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Publication: The Retriever Weekly, , University of Maryland - Baltimore County , Baltimore, MD
The University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s Student Government Association plans to launch a free menstrual product pilot in the spring 2021 semester, which will place dispensaries in the gender-neutral bathrooms of three to five residential halls and will distribute 500 pads and 500 tampons across the dispensaries.
“After speaking to Dr. Jess Myers [director of the Women‘s Center], she told me that not only women get periods. That really stuck to me. [That‘s] the main reason why we want to achieve this [goal] in gender-neutral restrooms,” said senior biology and psychology major and SGA Speaker of the Senate Kai Hajos.
The menstrual products and dispensaries will come from Aunt Flow, a third party seller that specializes in selling menstrual products in bulk to schools and...