‘Take Back Pride at Clemson’ protest held after tampons removed from men’s bathrooms

About 50 students marched across Clemson University on Wednesday to demand that menstrual products be returned to men’s bathrooms in Cooper Library and that the Clemson College Republicans be reprimanded for their role in the tampons’ removal.

Take Back Pride hosts a march every year, and the latest one was centered on the university’s decision to remove menstrual products from the men’s bathroom last month.

“Today, we are marching for the reinstatement of the menstrual products in the men’s restrooms in Cooper Library and throughout campus,” said Pan Tankersley, the main student organizer of the event.

“We demand the reinstatement of the menstrual dispensers that were unjustly removed from the men’s bathrooms at Cooper Library,” one student speaker said during the rally at Sikes Hall ahead of the march.