68 girls in Bhuj were strip-searched because their principal suspected that some of them were lying about not being on periods.

A 12-year-old girl in Tamil Nadu killed herself after a teacher scolded her for staining her clothes with menstrual blood. The 7th grader, a student in a Senthil Nagar school, jumped off a 25 foot high building in her hometown of Tirunelvelli. Period shamed by her woman teacher, TN girl commits suicide#periodshamed #suicide https://t.co/b3cZP3Vlzf pic.twitter.com/DW78dKHPdV — […]