frum (@LindaFrum) December 12, 2023
The New York Post (NYP) on Tuesday corroborated Frum\u2019s tampon sighting with a post from someone who presented themselves as a staffer in the House of Commons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey\u2019re also going to build dispensers for all the tampons which won\u2019t be used since 1) men don\u2019t menstruate and 2) they are just going to bring them home to their wives for free,\u201d the putative parliamentary staffer pointed out. The cost of showering the men\u2019s rooms in Parliament with ladies\u2019 products might not be too bad, but the Canadian Labor Code now stipulates that all \u201cfemale-identified, male-identified, and all-gender toilet rooms will need to have menstrual products.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The requirement will eventually fall upon private sector potties as an unfunded mandate, the favored political instrument of Western authoritarians. Critics slammed the regulation as an effort to eliminate masculinity and femininity, noting that the regulations managed to stuff every bathroom with tampons without referring to either men or women \u2013 it refers to tampon users as \u201cmenstruating employees.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The UK Daily Mail on Monday reported the mania for women\u2019s sanitary products in men\u2019s bathrooms began with a push to make toilets more \u201cinclusive\u201d and reduce the \u201cstigma often associated with menstruation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Activists argued it was unfair to expect \u201cmenstruating employees\u201d to bring their own products to work, portraying them as overcome with insecurity and anxiety because they might have to take time away from work or school to purchase them in emergencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This quickly became a demand for tampons to be made available to people who imagine they are menstruating because their periods are every bit as real as any woman\u2019s period, period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNot only women or those who identify as women menstruate. Trans men, gender non-conforming and two-spirit folks menstruate as well, and everyone who menstruates deserves to menstruate with dignity,\u201d insisted activist Rachel Ettinger, who launched the push for menstrual products in all bathrooms in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Toronto Sun columnist Brian Lilley wrote a much-quoted column in mid-December in which he noted the cost of this \u201cman-pon\u201d crusade went far beyond simply putting a few baskets of feminine hygiene products in men\u2019s rooms:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everyone who has worked in, with or near the federal civil service in Ottawa knows that there is now a whole section in every department seized with this issue. They will have meetings, develop plans, write reports and only deal with this issue. Even in departments dealing with pressing issues that matter to Canadians \u2013 like housing \u2013 there is a group of people solely devoted to ensuring man-pons are in place. It\u2019s outrageous, but par for the course with the federal civil service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We have an affordability crisis in this country. Food is more expensive than ever, rent and mortgage payments have doubled, if not worse, but our federal government\u2019s priorities lay elsewhere,\u201d Lilley observed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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