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  So is this being talked about on r/conservative, or are they choosing to ignore this fascism and just talking about the laptop?
context: I feel like this would be a huge violation of like my child’s privacy and what’s it called oh yeah big government. >
  
  The brainwashing in America is in fourth gear rn. All reason out the fuckin window. How do you even come back from this level of nonsense >
  
  Education.  Which is why Republicans have been going after that for decades. >
  
  Isn't it funny that the same party that claims we need to compete with China is also anti formal education? >
  
  They just want to compete at the level of cheap labor. >
  
  It's why they're so obssessed with trying to find ways to funnel money from public schools, i.e. the places where the children of "those people" go, and into private schools, where their children go.
  They're purposely trying to remove access to one of the few equalizers that people have when growing up poor. Republicans don't want an educated merit-based workforce, they want a nation of serfs run by their undeserving and inept crotch-spawn. >
  
  They eye the Russian oligarchs with longing >
  
  Russian oligarchs are much more jealous of US oligarchs, they don’t have to worry about the good old double tap to the back of the head from daddy Putin. >
  
  No, life under Putin is fantastic!  Who doesn't love tea parties?  Not to mention that he always books you in hotel rooms several stories up with big windows to make sure you have a good view.  He's a swell guy! >
  
  Haven’t you always wanted to walk up a long flight of stairs with Putin? >
  
  Seriously. Like what kind of sick world do people live in that they think this is acceptable?!?! >
  
  Same world that will let this man continue to enjoy wealth, totally unpunished, until the day he dies peacefully alongside his family. God very clearly doesn’t exist and we are living in an unchangeable hell. >
  
  Reminder that Henry Kissinger is still alive and well respected by our political establishment. >
  
  I wonder how he’ll be discussed and “honored” when he finally dies. >
  
  There will definitely be celebrations in Vietnam, Chile, Argentina, Bangladesh, Pakistan… >
  
  And here, at my home. There will be a party! And the day will be remembered in the way we remember April 30th 1945 when another Nazi finally shot himself (coward!!) through the head... >
  
  I would start mailing my used tampons and pads etc to this fuckass. >
  
  Seriously these guys can go suck a fuck. >
  
  How exactly does one suck a fuck? >
  
  Sigh. We will not have this at the dinner table..... >
  
  All around me are familiar faces... >
  
  I find it kind of funny; I find it kind of sad.
  The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had. >
  
  Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion. >
  
  He asked me to forcibly insert the lifeline exercise card into my anus! >
  
  "That's bullshit. Smurfette fucks all the other Smurfs. Why do you think Papa Smurf made her? Because all the other Smurfs were getting too horny." >
  
  Why are you wearing that stupid bunny suit? >
  
  Can we have just one day where Republicans don't discuss other people's genitals? >
  
  Between this and Hunter the Hung's Laptop, it's going to be a long two years of genitals. >
  
  “A Long Two Years of Genitals” 
  -IMDB 4.5/10 “too much dialogue, not enough genitals.” >
  
  Now, here's the twist, and there is a twist. We show it. We show All of it. Because what's the one major thing missing from all action movies these days? Full penetration. Guys, we're going to show full penetration and we're going to show a lot of it. >
  
  They can fuck off because ain't getting that information about my daughters. >
  
  “She hasn’t started her cycle yet” …but she’s 17… “She hasn’t started her cycle yet” >
  
  Just by being athletic, their bodies can stop or even never start their periods. Low body percentage will usually do it. Seems like such a bad thing to track because there will likely be triggering false alarms about potential pregnancy. >
  
  It’s about transgendered kids participating in sports. >
  
  I remember reading there were only a handful of trans kids in sports across the US, despite all the interest in them by creepy old guys who want to use them as an excuse to examine our high school daughters. >
  
  Exactly. What percentage of the population is trans? 1%? So we’re talking maybe half a percent are male to female? And not all of those want to do full gender reassignment anyway.
  Then the group gets even smaller because of that tiny subset of kids even fewer will be interested in competing in sports at a high level. So much fuss over what? 9 kids? >
  
  Yep, it was a coordinated and concerted effort by an entire political party to bully exactly one student in the entire state. >
  
  Oh look, fear of trans athletes is morphing into more control over women for their protection, who could have guessed.
  All for entertainment. >
  
  It's not just that. It'll be used against those girls when they're suspected of being pregnant ! / aborting ! / miscarrying without a license. You get the idea. And because those fascist fucks know nothing about biology, what do you think happens when a girl is irregular? >
  
  I saw an article that said period tracking apps experienced a dramatic drop in users after Roe was overturned. Some of them switched their servers out of the US to give the illusion of privacy protection to customers. 
  I deleted my period tracking app and I'm no longer providing my menstrual history to my doctor. I don't want anything about my period or sex life documented in my medical records.  
  Sucks that it came to that, but with republicans going after women's rights I'm not taking any chances. 
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  and I'm no longer providing my menstrual history to my doctor
  
  Same! I have an IUD but still actually get (extremely light) periods on a regular cycle. I lie to every doctor now and just say I'm not menstruating. I don't want them to have a record of my cycle at all. >
  
  Wow. I’m just realizing this. I also have and IUD with light periods occasionally but damn I’m happy I’m too lazy to ever think hard enough to tell my doctor at my visits. For sure not going to now. It’s so sad it’s come to a point where the system is so fucked we can’t even be safe and honest with doctors who actually care. >
  
  FYI
  You do not have to provide any medical information that you don’t want to. Without explanation. A simple, ‘I don’t want to answer that question’ will do. 
  You can also ask if your urinalysis sample will include a pregnancy test. If so, you can always decline consent to one. >
  
  AFAIK, certain medical procedures require them to “make sure” you’re not pregnant before proceeding. It’s an insurance thing. I’ve tried to deny pregnancy tests before surgery and they straight up told me they wouldn’t be performing it then. So while you don’t have to let them test you, you can be denied care.
  If that’s not true and they were lying to me I’d love to know though, because I’m sick of some stupid hypothetical pregnancy I will never want being more important than my medical care. >
  
  FWIW, you should ask in the future if they have a consent form you can sign.  They understandably don’t want the liability but if you agree to sign away certain rights they might give.  Happened with me for a recent procedure and the immediate availability of the form implied standard procedure. >
  
  So much for small government. >
  
  Small enough to fit inside a vagina. >
  
  Pretty sure my bloody tampons absorb less toxic biowaste than whatever gushes out DeSantis’s brain. >
  
  You should mail them to his office >
  
  Your conservatives are creepy asf America! >
  
  Conservatives everywhere are weird. It's an ideology literally based on the opposition to progress. >
  
  I always saw them as Conservative in name, but politically regressive in reality. They just want us to go back to the good ol' times. >
  
  Entire conservative ideology:
  "The year {now-50} was pretty cool" >
  
  Lol, Gilead keeping track of the fertility of school girls >
  
  Under his eye >
  
  Blessed be the fruit >
  
  May the Lord open. >
  
  Praise be. >
  
  Next we'll get a headline that he's now requiring all women to register their periods online. >
  
  Under His eye >
  
  Blessed be the fruit. >
  
  May the lord open. >
  
  Praise be >
  
  How would they even confirm any of the information they are given is accurate?  Vagina inspections?
  Get the fuck out of here. >
  
  Agree, if this crap actually passes girls should just give fake information and make the reports useless >
  
  Exactly. I don’t see why anyone would ever consider giving real information. In which case this is just a stupid, pointless idea >
  
  I think this has more to do with monitoring teen pregnancy & potential abortions even more so than the trans issue. Seriously scary Nazi shit however you slice it. >
  
  That’s exactly what it’s for. The trans issue was just the back door to enabling getting it legislated which many people already explained when the republicans wanted to interfere with trans athletes in women sporting programs. >
  
  Sickening. I have 2 daughters. There’s absolutely NO way I would consent to that. Florida is a test run for full on fascism country wide. We’re not hearing enough about this. How is this constitutional? >
  
  Because they claim everything they do is and everything they don’t like isn’t. And they got judges and shit who weirdly interpret and twist shit  around to back them up >
  
  Should be noted that they target and drum up complex issues intentionally & go for the lowest common denominator.
  You're either baby killers or woman haters. >
  
  Every damn time. >
  
  I'm surprised it took you this long to come around, but hey, welcome to the right side of history. We've got a big inclusive tent and we aren't insurrectionist racist anti-science anti-trans anti-women hateful bigots. >
  
  Just send them your used tampons ladies. >
  
  I use a Diva cup. I'll just load the contents into a SuperSoaker. >
  
  I think water balloons would be better. Lets all the gloopy bits come out to play. >
  
  Good call! A clot-filled balloon would look amazing on a Republican congressman. >
  
  people for the ethical treatment of women >
  
  The athletic association’s current Preparticipation Physical Evaluation Form, which must be completed by a student and their physician and kept on file at their school, asks female athletes five questions about their periods, but they’re all listed as optional.
  The proposed revisions to the form include four mandatory questions about menstruation, including if the student has ever had a period, the age they had their first period, the date of their most recent period and how many periods they’ve had in the past year.
  Yeesh, this is coming from the party that's spent the last couple of years crying about their medical freedom. 
  Make no mistake, Republicans are more then a eager to abandon their so called "values" if it's for the sake of their culture war. Desantis has shown us time and time again that he's willing to justify flagrant government overreach, censorship, suppression, discriminatory and ambiguously framed legislation, among other things of course, as long it preserves the culture war. 
  It's the Republican M.O after all. Manufacture a problem to justify its solution. In this case, Desantis and his fellow scaremongers paint a picture of a transgender boogeyman, they overstate the impact of things like the transgender athletes in women's sports, they convince their voters that these issues are inescapable and ubiquitous, they peddle their propaganda and their alarmist rhetoric, and in turn it grants them all the support and justification they need to target the LGBTQ community through measures like these.
  As long as it's in the name of thwarting the radical left's depraved, woke, subversive plot to establish a new world order, anything goes. Keep in mind that this isn't just about pursuing a regressive agenda or about justifying needlessly heavy-handed legislation, it's also about justifying the underlying attitudes that Republicans feel they've been forced to repress. 
  The chauvinism and bigotry, the enmity and antagonism, the disgust and contempt, the ceaseless outrage, the discrimination and the feelings of entitlement, with the existence of this radical left-wing villain comes the power for Republicans to vindicate themselves, it allows them to indulge their own worst impulses and it helps them rationalize these subdued feelings. >
  
  As always, every Republican accusation is a confession. 
  They don't hate cancel culture, they just think they should be the ones doing the canceling. They don't hate grooming kids, they just think they should be the ones grooming them. They don't hate stolen elections, they just think they should be the ones stealing them. 
  If they didn't have double standards they'd have no standards at all. >
  
  Hi America, how are you enjoying being the best, freest country on earth? >
  
  Please send help >
  
  blinks in Morris code S O S >
  
  It's Morse code, bruh. >
  
  We had to make a new one. They know that one. >
  
  Seriously this is perverted and disgusting. How can anyone support this >
  
  Fascists. Fascists support this. >
  
  Guarantee you this will be used as a weapon and tied into abortion clinics. >
  
  Oh please do. Don’t just float that balloon, do it. I have to believe the blow back on this stupidity will be tremendous. If you think the overturn of Roe vs Wade didn’t go well, I’m thinking this will be worse. >
  
  My first reaction is disbelief and outrage. My second reaction is a calm, seething hopefulness that they double down and actually go through with all of their BS. There would never be another “red wave” election again. 🤔 >
  
  They didn't learn from the midterms. The RNC already is doubling down on putting more restrictions on abortion. When it was clear that played a role in why they have such a slim majority in the house and didn't retake the Senate. >
  
  Nah, they learned plenty from the midterms. The voters of Florida rewarded DeSantis for his cruelty with a landslide re-election. Why wouldn’t he double down on these sorts of monstrous policies? >
  
  This is a party of small goverment reaching into your vagina. >
  
  Always heard it as "A government small enough to fit in your vagina." >
  
  It’d be ok if he would be just a creep. His executive overreach points to something far more sinister. Under him Florida has become effectively a laboratory for a authoritarian takeover through executive action and systematic intimidation. The sheep on the right still keep bleating about freedom and liberty, concepts they clearly don’t understand >
  
  This headline and opening paragraph is what’s wrong with entertainment journalism. The first paragraph says the headline is false. Clickbait to churn the algorithm. 
  Don’t get me wrong those lunatics are just crazy enough to do something like that but still. >
  
  This article is literally a fact checking article as part of a broader AP fact checking initiative to address widespread false claims, which is clear from the article's format and is explained directly at the end of the article. It's only misleading if you post it to reddit without this context/people don't read the article, which I think is what OP is banking on. >
  
  What is the deal with these sick fucks?  Is it even the 21st century anymore? >
  
  The Party of personal invasion >
  
  Soo is DeSantis going for cartoon villain? >
  
  No. He wants to be the next GOP presidential candidate. He’s been told this is the way.
  So look around you. Yes. There are people in your vicinity who would vote for this. >
  
  They're my family and it's terrifying. I can't get through to any of them. >
  
  Petition to saw off Florida from the rest of the country like Bugs Bunny did in that one Looney Tunes short. >
  
  So creepy and awful for these teen girls.  
  Also, what’s to stop them from lying and/or giving false information to F with the system?  Or maybe that’s when Phase 2 (the inspections) kicks in.  🤮 >
  
  This is basically what doctors with ethics do in backwards cultures that require virginity check. "What would you like me to put on form?" >
  
  The article was issued by AP to correct online misinformation per the below footnote.
  This is part of AP’s effort to address widely shared misinformation...to add factual context to misleading content that is circulating online.
  The opening paragraphs are as follows:
  CLAIM: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is requiring all female student-athletes in the state to provide detailed information about their periods in order to compete in organized sports.
  AP’S ASSESSMENT: FALSE. The Florida High School Athletic Association is weighing the recommendation from an advisory committee, but no final decision has been made. DeSantis’ education commissioner is a member of the association’s board of directors and the commissioner also appoints three others, but the association is a private nonprofit organization, not a state agency under the purview of the governor’s office.
  The article then goes on to say:
  Robert Sefcik, a member of the sports medicine advisory committee, said making the menstrual cycle questions mandatory rather than optional is consistent with national guidelines for sports physicals developed by the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Sports Medicine and other groups.
  He said having a form that has been vetted and published by national organizations provides an “extremely credible resource” for doctors conducting sports physicals.
  “We appreciate the medical necessity of the questions, including menstrual history, that are included on this form and support their inclusion on the form,” Sefcik, who was the committee’s previous chairperson and voted in favor of recommendations, wrote in an email The national guidelines say menstrual history is an “essential discussion for female athletes” because period abnormalities could be a sign of “low energy availability, pregnancy, or other gynecologic or medical conditions.”
  “Menstrual dysfunction is 2-3 times more common in athletes than nonathletes, and 10-15% of female athletes have amenorrhea (loss of menstrual cycle) or oligomenorrhea (a decrease in number of menstrual cycles per year),” the guidelines read. “Amenorrhea occurs more frequently in players of sports that emphasize leanness, such as running, gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, and figure skating.”
  Edit:
  Per Outsports (an LGBT sports website):
  "At least 44 states currently require or request the asking of female high school athletes for information about their “menstrual period,” Outsports has found through a state-by-state examination of publicly available “preparticipation physical evaluation” forms, as they are commonly called." >
  
  Read the article everyone. >
  
  The article is debunking the headline. Even though questions about Menstruation are optional question right now for female high school, a private assoc is not associate with the state made a recommendation to make it required. >
  
  Then why not put FACT CHECK right in the headline? >
  
  Ugh, I was hoping this would have died after the backlash when it was first discussed in October. This is absolute madness. >
  
  This is crazy >
  
  What a bullshit, unneccessary proposal. Fuckin flotida, man >
  
  Closer and closer to the Handmaid's Tale... >
  
  Starting to think their objection is just that they think women shouldn't be athletes in general.  They are just using trans people as an excuse to harass all women at this point. >
  
  Small government my ass. >
  
  Directly from the article:
  CLAIM: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is requiring all female student-athletes in the state to provide detailed information about their periods in order to compete in organized sports.
  AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The Florida High School Athletic Association is weighing the recommendation from an advisory committee, but no final decision has been made. DeSantis’ education commissioner is a member of the association’s board of directors and the commissioner also appoints three others, but the association is a private nonprofit organization, not a state agency under the purview of the governor’s office.
  ... >
  
  So this is what "smaller government" looks like. >
  
  Sounds like a good way to get girls to quit sports. Could you imagine, "Is it that time of the month yet? Why are you late? "
  Edit:Also
  This probably won't be, but this is hopefully closer to the straw that breaks the camels back with support for DeSantis. Although, they supported Trump through a lot of BS, and I guess still do >
  
  AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The Florida High School Athletic Association is weighing the recommendation from an advisory committee, but no final decision has been made. DeSantis’ education commissioner is a member of the association’s board of directors and the commissioner also appoints three others, but the association is a private nonprofit organization, not a state agency under the purview of the governor’s office.
  READ THE ARTICLE >
  
  Why not cut to the chase and demand weekly hormone tests of all athletes, regardless of gender. To be fair, make the alleged guys continually prove they’re actually guys. >
  
  Alright boys, line up. It's penis inspection day. >
  
  Lindsey Graham has entered the chat >
  
  Lol what a shithole >
  
  What the actual fuck. Can they focus on actual issues please? Like climate change? Considering Miami is going to be underwater in 20 years if we don’t change course now >
  
  They really want that red wave. >
  
  How soon until they expand it to all females of child-bearing age? >
  
  Florida has become Gilead in 
  Handmaiden’s Tale >
  
  That’s so fucking invasive. Party of less governing tho amiright >
  
  Gilead…. Under his eye >
  
  Republican politicians and their fans are vile scum bags. >
  
  Pedo groomers >
  
  Alienate 50% because 30% have issues with 0.5% >
  
  Since the Nixon administration, conservatives have pushed all of these non-social issues in front of us to draw attention away from how badly they are fucking their own constituents. A lot of it was insincere rhetoric to get the Evangelical vote every 4 years. Except now we have true believers in the rhetoric. Every day they have to keep upping the outrage to drive conservatives that buy the narrative to the polls. If they did anything less, they are deemed a RINO and abandoned by the party. Honestly, after Obama was elected the first time, in my own lifetime, I saw the true face of conservatives. All of this morality bullshit that they claim to hold so dear clearly isn’t what’s actually important to them. It’s a convenient excuse to push horrific agendas that harm various minority groups. I thought I had seen the extent of how badly they would throw a tantrum during Obama’s second term. I’m now horrified every single day that they somehow manage to keep lowering the bar. Fuck these assholes who haven’t had consensual or pleasurable sex since the Carter administration and feel the need to punish everyone else for it. >
  
  Have any of you read the fucking article >
  
  This is some crazy ass evil shit right here. >
  
  If you are a woman living under a conservative regime and you are not fighting to rid our nation of these freaks, what the hell is wrong with you? >
  
  This is against your right to medical privacy and won’t stand up in court for even a second >
  
  we need to codify constitutional body privacy rights >
  
  The athletes who's privacy is about to be violated should go on strike.  Stop playing until the fucking nazis in the Republican party back down. >
  
  Anti-trans rhetoric in 2023 America is VERY, VERY SIMILAR to anti-semetic rhetoric in 1932 Germany. >
  
  Note that the article posted states that the title statement is FALSE >
  
  Did no one actually read the article?
  Desantis' office didn't create this proposal and was developed by the medical body that oversees intercollegiate sports.
  The questions already existed but we're optional.
  Maybe they shouldn't be mandatory... But this wasn't created by the governor's office.
  "Robert Sefcik, a member of the sports medicine advisory committee, said making the menstrual cycle questions mandatory rather than optional is consistent with national guidelines for sports physicals developed by the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Sports Medicine and other groups."
  And don't think I support Desantis' - I'm transgender myself. >
  
  Women students and the elderly have no freedom in Florida. This is outrageous. >
  
  I hope the student numbers to their universities plummet. >
  
  Why is Florida abusing its girls? >
  
  More importantly, Why is Florida ALLOWING it's girls to be abused? >
  
  Quite honestly I don’t understand how this is even legal, esp if that info is shared with non-medical personal. >
  
  So the article is saying the opposite of the headline? How does this shit get posted? >
  
  The American Taliban is trying so f**king hard. I urge you, disappoint them at every turn. >
  
  I don’t care if the democrat nominee is Biden or my dog. I expect more than 80 million votes this time to beat out these perv republicans. They are so messed up. >
  
  Ah yes the party that screeched about bodily autonomy and freedom from large government over masks in a pandemics wants to know intimate details of women in an act of blatant transphobia. Consider me shocked. >
  
  i think he outright loses a general presidential election if he tries to mandate monitoring menstruation in his state. i don’t think you can dig yourself out of those attack ads >
  
  When young women are bleeding they shall be banished from the community as unclean. It’s happened before. It’s in scripture. Now Florida Man is bringing it back. To his Florida. Y’all who didn’t vote for him will soon his to keep. >
  
  I advise all decent people, especially women, to FUCKING GET OUT before they cannot.
  I've seen this movie. >
  
  Adolph De Hitlertis pandering to the Monsters.. >
  
  The party of small government, so small it can fit in your panties. >
  
  How can you even willingly raise kids in Florida at this point? >
  
  If I was one of these girls I’d organize a walkout across the school.  You’re going to treat them like that, you don’t get a sports program.
  Of course, conservatives would probably rather have no sports at all than allow trans kids in them.. >
  
  Essentially, Republicans are debating if women are breeding livestocks or nothing more than a cattle. >
  
  …yo. It’s crazy to me that I keep seeing headlines like this. Absolutely fucking not. 
  What the fuck are we doing here? What is going on with parents in Florida? I’m getting to the point where I want them to secede. >
  
  They really are using the Handmaids Tale as a guide book aren't they.