UK School District: “Boys” Can Also Have Menstrual Periods

In a move one member of Parliament has called "insanity," schools in Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England will now teach elementary-age students that menstruation is not "gender-specific."

This follows the institution of the Red Boxes program, which will provide "period products" for children in all schools. The Red Boxes program is a "national voluntary organization" specifically aimed at addressing "period poverty," or the inability of some girls due to limited financial resources to acquire things like tampons and absorptive pads needed to manage menstruation.