Bass Lake Unified just bought tampon dispensers for their boys' bathrooms

BASS LAKE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Bass Lake Unified School District conscionable bought tampon dispensers for their boys' bathrooms.

Board subordinate Michelle Townsend says the determination volition rectify the territory from being "out of compliance."

"It's the law. It went into effect successful 2023. We've been retired of compliance for respective years. If we didn't person it, we would've been docked for that," she said during Wednesday's schoolhouse committee meeting.

The instrumentality she was referencing: California State Assembly Bill 367, which "promotes sex equity for girls, women, and transgender and non-binary people and helps guarantee their health, safety, and dignity," according to the ACLU.

To beforehand this equity, each schoolhouse tract is required to person 1 boy's bath with a pistillate hygiene dispenser.

The caller machines outgo the territory a full of $3,700.