This new law, in part, comes as a result of efforts by Sriya Srinivasan, a high school student from Solano County who advocated for comprehensive menstruation education in schools after her own struggles with her menstrual health.
Srinivasan faced resistance when she asked for support of the bill at her local school board meeting.
“We said things like ‘blood,’ we said ‘vagina’ in our testimony because that’s what menstruation talks about,” Srinivasan recalled. “[School board members] were like, ‘The language that you used was grotesque.’”…