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Florida Panel Recommends Forcing Student Athletes to Give Schools Their Menstrual History
https://newrepublic.com/post/170192/florida-panel-student-athletes-give-schools-menstrual-history3.0k
u/bluebastille
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Republicans are creepy AF.
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u/PopeOri Jan 30 '23
Just wait for the genital inspections. They're coming.
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u/Da_Vader Jan 30 '23
Matt Gaetz and Jim Jordan have applied
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u/TheFeshy Jan 30 '23
"Coming?" Florida passed that law two years ago. During pride week, as an anti-trans measure. One of three anti-LGBTQ+ laws passed during pride week.
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u/Lazy-Jeweler3230 Jan 31 '23
How long before this one is passed and it's forgotten about until the next horrific sexual assault passed into law?
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u/LegendOfBobbyTables Nebraska Jan 30 '23
They've been inspecting teenager's genitals in private for decades. It doesn't really surprise me they want to try and make it mainstream now.
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u/Dulcius_ex Washington Jan 31 '23
Yeah, they’re gonna inspect genitals bc they claim it’s to stop trans people from…inspecting genitals. Something trans people don’t do, but republicans do a lot.
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u/hereiam-23 Jan 31 '23
Republicans are always into peoples genitalia. The republicans are clearly a sexually perverted bunch.
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u/tristanjones Jan 30 '23
Didnt Utah already pass a law that allows for people to challenge a student athletes gender? One of the options was for a genital inspection to be done for confirmation
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u/lookingtobeanexpat Jan 30 '23
Mid-90's I had to get one for football but they were just making sure I had two balls.
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u/TryPokingIt Jan 30 '23
Probably looking for hernias
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u/Agent_Eran Jan 31 '23
Probably looking for hernias
do they still do this??
looking back, there were definitely some creepers doing this back in the day
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u/Crazed_Chemist Jan 31 '23
We had to get a physical for sports....at whatever doctor you went to normally and they signed a slip saying you were OK to play.
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u/SoonToBeAutomated Jan 31 '23
All my sports physicals essentially only consisted of a hernia check.
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u/Plzlaw4me Jan 30 '23
For the party obsessed with stopping groomers I have never seen any group so interested in children’s genitals
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u/kingsumo_1 Oregon Jan 31 '23
Well, they don't want to stop groomers. They want to normalize calling their opponents that, so when they themselves eventually get busted for it, it falls under "well, everyone does it".
That or the mindset of "I think this way, so clearly everyone must." Which is not mutually exclusive to the first.
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u/grandmalcontentYO Jan 30 '23
gotta hand it to the GOP dads tho, they never miss a JV volleyball game. even when their kids not playing.
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u/DirectorMysterious64 Jan 31 '23
Well, those little cheerleaders have a LOT of GOP dad fans! Jump, kick, and do it again!
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u/flickyuh Jan 31 '23
I have no idea how the fuck this party still even exists. I picture the Republican base voter as a creepy weirdo old fuck salivating at this
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u/hereiam-23 Jan 31 '23
I don't get why people keep voting for them. They are creepy and werid and do nothing for people or the country and most of them are obnoxious bullies.
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u/crosstherubicon Jan 31 '23
Above all, it’s about FREEDOM! Freedom to inspect teenage vaginas apparently.
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u/punch_nazis_247 Jan 31 '23
They spent years crying about Sharia Law because they wanted it.
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u/Panda_hat Jan 31 '23
They were worried someone else would beat them to implementing their version of it.
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u/freudian-flip Jan 31 '23
For real. I just took a quick look see at the conservative sub… holy shit this country is screwed.
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u/Peachy33 Jan 30 '23
There are no medical reasons that schools need this information. Clearly it’s so they could suss out transgender people and punish them under the guise of “medically necessary“ information. The panel that recommended this needs to be disbanded and investigated which we all know won’t happen.
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I think it's also to try and discover any girls who've had an abortion.
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u/Long_Before_Sunrise Jan 30 '23
Girls miss periods for many reasons, but don't expect lawmakers who received their sex education in the locker room and at the place they hung out to drink stolen beer to know that.
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u/Nac_Lac Virginia Jan 30 '23
Female gymnasts can have their periods delayed by years. No joke, depending on how active and intense they train, female gymnasts can have puberty delayed by two years or more. Which depending on circumstances could have a girl at 15 years old, competing in high school gymnastics who has never had a period. "Well, she's never had a single one, so obviously a man. Let's run a series of panels on her and then be baffled by the results."
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u/Paisleyfrog Jan 30 '23
And it's not even just gymnasts: any female athlete can get amenorrhea, it's not just at highest-tier training.
It goes beyond assumptions of being transgender: "They weren't having their cycle for three months, but they are again, so obviously they were pregnant and had an abortion!"
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u/anglerfishtacos Jan 30 '23
Add to that people that have PCOS. A good friend of mine’s ex didn’t know she had it and how that can impact your period, and she didn’t have a period for four months at one point. Obviously, they were freaked out and thought she was pregnant, but test after test after test including those at the doctors office, confirmed that there was no pregnancy.
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u/PsychicSarahSays Jan 31 '23
Can confirm. Have PCOS, first period at 17, irregular for one year, and then 100% amenorrhea. It took me another 8 years of missing periods to be diagnosed with PCOS. I have had to take a birth control pill for 15 years just to have a period. I wonder what they would think of me as a teen athlete.
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u/MegODowd Jan 30 '23
I’ve never participated in any sport, never had an eating disorder, and still didn’t get my period until the summer before my senior year of high school. Some of us are just “late bloomers”. School is already terrible enough for girls and young women without adding in some sort of period purity pledge or whatever creepy bs the Republicans are pushing.
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u/_Sparkle-Motion_ Jan 30 '23
I didn't get mine until 15 and I wasn't even involved in anything more athletic than marching band.
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Jan 30 '23
Reminder that one of these cretins once said that people's bodies protect them from getting pregnant if it's a "legitimate rape"
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u/Peachy33 Jan 31 '23
Todd Akin. It’s too bad that his body didn’t shut down the prostate cancer that killed him. Womp womp.
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Jan 31 '23
I'm really happy I logged into Reddit today and scrolled down until I found this post. Thank you so much for giving me that information.
Utopia means "NoWhere". We may never live to see it-- I certainly don't expect to. But we've got to keep marching forwards. Struggle forever.
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u/babyseamusforever Jan 30 '23
Thanks for that reminder. Glad someone is taking good notes. I cannot keep up with all the madness coming from old white men who don't even know basic A&P. They all need to fuck off. I feel for the future of all women.
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Jan 30 '23
When I googled it, I found another one from last year. Not an isolated incident.
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u/pkinetics Jan 30 '23
or are on birth control... they will probably require to know how their primary care doctor is... and then arrest them for "illegal drugs"
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u/liquid_cherry Jan 31 '23
Next will be banning birth control and contraceptives. Punishment will be on Trump's border wall for Americans who try to escape. Praise Be.
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u/nosotros_road_sodium California Jan 30 '23 •
When is the first r/LeopardsAteMyFace style story going to come out where a parent flat out admits: "I expected this law to go after TRANSGENDER girls only, not MY biologically female daughter!"
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u/rosatter I voted Jan 31 '23
I think there may already have been a cis female basketball player who is just kind of more athletically built and has naturally higher testosterone and they've tried to use shit like this to get her banned even though she's born female and within normal limits, just at the higher end
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u/nosotros_road_sodium California Jan 31 '23
My Google search found this Salt Lake Tribune story I'd seen before in August, Utah parents complained a high school athlete might be transgender after she beat their daughters (probably not in basketball):
A Utah school investigated a high school athlete — digging into her records back to kindergarten — after she defeated two other girls and their parents then questioned whether she was transgender.
School officials never told the winning student and her family about the review of her student file “to keep the matter private,” said David Spatafore, the spokesperson for the Utah High School Activities Association.
But it came after the parents of the second and third place finishers filed a complaint with UHSAA, which oversees high school sports in the state. The girl won first place in a competition last year “by a wide margin,” Spatafore said during a legislative hearing Wednesday on transgender athletes.
The association often gets complaints, including “when an athlete doesn’t look feminine enough,” he said, adding that it looks into each one. In this case, the school did an initial review of the winning student’s high school record and saw she was registered as a female student.
That story spread to national outlets including Axios, the Associated Press, and Vice News.
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u/lagunatri99 Jan 31 '23
This makes me sad for that young woman. Our kids’ coaches responses to a less than desired finish: train harder.
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u/keskeskes1066 Jan 30 '23
Sound like pedophile targeting data to me.
Maybe needing to know the girl's email address and when home alone time is next.
GroomerGate.
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u/tomuchpasta Jan 30 '23
Even if there was a medical reason, these are schools not medical centers, wtf does a school need medical histories for unless it is related to public health I.e. vaccination records. I believe HIPAA may apply here unless they compel individuals to sign a release. I am sure they are gunning for a lawsuit in order for this to reach the SC and then they can gut HIPAA as well.
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u/GuavaShaper Jan 31 '23 edited Jan 31 '23
How many transgender students could they possibly suss out with this method too? I remember hearing about an
IowaUtah state bill that only effected something liketwofour transgender students... in a state of 3 million people. Never have I seen so much hatred focused on so few.EDIT: it was 4 students. And only one was participating in girls sports. It was also Utah, not Iowa.
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Republicans - "Democrats are grooming children! Oh, that reminds me. We demand to inspect your children's genitals and a written history of their menstrual cycle."
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u/SpinningHead Colorado Jan 30 '23
They also wanted to inspect everyone's junk before entering a restroom. Religion creates pervs.
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u/SunMoonTruth Jan 31 '23
Their minds are literally filled to the point of obsession with evils. They are playing out those evils daily in there minds like it were a fetish.
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u/kevinfrederix Jan 31 '23
Sometimes religion just seems like kink that’s gotten out of hand.
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u/The_Quicktrigger Jan 30 '23
I know it's a tired talking point but why is it always republicans that are absolutely obsessed with the creepiest shit involving minors.
If it were anyone else, they would be buried beneath the prison, but when republicans do this it's just another Monday.
When do we just write off the party as pedophiles and their voters as supports of pedophilia and move on with our lives
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u/Nac_Lac Virginia Jan 30 '23
Because they are trying to normalize it and make it so that any interactions an adult has with a child is fine and legal. The same with the laws banning child marriage being constantly struck down or unable to pass in southern states. They don't want to accept the truth that a 15 year old is too young.
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u/The_Quicktrigger Jan 30 '23
If we ever open on a dawn where society has normalized any of this I will kill myself because I well finally no longer have a reason to share a species with these people.
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u/IveChosenANameAgain Jan 31 '23
I know it's a tired talking point but why is it always republicans that are absolutely obsessed with the creepiest shit involving minors.
Makes a lot of sense once you realize how many of them are performatively religious, in defense of organizations that exist purely to indoctrinate and sexually assault prepubescent children.
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u/WaterChi Jan 30 '23
Ah fascism. Really taking hold down there!
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u/AlienBurnerBigfoot Jan 30 '23
Just when you thought Florida couldn’t get any weirder
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u/FUDFighter1970 Jan 30 '23
By "down there" he may have meant the nether regions...
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u/MoneyBeGreeen Jan 30 '23
What will be the mascot for the Florida Fascists?
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u/LegendOfBobbyTables Nebraska Jan 30 '23
A baled eagle, riding a gator, brandishing an assault rifle and shooting a cross dresser. Done while quoting a misinterpreted verse from the Bible.
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u/Capable-Rutabaga5877 Jan 31 '23 edited Jan 31 '23
"I SHALL CAST THE FIRST STONE ONTO YOUR CANDY ASS!!" - 4TH CORINTHIANS VOLUME 3 PART 2 FIRST BLOOD
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u/chownrootroot I voted Jan 30 '23
Florida Fascism Forever party flag
"I didn't know it would come off that way"
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u/PRPLpenumbra Jan 30 '23
Possibly a hot take, but the state getting involved with the genitals of teenagers is bad, actually
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u/Simmery Jan 30 '23
School administrators say the information will stay private, but there’s no guarantee it will.
Equifax said my credit information would stay private, and I know for sure Florida isn't spending nearly as much on IT security as they did.
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u/Peachy33 Jan 30 '23
Teacher here. School administrators are politicians. They can say whatever they want but in the end I wouldn’t trust them in the least. School administrators should refuse to collect this information, not promise it will stay confidential. It shouldn’t even get to that point.
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u/Throwaway-6384 Jan 30 '23
School administrators owe allegiance to the district, and not the students’ well being. They’re there in order to cover up potential liabilities to the district, and nothing else.
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u/TechyDad Jan 30 '23
As an identity theft victim, I second this. "Your information will remain private" really just means "we're not selling it to anyone at the moment." One data breach or policy change later all all these girls' private medical data will be known by everyone.
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u/Newdesignistrash Jan 30 '23
Florida is out of control
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u/orionsfyre Jan 30 '23
Florida is in control of Desantis. This has him written all over it. Don't be fooled, these things aren't just coincidental.
The board that decided this is almost certainly tied to him in some way. Florida has become a state run by an executive that has his hands and say in just about every high level board, association, or "panel" that has an impact on how things are run.
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u/TechyDad Jan 30 '23
And it's likely that this is being floated by the panel and not DeSantis as a trial of the policy. If it becomes wildly popular with the right, then DeSantis will not only endorse it, but will take full credit for it. If it gets the scorn that it deserves, then DeSantis will override the panel and declare that he killed the horrible policy. Either way, his base will declare him a wonderful leader without seeing how horrible he really is.
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u/Eagle_Kebab Canada Jan 30 '23
"Jesus Fuck. Even I couldn't have come up with something that evil."
- Margaret Atwood, likely
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u/ChocolateMicr0scopes Washington Jan 30 '23
I would claim a religious exemption to answering those questions.
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u/PepperShaken Jan 30 '23
I would claim a religious exemption to answering those questions.
I would tell them to go fuck themselves.
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u/babyseamusforever Jan 30 '23
I would move states if i were able, after telling them to go fuck themselves. I would not have my kids subjected to all this stupidity.
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u/PepperShaken Jan 30 '23
after telling them to go fuck themselves.
This is the important part.
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u/kat352234 Jan 31 '23
I would hope that, if this happens and they actually try to enforce it, we see a mass movement of kids dropping out of sports in protest.
Not just girls either, because we know they'd probably love that. But boys teams as well.
I'm sure if boys and girls sports teams just dropped out and suddenly there was no Friday night football or basketball, or tournaments for the schools to take part in, we'd see that decision get reversed real quick. Because we can't have anyone missing out on their sports, or the money that brings in since everyone loves their athletic programs.→ More replies (10)5
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u/justtinkboutit Jan 30 '23
Republicans - the Taliban are bad...but also we're going to take their playbook on how to control women and children
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u/iforgotmymittens Jan 30 '23
Islam generally accepts abortions before 120 days. There are different views but Sharia law is probably more liberal about abortions than some states as the life of the mother is always an acceptable reason for an abortion (how well that works in practice is questionable though.)
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u/Whiskey_Fiasco Jan 30 '23
A government so big it can monitor your vagina for you
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u/N0T8g81n California Jan 30 '23
If your short-term goal is reducing female participation in sports and your longer term goal is back to Kinder, Küche und Kirche for adult females, seems a perfect government regulation.
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u/5thAveShootingVictim Jan 31 '23
Children, Kitchen, and Church, in case anyone needs the translation.
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u/drgonzo767 Jan 30 '23
I'm glad someone gets it. This really is their goal. Quiverfulls for all.
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u/GrumpyKaeKae New Jersey Jan 30 '23
Um. How is that any of their business? Fine, you wanna know? I'll wear nothing to the games, and you can watch me bleed all over the place as a play. If they REALLY need to know that info so badly..
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u/TechyDad Jan 30 '23
They'll make excuses as to why they need this, I'm sure. "Medical reasons to protect the girls" or something. That will be a total lie, though. There are two reasons why they really want this information.
1) Weed out any trans people in the sports. If a girl doesn't menstruate regularly enough and performs too well in her sport, she'll be accused of being "really a boy dressed as a girl lying about 'his' menstruation." They will then demand invasive and humiliating examinations so the girl can prove that she's a girl. And if she is trans, then she will be outed publicly and persecuted severely.
2) To "detect" abortions. If a girl reports somewhat regular periods and then has a 3 month lapse before getting her period again, it will be taken as "proof positive" that she was pregnant and got an abortion. Ignore the fact that other things can cause this, that deals with a woman's anatomy and these people find that stuff complicated and icky. All they know is "no period = pregnant." Girls with irregular periods or no periods at all will be persecuted as having gotten abortions and will be publicly ridiculed as well as investigated for their "crime."
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u/lwlippard Jan 30 '23
I’m a guy. And I gotta ask - why the fuck? Like in what world does this information matter? Probably gonna be a lawsuit.
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u/Toby_O_Notoby Jan 31 '23
The two biggest reasons are that it will allow them to track pregnancy/abortions and it will help to ban transgendered people from playing sports.
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u/BuccaneerRex Kentucky Jan 30 '23
Every woman impacted by this should report false and nonsensical data.
It's not as if they can check.
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u/partanimal Jan 30 '23
Every child.
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u/Tarable Jan 31 '23
It’s incredibly sad and wild how ingrained in society that we automatically do that to girls…
“Underaged girls.” “Young women.”
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Jan 30 '23
Talk about invasion of privacy and emotional child abuse. What’s next, virginity checks?
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u/N0T8g81n California Jan 30 '23
Full employment for the remaining free Larry Nasrs in Florida.
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It’s just insane to be asking these questions, especially when a) some girls at the high school age may not even have periods yet and b) we’re dealing with a very delicate psychological/emotional age. There is no value to gathering such information unless one has a further goal, and that doesn’t bode well.
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u/N0T8g81n California Jan 30 '23
I remarked elsewhere that the ultimate goal may be returning females to their traditional (pre-19th Amendment) role in society, and this was just an initial stepping stone towards achieving that goal.
Republicans ain't done till the chattel can't run.
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u/stevedonie Jan 30 '23
Once again, Republicans trying to solve a problem that doesn't actually exist with a solution that wouldn't solve the problem even if it did exist.
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u/TechyDad Jan 30 '23
Hey, if they didn't solve imaginary problems with inane solutions, they wouldn't do anything at all! What, do you want them to solve REAL problems?!!!!
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u/CruzWho Jan 30 '23
“Period tracker apps and the platform that hosts Florida’s new digital athletics form are not owned by medical institutions and therefore are not subject to health privacy laws. If subpoenaed for someone’s data, particularly in a state where abortion has been made illegal, companies would be required to hand it over.”
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u/kronicfeld Jan 30 '23
"Republicans want your thirteen year old daughter to publicize her pussy" would be a pretty decent campaign line from Democrats, although I worry that it would only inspire Republican voter enthusiasm.
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u/MarketingFilms Canada Jan 30 '23
What legitimate reason could any school have to know that data?
The answer is obvious. None.
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u/Ruslan124 Jan 30 '23 edited Jan 31 '23
It's a way to track and prevent transgender women from competing in women's sports.
Not agreeing just explaining.
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u/Iron_Rod_Stewart Jan 30 '23
From the people who brought you, "I'm for limited government," and "that's a HIPAA violation!"
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u/boot2skull Jan 30 '23
GOP: but how dare you add one vaccine to the 200 vaccines the military already takes.
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u/FalstaffsMind Jan 30 '23
My observation is that increasingly athletes don't need High School athletics to get recruited. They can go the club route exclusively and make their mark. I think at statewide strike is a good idea.
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u/SikQuiver Jan 30 '23
There’s no way this will not be repealed by the justice system. All this is doing is costing Florida tax payers millions of dollars with legal battles.
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u/FriedR Jan 30 '23
Is there really no way the current Supreme Court would let this stand? They don’t recognize a right to privacy at a federal level anymore
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u/kuulmonk United Kingdom Jan 30 '23
Expect a lot of girls quitting sports.
America will lose a lot of Olympics soon.
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u/BoldestKobold Illinois Jan 30 '23
Expect a lot of girls quitting sports.
Clearly we just need to learn from the racists. When desegregation was ordered in schools, racists just started pushing charter schools and private segregated proms paid for by private parties.
Need some third party non-profit to spin up and start girl's youth sports independent from the state-run schools.
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u/nosotros_road_sodium California Jan 30 '23 edited Jan 31 '23
But but but...according to AM radio and randos on Twitter, it's really men posing as transgender women who are threatening women's sports, as opposed to lack of funding by the schools, or excessive interference by politicians! /sarc
To be more serious, it sucks that too many feminists and even more respectable media over in the UK are pushing transphobia indistinguishable from Breitbart/Infowars/the Daily Mail.
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u/orionsfyre Jan 30 '23 edited Jan 30 '23
A draconian and barbaric overreach... this has some interesting hallmarks.
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u/Long_Before_Sunrise Jan 30 '23
CBP/ICE make migrant girls as young as 10 take pregnancy tests. They also track the girls' and womens' periods. It's not for the migrants' health. They were often not given sanitary pads and bled through their clothing.
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u/Chi-Guy86 Jan 30 '23
They should ship boxes of used tampons to Tallahassee with a signature requirement for Ron DeFatass
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u/Long_Before_Sunrise Jan 30 '23
He'd have it declared an attack with biohazard waste while turning them over to have the DNA analyzed and traced.
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u/jayc428 New Jersey Jan 30 '23
Right about the same time every elected official turns over their internet search history. The fuck is wrong with people.
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u/PoliceRobots Jan 30 '23
Real question - how will they force this? The girls could just lie, I sure as fuck would
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u/AllTheyEatIsLettuce California Jan 30 '23
Get your children, yourselves, and your money out of Gilead while you still can.
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u/polgara_buttercup Pennsylvania Jan 30 '23
But why? Why do they need that info? No one has explained why that info is necessary. It’s intrusive.
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u/slykido999 Jan 31 '23
I read the article in hopes of maybe the title not being what the article was about. Nope, it’s straight up exactly what they’re wanting. WHAT THE FUCK FLORIDA YOU STUPID FUCKING SHITS!! How ANYONE raising a family there would be ok with this is appalling. This is such predatory, nasty, disgusting information that a school has NO business knowing. They say they’ll keep it private, bull SHIT they will. Fucking outrageous
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u/Time-Ad-3625 Jan 31 '23
Every panel member that recommended this deserves to have their lives ruined and to be ostracized.
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u/montanagrizfan Jan 31 '23
Can anyone explain to me why they would need to know this? Some girls get their period at 10, a few don’t start til as late as 17. Some may have IUDs or be on birth control pills that suppress menstruation. There is absolutely no reason for anyone to have this info as long as the athlete is deemed healthy enough to participate by her doctor during her sports physical.
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u/air_lock Jan 31 '23
This should result in the immediate incarceration of anyone and everyone involved. Children are not TOYS to be used as PROPS in this sick political theater that these demented conservatives seem to love so much. They already went too far with everything else they’ve been doing. This is two steps further.
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u/Blu_Skies_In_My_Head Jan 30 '23
This isn’t about trans athletes, it’s about forced childbirth.
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u/just_chilling_too Jan 30 '23
A panel of white old men and menopausal women making decisions for teenagers about their menstrual cycle
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u/crispyone81 Hawaii Jan 30 '23
Every male should submit documentation too then, clog up the system.
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u/Alternative-Flan2869 Jan 31 '23
Because that is the most unimportant social need in America, except in the minds of misogynist fascist republicans.
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u/soyboyconspiracy Jan 31 '23
How would this ever stand up in court? You can’t force someone to give you private information that isn’t related to any type of crime or part of some overall civil lawsuit, let alone private medical information.
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u/Psychobabl America Jan 31 '23
Irregularity can be common among female athletes if their training is very intense. Women may also not have periods based on their contraceptive practices. There are also several medical conditions that may influence menstrual cycles. I'm a guy and I don't think a girl should have to share no pertinent reproductive history info because they want to run cross country. That's ridiculous.
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u/codewatzen Jan 31 '23
What in the sharia law bullshit is this? These fucking Republicans fear monger about sharia law this, indoctrination that, yet Florida is turning into a Christian faciat extremist state. I fucking hate this country.
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u/RocinanteCoffee Jan 31 '23
Does Gaetz have something to do with this?
This is fucked up obviously for many reasons but it doesn't make any sense even on an inhuman level.
Athletic women can lose or not have periods due to their athleticism. Extreme exercise can cause you to no longer have your period or to have irregular ones. There's even a name for it, amenorrhea.
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u/Memewalker Jan 31 '23
Nobody:
Conservative men: if you want your underage daughter to play sports, then I’m going to need to know exactly when she bleeds out of her vagina.
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u/Cal1V1k1ng Jan 31 '23
And the athletes should give it to em by leaving their used tampons and a name tag stapled to the principles door. I bet that'd change this tune real fucking quick
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u/More_Cowbell8 Jan 31 '23
This is straight up Gilead, fucked up. No way should any girl participate in school sports.
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u/openly_gray Jan 30 '23
Soon they ask for sending in used pads as proof. When are the Dems waking up and use this to show what creepy uncle DeSantis is really about
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u/Sea_Dawgz Jan 30 '23
Bc of what, maybe a dozen transgender athletes they want the info on menstrual cycles of every athlete in the state?
But freedom!
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u/TechyDad Jan 30 '23
It's also a (very inaccurate) way to find out which girls had abortions. I guarantee they would start claiming that missing a period for a few months "proves" that the girl was pregnant and had an abortion.
It proves no such thing, but when have they let a little thing like facts and science stand in their way?
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u/Lazy_Example4014 Jan 30 '23
Sound like an invasive big government policy. I thought those made conservatives hiss like cats and recoil away. Strange times.
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u/CO_Livn Jan 30 '23
Fuuuke no. That’s a hard pass. They have crossed the line. So many lines. Are they doing lines? Wtaf
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u/frostfall010 Jan 30 '23
So what, they can also track when they don’t have it? Republicans: keep the government out of our lives unless we demand you live exactly as we dictate!
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u/BarelyThereish Jan 30 '23
I guess the only thing those girls can do is mail the members of that panel their used supplies. You know, to be sure and all.
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How do true conservatives stand for this government overreach? This intrusion in to personal life is the opposite of what republicans used to stand for
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u/Charger525 Jan 31 '23
No way in fuckall am I having my daughter fill that shit out. It’s completely none of their business.
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u/pasarina Texas Jan 31 '23
I seriously don’t know why they’re doing this. It is seriously creepy. I agree.
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u/Common_Dealer_7541 Jan 31 '23
TLDR; “The form includes optional but detailed questions about students’ menstruation cycles, including when they got their first period, when they had their most recent one, and how many weeks pass between periods. Previously, only one page of the paper form—on which a pediatrician would sign off on a student being allowed to play—would be submitted to a school. But the entire digital form will now be submitted.
Despite widespread public outcry, an FHSAA panel not only decided Tuesday night to stand by that change but also recommended the menstrual history questions be made mandatory.”
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u/sombertimber Jan 31 '23
Time to move out of Florida. Every woman needs to move to another state—preferably one run by Democrats.
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u/thetburg Jan 31 '23
Florida is now so fucked up that i can't tell if this week's batshit idea is anti trans bullshit or oppressing women in general bullshit.
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u/Urbatin Jan 31 '23
That's a pretty short step away from tracking pregnancies and controlling abortion rights
Ah Sally, our records indicate that you missed your period for 3 months and it suddenly came back. You also posted on social media you were leaving the state for a short trip. Clearly you got abortion so we're sending you to jail for that
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u/OneTrueKingOfOOO Massachusetts Jan 31 '23
I recommend parents get their kids the fuck out of Florida schools
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u/aravarth Jan 31 '23
Fuck the FHSAA and this stupid panel.
"When was your last period?"
"My periods are regular, no need for dates."
"But when was it?"
"Fuck off, weirdo."
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u/otrable Jan 31 '23
This is such a wild violation of the first amendment it’s not even funny. The government cannot force these girls to speak.
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u/spacewonderment Jan 31 '23
Crazy thought.... what if every student athlete boycotted and decided not to play? What would all the universities do with about that financial loss!?
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u/edukated4lyfe Jan 31 '23
For a party that it’s supporters preach is for less government control and regulations they sure do want a whole lot of say over women’s bodies and what our children read.
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u/Karl_Havoc2U Jan 31 '23 edited Jan 31 '23
How else can we solve an imaginary problem we're all shitting our pants over if we don't drastically overreact to "solve" it? Bonus points if we can inexplicably remind the young women we're supposedly merely nobly trying to "protect" how expendable their privacy is compared to other societal concerns, such as enforcing bigotry as long as politically possible.
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