Florida Republican's Bill Would Ban Young Girls From Discussing Their Periods In School

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It would be illegal to discuss this with students until 6th grade.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/florida-republican-bill-restrict-girls-discussing-periods_n_64133f06e4b00c3e607277b2
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/17/florida-bill-girls-periods-school-gop/

How typically disingenuous. You don't mention the follow up within the article:

Gantt asked a follow-up question later in the session, clarifying if teachers will be penalized if their students come to them with issues or questions about their periods. McClain responded that “would not be the intent of the bill,” and he was “amenable” to amendments that would ensure these conversations could take place.

Did he offer to withdraw and amend it himself now that he’s seen the consequences of it?

[Anonymous]

Banning being a woman. They get upset about how Dems define it but yet the GOP out right bans female speech.

[Anonymous]

Why are conservatives obsessed with anything go do with female reproduction? It’s creepy and weird for a party that purports to want less government interference in their lives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I got mine at the end of 9th.

That’s within the range of normal, but not typical. My DD was by the the last of her friends when she got hers the summer before HS. She has a BMI below the 1% and ended up on Bc very quickly because she didn’t have enough fat to make the estrogen to control it. Again, outside the normal. 4th and 5th is typical now, because girls get periods earlier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No republicans chiming in about how reasonable this is? No what abouts? Is there actually a policy that is so absurd that no one will defend it?

Does it matter? It’ll be some version of that or “it’s only one lawmaker, it doesn’t represent how Republicans feel.”

It’s egregious. Girls normalizing talking about their periods is deeply important. I only have boys and when the eldest was a little embarrassed by his then fifth grade classmates talking about their periods, I told him how important it is that he be aware that’s something that his female classmates are having to deal with and manage and live with. He should be aware of it (and can be supportive of it later when he understands it’s better).

Outlawing talk about periods is shoving women back into the dark ages.

+1. Periods are a normal biological process. It it can be hard for girls, especially younger ones, to adjust to monthly periods. Why would you put the additional burden on them of being unable to get help or reassurance during school hours and treating their periods as taboo? So a 5th grader bleeds through her shorts and the teacher isn’t allowed to pull her aside, reassure her and send her to the nurse to get clean clothes and a pad? Girls who get their first period in school can’t ask their teacher for help? I know ES teachers who keep a box of pads in their desk for student emergencies. Now they can’t?

If you are old enough to have a period, you are old enough to talk to teachers and the school nurse about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It would be illegal to discuss this with students until 6th grade.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/florida-republican-bill-restrict-girls-discussing-periods_n_64133f06e4b00c3e607277b2
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/17/florida-bill-girls-periods-school-gop/

How typically disingenuous. You don't mention the follow up within the article:

Gantt asked a follow-up question later in the session, clarifying if teachers will be penalized if their students come to them with issues or questions about their periods. McClain responded that “would not be the intent of the bill,” and he was “amenable” to amendments that would ensure these conversations could take place.

Who’s being disingenuous? What matters is the text of the bill, not his intent. And it passed with no amendments. So 4th graders who get their first period in school are on their own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are conservatives obsessed with anything go do with female reproduction? It’s creepy and weird for a party that purports to want less government interference in their lives.

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So true

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow you guys fall for these articles.

It wasn’t an article. It was a video and the man who wrote the bill said yes it would prevent girls from talking about menstruation in school.

The fking irony

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Banning being a woman. They get upset about how Dems define it but yet the GOP out right bans female speech.

Sorry, what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow you guys fall for these articles.

It wasn’t an article. It was a video and the man who wrote the bill said yes it would prevent girls from talking about menstruation in school.

The fking irony

+1. Plus i am not sure what is the value of a law that cant really be enforced. Are they going to arrest/fine the teacher who reassures the girl who has the first period in class in 5th grade or her friends who witnessed it (i actually had a classmate ages ago who had blood going down her leg and was in schock saying “what is this?” And we were all watching at the beginning wondering if she was hurt of what so it happens, the teacher helped and called school staff and they helped her, so this happens). Even more, are they going to arrest/fine the 4th grader who talks in class about her period? That would look bad even for the more rabid maga types. So it is just to get in the RW news as a bona fide anti-woke a$$hole?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow you guys fall for these articles.

It wasn’t an article. It was a video and the man who wrote the bill said yes it would prevent girls from talking about menstruation in school.

The fking irony

+1. Plus i am not sure what is the value of a law that cant really be enforced. Are they going to arrest/fine the teacher who reassures the girl who has the first period in class in 5th grade or her friends who witnessed it (i actually had a classmate ages ago who had blood going down her leg and was in schock saying “what is this?” And we were all watching at the beginning wondering if she was hurt of what so it happens, the teacher helped and called school staff and they helped her, so this happens). Even more, are they going to arrest/fine the 4th grader who talks in class about her period? That would look bad even for the more rabid maga types. So it is just to get in the RW news as a bona fide anti-woke a$$hole?

It is about making school staff STOP talking about it in any way, shape or form. The point is that the teacher KNOWS she could be arrested and charged for even mentioning it to students younger than 6th grade. So when that 4th or 5th grade girl starts bleeding, teacher only says "Go to the school nurse and have your parents come get you" because if she says anything about menstruation, periods, this being a natural process, etc. that the girls parents or any other parent of any child who tells their parent about what she said/what happened that say, could have her charged and arrested. She isn't willing to risk losing her job, career, going to jail, etc. because of what a young child may or may not understand and misinterpret to their parents.

The girl leaves the classroom sobbing and is terrified and has no idea what is happening to her body. Most of her classmates don't understand what's going on and they are flustered and curious and/or upset or worried, and think it must be awful and shameful or harmful, and rumors start to fly that she is dying or maybe even pregnant (because some kid will know something vague about periods having something to do with reproduction and it will get twisted and blown up into something it is not), so when she returns the next day it is a Huge and Shameful Deal and now every girl dreads that moment and fears it happening to them.

When the menstruating student arrives at the nurse's office, the nurse (also fearing arrest if she says absolutely anything, no matter how factual, about menstruation or offers a menstrual pad or explains how to use it) only says to the student "you need to call your parents to come get you" without explaining anything and the student thinks again, even more, that this must be something awful and shameful or harmful that is happening to her, because it is obviously SO BAD that only her parents can help/explain.

It's about making shame and stigma about the female body into policy and controlling who is allowed to give information about reproductive/puberty processes, so that conservatives can keep their children in ignorance if they choose to and the child will (ideally, in a conservative view) have no other source of information.

[Anonymous]

I have no recollection of ever discussing my period at school. If there had ever been a problem then the girls would simply have asked permission to visit school nurse's office.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have no recollection of ever discussing my period at school. If there had ever been a problem then the girls would simply have asked permission to visit school nurse's office.

Public schools teach sex ed. We had sessions starting in 4th grade. Then every year since. Each year would get more complex. I remember by 8th grade were discussing more complex topics.

[Anonymous]

Your subject line is false.

The bill does NOT ban girls from talking about periods.

It bans teachers or schools - from providing sex ed material to students before 6th grade.

[Anonymous]

It feels like the GOP isn’t too many insane laws away from preventing girls on the rag from attending school at all.