National Trust Puts Vegan Tampons in Men’s Toilets

The National Trust is under fire for putting vegan tampons in men’s lavatories, dispensing them from a large box fixed to the wall near the urinals with the message: “Got a period situation going on? We got you.” The Telegraph has more.

The charity is providing the sanitary products in men’s toilets at Sizergh Castle, near Lake Windermere in the Lake District.

A large box fixed to the wall offers free tampons near the urinals, emblazoned with the wording: “Got a period situation going on? We got you”. Nearby is a disposal bin featuring a male icon.

One 79 year-old visitor to the stately home said he was “confused” to find the menstruation paraphernalia.

He said: “Entering the male-only designated toilet, I was confused. Pads and tampons were provided, plus a male disposal bin. There was a female-only toilet nearby, and both male and female facilities [were] clearly marked with a male figure and a female figure… not unisex facilities.

“As a man, I appreciate the prostate bins in the men’s toilet and pads for men, but having gone and used the urinal, I then turned around and I was facing a green bin saying something like: ‘Are you having period problems?’

“And I went outside and put my head outside the door. I wanted to check if I had used the wrong toilet. I was confused and it led to a great deal of discussion with my wife and friends as to why tampons and pads were put into the gents. I think it needs explaining as to what this policy means.”

The tampon box is provided by Dame, which specialises in sustainable period products and claims that nothing used in the making of its products is animal-derived.

The National Trust announced a partnership with the company in September, saying at the time it would allow the trust “to deliver period dignity sensitively, sustainably and with a distinct aesthetic in keeping with our unique spaces”.

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WillP
7 months ago

I think they’ve put them in their brains.

jeepybee
7 months ago

Just when I think I’ve had enough to drink, I need more….

Christ on a bike.

john1T
7 months ago

Trans “men” typically take testosterone which stops periods. I doubt a single tampon will ever be used. It’s just pathetic virtue signalling.

FerdIII
7 months ago
Reply to  john1T

Men can’t have ‘periods’ so I have no idea what the Irrational Rust is on about. Comedic but evil.

Marcus Aurelius knew
7 months ago
Reply to  john1T

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Building Manager Andrew Whats-A-Screwdriver Digby in charge of Facilities at National Trust has even heard of tampons. I think he just nodded and told Barry Spanner to bolt the boxes to the wall.

Need to know basis, y’ see.

Dinger64
7 months ago
Reply to  john1T

Apparently they are free.. so empty the machine and scatter them liberaly around the men’s room and use them to block up the toilets and urinals! Do this regularly and let’s see how long the stay on offer

Andrea Cooke
Andrea Cooke
7 months ago

Cultural Revolutionaries cannot also act as custodians of a Nations Heritage.

Sforzesca
Sforzesca
7 months ago

I sincerely hope Putin invades immediately.
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JXB
JXB
7 months ago
Reply to  Sforzesca

Not invasion, rescue mission.

mickie
mickie
7 months ago

I left the NT over 25 years ago as you could see then the direction it was going in. I see it’s only got a lot worse.

Hound of Heaven
Hound of Heaven
7 months ago
Reply to  mickie

I had coffee with a friend this week. She was a wonderful, knowledgeable, longstanding NT volunteer who has now quit. Why, requires no explanation as everyone knows about this wanton vandalism of the trust betrayed.

Art Simtotic
7 months ago

I somehow doubt in days gone by (when Sizergh was a real castle), fake knights in shining armour ever rescued damsels in distress.

Gezza England
Gezza England
7 months ago
Reply to  Art Simtotic

These days they will very disappointed when they find said damsel has a cock.

Jack the dog
Jack the dog
7 months ago

It’s the torture of the English language that really hurts.

TitterYeNot
TitterYeNot
7 months ago

Stick them up your nose to stop nose bleeds? Better than pencils. Maybe the towels would be worn on the head? Use the tampons to start barbecues, just soak in alcohol and light, then cook the Vegan animal.

Pete Sutton
Pete Sutton
7 months ago

…is under fire for putting vegan tampons in men’s lavatories”
And I should think so too – what about Halal tampons, for when Fatima identifies as Mohamed?

John Kitchen
John Kitchen
7 months ago

If only it was possible to resign from the National Trust more than once.

stewart
7 months ago

What the hell is a VEGAN tampon?

RW
RW
7 months ago
Reply to  stewart

Presumably, just a tampon which had VEGAN written on it because it was always true but nobody cared about it. There’s also a bakery shop in reading selling plant-based bread
(which is the reason why I won’t ever buy something there — I want my bread to be made out of minced meat and blood, as it always used to be !!!1)

mrbu
mrbu
7 months ago
Reply to  RW

Bread contains a small amount of fat. I use lard, just to stick two fingers up at the vegans.

RW
RW
7 months ago
Reply to  mrbu

Fat may be added to bread. Or not. But it’s “plant-based” in either case as the main ingredients are ground grass seeds of various kinds and water.

Gezza England
Gezza England
7 months ago
Reply to  RW

With my breadmaking it is mostly butter but some recipes use olive oil.

mrbu
mrbu
7 months ago
Reply to  RW

Thank you for educating me. I’d assumed “plant based” was synonymous with vegan, but it isn’t. Now I know.

huxleypiggles
7 months ago
Reply to  stewart

Not something I have ever considered introducing in to my diet. I love meat. And fish.

Mogwai
7 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

You’re not meant to put them in that orifice. 🙂

JAMSTER
JAMSTER
7 months ago
Reply to  stewart

Perhaps it’s a carrot stick ?

Hound of Heaven
Hound of Heaven
7 months ago
Reply to  stewart

A tasty snack?

Keencook
Keencook
7 months ago

This article is one of the (many) reasons I subscribe to DS. You have literally made me fall off my chair laughing. Who knew? 🤣🤣

JAMSTER
JAMSTER
7 months ago

Is it April the First again already ?

Mogwai
7 months ago

WTF is a vegan tampon, or should I say ‘manpon’, when it’s at home? Are regular tampons made from glow worm/spider silk, or something?? What the hell is this garbage? 😮

Mogwai
7 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Well I’m calling BS on this vegan gimmicky nonsense. They’re just made from cellulose and cotton. They do talk about ‘webs’, so I was on the right lines;

  • ”Raw Materials: The journey of a tampon begins with natural or regenerated fibres derived from natural cellulose. Common examples include viscose (sometimes called rayon) or cotton, or a blend of these two fibres. These raw materials undergo testing for sensitisation and irritation to ensure safety.
  • Core Fibres: The central, absorbent part of the tampon is made from these fibres. Specifically, the core fibres are typically composed of viscose, cotton, or a mixture of the two. These fibres are responsible for absorbing menstrual blood. During manufacturing, these fibres are mixed and blended together to form a web.”

https://www.edana.org/how-we-take-action/tampons/infographic-and-components

Bloss
Bloss
7 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

The journey of a tampon?!

Dinger64
7 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

‘Manpon’ 🤣🤣🤣🤣 stop it your slaying me!

Ardandearg
Ardandearg
7 months ago

Even the language is phony. I have never said, nor has anyone ever said to me “I have a period situation going on.” It is ludicrous from start to finish. Period.

Matt Dalby
Matt Dalby
7 months ago

Presumably MENstruating confused one of the simpletons who work for the National Trust.

thechap
thechap
7 months ago

I’d want to dispense the lot, then put them on the floor. No theft as no intent to permanently deprive. If caught, I’d say I thought I was having a big nose bleed…

…from my male vagina.

Katy-C
Katy-C
7 months ago

Hopefully the blokes will buy loads and shove them down the toilet blocking the pipework.

Gasman
Gasman
7 months ago

Seriously, I effing despair for this country.

EppingBlogger
7 months ago

Time the Charities Commission was replaced and the new one dismissed the entire National Trust board. Maybe time to break up the NT and remind the parts what their job is. It is not to promote woke nonesence.

Marcus Aurelius knew
7 months ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

Nonce sense?

Marcus Aurelius knew
7 months ago

“Jane! Pass us a tampon underneath, I’ve run out in ‘ere!”

“Me too, Denise, don’t worry, we’ll just pop to the men’s, they’ve got loads in there!”

lulu-b45
lulu-b45
7 months ago

This is pretty funny. Love to know whose idea this was

Jaws
Jaws
7 months ago

I feel so much happier knowing that next time I visit a NT property and my piles bleed, help is at hand. Bonus points for it being vegan too, after all I wouldn’t want to be shoving a cylinder of horsehair up my rectum.

ACW
ACW
7 months ago

Vegan.🤔……..do vegetarians eat them?

Covid-1984
Covid-1984
7 months ago

Dumped my membership years ago. They wouldn’t exist without hardworking capitalists building those homes. I wouldn’t mind betting Diane Abbott is their President

NickR
7 months ago

Surely the issue here is that the National Trust is, albeit in a small way, in contempt of court. The Supreme Court decided earlier in the year that single sex spaces should be reserved for the designated sex. Ok, there’s some dallying by activist groups who are trying to stave off implementation, awaiting detailed guidance from the Equalities Commission, but it strikes me that this is an affront to the ruling.

Hound of Heaven
Hound of Heaven
7 months ago
Reply to  NickR

Quite. Seems to be overlooked.

marebobowl
marebobowl
7 months ago

Thank you so much for letting your readers know the tampon situation at the national trust. I will never enter a National trust property again. Boycotts are the only way to force these organisations to rethink their woke decisions. We simply will not tolerate it.

Hester
Hester
7 months ago

What do the men do? shove it up their backsides? I have to question why the National trust is a charity at all if it spends its donors money on such arrant nonsense.
The National Trust is now looking to me like a political group who happen to have the care of heritage buildings, the fact that they despise the English and their history makes it all the more ironic that they should have care of them at all.

Marialta
Marialta
7 months ago
Reply to  Hester

It’s supposed to be for a woman who presents in men’s clothes and wants to be a man so wants to go in a toilet with other men but oh suddenly realises their period has started so needs a tampon. Women usually know when their period is due and probably carry a tampon in their bag. If not they improvise or if lucky use a machine in the female toilet. This has to be a JOKE but it ain’t funny it’s DERANGED. Resources used for minus % of the population. And people wonder why the West is crumbling!

RW
RW
7 months ago
Reply to  Marialta

This also used to be high up on the agenda of the SPD when it led the German government (ie, under the previous German government). The point about resources is a very salient one. The National Trust isn’t supposed to spend money on “period product” machines for men’s toilets for the sole purpose to stick two fingers up to the supreme court because of it’s decision that sex does indeed mean sex. That’s someone making a seriously bizarre political statement using misappropriated funds.

Alan M
Alan M
7 months ago

If they’re made from cotton, why do they need to be described as “Vegan”?

RW
RW
7 months ago
Reply to  Alan M

To make sure the vegans understand that these tampons were made from plant-based cotton.

🙂