This is Brian Lair's Daily Politics podcast from WNYC Studios.

It's Wednesday, August 28th.

I'm Bridget Bergen from the WNYC Newsroom, filling in for Brian today.

Now we turn to an issue affecting half of the world's

population. Menstruation. Despite how common periods are, the topic has long been taboo and is now

the center of a political attack against Kamala Harris's VP pick, Governor Tim Walls.

You may have heard Republicans nicknamed him,

Tampon Tim, shortly after his candidacy was announced. The nickname comes from a bill

passed in Minnesota during Walz's tenure as governor, which required school districts

to provide access to menstrual products to students in 4th through 12th grades and distributed funding for those products.

But take a listen to this attack ad put out by the Make America Great Again Inc.

PAC earlier this month. It really outlines their full argument against this kind of legislation and ties it to another culture war issue.

What could be weirder than signing a bill into law that requires schools to stock tampons in boys' bathrooms?

Or weirder than signing legislation allowing minors to receive sex change operations?

Try electing the man who signed those bills, Vice President of the United States.

Enter Chief Weirdo, Tim Walz. As governor of Minnesota, Walls supported legislation

that endangers minors, hurts women, and puts radical ideology ahead of common sense.

Now Kamala wants Walls to enforce those laws on a national scale.

Tim Walz, too weird, too radical.

Joining me now to talk about how Republicans have connected period product accessibility

and anti-transgender legislation is

Chabali Karazana, economy and child care reporter for the 19th.

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