Did Tim Walz really put tampons in boy's restrooms?

According to Snopes, NO
Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a bill requiring schools to stock tampons in boys' bathrooms.
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Tim Walz signed a bill in 2023 that required Minnesota schools to stock free menstrual products in restrooms regularly used by students in grades four through 12. The language of the statute was gender neutral and therefore compelled schools to make menstrual products available to transmasculine (trans boys and male-presenting) students, although that would not necessarily entail stocking them in boys' bathrooms.

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DogMan · 61-69, M

After looking at this a little closer, I find that Snopes answer is only half true.

What does this Minnesota law require of schools?
The law, which took effect Jan. 1, requires schools to provide access to menstrual products such as pads, tampons or other similar period products, "in restrooms regularly used by students in grades 4 to 12 according to a plan developed by the school district."

As adopted, the law does not distinguish by sex or gender. It says the products "must be available to all menstruating students."

This means transgender boys and nonbinary students — who might menstruate and are permitted to use boys’ restrooms — must also have access to the menstrual products.

That does not mean menstrual products must be stocked in boys’ restrooms, legal experts told PolitiFact.

"As written the law does not require products to be put in men’s restrooms," said Lacey Gero, director of government relations at the Alliance for Period Supplies, a nonprofit organization. "The law leaves it up to the local school districts to create a plan for providing products in restrooms, but does not specify which restrooms." GOOD LORD WHAT COULD THAT MEAN? We already have machines
in girls restrooms. Do they think Boys are going to go to someone and ask for them? NO! they are
putting them in the boys room of course.

Some states with similar laws specify that period products should be provided only in girls’ restrooms, said Suzanne Herman, a lawyer and legal director at Period Law, a legal group that advocates making menstrual products free. Minnesota does not.