While Florida slides into the ocean
Here's yet another reason to spend your vacation dollars elsewhere
This month, the Florida High School Athletic Association — ignoring public outcry and some legislative pushback — doubled down on their plan to have female athletes in the state fill out a detailed health form that will include invasive questions about those athletes’ menstrual periods.
Why would schools need this information? They don’t, but this is absolutely in keeping with the post-Roe v. Wade world, during which the state of Florida passed some ignorant restrictions on abortion in the state. The state Supreme Court will hear a challenge to Florida’s 15-week abortion law. Tracking a citizen’s menstrual period is some raging kind of dystopian nonsense, but we were warned. Is this meant to track unannounced pregnancies? Is it a means of thwarting transgender athletes?
The FHSAA board is scheduled to decide whether to implement this rank invasion of privacy in February. You can say hello to them here.
How do they justify asking the question in the first place? It is unrelated to being an athlete and does not provide the team of a medical condition that might limit activity. And it just figures 14 of the 16 FHSAA board members are men!
I recall the days when a cheery Anita Bryant would sing come “to the Florida sunshine state” way back before extremism went mainstream. She of course became damaged goods over bigoted comments. Now that our oldest son has “escaped” Florida my wife and I will never return to this state that is really a “condition” that defies all the marketing BS!