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14.09.2022 - 07:43 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A pupil at a Scots secondary school says girls have been 'stripped of their dignity' after being left unable to easily access sanitary products.
Zara Stuart, 14, has told how she and other young females at Woodfarm High in East Renfrewshire are being left upset and embarrassed by having to walk a lengthy amount of time while bleeding to request products from the school office.
Video and pictures shared with the Daily Record show lavatories at the school are bare of any menstrual supplies.
Zara told the Daily Record she was mortified when she realised that her period arrived early during a lesson and that she became panicked that blood would show on her clothes before she could access an open toilet that supplied pads.
She told the Record: "My heart sank when it happened because I didn't have any pads and I had this horrible feeling where I knew there would be no way I could make it downstairs to the office to ask for padding and back up again to the toilet without bleeding through.
"I was panicking that it had already bled through my skirt. I was on the top floor when it happened and it was a long walk to the office to get sanitary products."
Zara's ordeal comes after a set of toilets that supplied menstrual goods were shut by staff after an incident involving vandalism in the boys' loos. The teen says it has become difficult to access pads or tampons since their closure at the start of term.
She said: "There was an incident in the boys' toilets which resulted in vandalism damages. Instead of trying to find out who had done it, they decided to lock the girls' and boys' toilets during classes, except for them being open during breaks and lunches.
"That maybe leaves one disabled toilet on the bottom floor and one gender-neutral
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