Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As anti-transgender rhetoric has picked up momentum in state chambers, period poverty bills have been caught in the crosshairs.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Barbara Gibson for The 19th This post originally appeared on The 19th. For close to a decade, periods — yes, menstrual periods — ...

Blue and red states were putting period products in schools—then came the anti-trans backlash A custom illustration showing a collage of a school, period products and figures relevant to the issue.

That, too, is an issue of education, Strausfeld said. Period product access is an economic issue, and many legislators don’t understand the realities of trans and nonbinary people, who already ...

As a result, Black and Brown trans and nonbinary students, who are at the intersection of racial and gender disparities, face period poverty most acutely, said Lee of the Equality Federation. Not only ...