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Florida schools will no longer ask student-athletes to share their menstrual histories in order to play high school sports — but they will ask for their “sex at birth.”
On Thursday, the Florida High School Athletic Association’s board of directors voted 14-2 at an emergency meeting to adopt a proposal that removes questions about a student-athlete’s menstrual history from the state’s pre-participation physical evaluation form, following months of opposition from parents, physicians and advocates.
In the updated form, the athletic association also added a field where students must list their “sex at birth.”
Until now, the form — which was last updated in 2016 — asked for students-athletes’ sex and included five optional questions about their menstrual history.
Those menstruation questions became the subject of controversy after the association’s sports medicine committee last month recommended the questions be made mandatory, according to The Palm Beach Post. Additionally, the Palm Beach County School District announced that student-athletes could submit the form digitally via the sports management software company Aktivate, The Palm Beach Post reported. But the platform’s privacy policy, and federal law, could require it to turn data over to legal authorities or other officials if they had a valid subpoena.
Some parents and critics argued that requesting menstrual information from students and storing it digitally would violate their privacy — particularly at a time of increased debate and concern over regulations relating to women’s bodies following the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
GOOD PROGRESS, TIRED OF BEING ASKED ABOUT MY PERIODS
Will they be asking about their punctuation? (You know, in Baltimore, not a single public school student could tell you what ‘punctuation’ is. Or, they’d say: “Puncutation is not bein’ late, right?”
Does that include tomato juice popsicles?
Not a doctor. Don’t play one on TV.
Okay, what’s the deal here? What is (ever was) the pertinence for the scholastic sports organizations to know about womens menstrual cycles?
How about they just butt out.
I dated a girl in high school that said “it was her time of the month” so often that the gym teacher was worried she might bleed to death….
The last time I pissed blood the doctor told me to watch where I put that ‘thing’
With Spring Break coming up it’s always good to know…
“GOOD PROGRESS, TIRED OF BEING ASKED ABOUT MY PERIODS”
And my exclamation marks.
But last time you claimed your last sex change operation did dat. Oh my!
GOOD PROGRESS, TIRED OF BEING ASKED ABOUT MY PERIODS
Relax ¡BENITO, yer having an ovary action…
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“…but they will ask for their ‘sex at birth.'”
Sickens me as to what this world has turned into.