The GOP is still morally corrupt, even if Discourse breaks

[Pyperkub]

@Timex

While that is in fact totally shady and crap, the idea that you should donate money instead of food and water is something that is pretty standard in most disaster situations that I’ve seen before. It’s way easier for the folks handling the situations to get resources around if they can just use money, instead of collecting stuff from donations, storing it somewhere, and then distributing it elsewhere.

If so, go with the Red Cross, of course.

[Scuzz]

That’s what I was thinking. Donate cash to the Red Cross, not the state of Florida.

[jpinard]

Another Republican criminal.

Former Kentucky legislator Robert Goforth sentenced to 2 years of prison in...

[Woolen_Horde]

Something something party of small government

The Palm Beach Post

[Mark_Asher]

So is this a transgender thing? Florida wants to make sure the girls are biologically girls? Or is it an abortion tracking thing?

I know, whynotboth.gif

[Balasarius]

Paywalled.

[Enidigm]

The terribleness of that headline is “parents and doctors are raising red flags” and not “almost everyone in the state is rebelling”. It’s like reverse-Karen’ing people who are concerned, as if this has already been normalized and it’s those “other people” who are “concerned” about it.

[charmtrap]

Seems a little more complex than that headline.

It’s important to highlight: the questions about menstruation are optional. The main concern seems to be that these medical forms are being put online, and which tinhorn local school district busybody might be able to get access to them more than that they exist at all.

Form that asks Florida student-athletes about their menstrual history sparks...

[Telefrog]

Why are they even asking?

[charmtrap]

That’s seems to be the nature of the disagreement. These are, apparently, standard questions that states have been asking…post-Roe, people are concerned how this info will be used.

Dr. Thresia Gambon, a pediatrician and the president of the Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said a student-athlete’s menstrual history can provide important insight for doctors, noting that irregular menstruation is one component — along with disordered eating and osteoporosis — of the female athlete triad, a disorder that can lead to reproductive, bone and cardiovascular issues. But she doesn’t see why schools need access to that information.

“Having menstrual history is very important — whether it’s very important that it’s included in that form is a different question,” she said.

Gambon pointed to the American Academy of Pediatrics’ guidelines for physical evaluation forms for student-athletes, which do not recommend including any questions about menstrual history and explicitly state that the physical evaluation forms should not be shared with schools.

And “to have this digitized makes it a bigger concern, because it is private medical information,” she added.

[Telefrog]

Weird. I had a daughter in sports and I dont remember questions about her menstruation ever coming up.

[Stepsongrapes]

@Telefrog

Weird. I had a daughter in sports and I dont remember questions about her menstruation ever coming up.

Setting aside the data privacy issues for a minute, I can see why this type of data is relevant to protecting the student athletes—irregular menstruation can be the result of athletes/programs pushing too hard. If there’s a high percentage/pattern of this for a given program, that can be a problem.

[Telefrog]

Sure. I’d expect this to be discussed with the coach or school nurse if needed.

I’ve never seen it on a form to join.

[charmtrap]

Those are just the first page of the Google search. Seems pretty standard.

Texas: https://www.uiltexas.org/files/athletics/forms/PrePhysFormRvsd1_10_20.pdf
Arizona: https://aiaonline.org/files/16936/forms-157-a-d.pdf
Oregon: https://www.oregon.gov/ode/rules-and-policies/StateRules/Documents/State%20Board%20Proposed%20OAR/PPE%20Form%20-%20022317.pdf
New Jersey: https://www.nj.gov/education/safety/health/athlete/docs/athleticphysicalsform.pdf

[dtolman]

WTF? As someone who works for a municipal IT (far from Florida), we would be flipping out about HIPAA violations and have those forms locked down so hard, that even a whitelist may not be enough to see them.

[ReptileHouse]

@dtolman

WTF? As someone who works for a municipal IT (far from Florida), we would be flipping out about HIPAA violations and have those forms locked down so hard, that even a whitelist may not be enough to see them.

For sure. This is crazy town that it’s handled the way it appears to be.

aside: I’ve been re-training my brain to use “allow/deny list” rather than “white/black list”.

[John_Many_Jars]

I’ve raised some red flags up my flagpole in my time.

[Calelari]

There’s medications for that now.

[ShivaX]

Mike Gonzalez

[Scuzz]

I wondered what he was doing since leaving ESPN.