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  How are the male students going to be able to play sports now since they don’t have menstrual cycles? This is reverse discrimination!
  Obviously, /s
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. >
  
  Get out before the close the border >
  
  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. >
  
  This is SO CREEPY! >
  
  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 >
  
  I recommend parents get their kids the fuck out of Florida schools >
  
  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." >
  
  Party of Projecting Pedophiles >
  
  Blessed be the fruit. >
  
  This is such a wild violation of the first amendment it’s not even funny. The government cannot force these girls to speak. >
  
  Crazy thought.... what if every student athlete boycotted and decided not to play? What would all the universities do with about that financial loss!? >
  
  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. >
  
  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. >
  
  Republicans are so freaky >
  
  This isn’t about trans athletes, it’s about forced childbirth. >
  
  It’s both >
  
  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 >
  
  Bc of what, maybe a dozen transgender athletes they want the info on menstrual cycles of every athlete in the state?
  But freedom! >
  
  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? >
  
  This is just outrageous. It’s a blatant violation of privacy, and none of their goddamned business. >
  
  Even more abuse to women. It's time for idiot men & any of their idiot women, who think abusing their power in these WOMEN ONLY rules, is going to make this society better, are kidding themselves. This is supposed to be the 21st century, not the 7th century. >
  
  Freedom, huh?  Fascists taking over never leads to good things for a culture.  Never. >
  
  Is tracking menstrual history something girls even DO? I honestly have never heard of it other than in adult women trying to get pregnant who track their ovulation. Not knocking any girls if they do this--it's not my business either way--but just surprised that this is even a thing and, if so, WHY is it a thing? >
  
  Republicans keep getting worse and worse, kind of like cancer. >
  
  I “recommend” the ACLU rake the GOP obver hot coals in court. >
  
  Fuuuuck that my girls would be doing club leagues only then >
  
  What Republicans want for America. >
  
  Wtf is wrong with these fucking fuckers?!? >
  
  If any school administrator demanded my daughter's menstrual cycle info, they would be buried in a deep hole. >
  
  Child services should be visiting the people who voted for these people. How does anyone think this is okay? >
  
  Florida is fast becoming one of the biggest shitshows in the nation. Seems like there is less and less redeeming about it every day. >
  
  If every student athlete in that state doesn't quit the next day then there is no hope at all for Florida and we should trade it to putin for a couple of tankers of gas.
  Enough of this holy roller shit. Leave your gods in church and and OUT of our lives. >
  
  Florida is one government that should be drowned in the bathtub. >
  
  Florida Man ain't got shit on Florida Panel >
  
  American Taliban. >
  
  What in the actual fuck.  And this is the party that is whining incessantly about “grooming”?!? >
  
  This is the weirdest shit I've ever heard of. >
  
  At this point, I am going to tell my kids no colleges in red states.  JFC >
  
  Will male students be required to give erection history? >
  
  There isn't enough storage space to hold that amount of data. >
  
  Ah yes, the party of less government interference at work… >
  
  What The Actual Fuck.  Can we now stop pretending that “conservatives” are engaged in normal political discourse? >
  
  This is Handsmaid Tale levels of scary. Watch for many women to drop out of sports. I don’t see myself spending any money in that state as long as this kind of suppression is happening. >
  
  What the actual fuck is happening in Florida. This is what happened when you go full republican >
  
  Get fucked, Florida. Fix your shit. >
  
  
  School administrators say the information will stay private
  
  “We’re going to collect information that is highly inappropriate for us to have, and then make sure we’re the only ones who have it.”
  This is literally like a thief saying “I stole all your credit card numbers, and I promise not to share them with anyone else.  I’ll be the only one using them.”
  Here’s the absolute harsh reality to this.  Any oversight—any state or federal agency that wants to exert oversight into the information will be turned away:
  
  Auditor: “Hey, we need to audit how you are using and storing that data.”
  DeSantis: “No-can-do, this information is PHI and allowing auditors to see what we do with it would violate state and federal privacy laws.” >
  
  There was a pro-choice activist years ago who lived in a right wing state/province (forget which) that was instituting dystopian laws similar to this. She just started collecting her used tampons every month and mailing to the responsible legislator’s office along with a witty note. 
  Girls of Florida should take note. >
  
  My wife says she used to lie that she was on her period to get out of gym class, so I guess the state just wants to collect some lies. >
  
  What the f. Hello fbi, i need to report some republican predators in high school asking them some extremey inappropriate infos,... >
  
  Wtf is wrong with Florida? >
  
  “…one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” >
  
  Brought to you by the party of limited government! >
  
  People should be very concerned by this. >
  
  Osama Bin Laden himself could not have imagined something so degenerate and puritanical as this >
  
  All my red state ladies. You DO NOT have to disclose the date of your last period to your physician. It’s suffice to say “I don’t remember, but I’m regular”. If they have no problem forcing you to give birth, then it’s okay if your smaller, female brain forgets things. >
  
  Start handing in used tampons and pads instead of whatever creepy log they want you filling out. >
  
  Government so small, it can fit inside your daughter’s vagina! >
  
  Matt "sex-trafficking rapist" Gaetz will be the first to get his hands on those records. >
  
  Fucking creeps!! >
  
  That’s why they vote Republican to protect constitutional right to privacy and reduce government oversight…… >
  
  How can this be legal? Private medical information is private. >
  
  Wouldn’t it be nice if we actually had a protected right to privacy? >
  
  Well, my kids wouldn't be in Fascist Florida to begin with.  but if they were they would participate in sports if this is the nonsense the schools are demanding.  But I'm not a gas-lit sheeple, so I don't know what they will do. >
  
  Just WTF >
  
  Just no. Wtf is happening with our country?????? The GOP are crazy >
  
  Is this even legal. I wish Floridians were smarter. I like going there but it's getting harder to stomach. Actually I wish the millions of people who think they need to vote republican were smarter. >
  
  Perhaps the 'product' of students' menstrual histories should be left in their mailboxes, on their windshields, and inside their car door handles on a monthly basis? >
  
  Florida is fucking terrible. Wtf is wrong with the people making laws there? >
  
  It will become public information in zero seconds. >
  
  Get these freaks out of our underwear >
  
  Won't somebody please think about the children.....s need to have their bodily autonomy away from them. >
  
  Ah that freedom they all want, screw your freedom tho, all about what rednecks want. >
  
  Yeah, but, like...what about ejaculation history? Is...is that suddenly invading personal privacy? >
  
  In middle school when I was figuring out the DivaCup I had some Carrie-esque experiences in the school bathroom. If they tried this on me I would have just sent them photos of that so they’d never ask again.
  Jokes aside, this is disgusting and I am disgusted this has gotten far enough to be a headline. >
  
  Just as soon as the boys have to report their nightly "emissions." >
  
  And once forced birth is enshrined by law rapists are just one hack away from making babies with their choice of student. Lovely. 
  Sad but obligatory /s >
  
  Who are these people voting for this?  Name and shame these idiots. >
  
  Republicans have shown time and time again that they're terrible people that want to take control over everyone's individual lives. And yet, voters still overwhelmingly choose them or decide to stay home allowing them to win repeatedly.
  Florida is slingshotting past being a Republican stronghold and going right to fascist regime. >
  
  Wtf this is creepy and weird >
  
  I think we all need to protest by free bleeding. >
  
  Imagine the trolling Gen Z would do to them >
  
  I’m just at a loss as to what reasonable explanation they can have for this one. One love >
  
  OK, lets see what you all you GOP-voting Floridians with girls think about that?  You asked for it! >
  
  Looks like all the boys will need to have sex changes to comply with the law now >
  
  Why would any sane and educated person actually want to live in Florida these days? Yeah, I get it, it's warm there, but your schools are about to go to shit, and you're going to be living under oppressive governmental control like this. 
  Sure, not all Floridians enjoy this, but for those who aren't, what is your plan to save your state? Plug your ears, cover your eyes, and say "I'm not seeing or hearing any of this! I just want to avoid the snow!"?
  I think you're well past the point of "well, I vote Democratic". It's not like I'm even seeing anyone protesting. And DeSantis won with 59% of the vote, the largest margin of any Florida governor in 40 years. >
  
  Da fuck? Fascism is back by popular demand. >
  
  Has the taliban taken over in Florida? >
  
  That’s a big FUCK no. >
  
  I don't understand - are the schools even putting forth a straight-face argument as to why they supposedly need this information?  Or are they just skipping that entirely? >
  
  Sounds like a Florida thing. Just rename it Gilead already >
  
  And there goes female high school sports. >
  
  This is the definition of government overreach… so ironic >
  
  It will remain secret! Sure! Whats the old joke 2 people can keep a secret as long as 1 is dead. >
  
  I wonder where 'the land of the free' moved to?? >
  
  what the fuck Florida. >
  
  Republicans are in a satanic cult that drinks teen menstrual blood. >
  
  Told my wife. She asked if Florida was going to be Gilead. >
  
  OK … I want all the boys to record and report their masturbatory history along with sperm count.
  It would be just as revelatory … >
  
  This is why you lie to the state. Yes I had my period did the third time this month. Don’t believe me, here is a bloody tampon. >
  
  This is blatantly unconstitutional >
  
  So basically Florida can’t have any books in there libraries in girls need to provide detailed records of their periods. Wtf >
  
  Under his eye >
  
  Reasons that I will never ever consider moving my family to Florida*
  *TBF, this isn’t a new decision. It was made long ago based on projected sea level rise >
  
  Hmm. Why would a bunch of old Republican men want to know when a teenager last menstruated, or whether she has yet at all? >
  
  That is a clear violation of the 4th amendment. >
  
  “Small government” >
  
  I’m sure this will never be used in a gross/creepy/predatory way 
  /s >
  
  This shit has gone TOO far! >
  
  As a father I can’t say WTF loud enough. >
  
  “Government overreach!” Screams the conservative…
  What? Wait, you’re saying that it’s Republicans implementing these insane rules?
  That can’t be…they’re the party of small government. 
  /s
  These kinds of rules lay bare the lie of American politics over the course of my entire life. The right doesn’t care about small government. They just don’t want to help people. They want to control them. >
  
  I thought big government is bad. Or is thar only when we’re making sure people have toilet paper and enough to eat? >
  
  Is Matt Gaetz on that panel perchance? >
  
  I laugh because it’s so absurd… then I sigh because it’s really happening.  Perhaps Joel Greenburgh (or someone like him) will be responsible for policing your FL daughter’s menstruation cycle. >
  
  MAGA repubs are obsessed with genitalia, who sleeps with who, who marries who, sexual orientation and gender identification. They do not know the difference between sexual identification and pedophilia, totally ignoring that the majority of pedophilic sexual offenders identify as heterosexual and closely connected to the victims family. This is just MAGA transphobia and all about control issues over females be them girls or women. >
  
  Tell the Florida Panel to go fuck themselves & mind their own fucking business of which menstrual history is not any of their fucking business. >
  
  Florida is not alright. >
  
  What the hell is even going on anymore. >
  
  Never vote GOP >
  
  If offered a job in Florida what sane parent would move their family there. I predict a brain drain which may be what they are hoping for. >
  
  Holy fucking shit that’s sick. I’m about to have my first kid, a girl. Terrified the way the country is going, I live in Texas, probably fucking next. 🙄 >
  
  Paywall. What does the article say? >
  
  The Florida High School Athletics Association said student athletes should be required to give detailed information about their periods when they register to play.  
  The Florida High School Athletics Association is standing by its decision to require student athletes to give their schools detailed information about their periods, an unprecedented policy that is raising major concerns about privacy.
  The FHSAA announced in October that it was changing its annual physical form for student athletes to a digital version instead of paper. 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. >
  
  Thanks for the details
  Truly bizarre >
  
  We must ask the children creepy questions about their private intimate bodily functions because democrats might groom them to be gay by teaching them that slavery was bad or something. >
  
  Enjoy your “ small government “ >
  
  A panel of who?  Perverts, idiots... >
  
  
  Since the fall of Roe v. Wade, people have been hypervigilant about third parties tracking menstrual data. 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.
  
  Florida has made it clear it is cracking down on the rights of women, girls, and gender minorities. The state has banned abortion after 15 weeks, forbidden transgender girls from playing on girls’ sports teams, and barred state residents from using Medicaid to pay for gender-affirming treatments.
  Many parents and doctors are worried that schools will use the menstrual data to monitor students for late or missed periods, a possible sign of pregnancy, or to out transgender students by watching for girls who don’t get periods or boys who do.
  School administrators say the information will stay private, but there’s no guarantee it will. It’s a terrifying glimpse of our dystopian post-Roe world. >
  
  I thought they were against bIg GoVeRnMeNt >
  
  Bullying females. … This is awful >
  
  Maybe politicians should be forced to give their ejaculation history. Updated live with all the active URLs and apps on any of their devices at the time >
  
  This is absolutely batshit crazy.  I just don’t get when will be enough for these Floridians.  What will be straw that breaks the camels back.  But what will that be? >
  
  Jesus christ this is unbelievable >
  
  I guess I am slow.  Why is this information needed? >
  
  Forget the wall at Mexican Border. We need one at border of Florida. 🤣 >
  
  Republicans do not care about your personal freedoms if you have a uterus. >
  
  Dystopian af, what are y’all doin bro >
  
  Appropriately unsettling choice of stock photo. >
  
  Not that it matters, but the picture is from Orange County, CA.  Los alamitos >
  
  Are these people nuts? >
  
  The “red state” jokes practically write themselves. >
  
  Say again who were the groomers? >
  
  Why is the GOP obsessed with other people’s reproductive organs? >
  
  Everyday some of y’all views get creepier and creepier >
  
  Absolutely fucking not >
  
  r/conservative >
  
  College Medical Athletic Trainer here: this information has been on all of the institutions' physical forms for female athletes that I have worked at. (5 schools across the country and  counting)
  Never worked at a high school nor do I know what would entail there.  Seems creepy weird thouch. >
  
  This is such a cruel abuse of power, aimed at girls and women. I cannot believe that this is actually happening. It is a total mind fuck that leaders are governing a woman’s body like this. I truly ache for the United States, and I hope, one day very soon, that all this bullshit garbage comes to an end. This is absolutely disgusting, and criminal! But of course, this is all done under the guise of “protecting” whatever banner (sports, religion, etc) is the buzzword of the day. Fuck all of these people. Fuck them all. Fuck them. >
  
  the girls need to lie about any of this info. it’s no one’s business. girls now can’t even tell their doctors the dates of their periods in red states. there is no trust. fuck the repugnicans >
  
  The people who don't believe in consent, always itching to protect "the children" by giving themselves the right to intrude on the privacy of female children. They're 100% garbage. >
  
  Florida is the test bed. Texas is the rollout. The rest of the country follows suit. 
  This has been the process for decades and we just keep letting it happen… >
  
  Can someone explain what conclusions can possibly be drawn from this menstrual data? >
  
  As soon as I read the headline I assumed it was spying for the anti-choice lobby. >
  
  Good lord, I'm so glad I live on the west coast. >
  
  Republicans are targeting girls for harassment >
  
  Just because the state looks like one doesn’t mean they have to be one. >
  
  I would send them a photo of my middle finger and contact the ACLU immediately. >
  
  What is the board made up of? Doctors or just some random fuckbags “elected” to said board? What gives these fucks the right to demand anything? >
  
  Menstrual History…. Can the submission come in the form of every dirty tampon and pad used during a period? Signed and dated?
  Should this history be submitted in a spiral notebook with tab dividers or should it be glued to notecards? 
  “As requested, here is my menstrual history, with evidence and documentation. Please let me know if there are questions.” >
  
  Giant government big brother tracking people shit right there. Do you want the government to know your every single detail, desantis wanys to know >
  
  Disgusting. What is wrong with these people? Can't folks have any kind of personal liberty anymore? >
  
  Christo-fascism like women & girls to reproduce only. They don't want them taking testosterone to inhibit their periods. DeSantis is so far ahead of Abbott on the "I can out-Nazi any MAGA governor!" >
  
  I can picture desantis's new campaign now, selling his own version of bright red mega hats, made with the menstrual blood of teenage athletes. If I were a girl required to do that, you better believe I'd figured the most evil horrific way of compliance. Want my schedule of menstruation? Here I made some special period panties just for you your honor. Evil f**, want to talk about leave the kids alone! >
  
  No way would I be a teenage girl & comply with the government tracking my period. Holy hell! >
  
  Back in high school, I was a 6’ tall, 180 lb guy. (Still a guy). If they put this in place back then, I would’ve had to submit something, just to fuck with their data. >
  
  The part of personal 'Free-dumb'!! >
  
  So much for freedom. >
  
  Wouldn't HIPAA protect any parent/child who refused to hand over this information?
  As well, discriminating against anyone based on this would be an almost instant win lawsuit.
  Y'all folks gotta QUIT looking at politicians as leaders and start looking at them as your employees. Employees you can tell no to and if they don't accept that then can FIRE at will. You know, under the same regulations that they pushed on labor for a generation. >
  
  This is why I left Florida >
  
  Man. Conservatives are some sick people. First genital inspections to make sure you are playing in the “right” team. Now they wanna force underage girls to send their menstrual history to a fucking school. >
  
  Taking away women's rights on what they can do with their own bodies, interfering with their rights of privacy, passing rules on skirt lengths, banning books, requiring schools to put "in god we trust"... etc
  Glad to see the GOP focusing on the really important matters and problems we face. 😉 >
  
  Republicans want to rape minor girls. Real groomers right there >
  
  Florida = Gilead >
  
  WTF!  Why? Talk about grooming.  I guarantee the this panel is Christian Conservatives. >
  
  Acknowledging and respecting the fact that women have periods is a current trend in many places. >
  
  But what do they need that data for? >
  
  And yet the dems are accused of being pedophiles >
  
  Party of small gubmint >
  
  Republicans want to inspect the genitals of children and know their menstrual cycles, but somehow men wearing dresses are the groomers? Sure, sure, not at all projection. >
  
  Should boys be required to report the frequency of nocturnal emissions or frequency of morning wood? Subjected to checks for the length of the pubic hair and armpit hair? Quantify the volume of each testicle and how low it dropped. Oh of course not, silly me - intrusive exams and medical monitoring only apply to females. >
  
  They want girls to grow up without expecting privacy or control  of their own bodies and medical information.  Break them down and make them compliant.
  But trans women are the groomers??? >
  
  It's all about 'Personal Freedom'......to see what your kid has in their pants. Republican Creep Fest. >
  
  Da fuck??????? 
  That's disgusting. And a huge violation of HIPAA. >
  
  Actually it isn’t. The violation would occur if they got a person’s medical records from their health provider without their permission. >
  
  You're right, but I'd imagine if they make this mandatory, that would run into some medical/ethical legality issues. >
  
  Violation of privacy, I would think. >
  
  You all voted for Trump and this is what you get. Women’s rights are being taking away. Your right to vote and work is next. Conservatives means white men rights only. >
  
  Who's "you all"? Trump lost the popular vote, TWICE. The majority of this country didn't vote for him. I, for one, didn't.
  Trump became president because of the electoral college. Not because the majority of us voted or wanted him. >
  
  .... pretty sure that falls under private medical history and would be a HIPAA violation, no? >
  
  HIPAA does not apply to asking people for health information, it specifically covers the storage, transmission and protection of electronic health records.
  Also it does not apply unless you are part of healthcare and health insurance industries. Notice the last paragraph of this response. Confidentiality is not required if you are not part of a covered entity. 
  Write the information on a piece of paper and you are good to go. 
  It modernized the flow of healthcare information, stipulates how personally identifiable information maintained by the healthcare and healthcare insurance industries should be protected from fraud and theft.
  It generally prohibits healthcare providers and healthcare businesses, called covered entities, from disclosing protected information to anyone other than a patient and the patient's authorized representatives without their consent. With limited exceptions, it does not restrict patients from 
  It does not prohibit patients from voluntarily sharing their health information however they choose, nor does it require confidentiality where a patient discloses medical information to family members, friends, or other individuals not a part of a covered entity. >
  
  They recommend you collect the blood in a bottle and give it to school admin so they can use it as lubricant to masturbate. >
  
  How is this not a HIPAA violation? >
  
  Because that isn't how HIPAA works. But it is vile, disgusting, and just wrong. This country is divisively sliding backwards at an alarming pace. >
  
  Before I slam the GOP m, is there any reason why a women should share this with someone who is NOT her doctor? >
  
  No, and even worse: If women start refusing to share that information with their doctors, as they have to be afraid it might get into wrong hands, quality of care will suffer as it is a legit important information for doctors. >
  
  Sports are not important and women should decide what happens to women. Let all the "suspected women" vote on what to do. >
  
  Bruh i went to that highschool wtf is it doing in this article!!?? That dude being pictured is a good dude plus this school is in California which is literally the furthest away from Florida. 
  I haven’t read the article but is there a reason they use this picture for the article?? >
  
  "Why Tho?" >
  
  The Florida panel should share their masturbation history... >
  
  How exactly would you do that? I'm genuinely curious...bring them a bloody tampon? >
  
  Won't happen