By July the district of Saanich will provide free period products in all of its almost 300 washrooms, but not everyone supports the idea.
Menstruation products will be available in all Saanich bathrooms by July.
For Saanich council, putting period products in all of its almost 300 public washrooms is a no-brainer. “If anyone who has the experience of not having toilet paper in a stall, that’s not an experience you want to have,” said Teale Phelps Bondaroff, a Saanich councillor and former chair of Access BC, a group that campaigned to remove barriers to accessing prescription contraception in B.C.Free menstrual products are available now at Saanich district hall, then rolling out in all Saanich parks and recreation facilities by the end of June.
The addition of menstruation products into all Saanich washrooms was an effort to make men’s washrooms more inclusive to transgender or transitioning men, reduce what can be a costly barrier for some, but also to destigmatize the products used by roughly half the population. “There’s so much stigma and taboo around menstruation in our society. And there shouldn’t be,” said Phelps Bondaroff. “The fact that men see them, it normalizes it. There was one person commenting what if kids in hockey rinks play with them? I’d rather kids play with them than not know what a period is.”
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