Will Florida’s Female Athletes Be Required To Provide Menstrual History?
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Facing blowback, the director of Florida’s high school sports governing body is backing away from using an eligibility form that requires female athletes to disclose their menstrual history in order to compete. Instead, the executive director of the Florida High School Athletic Association is recommending that most personal information revealed on medical history forms stay at the doctor’s office and not be stored at school. The association’s board has an emergency meeting Thursday to vote on whether to adopt the four-page form — which would remove questions that force student-athletes to share details about their menstruation cycles in order to be participate in sports, in the video published on Feb 8, 2023, by 10 Tampa Bay, as “FHSAA calls emergency meeting over questions about menstrual history for female student-athletes“, below:
Facing blowback, the director of Florida’s high school sports governing body is backing away from using an eligibility form that requires female athletes to disclose their menstrual history in order to compete, in the video published on Feb 8, 2023, by News4JAX The Local Station, as “High school sports groups rethinks menstrual cycle questions“, below:
Female High School Athletes could soon be mandated to fill out how often they menstruate if the Florida High School Athletic Association approves a new physical evaluation form. Previously, that information was optional to fill out, but following Florida’s ban on transgender females playing sports at public schools, some are questioning whether a new draft of the form is aimed at transgender students and raising privacy concerns, in the video published on Feb 2, 2023, by CBS Miami, as “Female athletes asked about menstruation in Florida High School Athletic Association“, below:
The Florida High School Athletic Association has changed a draft rule that would have required high school girls to disclose information about their menstrual cycles, according to the organization, in the video published on Feb 7, 2023, by WKMG News 6 ClickOrla, as “FHSAA form asked teen student-athletes about their menstrual cycle“, below:
The State of Florida is considering a change that would force teenage girls who play high school sports to tell school officials about their menstrual cycles, in the video published on Feb 6, 2023, by WPLG Local 10, as “State may soon require female high school athletes to provide menstrual cycle“, below:
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