Amherst College offers free menstrual products for ‘students who menstruate’
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Next up: free or reduced price ‘condoms, dental dams, lube, cold-care kits’.
Student leaders at Amherst College are eager to avoid perpetuating the harmful stereotype that only women menstruate.
They’re rolling out a pilot program, presumably funded by mandatory student fees, that provides “tampons and pads, among other things” in women’s and gender-neutral restrooms in a campus library, The Amherst Student reports.
The program is for “students who menstruate,” who unlike “students who don’t menstruate” have to bear the cost of feminine hygiene products, according to Amanda Vann, director of health education.
Indeed, the only mention of “women” in the news article and an accompanying op-ed is the women’s restrooms and the campus Women’s and Gender Center, which already provides free menstrual products.
The Association of Amherst Students agreed to fund the program at the request of the Reproductive Justice Alliance, an intersectional abortion-rights group. The president of the student government, Silvia Sotolongo, is an RJA member.
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