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Florida drops menstruation reporting from student sports forms after backlash [washingtonpost.com]

The governing body for high school sports in Florida voted to remove questions about athletes’ menstrual history from its medical forms. The forms, which contained questions including “when was your most recent menstrual period?” and “how many periods have you had in the past year?,” caused outrage and a debate over students’ right to privacy.

The questions were previously optional, but the governing body recently proposed making them mandatory. The decision was particularly controversial in the wake of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Florida’s tighter restrictions on abortion and the introduction of new state legislation on transgender athletes.

The forms were first brought to public attention by the Palm Beach Post, which reported in October that many registration forms had been moved online, leaving parents worried about potential threats to privacy.

The annual medical form issued by the Florida High School Athletic Association, which students have to complete before taking part in school sports, included questions about genetic heart conditions, ongoing medical issues and dietary requirements. But it also asked female students questions about their periods, including when they began menstruating and the average length of their cycle.

I was thinking we should implement something like this on SN, so we could verify that we are dealing with actual soylentils, and not some non-menustrating sock-puppet, or ancient Greek philosopher.

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