Watch: MTG Connects Trans People To Tampon Shortage

By Eliana Regev | Thursday, 16 June 2022 05:15 AM
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Watch: MTG Connects Trans People To Tampon Shortage

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) accused transgender people of the tampon shortage hitting the United States.

Greene said the shortage is “probably because men are buying tampons” and that tampons are being placed in men’s restrooms.

“I'm telling you the truth,” Greene said during an appearance on Right Side Broadcasting Network. “You can look it up. Look it up on the internet. Everything’s true on the internet.”

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The major tampon manufacturers, Procter & Gamble, Edgewell, and Kimberly-Clark, have cited COVID-19-related limitations on employees’ capacity to work and travel, shipping, and transportation bottlenecks, and challenge sourcing raw materials for the tampon shortage that has hit the U.S. over the last several months. Cotton and rayon, critical components for the manufacture of tampons, have been in high demand throughout the pandemic, leading to higher costs. Procter & Gamble, which manufactures Tampax products, the most popular tampon brand in the U.S., said the company had ramped up manufacturing at its Maine plant to operate around the clock to meet increased demand, according to Time.

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Greene also alluded to other shortages plaguing the U.S. The Georgia congresswoman asked whether anyone has “checked the warehouses at the border where all the baby formula is stocked,” a reference to the baby formula shortage.

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The shortage is a consequence of both a recall of powdered formulas by Abbott Nutrition in February and supply chain problems caused by COVID-19.

Abbott Nutrition’s plant in Sturgis, Michigan, where the recall had been ordered, became operational again on June 4, nearly four months after a mandated closure.

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Dana Marlowe, the founder of I Support the Girls, which provides bras and menstrual hygiene for people experiencing homelessness, said that her organization has seen a significant drop in tampon donations. “What’s been going on for a couple months is that organizations call us up and say, ‘we need tampons,’ and we go to our warehouse and there’s nothing there.”

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For the first six months of this year, Marlowe’s group received just 213,075 tampons, half as many as during the same time last year and 61% fewer than in 2020. Marlowe texted me photos of aisles in Indianapolis and Silver Spring, Maryland, that were stocked with menstrual pads but without tampons.

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“To put it bluntly, tampons are next to impossible to find,” says Michelle Wolfe, a radio host in Bozeman, Montana, who wrote a piece on her radio station’s website in March about not being able to find tampons in Montana. “I would say it’s been like this for a solid six months.”

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