Florida athletic association will no longer ask high school students about menstruation cycles - POLITICO
@tmbrown327 Hard to call this a good decision when it's unmaking such a profoundly bad decision.
It's also unsettling that they arrived at this conclusion without the state's gov't. The are too many people arriving at bad conclusions through bad reasoning, with bad process.
But it's still something approaching reassuring that such bad decisions can at least be unmade.
@sumpnlikefaith About the only thing it suggests to me is that outrage/backlash works. Problem is, we seem to be losing our capacity for outrage as the normality window shifts.
@tmbrown327 Yes, right. this is another reason why I advocate for stewarding and guarding our attention.
Outrage fatigue is real.
When everything is pitched as an immediate crisis, we face mounting incapacity to meaningfully engage with any of it.
Additionally, we might be led to imagine that the support of a decision like this breaks cleanly between right and left, but I have no doubt that this decision was addressed by the right as well, who keenly feel the invasion of privacy.