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n, which advocates for dedicated funding process This group was founded in 2020 to t needs. DC has the highest percentage of scrimination and a lack of equal access to ties persist. In 2021, the Coalition requested mmunity, including funding for LGBTQ+ the health of DC's LGBTQ+ community, and for trans and gender non-conforming the Coalition's requests and continued to cil in support of the budget requests and ive health champions to key roles in his f Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, of Housing and Urban Development Marcia ourt judges.

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The Expanding Student Access to Period Products (ESAPP) Bill

With it's beginnings in early 2021, this bill: would require DC public, charter, and private schools to provide products in all women ’ s and gender-neutral bathrooms in middle and high schools and in at least one women ’ s and gender-neutral bathroom in elementary schools

The bill would also require UDC and private colleges and universities in DC to provide free period products in all women ’ s and gender-neutral bathrooms. If a school does not have a gender-neutral bathroom, they would be required to provide free period products in at least one men ’ s bathroom.

This bill would require the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) to develop a poster with medically accurate information on the safe use and disposal of period products, which schools would be required to post near the period products dispenser