Department of Labor slammed with backlash for calling women 'menstruators'



The U.S. Department of Labor earned backlash on social media for referring to women as "menstruators."

"#Menstruation affects half the U.S. workforce but talking about it at work can be taboo. For #MenstrualHygieneDay, here are 5 easy actions employers can take to help menstruators thrive at work," the department tweeted.

'They're called women.'

Both women and men rejected the ridiculous language.

"Insulting that I'm reduced to being a 'menstruator' rather than simply a WOMAN because a handful of mentally ill women want to be called men -- but still get their periods," Brianna Lyman wrote in response to the department's post.

"Joe Biden is once again referring to the women of this country as 'menstruators' because his radical base thinks that men can menstruate. Remember when he said he would be a 'moderate?'" GOP Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois declared.

Guy Benson tweeted, "They're called women. That a tiny fraction of biological females identify as males does not mean that we need to replace the word 'women,' or uproot our whole language to try to satisfy the capricious demands of a fringe. And it’s not transphobic to say so. Stop it."

"Defund your worthless agency yesterday," Tom Elliott tweeted.

A post on the Labor Department's blog suggested that employers could take actions to "make workplaces more menstruation-friendly," such as allowing for uniform "options in dark colors," offering paid sick leave while stipulating "that menstruation is a qualifying condition for the leave," and providing "period products in bathrooms."

The blog post was authored by two individuals who are policy analysts with the department's Women's Bureau.

"The Women’s Bureau champions policies and standards that safeguard the interests of working women, advocates for the equality and economic security of women and their families, and promotes quality work environments," according to the department.

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Woolworths in Australia is accused of "cancelling women," the Daily Mail reported Wednesday, after offering tampons to "people who menstruate" instead of to women.

What are the details?

According to the report, the store chain was announcing a partnership with nonprofit organization Share the Dignity, a group that provides free tampons in public vending machines.

In a LinkedIn social media post, the store wrote, "The 100th Dignity Vending Machine funded by Woolworths has just been installed to help people who menstruate access period care items free of charge."

"Together with Share the Dignity, we’ve helped more than 56,000 people access these essential products so that regardless of their circumstances, they can be afforded dignity, confidence and mobility during their period," the post continued. "We aim to care for all Australians and are thrilled that the Dignity Vending Machines we've funded will help more people across the country access the products they need."

What was the response?

Dr. Bella A'Brera, author and director of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Program at the Institute of Public Affairs, said, however, that the company's "gender-neutral language undermined biological fact."

"By caving into the extreme views of a vocal minority, Woolworths has decided to cancel women," A'Brera said. "Woolworths needs to remember that it is a supermarket. Its purpose is to sell groceries, not radical gender theory."

She told radio broadcaster Liam Bartlett that "radical gender theory has embedded itself into all our institutions."

“Woolworths refusing to use the word ‘woman,’ they are excluding their entire market because as you and I know, the only people who do menstruate are women,” she told Bartlett.

A spokesperson for the store said that the grocery store chain was not aiming to be political with its Share the Dignity partnership.

"Our partnership with Share the Dignity has helped provide period care products to tens of thousands of women and other people who need them across Australia," the spokesperson said, noting that such products are "available to all women, girls, non-binary, and transgender people" as well as "family members collecting them on someone's behalf."

An opposing viewpoint

In 2021, sexuality education consultant Joanna Anagnostou told Moxie that gendered language when discussing menstruation is damaging to people who identify as transgender and nonbinary.

"It reinforces the false idea that menstruation equals woman," Anagnostou said. "This language implies that some may not be 'real' women if they do not have a period; it implies that trans men and non-binary people are women because they may have periods. It even implies that some cisgender (a person whose sense of personal identity or gender aligns with the biological sex they were assigned at birth) women are not women because they do not experience periods."

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