Jason Grant resigned as Scotland’s only male period dignity officer
(Picture: Grainger PR)The pain of an uninvited guest arriving unannounced and sticking around is a problem anyone can understand. Now imagine that person entered your home, spiked your food with depressants, kicked you in the stomach, causing internal (and external) bleeding – and then told you to go to work tomorrow. That’s my not-so-subtle analogy of the menstrual cycle, for which Londoners pay a hefty cost with the highest proportion of girls facing period poverty.
The lucky half of our population will never have to deal with the monthly eviction notice for their reproductive organs. Meanwhile, women who bear the brunt of this pain are expected to share the stage with non-period-sufferers and their opinions on our cycles. And as the long history of men trying to sympathise continues, (a kick to the crown jewels does not last 40 years, so stop comparing) it has been a rough ride for Jason Grant, Tayside’s ‘period dignity officer’.
