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Blue and red states were putting period products in schools — then came the anti-trans backlash
Shiwali Patel, the director of safe and inclusive schools at the National Women’s Law Center, who has focused on issues affecting LGBTQ+ students, said these arguments are disingenuous. “They frame it as needing to protect women and girls and really weaponizing the language of sex discrimination to justify discrimination — really turning the intent of civil rights protections against sex discrimination on its head to target an already-vulnerable and marginalized group of people,” she said.
