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Tampons In Men’s Rooms Ignite Annapolis Bathroom Showdown
Hoodline ^ | March 2026 | Kevin Harris

Posted on 03/26/2026 6:18:14 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

A Maryland House bill that would require tampons and other menstrual-hygiene products in both men’s and women’s bathrooms in public buildings has set off a fresh round of argument in Annapolis. Backers are pitching it as an issue of access and dignity for people who menstruate, while critics say the whole thing is unnecessary and potentially pricey to pull off.

(Excerpt) Read more at hoodline.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: bathrooms; maryland; tampons; triggeredbycotton
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Imagine the revised lyrics of an all-time baseball classic:

Buy me some peanuts and tampons...

1 posted on 03/26/2026 6:18:14 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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Yeah, middle school boys will be clogging toilets flushing those. There are layers and layers and layers of stupidity here by these virtue-signalling Dem legislators.


2 posted on 03/26/2026 6:22:05 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: ConservativeStatement; hellinahandcart

I hate this state.


3 posted on 03/26/2026 6:25:23 AM PDT by sauropod
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To: ConservativeStatement

If I was a schoolboy and saw that stuff in the Boy’s Room I just take the stuff out of the machine and throw it all around.


4 posted on 03/26/2026 6:26:18 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: sauropod

When I first saw the headline I thought it was referring to the Naval Academy.


5 posted on 03/26/2026 6:28:31 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Any mens restroom I am in with tampons, flushing them all down the toilets...


6 posted on 03/26/2026 6:30:03 AM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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To: ConservativeStatement

People who menstruate?.....

We are suppose to say people who menstruate, rather than women who are menstruating.

In today’s politically correct world, it is a crime against humanity to suggest that it is women and only women who menstruate.

We must bend over backwards to avoid offending the sensibilities of the one in a million so called trans, a woman who identifies as a male because she could menstruate, but then she identifies as a male, so we can’t say that only women menstruate.


7 posted on 03/26/2026 6:34:58 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ConservativeStatement

“...for people who menstruate...”

That is female, always have, always will. These fools.

I read a medical report the other day, and it mentioned “people with breasts.”

When a culture can be cowed into adopting that kind of language it only shows that that culture has been completely taken over and people will accept anything and everything and the joyful acceptance of complete enslavement is not far off.


8 posted on 03/26/2026 6:35:36 AM PDT by odawg
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To: ConservativeStatement

guess it’s been confirmed...

maryland guys are all a bit light in the loafers


9 posted on 03/26/2026 6:35:38 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: ConservativeStatement

How did we become stuck on stupid on so many issues? These Reps are not doing us justice. Garbage like this proves that our votes are meaningless....and there are too many sheep in the pasteur. They need a good dog to keep them in line...and there is none.


10 posted on 03/26/2026 6:39:54 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: sauropod

I left 11 and a half years ago and don’t miss it. Come to Florida. You’ll be happier.


11 posted on 03/26/2026 6:41:09 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: odawg

And these people also talk about “birthing persons” and “pregnant people”. In this liberal newspeak, it is verboten to speak in a way that would suggest that only women can become pregnant. We are compelled to modify our language.So talking about pregnant people,for example, we’re not saying that only women are pregnant.

God help anyone who happens to mention something about pregnant women in today’s climate.


12 posted on 03/26/2026 6:41:11 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ConservativeStatement

These people are crazy!


13 posted on 03/26/2026 6:41:18 AM PDT by bray (Thank God for Israel)
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To: ConservativeStatement

The only logical reason to have tampons in a men’s bathroom is as emergency supplies in case the toilet paper runs out. That would also provide employment for plumbers to correct the problems when the tampons get flushed.


14 posted on 03/26/2026 6:41:52 AM PDT by Bernard ("Nothing is as expensive as that which the government provides for free." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: ConservativeStatement

historians 300 years from now will point this out as a signposts of our era’s insanity, and debt-fed government failure, which led to our collapse.


15 posted on 03/26/2026 6:42:09 AM PDT by PGR88
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critics say the whole thing is unnecessary and potentially pricey to pull off

Aw, for cripe's sake - don't even go there "potentially pricey". That's stupid.

The whole thing is asinine and not to be tolerated.

16 posted on 03/26/2026 6:42:40 AM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Example of us giving an inch and we get pushed miles.

Remember when all they wanted was tax benefits and to love the ones they love? I do and said then how it would escalate.

I'm not saying those in the beginning of this push towards hedonism wasn't their true intentions but the lunatics on the eft hijack everything. The left never stop pushing societal norms.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I was blessed with common sense from God. I give him all the glory.

They tore apart our families in the name of their religion/marxism and other than bitch about it at our dinner tables we let them. "Oh, it's just marriage." That's how their snares work.

How to get the genie back in the bottle? Never ever give the left anything again and be firm with them because they're liars and always have a motive and plan in mind.


17 posted on 03/26/2026 6:45:15 AM PDT by ssfromla
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To: ConservativeStatement

I can see it coming

Public Works Center Maintenance Service Guidelines will need to be revised to include repairs on the Tampon machines in the Annapolis men’s heads


18 posted on 03/26/2026 6:45:31 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: sauropod

I love blue crabs. I love going to the ocean towns. I love the Naval Academy.
Everything else, namely Baltimore city, can fall in a hole!!


19 posted on 03/26/2026 6:46:58 AM PDT by bantam
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To: ConservativeStatement

What is this right to tampons anyway regardless of the bathroom? If it’s about hygiene, provide free toothbrushes, floss, toothpaste and mouthwash. If women get free things in bathrooms for hoo-ha hygiene, why doesn’t everyone get stuff for oral hygiene?

Or go back to just TP and everyone have their own supplies of whatever else.


20 posted on 03/26/2026 6:54:43 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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