This Woman Protested Against The “Tampon Tax” By Free-Bleeding Outside Parliament

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This is Charlie Edge, a 22-year-old from Berkshire.

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She and two friends went to Westminster to protest against the "tampon tax". They wore white trousers and went without tampons show why they thought tampons shouldn't be considered a "luxury item".

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She said "most people smiled and gave us positive responses" on the day of her protest.

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"If people are grossed out by me not wearing a tampon then I think that emphasises my point," she said. "They're not ‘luxury items'."

She responded on Facebook to criticism about the protest, saying: "This isn't just ‘three girls outside parliament with blood stains'."

"This is three more people who are angry about something, encouraging the millions of other people who are also angry about the same thing, to talk about it."