Posted on 02/09/2023 11:53:06 AM PST by BenLurkin
The Florida High School Athletic Association's board of directors has voted 14-2 to remove questions about high school athletes' menstrual history from a required health form for participation in high school athletics.
Thursday's emergency meeting focused on the debate around menstrual cycle information. But in a less-discussed change to the requirements for Florida athletes, the newly adopted form asks students to list their "sex assigned at birth." The previous version asked only for "sex."
The vote comes after weeks of controversy surrounding questions on the medical form, which is typically filled out by a physician and submitted to schools. The board approved a recommendation by the association's director to remove the questions, which asked for details including the onset of an athlete's period and the date of that person's last menstrual cycle.
During an emergency meeting, the association's attorney read public comments into the record for about an hour. The comments overwhelmingly opposed requiring athletes to report those details to school athletic officials, citing privacy concerns.
The debate comes at a time of heightened concern around reproductive rights in Florida and around the country, following the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Some members of the public also raised concerns that such information could be used to discriminate against transgender athletes.
The new form will become effective for the 2023-24 school year.
I thought Ron volunteered to gather the data?
If they wanted truly truthful responses, all of the answers would be "none."
Sex is NOT "assigned," as that implies that someone is doing the assigning.
Maybe they think it’s an assignment like homework.
How about; "What is the sex listed on your original birth certificate?".
Yes, they really want to confuse and obfuscate. Even Supreme Court justices get confused about all of this.
When they talk of “sex assigned at birth”, they try to create the impression that some arbitrary process is used at birth, to “assign” the sex of the baby.
I think we all know such procedures are not arbitrary. But some of these activists talk of how “the doctors sometimes make a mistake” at birth, in “assigning” someone’s sex.
Anyway, the whole activists mindset is bizarre. Carried to the logical conclusion, nobody can say what the sex of a child is. We would have to wait until such child decides if such child identifies as one sex or the other.
This even goes beyond the “gay / straight” decision, because with over 50 gender identities discovered so far, how the heck does ANYONE know their own sex, or the sex of their children, or how anyone truly identifies???
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Schools have become just evil. Pure evil.
There is ZERO need for them to track anything that personal.
Where are the parents?
Itās not *assigned*.
Itās observed and acknowledged.
Sick of this āassigningā.
Yeah, like all those doctors, especially males, and the parents would choose to assign girls.
Sorry, SCIENCE IS REAL and one of the few settled biological science questions is that there are only 2 sexes in humans, and another is that sex in humans doesnāt change.
“asks students to list their “sex assigned at birth.” And who assigned their sex? God, perhaps? I will go with God over the god of the world.
Hopefully, the parents are the reason this ABSURD idea was voted down!!
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AP fact checked this and guess what questions about menstruation history are standard on high school athletic participation (if that is what they are called)forms for female athletes and have been for a very long time.
At least they didnāt ask about āgenderā, an exclusively grammatical term.
Sex assigned at birth???
What’s wrong with you people?
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