Republicans’ abortion bans are elevating alarm for the mother and father of feminine student-athletes in Florida, who’re requested to report their menstrual historical past to play sports activities. As a result of a 3rd get together has entry to that data and the entire varieties are topic to subpoena, mother and father and docs are elevating the alarm.
“The data is reported on athletes’ annual bodily type, which they’re required to fill out with a doctor and switch in to their college’s athletic director,” the Times Union experiences (subscriber solely).
“The questions have been put to college students throughout the state for 20 years, most frequently on a written type on paper, however this fall when some districts took the shape to a digital platform stored by a 3rd get together, mother and father and docs started elevating crimson flags…. The entire varieties — whether or not paper or digital — are topic to subpoena.”
Florida feminine pupil athletes need to report their menstrual historical past to play: After they obtained their first interval, after they had their final one, and so forth. A 3rd get together has entry to that data, and fogeys and docs are elevating crimson flags https://t.co/172JNDanBL @katikokal
— Florida Instances-Union (@jaxdotcom) October 4, 2022
“With reproductive privateness and parental rights over kids’s knowledge prime of thoughts, each abortion rights advocates and anxious mother and father have raised alarms in regards to the questions and the way they can be utilized,” the Palm Beach Post experiences.
They did a deep dive and be aware that the questions have been requested for 20 years and are marked as “non-obligatory.”
The questions are:
When was your first menstrual interval?
When was your most up-to-date menstrual interval?
How a lot time do you normally have from the beginning of 1 interval to
the beginning of one other?
What number of intervals have you ever had within the final yr?
What was the longest time between intervals within the final yr?
However they level out that in Florida, not like different states, “all of that medical knowledge is then turned over to the athlete’s college.”
Why is that this knowledge turned over to the college within the first place? No mother or father can be comfy with that within the post-Roe panorama.
Republicans have been calling themselves the “Parents’ Party” and whereas I haven’t heard anybody exterior of these paid to advertise them use that time period, they’ve been efficiently weaponizing made up demons to scare mother and father into voting for them. Mockingly, considered one of their large pushes is “Faculty Alternative.”
The conservative Heritage Basis touts Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis for his “mother and father’ get together” enterprise for profitable his race by pushing college selection.
School choice widens inequity, so naturally, Republicans are all for it.
Placing feminine student-athletes within the predicament of getting their interval data out there to be subpoenaed is an abhorrent assault on liberty.
The Dad and mom Occasion is inflicting mother and father deep concern for his or her youngsters.
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