Paranoid leftists freak as Florida high schools ask female athletes about their periods: ‘A police state for women’

For decades, Florida’s school system has routinely asked female high school students about their periods and menstrual cycles in an effort to ensure they are healthy enough to participate in sports, and no one objected until Roe v. Wade was overturned.

Girls are asked several questions on their annual physical forms. Leftists are now claiming that their sensitive medical data could be farmed out to a third party, according to the Daily Mail.

Critics are claiming that, unlike other states, Florida shares physical fitness forms with school administrators. Whether that is accurate or not is yet to be seen.

Female athletes are asked to answer five questions about their monthlies. Those questions, by the way, are marked as optional.

Never mind that inconvenient fact, detractors are asserting that the digitization of the data collection process using third parties has become a de jour point of concern for leftists who contend that medical information could be collected and shared without parental consent. These are arguably the same people who wanted to hide from parents whether their children were transitioning or not.

Here are the questions that have caused abortion advocates to hyperventilate:

  • When was your first menstrual period?
  • When was your most recent menstrual period?
  • How much time do you usually have from the start of one period to the start of another?
  • How many periods have you had in the last year?
  • What was the longest time between periods in the last year?

 

The collective trigger point for all of this was two-fold. The first to cause a meltdown was the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. Abortion rights advocates are miffed that the data could be used to prosecute female students if they choose to get an abortion. The procedure is illegal in the state of Florida after 15 weeks of gestation.

The second was Gov. Ron DeSantis signing into law the barring of transgender females from playing on girls’ sports teams at public schools in Florida.

Behold the unhinged:

The issue has riled the “my body, my choice” crowd who are terrified female students’ governance over their own bodies could somehow be compromised. That is a stretch taking paranoia to new heights, right into the domain of hysteria.

“I don’t see why [school districts] need that access to that type of information,” Dr. Michael Haller, a pro-abortion pediatrician in Gainesville, told the Palm Beach Post. He carped that he has “very little reason to have faith in our state leadership” to keep data provided to educational institutions private. That was a veiled dig at Gov. Ron DeSantis and a lame one at that.

“Last time I checked, tracking your period wasn’t necessary to play sports,” Democratic California Congresswoman Sara Jacobs tweeted. “This is a gross invasion of privacy with such high stakes given Florida’s 15-week abortion ban & no rape/incest exceptions.”

Florida Democratic nominee Pam Keith also engaged in over-the-top hyperbole to stir up outrage, calling it a “police state for women” in response to the news.

According to the Daily Mail, so-called women’s health expert Dr. Donnica Moore was inappropriately indignant, “Can someone explain the point of tracking menses in Florida student athletes… To track secret pregnancies? Do they know how common athlete’s amenorrhea is??? Or how the pill or hormonal IUD’s can impact menses? How is this legal???”

The software company that is collecting the information is Aktivate. It brands itself as a “platform powering the scholastic sports community.” The company is one of the third parties working with high schools across Florida to collect student health data.

Most of the schools in Palm Beach County partner with Aktivate. Broward, Hillsborough, and Sarasota counties are also rolling out their software in some capacity, according to the Palm Beach Post.

Aktivate claims that student data is kept confidential and that they do not sell it to third parties. There is no evidence that they do so. But the left is alarmed because they claim that since the company is not a medical care provider, it is not restricted by HIPPA privacy laws. That means that if subpoenaed under the law, they would have to turn over data.

The company’s privacy policy does state it may share student data “to work with third parties who conduct studies or assist us in providing and improving our products… and with affiliated education companies.”

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