A leading period products firm has prompted fury by telling schoolgirls that men can have periods.
Period product company Hey Girls has been criticised for marketing ‘confusing’ and ‘harmful’ claims in a booklet for pre-pubescent schoolgirls who are about to get their period.
Hey Girls claims ‘not all women have periods and some men have periods’ and that it’s better to use the phrase ‘people who have periods’ when talking about menstruation.
The booklet’s ‘gender and diversity’ section also has a cartoon of four people holding bi-sexual and pansexual flags as well as those for the LGBT and non-binary communities.
It’s unclear whether Hey Girls is suggesting that sexuality relates to whether a woman has a period and the company didn’t react to a request comment about it.
The company was established by multi-award-winning entrepreneur Celia Hodson, a single mother of three children, including two girls, who experienced period poverty herself.
In fewer than five years the company has become the leading provider of period products to the Scottish and Welsh governments and has also expanded into Australia.
In two Hey Girls videos for primary and secondary schoolgirls, the words ‘woman, women, girl or girls’ are never mentioned.
The word ‘people’ is cited 11 times in the videos combined.
However, the Government denied this had ever been the case.
A Government spokesman said that this was wholly incorrect and that this group had never worked with the Department for Education in an advisory capacity.
They said that they had written to the organisation requesting they immediately remove this misleading and incorrect information from their website, and said they’d been repeatedly clear about the importance of biological sex and that contested views, like those around gender identity, should not be taught as a fact.
It was said that their Period Product Scheme for girls and women in schools and colleges uses one national supplier, PHS Group, to deliver free period products across England.
As a result of a newspaper outlet’s investigation, Hey Girls removed the claim from its website.
Heather Finlay runs Luxury Moon, a reusable menstrual products company. Hey Girls was one of her suppliers for five years before a change in their ordering protocols concluded their association.
Heather Finlay shared a photograph of a Hey Girls menstrual cup given to her in 2021.
On the box, the company said the product was for a ‘girl or woman in need’ and said proceeds from its Buy One Give One range would go directly to help girls and women in need.
Menstrual cups being sold on its site today make no mention of women and girls aside from as part of the trademark name Hey Girls. Instead, the packaging says they’re on a mission to give everyone a better period, and that for every product purchased from them, they donate a whole box to someone in need.
They need to stop this rubbish before parents stop it for them.
Some schools are refusing to show parents lesson plans and resources, based on copyright. Teachers are lying to parents about what is being taught to children – every parent now needs to make a noise about this! And the Tories need to act, but that’s not something they’re used to doing.
I am so very happy that all my children are grown up without all this woke stuff, at least their childhood came intact without the words ‘you can’t do this and you can’t do that’.
Yes, men might have periods – periods of great stupidity!
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