A group of young women have teamed up with a Houston law firm to get the state to stop charging sales tax on menstrual products. Texas tampon menstruation SalesTax WomensRights TexasLaw TexasLegislature
Eighteen-year-old Zoe Kass holds a handful of pads in her high school bathroom in Houston on Thursday. Kass is a menstrual equity advocate and has raised hundreds of dollars to purchase menstrual products for students at her school.
“There was one day that I dropped a box of tampons down the stairs and this boy caught them and his eyes went really wide,” she said. “I was like, well, we’re fighting stigma one scared teenage boy at a time.” But she also knew there was very little chance the bill would pass, a sentiment she said some of the legislators conveyed very clearly.
Baker Botts agreed to take the case pro bono, which is how they all ended up in the tampon aisle at a store in Houston, watching Punjwani buy menstrual products. They then submitted that receipt to the Texas comptroller’s office, requesting a refund on the sales tax she’d paid — and a determination that all menstrual products should be similarly tax-exempt.
“Just as a basic layperson looking at this, I think most people would say managing a monthly menstrual flow is much more important and medically necessary to yourself and to others, compared to libido enhancers,” Shoemaker McGonagill said.
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