This culture war bullsh*t has built a massive fan base for Ron DeSantis among the GOP primary base, but I don't think (I hope) that the majority of national voters are thinking, "Oh good, like Trump, only meaner!" But you never know, right? There might be a huge untapped reservoir of support for humiliating teenagers by making them document and report their periods. Via Morning Joe:
"In Florida, the Miami Herald leads with a proposal to allow high school athletes to disclose information regarding their menstrual cycle," Mika Brzezinski said during their "front pages" segment.
"Come on, man. Seriously? You're going to do that to young girls?" Joe Scarborough retorted.
"Right now, participation forms mark questions about a student's period as optional. Opponents say making this a requirement is an effort to, quote, demonize transgender people in sports. I actually think it's a problem for everybody. That's sort of private," Mika said.
"The percentage is so small. They're doing this to every girl in Florida schools? Talk about overkill," Scarborough said.
"Come on, talk about -- again, the obsession over 0.003% of the population. And then the unbelievably small number of transgender students who are playing sports. The Florida Republican party has gone crazy. They sent out tons of mailers on this. The obsession. Now, they're making young girls self-report on menstrual cycles because of this bizarre obsession?"
"I mean, it's like, you know, there's a very, very, very, very tiny problem, even if you call it a problem, which is not a problem, having trans kids in schools is not a problem anyway. And take this massive hammer to attach something to do. You know what it is like having teenage girls. You've had teenage girls. Every single person watching this show knows teenage girls. It's the last thing you want to ask them to talk about. They hate talking about it. To do it in this intrusive way, where they're going to have to, what, self- -- what are they going to have to do, fill in a chart? what if they're a couple days late? what happens?" Mika said.
