Did Tim Walz sign legislation requiring female hygiene products to be installed in boys’ bathrooms?

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in May 2023 signed legislation requiring public schools to provide free menstrual products to “all menstruating students in restrooms regularly used by students in grades 4 to 12 according to a plan developed by the school district.”

The Minnesota Education Department told Wisconsin Watch: “Each school district should have its own plan to comply with the legislation. (The department) has not directed schools to provide these products in boys’ bathrooms.” Some schools have stocked them in unisex bathrooms instead.

Wisconsin U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, echoing fellow Republicans across the country, claimed that Walz signed the legislation “to force women’s feminine hygiene products to be installed in boys’ bathrooms.”

Walz has signed bills that made Minnesota a refuge for youths seeking gender-affirming care, bar libraries from banning LGBTQ books and ban conversion therapy.

Editor’s note: This fact brief was originally published Aug. 8, 2024, and rated Yes. The brief was revised on Aug. 21, 2024, after the Minnesota Education Department provided additional information.