Collecting students’ menstrual information is unnecessary and irrelevant to playing any sport. Previously, student athletes in Florida could opt out of reporting their menstrual history, but if the FHSAA makes those questions mandatory, schools would be able to violate students’ privacy and trans student athletes could be forced to out themselves.

We have to get as many messages to the Board before their final decision at the end of February. Send your letter now!

Monitoring menstruation threatens to keep trans students from participating on sports teams that match their gender identity. When lawmakers and school officials go after the rights of LGBTQI+ students, everyone’s bodies end up under surveillance.

Not only is this policy a gross invasion of privacy and a violation of students’ bodily autonomy, but it also puts students who can become pregnant at additional risk. As abortion becomes increasingly criminalized, menstrual data could be used to monitor, target, or even prosecute students who have the capacity for pregnancy, become pregnant, have a miscarriage, or obtain an abortion.

With so much at stake, now is the time to act. Will you make your feelings about this outrageous policy known? We will deliver every message to the Board of Directors before they meet to make their decision.

In solidarity,

Caitlin Panarella
she/her/hers
Campaigns Associate
National Women's Law Center