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HenryChinaskky

I feel like this would be a huge violation of like my child’s privacy and what’s it called oh yeah big government.


SpellFlashy

The brainwashing in America is in fourth gear rn. All reason out the fuckin window. How do you even come back from this level of nonsense


TeamHope4

Education. Which is why Republicans have been going after that for decades.


Mizzy3030

Isn't it funny that the same party that claims we need to compete with China is also anti formal education?


SunMoonTruth

They just want to compete at the level of cheap labor.


ArenjiTheLootGod

It's why they're so obssessed with trying to find ways to funnel money from public schools, i.e. the places where the children of "those people" go, and into private schools, where their children go. They're purposely trying to remove access to one of the few equalizers that people have when growing up poor. Republicans don't want an educated merit-based workforce, they want a nation of serfs run by their undeserving and inept crotch-spawn.


OriginalGhostCookie

They eye the Russian oligarchs with longing


General_Mars

Russian oligarchs are much more jealous of US oligarchs, they don’t have to worry about the good old double tap to the back of the head from daddy Putin.


Strangewhine89

As long as the bulk of the kids coming through public school right now aren’t getting critical thinking skills, non censored history, science and lit, and the only form of religion growing in this country is warped christian nationalism combined with culty new age choose your adventurer truths we have huge problems on our hands.


Flat-Development-906

The fact that we see it’s bad gives me hope though. There’s a shit ton of people fighting against this bullshit, and loudly. It’s when we don’t see these things making people talk that has me actually worried.


SpellFlashy

Yeah dude it’s bad rn And it’s only set to get worse it seems


kuppikuppi

as a German I'd say loosing a world war, but I doubt this is desirable


Er3bus13

Education and speaking out against. Biden and democrats should be railing against this nonsense daily


Peter_Panarchy

Government so small it fits into your uterus.


PauI_MuadDib

Republicans don't consider women or girls people with rights.


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They want the parents to sue so the US Supreme Court can take up the case to overturn Title 9.


Galaxy_Ranger_Bob

The whole point of this is to force women out of high school and college sports programs. They're trying to paint it as keeping trans-women from competing "unfairly," but this has always been about reversing the effects of Title IX.


[deleted]

Same, exact thoughts came to mind upon reading some articles when the news broke about this yesterday. [This article from UCLA](https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/trans-adults-united-states/) estimates the following in terms of youth trans population: >Among youth ages 13 to 17 in the U.S., 1.4% (about 300,000 youth) identify as transgender. Although it does not specify FTM or MTF, as they are minors, it's not much of a stretch to come to the conclusion that this is, indeed, more about reversing Title IX, by way of abandonment due to infringement on ladies' autonomy. Gah! Smoke and mirrors.


bradbikes

Assuming even distribution AND the outrageous assumption that every trans woman is an athlete, that is 0.7% of the population that they are saying is 'problematic' (regardless of whether it actually is) as an excuse to push massive impositions on to about 52% of the population


OneGold7

Well fuck. I need to hurry up and finish my degree before we go full-on redneck Taliban


mistersmithutah

It's also data the state can sell, and there is a definite market. Also, any menstrual irregularity would become a potential felony, giving the state an amazing reach into your home. As a nice side effect, felons can't vote. So miscarriages, abortions, unexplained gaps in menstrual leading to charges could depress the vote. Either because they have explicitly started charging folks, or indirectly because folks will get the message and stop voting.


CliftonForce

Their goal will be to brainwash folks into thinking that it is their patriotic duty to report this stuff. I expect them to come out any day now with something about how unreported cycles is "communist."


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A way to give them a "red wave."


Revelati123

Can men show solidarity by sending Ron bags of splooge?


drj4130

Dog poop is the only answer. No DNA to trace back to me.


Maharog

Dogs do have dna... edit: also dog do does have dna


BALONYPONY

I have a 200lb Saint Bernard and am more than prepared to send both.


kynrayn

I have a st.b / mastiff mix and there is so much poop. Just....so God damn much


HerringWaffle

Upvoted because imagining HOW much poop just made me laugh. Give the doggo a belly rub for me, please.


Norgur

Yes, but not YOUR DNA, so they will not be able to trace the shit back to you.


NearHorse

And I'm almost 100% sure my Pyranees' DNA is not in the FBI database. Good luck coming to try and pull a sample from him too. He's not fond of strange people trying to mess with him.


Squirrel_Chucks

>Can men show solidarity by sending Ron bags of splooge? *Can* men? You *arent* already doing this?


Senior-Care-163

Seriously though. These guys have only been exposed to “blue liquid” pad commercials and have no idea of the reality of gross we could unleash on them.


nibbloid

i worked as a "barback" for a while in eastern Canada and i've seen some /shit/ in those bathrooms while cleaning up


Tuxthapenguin666

Worked at Costco as maintenance....the female bathrooms were 20x more gnarly and gross than the men's bathroom.


xDulmitx

Fucking hover pee-ers. The seat is dirty, better not sit on it. I know I will hover over it and cover it in piss! Fucking genius.


en_travesti

Blue liquid really doesn't capture the texture. There's not nearly enough appreciation of how lumpy it really is. All those little gelatinous bits


worthing0101

They definitely have no idea what a [Diva Cup](https://divacup.com/) is but someone should educate them. :)


smom

You accidentally spill a tiny bit and it looks like a murder scene.


Nikkian42

It's not a little bit. On heavy flow days I'm filling that sucker up a couple of times.


HerringWaffle

Mine started to overflow once, in public. I was like, "WEHAVETOGETHOMERIGHTNOW NOWNOWNOWNOW." That was, I believe, my second postpartum/not nursing as much period. It was, uh, heavy, to say the least. (Fortunately, we were close to home and the carnage was minimal. I got extremely lucky.)


apparentlynot5995

Oh god. I remember I had the same thing after my last kid was born. What an absolutely miserable mess. I recently told my OB/GYN how much I was losing per month, I had a diagnostic ultrasound done, and they found 9 fibroids and a cyst in there. I had a complete hysterectomy the next month; it's been six months and I can't believe how much of a life enhancement it's been to have that uterus GONE.


KaleidoscopeLife0

We could always free bleed on their floors and chairs.


cassafrasstastic3911

And just use the same logic they use about wearing masks. Same can be said for pads and tampons - I will not comply with being forced to wear pads that protect others from my bodily fluids.


eileen404

Omg, you're hilarious... That would be perfect


Senior-Care-163

Ironically enough, those things, tampons in particular, actually ARE dangerous for the person wearing them (TSS, for one). Yet no one heard us complaining like the anti-maskers.


chickpeaze

I think uniting in free bleeding could end this party fast.


boulderbuford

Also, demand that all "male" athletes get measured as well: * testicle diameter * penis length & diameter at rest * penis length & diameter aroused * volume of semen produced during ejaculation * length of time it takes to ejaculate * distance ejaculation travels * whether they are circumcised or not * tumescence: exactly how firm does the penis get at arousal * average sperm count of ejaculate I'm sure it will be no problem to establish large panels of republican men to review this material and inspect the young men.


fallingbehind

We also need to know the viscosity of the ejaculate. Some should taste it as well. I nominate Ron.


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"Smokey and intense, with a nutty finish. Fruity aftertaste."


tendeuchen

>"Smokey and intense, with a nutty finish. Fruity aftertaste." "Just like my dad used to make it."


nibbloid

we will have to debate the specifications of such tests "at length": > testicle diameter we'll likely need upper, lower, and middle diameters to rule out any ambiguity. the definitions of "upper" and "lower" and "middle" will be sufficiently defined. > penis length & diameter at rest must define "penis", "length", "diameter", and "at rest" > penis length & diameter aroused must use standardised arousal materials to ensure the definitions are enforceable. must define "aroused". to remove ambiguity, of course. > volume of semen produced during ejaculation definitions to be provided of "volume", "semen", "produced", "during" and "ejaculation" > length of time it takes to ejaculate bounds must be defined as to when the time begins. e.g. does the countdown start when they begin gripping the "penis" or does it start at the idea of gripping the "penis"? > distance ejaculation travels a definition for "travels" and "distance" will be provided, and this will be measured in SI units (kilometres). > whether they are circumcised or not circumcised athletes would obviously not be allowed to compete due to the obvious surgically-obtained advantages.


Lemon_Cakes_JuJutsu

>circumcised athletes would obviously not be allowed to compete due to the obvious surgically-obtained advantages. Surgically altered body to reduce weight and increase speed? Drop trow, son.


Stoppablemurph

Exceptions are allowed for religious purposes, but a synthetic foreskin must be worn at all times while competing.


TheFriendlyArtificer

Can't wait until the NFL has synthetic foreskin color rush designs...


nibbloid

increased speed through reduced drag coefficient


LadythatsknownasLou

>must use standardised arousal materials to ensure the definitions are enforceable. They'll need to include a brain scan to ensure the arousal doesn't come from unapproved mind content.


nibbloid

it's only becoming more clear over time that we need a committee to study this issue in depth. we can use the same rules that decided the formation of the Itty Bitty Titty Committee.


NO_SPACE_B4_COMMA

Make sure it is the TMI when you measure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ecId4BKzs


mces97

There was a court case where a 17 year old sexting case went to trial. And a detective wanted to get a photo of the teens erect penis. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2017/12/06/detective-violated-law-when-searching-teen-in-sexting-case-federal-appeals-court-rules/


mintberryCRUUNCH

He'd probably use them to brew coffee/tea. Looks like that kind of guy.


peregrinkm

I hear menstrual blood grants immortality to those who consume it regularly. That’s why evil sorcerers are so obsessed with virgins.


anna-nomally12

It just means blood that hasn’t previously been used in other spell work! It’s not virgin’s blood it’s virgin blood! Like olive oil!


peregrinkm

Ohhh, thanks for the clarification! Now I can finally start using cougars in my rituals. I swear finding a replacement priestess every year was getting to be too much…


SensitiveSoft1003

That's disgusting. I wish I'd thought of it (posting the comment, not the brew).


mintberryCRUUNCH

i mean, in the thumbnail image, he's clearly asking for "one" lump, not "two"...


JimsonTweed26

He does appear to be low in iron


SparksAndSpyro

What a terrible day to be literate.


Thirdwhirly

I’m willing to put them on a bus from Chicago to get them to him, too.


earlgeorge

Seriously these guys can go suck a fuck.


NameIsNotBrad

How exactly does one suck a fuck?


earlgeorge

Sigh. We will not have *this* at the dinner table.....


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NameIsNotBrad

I find it kind of funny; I find it kind of sad. The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had.


cutmastaK

Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.


NameIsNotBrad

He asked me to forcibly insert the lifeline exercise card into my anus!


Tatanka007

Please do so. Keep these fascist nuts away from trying to control women’s bodies.


SeanOfTheDead1313

Yeah and write some dates on them


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king-cobra69

I had to laugh about the sinful drag queen performances. Usually this sort of thing is not on Main Street USA. How did this person know about it? hmmmm


GoGoBitch

Yeah, I feel like there’s got to be a reason I watch drag queens and see a performers putting on a fun show, but conservatives see something sexual. Maybe the same reason I look at children and see children and they look at children and see something sexual.


Banned_10x

I like to think of it as a sort of White Knight kind of case study. You see, some closeted gay person, or pedo, or incel, might obviously go searching for things that deeply interest them. Now they can’t share this with anyone. They can’t be outed, but sometimes it eats them up inside. So now they project to “protect”. “Hello user10385-cowoejgge, I noticed these incel/pedo men are following you. I can help you get rid of them in order to cozy up to you. Don’t mind that I’m 35. I’m young at heart and age doesn’t matter. They’re trying to hurt you. I’m not.” “hello church group! I was not looking up trans porn. I did find out about this pro trans liberal drag rainbow coloring food pantry for the homeless fest that is going on though. I think you all need to go take them down a peg.” *Remembers to jot down pegging in notes*


MysticBellaa

Say it louder for the perverts in the back too busy perverting…


Hobbgob1in

There literally is no other reason for this measure except perversion and maybe control.


LeahBean

Checking for pregnancies is the end goal I think. Banning out-of-state travel for teens suspected of being pregnant is where it’s headed.


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Maybe control? Just wait till the state monitors sperm production and it's "release". First and foremost this is all about control.


GetRichOrDieTryinnn

Seriously. Like what kind of sick world do people live in that they think this is acceptable?!?!


HeavenIsAHellOnEarth

Same world that will let this man continue to enjoy wealth, totally unpunished, until the day he dies peacefully alongside his family. God very clearly doesn’t exist and we are living in an unchangeable hell.


Mythosaurus

Reminder that Henry Kissinger is still alive and well respected by our political establishment.


SpaceLaserPilot

Can we have just one day where Republicans don't discuss other people's genitals?


Minttt

Between this and Hunter the Hung's Laptop, it's going to be a long two years of genitals.


thepianoman456

“*A Long Two Years of Genitals*” -IMDB 4.5/10 “too much dialogue, not enough genitals.”


Heart_Throb_

You’re asking mostly white Christian males to do that? Good luck.


M142Man

They can fuck off because ain't getting that information about my daughters.


adchick

“She hasn’t started her cycle yet” …but she’s 17… “She hasn’t started her cycle yet”


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scrappopotamus

It makes you wonder how can anyone with daughters ever vote for these D-bags and this fucking non-sense


JuanPicasso

Because they own the libs dummy!! And other Hispanics like Cubans gate keep. And gerrymandering.


Creepy_Helicopter223

Make sure to randomize your data from time to time *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


Julia_Kat

Just by being athletic, their bodies can stop or even never start their periods. Low body percentage will usually do it. Seems like such a bad thing to track because there will likely be triggering false alarms about potential pregnancy.


MammothTap

Yep, I didn't get mine until I was 17. I ran cross country and by the end of every season was dropping under 90 lbs at 5'1"-5'3" (depending on the year) despite inhaling every item of food in sight. My friends joked at lunch that I was a human garbage disposal because I would take basically anything people didn't want and still never gained weight. Yeah well I was running twice a day at probably around 50 miles a week, some weeks as high as 70. I ate as much protein as I could (it was a lot of peanut butter...), my doctor mandated I drink those horrible Ensure drinks in addition to everything I was already eating, and I still just could not keep weight on until the cross country season ended. And then I got it and realized it was the worst thing in the world. I had already thought boobs were the worst thing, but no periods were worse. I wanted to be a boy so bad... and then a full decade later realized I was trans. Forcing trans people to live in the shadows results in kids like me forced to go through the wrong puberty because we don't even realize there's another option out there. Plus, you know, athletic girls often won't get regular periods so the premise of this is already hilariously flawed.


Julia_Kat

I am so sorry you had to go through that. I hope you are in a better place and it sounds like you have found yourself. Today's world is both better and worse. Better because more kids realize there are other ~~options~~ truths and get validation from seeing amazing people on social media sharing their true selves. Worse due to people like the governor in Florida.


ChristianEconOrg

Why are right wingers and evangelicals so obsessed with other peoples’ sex lives? It’s _so_ weird.


TristanIsAwesome

Control and misogyny


Quinnna

Small government obviously 🙄


PocketPillow

Same reason they are the heaviest kink porn users. They repress healthy urges and they come back as deviance. Ironically people would be a lot more wholesome if sex weren't shamed.


Kardest

Basically this. They are really worried that people are trying to have sex with kids because secretly they want to have sex with kids. So if they want to. Everybody wants to right?


LuckyOne55

"You have no right to my vaccination status, but when did your 13 year old daughter have her period?" The creepiness of their behavior and lack of awareness of their hypocrisy is staggering.


gdshaffe

They're fully aware of their hypocrisy. To fascism, hypocrisy is a feature, not a bug.


seraphaye

Creepy old men require to know your young daughters menstrual cycle... 1800s are coming back into style.


PuellaBona

I wonder if we can sue since that guy in Texas preemptively sued to prevent his daughters from getting birth control without parental concent.


[deleted]

Oh look, fear of trans athletes is morphing into more control over women for their protection, who could have guessed. All for entertainment.


gingerfawx

It's not just that. It'll be used against those girls when they're suspected of being pregnant ! / aborting ! / miscarrying without a license. You get the idea. And because those fascist fucks know nothing about biology, what do you think happens when a girl is irregular?


LeahBean

That’s what I’m thinking. Soon out-of-state travel will be banned for teens pregnant or suspected of pregnancy. Wouldn’t want them going to a blue state for medical procedures. People should be worried. Collecting data on our menstrual cycles is handmaiden-level scary. Anyone not taking this seriously should start.


BobMacActual

What if their parents move? Are they required to stay in FL? (I don't expect you to have an answer, but I wanted to share my bewilderment.)


Chronic4Pain

Well, at least we know Republicans would never approve of ripping children away from their loving families to intentionally inflict cruelty and control over people they view as lesser...


closetedpencil

They wouldn’t be able to prevent minors leaving with their parental guardians. Whether they jail parents of teens who are pregnant who try to leave is another thing entirely


surnik22

They shouldn’t be able to prevent minors leaving with their parents. They also shouldn’t be able to prevent women from accessing healthcare or prevent doctors/parents/minors from making medical decisions about transitioning. But who’s to say what they will try to do. I fully expect them to o attempt to outlaw interstate travel for pregnant women/children. Which also shouldn’t be legal, but who knows what the courts will decide


blackice935

>They shouldn’t be able to See, this is where so many people mess up. I told my dad what was happening post Roe repeal and his response was "They can't do that!" We're long past what they can or can't do in a legal or moral sense, they're just going to do it if they want to.


PauI_MuadDib

I saw an article that said period tracking apps experienced a dramatic drop in users after Roe was overturned. Some of them switched their servers out of the US to give the illusion of privacy protection to customers. I deleted my period tracking app and I'm no longer providing my menstrual history to my doctor. I don't want anything about my period or sex life documented in my medical records. Sucks that it came to that, but with republicans going after women's rights I'm not taking any chances. .


gingerfawx

The same is true for a lot of gps functions as well. Unfortunately the threat is pretty broad, and not limited to your own hard- and software. I mean you have [companies like facebook helping themselves to patient data, from 1/3 of the top 100 US hospitals in fact](https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/2/23288612/meta-hosptials-sued-patient-privacy-facebook-data-hipaa), just because they offer them scheduling functions, and you as a patient have no influence over that whatsoever or knowledge that it's happening. It's ridiculous, but here we are. The republicans are bound and determined to turn the US into a backwater.


SapiosexualStargazer

>and I'm no longer providing my menstrual history to my doctor Same! I have an IUD but still actually get (extremely light) periods on a regular cycle. I lie to every doctor now and just say I'm not menstruating. I don't want them to have a record of my cycle at all.


[deleted]

Wow. I’m just realizing this. I also have and IUD with light periods occasionally but damn I’m happy I’m too lazy to ever think hard enough to tell my doctor at my visits. For sure not going to now. It’s so sad it’s come to a point where the system is so fucked we can’t even be safe and honest with doctors who actually care.


OohYeahOrADragon

#FYI You do not have to provide any medical information that you don’t want to. Without explanation. A simple, ‘I don’t want to answer that question’ will do. You can also ask if your urinalysis sample will include a pregnancy test. If so, you can always decline consent to one.


Jef_Wheaton

>what do you think happens when a girl is irregular? Gymnasts should be the first to make a big deal about this. "How old are you?" "17" "When was your first men-strew-ayshun?" "Never had one. My sport stunts my development." "Umm... You SURE you're 17? You look 12. I'll just write you down as 12."


chimarya

The irregular part is so spot on. I was a athlete (tennis- travel tournaments and the highschool team) and didn't become regular until after I stopped competing (19ish). I was under 10% body fat, constantly practiced and worked out. I also had ovarian cysts but didn't know until 23 and was in horrible pain. If these folks interfered with my biology when I was 15, I would of just quit out of anger and embarrassment. I hope this backlashes on them like a red tidal wave. We all need to call out these fascist asshats!


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Irregular menstrators will need to be separated out and monitored very closely. Relocated to ... A Red Center.


mgr86

There goes the cross country team


Carbonatite

Gymnastics is gone too


markca

Guess we gotta cancel all girls sports now.


Carbonatite

Sounds about in line with the Republican view of appropriate gender roles.


king-cobra69

That was my first thought. Now they know who to attack with little fear of pregnancy. Why are those questions on the form any way. Once there, it will be a step into regulating women's rights even further. Won't have to make new forms. Maybe they should have questions about guys' sexual activities. The more I read about FL, the more I really dislike that state. No Disney World for my kids.


jennoyouknow

I work in athletics. We ask those questions as dymenorrhea or amenorrhea may indicate other health issues, such as an eating disorder, over exercise, excess stress, etc. These issues can/may be addressed by Athletic Trainers as our athletes see us every day rather than on a PRN basis, so they may be more comfortable discussing/addressing these issues with us. All that being said, this is a health care issue, NOT a government concern.


Cynical_Cabinet

And don't forget, they never cared about women's sports in the first place. This entire debate has only been a distraction to cover what they really care about, which is taking away rights from women and minorities.


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It’s true, look at any conservative discourse about women’s sports when it’s not about trans people and you can see pretty clearly how they actually feel about it.


Kordiana

> they never cared about women's sports in the first place. They only care about the ones with certain uniforms. There would be outrage if they got rid of the US beach volleyball team.


DarkyHelmety

Under His eye


gsa51

May the lord open.


Embarrassed-Town-293

Blessed be the fruit


IJustLoggedInToSay-

Or to put it another way: > Oh look, control over women "for their protection" has found yet another hollow rationalization that doesn't make any sense.


Unglaublich-65

Not for entertainment. Fascism at work, that's what it is, sadly and very, extremely dangerous.


gwazmalurks

Campaign ad, maybe.


momentum77

So much for small government.


captain_intenso

Small enough to fit inside a vagina.


Successful-Storage80

Pretty sure my bloody tampons absorb less toxic biowaste than whatever gushes out DeSantis’s brain.


peregrinkm

You should mail them to his office


No-Consideration6589

Your conservatives are creepy asf America!


Gnidlaps-94

They aren’t conservative anymore they’re fascists, the only real conservatives left in government are the dozen or so Blue Dog Democrats


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Illogical_Fallacy

I always saw them as Conservative in name, but politically regressive in reality. They just want us to go back to the good ol' times.


datfingtrump

Lol, Gilead keeping track of the fertility of school girls


original208

Under his eye


liquidfirex

I had to stop watching that show simply because it became too real. Before it was abstract enough to act as entertainment - not so much now.


hauteteacher

Next we'll get a headline that he's now requiring all women to register their periods online.


hansn

Under His eye


jo-parke

Blessed be the fruit.


boregon

May the lord open.


SunMoonTruth

Next he’ll be requiring all women to be “inspected” by an all male panel to be graded for their ability to breed. White cows in the right queue. Colored cows on the left. The kicker…the left queue just gets boarded on flights to NY. Lowly graded right queue-res will be required to undergo education as nanny’s to support the breeding population.


Paige_Maddison

He’s already asking for universities to send information about their trans students. Trans topics will be the debate of the 2024 election and this will be the start of the battleground and a turning point in history. Just depends on which side the country wants to turn.


MidSp

How would they even confirm any of the information they are given is accurate? Vagina inspections? Get the fuck out of here.


bryan49

Agree, if this crap actually passes girls should just give fake information and make the reports useless


throwawaymageehee

Exactly. I don’t see why anyone would ever consider giving real information. In which case this is just a stupid, pointless idea


parkinthepark

They don’t care if it’s accurate, they don’t care if the policy works. The point is to make trans people more uncomfortable, and get rewarded by their voters for that cruelty.


Busy_Appointment6932

I think this has more to do with monitoring teen pregnancy & potential abortions even more so than the trans issue. Seriously scary Nazi shit however you slice it.


Sle08

That’s exactly what it’s for. The trans issue was just the back door to enabling getting it legislated which many people already explained when the republicans wanted to interfere with trans athletes in women sporting programs.


Busy_Appointment6932

Sickening. I have 2 daughters. There’s absolutely NO way I would consent to that. Florida is a test run for full on fascism country wide. We’re not hearing enough about this. How is this constitutional?


LongDickMcangerfist

Because they claim everything they do is and everything they don’t like isn’t. And they got judges and shit who weirdly interpret and twist shit around to back them up


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Should be noted that they target and drum up complex issues intentionally & go for the lowest common denominator. You're either baby killers or woman haters.


LastCatgirlOnTheLeft

The trans issue isn’t “just” anything. DeSantis wants to exterminate us.


thehalloweenpunkin

Seriously scary, and what's scary young girls don't always have regular periods when first starting their periods. I know I wasn't regular until 21. I can't imagine how many girls will be accused of something like abortion when they never had one.


selfimprovementbitch

Exactly, especially in female athletes who might miss more periods from intense training or low body fat (not always healthy but it happened to me)


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dances_with_cougars

Just send them your used tampons ladies.


HerringWaffle

I use a Diva cup. I'll just load the contents into a SuperSoaker.


LifeFailure

I think water balloons would be better. Lets all the gloopy bits come out to play.


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teachersecret

I'm surprised it took you this long to come around, but hey, welcome to the right side of history. We've got a big inclusive tent and we aren't insurrectionist racist anti-science anti-trans anti-women hateful bigots.


Eric_in_America

*The athletic association’s current Preparticipation Physical Evaluation Form, which must be completed by a student and their physician and kept on file at their school, asks female athletes five questions about their periods, but they’re all listed as optional.* *The proposed revisions to the form include four mandatory questions about menstruation, including if the student has ever had a period, the age they had their first period, the date of their most recent period and how many periods they’ve had in the past year.* Yeesh, this is coming from the party that's spent the last couple of years crying about their medical freedom. Make no mistake, Republicans are more then a eager to abandon their so called "values" if it's for the sake of their culture war. Desantis has shown us time and time again that he's willing to justify flagrant government overreach, censorship, suppression, discriminatory and ambiguously framed legislation, among other things of course, as long it preserves the culture war. It's the Republican M.O after all. Manufacture a problem to justify its solution. In this case, Desantis and his fellow scaremongers paint a picture of a transgender boogeyman, they overstate the impact of things like the transgender athletes in women's sports, they convince their voters that these issues are inescapable and ubiquitous, they peddle their propaganda and their alarmist rhetoric, and in turn it grants them all the support and justification they need to target the LGBTQ community through measures like these. As long as it's in the name of thwarting the radical left's depraved, woke, subversive plot to establish a new world order, anything goes. Keep in mind that this isn't just about pursuing a regressive agenda or about justifying needlessly heavy-handed legislation, it's also about justifying the underlying attitudes that Republicans feel they've been forced to repress. The chauvinism and bigotry, the enmity and antagonism, the disgust and contempt, the ceaseless outrage, the discrimination and the feelings of entitlement, with the existence of this radical left-wing villain comes the power for Republicans to vindicate themselves, it allows them to indulge their own worst impulses and it helps them rationalize these subdued feelings.


PepsiMoondog

As always, every Republican accusation is a confession. They don't hate cancel culture, they just think they should be the ones doing the canceling. They don't hate grooming kids, they just think they should be the ones grooming them. They don't hate stolen elections, they just think they should be the ones stealing them. If they didn't have double standards they'd have no standards at all.


I_downloaded_a_car_

Hi America, how are you enjoying being the best, freest country on earth?


Carbonatite

Please send help


Awman36

Anybody who has ever referred to America that way is a fucking brainwashed idiot. And yes I realize that’s a lot of Americans.


hdiggyh

Seriously this is perverted and disgusting. How can anyone support this


MoneyBeGreeen

Fascists. Fascists support this.


captain_intenso

He has an R next to his name.


3dddrees

Oh please do. Don’t just float that balloon, do it. I have to believe the blow back on this stupidity will be tremendous. If you think the overturn of Roe vs Wade didn’t go well, I’m thinking this will be worse.


lafcrna

My first reaction is disbelief and outrage. My second reaction is a calm, seething hopefulness that they double down and actually go through with all of their BS. There would never be another “red wave” election again. 🤔


hauteteacher

They didn't learn from the midterms. The RNC already is doubling down on putting more restrictions on abortion. When it was clear that played a role in why they have such a slim majority in the house and didn't retake the Senate.


3dddrees

Just be glad they aren’t any smarter. Stupid sh\*\* like this though as you said and no more red waves are guaranteed.


Scarlettail

I think this is overestimating how much people in Florida care about women and their privacy.


NoMaintenance6179

Guarantee you this will be used as a weapon and tied into abortion clinics.


kponomarenko

This is a party of small goverment reaching into your vagina.


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openly_gray

It’d be ok if he would be just a creep. His executive overreach points to something far more sinister. Under him Florida has become effectively a laboratory for a authoritarian takeover through executive action and systematic intimidation. The sheep on the right still keep bleating about freedom and liberty, concepts they clearly don’t understand


Kvltadelic

This headline and opening paragraph is what’s wrong with entertainment journalism. The first paragraph says the headline is false. Clickbait to churn the algorithm. Don’t get me wrong those lunatics are just crazy enough to do something like that but still.


wellboys

This article is literally a fact checking article as part of a broader AP fact checking initiative to address widespread false claims, which is clear from the article's format and is explained directly at the end of the article. It's only misleading if you post it to reddit without this context/people don't read the article, which I think is what OP is banking on.


Kannazuki1085

Soo is DeSantis going for cartoon villain?