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  Get out before the close the border
context: Republicans are creepy AF. >
  
  Just wait for the genital inspections. They're coming. >
  
  Mid-90's I had to get one for football but they were just making sure I had two balls. >
  
  Probably looking for hernias >
  
  
  Probably looking for hernias
  
  do they still do this??
  looking back, there were definitely some creepers doing this back in the day >
  
  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. >
  
  All my sports physicals essentially only consisted of a hernia check. >
  
  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. >
  
  I think it's also to try and discover any girls who've had an abortion. >
  
  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. >
  
  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." >
  
  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. >
  
  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. >
  
  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." >
  
  They also wanted to inspect everyone's junk before entering a restroom. Religion creates pervs. >
  
  Sometimes religion just seems like kink that’s gotten out of hand. >
  
  Youre not far off. >
  
  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 >
  
  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. >
  
  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. >
  
  I am past unaliving myself at this point. I am not the problem and don't deserve that. I will simply move to an alternate society. Preferably a warm society. >
  
  Ah fascism.  Really taking hold down there! >
  
  Just when you thought Florida couldn’t get any weirder >
  
  By "down there" he may have meant the nether regions... >
  
  That's pretty much what Florida smells like ... so yeah. >
  
  Damn that’s fucked up. I’m sure somebody around me showers. >
  
  
  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. >
  
  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. >
  
  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. >
  
  Possibly a hot take, but the state getting involved with the genitals of teenagers is bad, actually >
  
  Matt Gaetz disagrees. >
  
  He personally volunteered to check >
  
  Gym Jordan will watch. >
  
  "Jesus Fuck. Even I couldn't have come up with something that evil."
  
  Margaret Atwood, likely >
  
  Christ. That's horrific. >
  
  Florida is out of control >
  
  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. >
  
  Almost certainly.   I mean all that's necessary to deduce whats going on here is to just read the post title and at most, AT MOST, read the article title.  No need to research at all anything about this. Just jump to conclusions. >
  
  So is that why you keep asking questions like big words are difficult for you? >
  
  I would claim a religious exemption to answering those questions. >
  
  
  I would claim a religious exemption to answering those questions.
  
  I would tell them to go fuck themselves. >
  
  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. >
  
  
  after telling them to go fuck themselves.
  
  This is the important part. >
  
  Definitely . >
  
  This is creepy, fascist, and dystopian all at the same time. >
  
  Republicans - the Taliban are bad...but also we're going to take their playbook on how to control women and children >
  
  I hope not. The Taliban neither claimed responsibility or condemned the massacre at Afghanistan's Dasht-e-Barchi maternity hospital. >
  
  such a tragic incident a medical facility was attacked >
  
  Every woman impacted by this should report false and nonsensical data.
  It's not as if they can check. >
  
  Every child. >
  
  It’s incredibly sad and wild how ingrained in society that we automatically do that to girls… 
  “Underaged girls.” “Young women.” >
  
  Under His Eye. >
  
  Blessed be the fruit loops >
  
  A government so big it can monitor your vagina for you >
  
  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. >
  
  Children, Kitchen, and Church, in case anyone needs the translation. >
  
  Es klingt besser auf Deutsch. Besides it's not as if a Google Search wouldn't have worked. >
  
  I’m a guy. And I gotta ask - why the fuck? Like in what world does this information matter? Probably gonna be a lawsuit. >
  
  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. >
  
  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.. >
  
  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." >
  
  Talk about invasion of privacy and emotional child abuse. What’s next, virginity checks? >
  
  Full employment for the remaining free Larry Nasrs in Florida. >
  
  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. >
  
  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. >
  
  If this becomes mandatory, the lawsuit will follow quickly. Hard to see how the state athletic association can make a legitimate case out of needing to know such information, but it’s Florida, so who knows what a there judge will think? >
  
  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. >
  
  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?!!!! >
  
  “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.” >
  
  Republicans are the groomers >
  
  "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. >
  
  "publicize their privates" >
  
  From the people who brought you, "I'm for limited government," and "that's a HIPAA violation!" >
  
  And "masks are the devil!" >
  
  What legitimate reason could any school have to know that data?
  The answer is obvious. None. >
  
  It's a way to track and prevent transgender women from competing in women's sports.
  Not agreeing just explaining. >
  
  Also hunting for possible abortions. >
  
  GOP: but how dare you add one vaccine to the 200 vaccines the military already takes. >
  
  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. >
  
  A draconian and barbaric overreach... this has some interesting hallmarks. >
  
  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. 
  April 2, 2019 The U.S. Is Tracking Migrant Girls' Periods to Stop Them From Getting Abortions.
  This is some really weird Handmaid's Tale stuff. >
  
  They should ship boxes of used tampons to Tallahassee with a signature requirement for Ron DeFatass >
  
  He'd have it declared an attack with biohazard waste while turning them over to have the DNA analyzed and traced. >
  
  And declare the girls/women domestic terrorists, no doubt. >
  
  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. >
  
  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 >
  
  Nunya >
  
  Right about the same time every elected official turns over their internet search history. The fuck is wrong with people. >
  
  Expect a lot of girls quitting sports.
  America will lose a lot of Olympics soon. >
  
  
  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. >
  
  No. Period. >
  
  r/Angryupvote   Honestly the perfect answer. >
  
  Get your children, yourselves, and your money out of Gilead while you still can. >
  
  Handmaiden’s Tail coming true >
  
  Do we call Trump or DeSantis Mr Gilead? >
  
  Trump is the High Commander & DeSantis is a Commander >
  
  But why? Why do they need that info? No one has explained why that info is necessary. It’s intrusive. >
  
  Real question - how will they force this?  The girls could just lie, I sure as fuck would >
  
  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 >
  
  Every panel member that recommended this deserves to have their lives ruined and to be ostracized. >
  
  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. >
  
  I have all the same questions. The irony about these lawmakers is that they seem to know nothing about the female reproductive system or the wide spectrum of how women function but they know they want to regulate it. And also how will they make you prove you have your period? 
  We all know this is a poorly designed law that is just designed to scare and intimidate women. >
  
  fascist scum >
  
  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. >
  
  Nope >
  
  Ew. Weirdo Florida panels... >
  
  A panel of white old men and menopausal women making decisions for teenagers about their menstrual cycle >
  
  Every male should submit documentation too then, clog up the system. >
  
  Why?  So creepy. >
  
  To make sure none of them dirty transes sneak by and ... i dunno ... swims or someshit. >
  
  We need to treat republicans as a threat. >
  
  Because that is the most unimportant social
  need in America, except in the minds of misogynist fascist republicans. >
  
  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. >
  
  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. >
  
  This. Is. Just. So. Wrong. >
  
  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. >
  
  They want Gilead, which is based off Iran but they are American Christians.  Even have the morality police that Iran has. >
  
  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. >
  
  And these are private medical issues with their doctors.  Why do schools/the government need to know. >
  
  Exactly.
  I had to take a physical in high school to join the swimming and water polo teams but they were not gyno exams.  They were checking cardiovascular health/blood pressure/weight and a small survey just to make sure students susceptible to stroke or asthma were taken care of. >
  
  I played basketball, volleyball and track, and IIRC there were just occasional vitals checks.  And yeah if the person needed accommodations for specific issues that was made available.  The few injuries I had were handled between me and my doctor and and I would report back the information from my doctor, which was basically the injury, restrictions and when I could play again.  In the event if I was too embarrassed to tell the coach what the problem was, just telling them that and the restrictions would have been fine. >
  
  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. >
  
  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 >
  
  This is straight up Gilead, fucked up. No way should any girl participate in school sports. >
  
  Sound like an invasive big government policy. I thought those made conservatives hiss like cats and recoil away. Strange times. >
  
  Uhh, what? That's... gross and invasive. How about no? >
  
  Fuuuke no. That’s a hard pass. They have crossed the line. So many lines. Are they doing lines? Wtaf >
  
  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! >
  
  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. >
  
  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 >
  
  The old R party, 25, 30 years ago, stood for privacy and small government.   Modern Republicans  are fascist -  they want to control “other” people,  make others conform to be  white, wealthy, evangelical, men. >
  
  Gilead. Blessed be the Fruit. >
  
  The national republican nightmare continues. >
  
  Under His Eye >
  
  May the Lord Open. >
  
  r/welcometogilead >
  
  I've got it all bagged up for you to inspect. >
  
  God lord, please trigger gen z to vote. >
  
  No way in fuckall am I having my daughter fill that shit out. It’s completely none of their business. >
  
  I seriously don’t know why they’re doing this. It is seriously creepy. I agree. >
  
  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.” >
  
  Time to move out of Florida.  Every woman needs to move to another state—preferably one run by Democrats.