Ally Crays is the Youth Advisory Council Chair for PERIOD, a youth-fueled nonprofit that strives to eradicate period poverty and stigma through service, education, and advocacy. Through the distribution of menstrual products, promotion of youth leadership, and championing of menstrual equity in policy, PERIOD aims to center those disproportionately affected by period poverty and support local efforts for menstrual equity.
Historically, menstrual advocacy has centered cis-woman, often at the expense of people of the trans experience. A cisgender woman is someone who was assigned the female…