Last August, two months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, parents in Florida’s Palm Beach County School District began questioning a rule requiring student-athletes in the state to submit detailed medical history forms to their schools prior to sports participation.
The forms have included a set of optional questions about students’ menstrual cycles for at least two decades. However, with abortion being made illegal in many states, there is growing concern that menstrual data could be used to identify and prosecute people who have terminated pregnancies. (Florida banned abortions after 15 weeks in 2022, and its leadership has expressed interest in further restricting access to the procedure.
This school year, the Palm Beach County school district began offering students the option of submitting the form through a third-party software product, raising concerns about data privacy. Some district parents preferred that the period questions be removed. The incid
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