Oh. That's why the focus on the third party non-medical care provider. Because the other stuff isn't new.
For nearly two decades, Florida schools have asked student-athletes about their periods, a practice that the Palm Beach Post calls
optional. It’s part of a larger annual physical form that doctors across the country use to clear kids for sports.
I assume there's also a form male athletes have to fill out that tells people when they had their first erection/orgasm/other (how often, in a hour, they get an erection, do they have an erection right now while filling out this form, does filling out this form give them an erection? Does the word menstration immediately deflate their erection?) because that's equally important for people to know and track.
Last two decades. So some time starting in roughly 2002? Flordia and others "across the country" have been tracking this for 20 years?
Every time I learn more and more about women in sports, the more WTF is going on in the world. From abusive molesting Olympic doctors; to women soccer players mistreatment compared to men soccer players; to, well, this.
I knew I was born in the wrong time line when I heard my father, when I was, I don't know, 6?, look at a little league catcher and say something like "damn shame allowing her to play." 'Why daddy? Why are you so sexist,' I innocently asked. 'Because she has no future in baseball.' *stares at a sea of little leagures* 'Um, daddy, 0.001% have an real chance of a future in baseball.' Only 0.5% high school baseball players have a future in baseball; 10.5% of college baseball players have a future in baseball (and 1 in 10 high school baseball players have a future playing baseball in college). She doesn't have a future in baseball? Damn near no one has a future in baseball.
What was I angry about again? Oh, right, being born in this time line.
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