Boy Florida,
Florida High School Athletics Association wants information on student athletes.
You're probably not shocked to hear that it's been a big focus of conservatives
around the country.
But specifically, they want information about their periods and
they want to make it mandatory.
So they've recommended to their board of directors which is gonna meet
in February and make a final decision on this,
that information should be collected and required.
So they announced back in October, by the way, we're gonna be the lead up to this
that it was changing its annual physical form for student athletes
to a digital version instead of paper that sounds innocuous enough.
The form includes optional, but detailed questions about students' menstruation
cycles, including when they got their first period,
when they had their most recent one and how many weeks passed between periods.
Previously, only one page of the paper form on which a pediatrician would sign
off on a student being allowed to play would be submitted to a school, but
the entire digital form will now be submitted.
So previously, much of this information was optional, they're getting rid of that
in the switch to digital you will now need to provide that information.
So the people that are saying, schools are filled with pervs,
we gotta protect the kids.
Tell me about your period, I want more info, that's who they actually are.
And so where to give you more information, but at least,
I know you're not that far out of high school.
What do you think about this change that they're making in Florida?
>> It's very Florida.
And I personally, at 15-years old was confused about all of this stuff and
I feel uncomfortable almost talking about it now.
And have to reveal that information to the state for
what reason other than what I would assume to control my body in some way.
I mean, I can't even think of the plethora of reasons why they would want this, but.
>> I mean, I think we know.
>> Yeah. >> I think we know the main reason that
they want it, but sorry, continue.
>> No, I mean, yeah, you got it, it just feels invasive.
That's it.
>> Yeah, 100% as Jessica Valenti points out on Twitter,
other states and athletic athletic programs require physicals,
including details about menstruation from students.
But importantly, they allow all of that private info to stay with the kids
doctors, the way all medical information is supposed to stay between you and
the doctor, that's the whole point.
Wasn't Marjorie Greene freaking out about HIPPA violations a couple of years back.
No, now they want it to be directly turned in because again, keeping it private
in no way infringes on the health of the student, they get evaluated,
they can ask questions, they can get medication and treatment.
So that sort of thing, because that process is about the health of the teen,
of the student.
Getting this information and explicitly making it that we want your
history of menstruation is obviously in no way about the health of literally anyone.
It's about political attacks, it's about their anti wokeness.
It's about trying to eliminate the trans-community.
That's all it is about, that's what they want and all of their talk
about today thing that if a by third grade teacher is like, hey, everyone,
I just wanted you to know I'm really happy because I got a new girlfriend.
They want that person to be fired because they talked about their sexuality, but
they want mandated culling of menstruation information.
It seems a little bit muddled as an ideology, but
I think we all know where they're going.
Any of the thoughts [INAUDIBLE].
>> I just wonder what happened to the narrative that states shouldn't be
involved with our business.
Where does that come when it comes to police,
when it comes to trans-gender autonomy and just believing that.
Maybe doctors and the trans community can work this out together and
figure out a plan that is safe for the children who wanted to transition.
And so I've decided that I know more than a doctor and we're going
to inflict a lot of what is going to be a mental health crisis for the trans kids.
And I'm very afraid for the state of Florida and in the safety and
health of a lot of youth.
>> Yeah, no, 100%, it's just saying obviously they would never allow,
you cannot say that you want a small government when you want to
track people's bodily fluids.
And do we do this for anything else?
If we were to say, I'm a little bit worried as so
many conservative men are about weak beta men.
So all Republican politicians, I wanna make sure that they're strong.
So I wanna track their testosterone levels and I want to be publicly available.
There should be a searchable database and sperm counts too.
So Rhonda Santis, I'm gonna need you to produce specimens so we can make sure that
you're a man because if you're not a man, then you clearly aren't fit to govern.
They would never allow any of this and also I want to be very clear,
I don't want any of it.
But that's because they consider themselves to be humans and
here we're just talking about kids, about women, about whatever, Florida.
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