Planned Parenthood advocates say the ‘absurd’ draft legislation regarding periods would present a ‘reductive and binary view of sex’
Florida lawmakers are considering a draft law to strengthen state control over sex education that its sponsor says would ban any instruction in schools about menstrual cycles before the sixth grade.
McClain confirmed at a recent committee meeting that discussions about menstrual cycles would also be restricted to those grades.Girls typically have their first periods between the ages of 10 and 15, but some do so as young as nine. “So if little girls experience their menstrual cycle in 5th grade or 4th grade, will that prohibit conversations from them since they are in the grade lower than sixth grade?” asked Gantt.He defended the bill as a way to make sex education more uniform statewide and give parents more leverage over curricula, and later said he was open to amending it, media reports said. The bill passed the subcommittee by 13 votes to five.
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