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cjgl-8819	Cooper, Elizabeth B.	What's Law Got to Do With It? Dignity and Menstruation	2021	14	.pdf	application/pdf	5432	223	46	COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF GENDER AND LAW 41 52 discussion of a topic previously too stigmatized to discuss publicly.69 Women have founded new organizations to ensure enactment of just laws and policies that reflect the dignity that individual menstruators, and our society, deserve.70 These efforts are creating real change: the federal government now classifies menstrual products as medical expenses;71 some states have removed the sales tax levied on products; some school districts are starting to make free menstrual products available,72 as are some prisons;73 and the state boards of bar examiners that prohibited menstruators from bringing their own products to the bar exam have rolled back these policies.74 Although our work is far from over, these victories—all of which have occurred in the last five years—foreshadow the great change that is possible when we continue to work together to dismantle systemic oppression and ensure menstrual dignity for all. Myriad policies intruding on a menstruator’s right to dignity are described throughout this Symposium and include: failing to include menstrual products in emergency- preparedness or response packages;5 not supplying public school students with free access to quality products;6 denying free and ready access to such products to people who are incarcerated or detained through our country’s immigration policies;7 imposing state 5 See Emma Goldberg, Many Lack Access to Pads and Tampons.	cache/cjgl-8819.pdf	txt/cjgl-8819.txt