Doctors Concerned Over Florida Seeking Menstrual Info

[RandySF]

“While a change in diet, medication, exercise and stress can all affect a girl’s menstrual flow, doctors say cycle irregularities don’t affect their ability to play sports and are raising privacy concerns over a state board proposing to mandate that information for Florida students to play high school sports,” the Miami Herald reports.




https://politicalwire.com/2023/02/08/doctors-concerned-over-florida-seeking-menstrual-info/

[FalloutShelter]

1. Really doctors? That's all you got?

How about the right to privacy?

I think the young women in Florida should bag up their used menstral products and send them to De Santis with a little note every month.
"Be sure to record my period, Ron. I'm in full compliance."

[PlanetBev]

3. Well said, Fallout

Concern ain’t gonna cut it. People need to rise up en masse and strong arm this fascist maniac before he destroys what left of that state.

[MontanaMama]

8. Or before he's elected President.

SMDH.

[Mad_Machine76]

6. According the snip

Doctors were expressing concerns over privacy

[NutmegYankee]

13. Doctors stating such a question is medically unnecessary is devastating.

It points out that this question has no medical purpose and it only exists for surveillance.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Seems like they don't want them to play at all, but this is....

all they got.

Enough to sideline to sideline half the population, though.

[ggma]

5. Well,

if you're a female and not having a monthly cycle, then you might be one of those "trans" people. Just sayin...

Sarcasm, of course. But feels like a backdoor move to me.

gg

[TreasonousBastard]

7. That's scarier than my idea. (And far more gross)

[LAS14]

4. Yikes! Even more echoes of Nazi Germany. nt

[lindysalsagal]

9. All docs need to be screaming this from the rooftops: I thought we have the privacy laws?

But not for kids?

[cyclonefence]

10. All this concern over hormone levels in women

Did none of them ever know a teenage boy in the throes of puberty? Are they tracking nocturnal emissions? Surprise erections? Goofy, dangerous or even malevolent actions taken by teenage boys? Does anyone monitor the common testosterone levels in members of male sports teams before they descend on sorority parties? Did we learn nothing from Richard Speck, whose crimes were attributed to XYY syndrome?

At least girls don't commit acts of sexual violence when their hormone levels bounce around, or when they work as a pack.

We all know what this is really about--any excuse to keep girls out of sports, especially those "are we sure just how feminine this person is" girls, but really. They are shameless. Utterly shameless.

[DUgosh]

11. It's not just Florida

Abbott wants to know personal stuff about our young Texas teenager cycles. Why their Moms aren’t coming unglued is beyond me.

[Marcus IM]

12. Concerned. Uh huh. Won't stop them from voting GOP...

... and that means voting for DeSantis.

Performative concern.