Maine seeks to require tampons in boys’ bathrooms because lib lawmakers still have control

Democratic Party disconnect continued in Maine as “out of touch” legislators sought to expand their gender ideology fight to the boys’ bathrooms.

Weeks after Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) was called out to her face by President Donald Trump and as funding was cut to the state’s universities over refusing to comply with Title IX protections for female athletes, lawmakers have remained unrelenting in attempts to advance alphabet activism.

Now, having failed to pass similar legislation last year, a bill was introduced this session that would “require” all restrooms in government-run schools throughout the state with students in grades 6-12to  make feminine hygiene products available, impacting kids as young as 11 years old.

Presented by Maine state Rep. Kristen Cloutier (D), the proposed bill read, “A school administrative unit shall require its schools that serve students in any of grades 6 to 12 to make available menstrual products to students at no cost in all school bathrooms. For purposes of this section, ‘menstrual products’ means tampons and sanitary pads used with respect to menstruation.”

“This is really quite clearly a pattern that reveals where the legislative Democrats’ priorities are,” asserted state Rep. Rachel Henderson (R) to Fox News Digital. “It just kind of shows how out of touch the legislative Democrats here in Maine are when their priorities are paying for tampons in boys’ bathrooms rather than ensuring that we have any type of balanced budget.”

In addition to the ridicule faced by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), who’s been dubbed “Tampon Tim” on the campaign trail with now-former Vice President Kamala Harris, Maine was already facing consequences for continuing to allow men to compete in women’s sports despite Trump’s executive order on Title IX.

As a result, funding had been cut from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to the University of Maine System, prompting an investigation and a halt on authorization of payments to universities in the state. Meanwhile, the state House has censured Rep. Laurel Libby (R) for calling out that the winner of the girls’ state pole vault competition at a Cumberland school was a boy.

“Maine is ground zero for these types of policies,” Assistant House Minority Leader Katrina Smith (R) told Fox News Digital. “They think that, because they have the majority in every body, that they can push through anything they want, and anything they want usually costs taxpayers money as well, which this would.”

Henderson compared this new fight to the state’s budget battle wherein Democrats were said to have “usurp[ed] Republican authority” to attain their goals without a needed two-thirds majority, resulting in delayed funding for state Medicaid.

Of course, not all Democrats in Maine were in favor of the legislation as U.S. Rep. James Golden, the sole dissenter from the party who voted for the continuing resolution to fund the government through September, voiced his opposition.

“Although some in the news business fail to understand the difference between Capitol Hill and Augusta, Congressman Golden is of the opinion that boys shouldn’t compete in girls’ sports, menstrual products shouldn’t be in boys’ bathrooms, and members of Congress shouldn’t stick their noses into state legislative debates,” a spokesperson for the lawmaker told the Daily Caller News Foundation when he’d been asked about the bill.

Staff Writer

Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn’t researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.

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