Emerson College will stock its men’s bathrooms with tampons next school year.

The Boston -based liberal arts college will begin stocking all public bathrooms on campus, regardless of gender, with menstrual products , including tampons and menstrual pads, this summer, ahead of the 2023-2024 school year. No, this is not a joke.

While putting menstrual products such as tampons and pads in the women’s bathroom is a noble idea that could help some young women, putting tampons in the men’s bathroom is downright ridiculous, although not surprising .

A couple of problems exist here. Most importantly, men cannot get periods. They have different chromosomes and genitalia than women, making it impossible for them to ovulate or get pregnant, regardless of what liberals think.

Additionally, despite what movies used to joke about , men do not need tampons to treat nosebleeds.

I attended Emerson College for one school year. As a man, I never needed a tampon during the entire year, just as I have never needed one in my 26 years of life. Presumably, none of my male friends on campus were in dire need of tampons, either.

From a practical standpoint, there's another problem with putting tampons in men’s bathrooms: It is a misuse of resources. If a facility stocks the men’s bathroom with tampons, men will ignore or waste them.

In Massachusetts, a small minority of women who identify as men use men’s bathrooms because liberals in both parties have embraced transgender ideology. However, boys will take these products they don’t need for various reasons, including curiosity and playing jokes on one another. Additionally, male students might correctly think the concept is stupid and dump the tampons in the trash or flush them down the toilet.

Plus, putting tampons in men’s bathrooms affirms transgenderism, which is something government and other institutions should avoid. They should treat gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia as serious matters, but they should do so in a way that does not claim that people are something they are not.

Do not be surprised if more schools make tampons available in men’s bathrooms. While liberals will do so to perpetuate woke gender ideology, the premise is still ridiculous.

Tom Joyce ( @TomJoyceSports ) is a political reporter for the New Boston Post in Massachusetts.