Minnesota school districts deny that Tim Walz put tampons and pads in boys' bathrooms

A CNN fact-checker said he called 10 school districts around Minnesota to fact-check whether schools put tampons and pads in boys' bathrooms, an accusation lobbed on Fox News' "The Five," a story FoxNews.com, other Fox News hosts, and right-wing outlets after Gov. Tim Walz became Kamala Harris' running mate.

Even Donald Trump told a Montana crowd, “He ordered tampons to be put into boys’ bathrooms. Do we have any children here? Please close your ears. He ordered tampons in boys’ bathrooms. ... He signed a bill that boys’ bathrooms — all boys’ bathrooms in Minnesota — will have tampons.”

CNN's Daniel Dale called school districts to see if the claims carried any weight, he said in a post on X. All of them said they "do not provide tampons in boys' bathrooms, because the law signed by Gov. Tim Walz does not actually require schools to provide tampons in boys' bathrooms."

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In a full fact-check on the CNN website, Dale wrote that by publication, he'd heard from a dozen out of 25 school districts that the feminine hygiene products weren't placed in boys' bathrooms.

“St. Cloud Area Schools provides free period products in female-only restrooms, designated gender-neutral restrooms, and from school health-care offices. Period products are not provided in male-only designated restrooms,” Dale quoted Tami DeLand, a spokesperson for the central Minnesota school district.

Hers was one of several statements that were published online calling out Trump's false information.

Read it here.