Report that Florida Republicans want to ban “feminine products” from regular stores so Christians don’t have to see them is UNCONFIRMED

Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Report that Florida Republicans want to ban “feminine products” from regular stores so Christians don’t have to see them is UNCONFIRMED. 

Information reads: “BREAKING: Florida Republicans want to ban “feminine products” from regular stores so Christians don’t have to see them, and have proposed creating a DMV-like government building where women must get a ticket and wait hours in order to buy tampons, pads, or Vagisil.”

Earlier this month, Florida Republicans introduced and advanced a wave of bills on gender and diversity that, if passed, are likely to be signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R). One GOP lawmaker acknowledged that his proposed sexual health bill would ban girls in grades younger than sixth from talking about their menstrual cycles in school.

The gutting of Roe Vs. Wade by the new conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court has really turned a page for the Republican Party. Virtually overnight the GOP has punted its Trump-era focus on ruining the lives of brown people and immigrants, and adopted a new, enthusiastic platform of ruining the lives of women.

During a hearing on the bill, Democratic Rep. Ashley Gantt asked, “So if little girls experience their menstrual cycle in fifth grade or fourth grade, will that prohibit conversations from them since they are in the grade lower than sixth grade?”

Say what you will about Donald Trump’s casual misogyny and long history of sexual assault, the GOP’s new nation-wide insistence that women are slavish “vessels” for forced procreation is quite a revolting evolution in Republican policies.

So I thought it would be fun to imagine laws women could write that would be just as horrifying for men as the new GOP laws are for women:

The Bible says men are not allowed to waste their seed, therefore masturbation will be highly criminalized with minimum punishments of 10 years. Rep. Stan McClaire, who chairs the Florida House Education Quality Subcommittee, said, “It would.” The measure was passed by the committee on March 18 on a 13 to 5 vote, mainly along party lines.

Reading that piece of bad news made me think about Judy Blume’s young adult novel, “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret,” first published in 1970 and in print ever since.

In the novel, Margaret, who is heading into sixth grade in a new city, has regular chats with God about her pre-teen worries, including a fear that she’ll never get her period.

The Florida bill states that education around sex, reproduction and sexuality cannot begin until 6th grade. On Wednesday, when Florida state Rep. Ashley Gantt, a Democrat, asked her Republican colleague who sponsored the legislation, state Rep. Stan McClain, if the bill means that girls who get their periods before sixth grade couldn’t discuss that in school, he said yes.

“So if little girls experience their menstrual cycle in fifth grade or fourth grade,” she asked, “will that prohibit conversations from them since they are in the grade lower than sixth grade?”