TAMPA, Fla. — Should high school female student athletes be required to disclose their menstrual history in order to play sports? That’s a question the Florida High School Athletic Association will decide in a couple of weeks. It’s a question about which parents, students and coaches have opinions.

The question is part of the physical exam form filled out by student athletes, their parents, and their doctor.

On that form, it asks:

• Have you had a menstrual period?
• When was your first and last one?
• How many you’ve had in the last year?

Those questions were optional before, but it could be mandatory if the FHSAA votes on it at their board meeting later this month.

Critics said this new draft is an attempt to roll back transgender rights in competitive sports.

Mirtha Moreno has a daughter who is very active in school athletics. She said the move is wrong regardless of the motive.

“I do think in this specific topic it does kind of violate the privacy of the female athletes that are playing sports across track, soccer, football, baseball, softball where ever they’re playing now if that is your motive, it still transcends into violating their privacy and their rights as patients, as females, as athletes,” Moreno said.

“If you do make it mandatory and you have to have all of this information on all of these players, where’s this information gonna be stored? How is it going to be stored? Who is it going to be going to and then, if it is leaked or released without consent, who’s gonna be held accountable?”

Another question on that student physical form asks, “What’s your sex assigned at birth?” Governor DeSantis has been very vocal about trans athletes. Last year he spoke out against trans swimmer Laa Thomas winning the NCAA’s 500 meter freestyle title.

Ultimately, in this case, the FHSAA will make the final decision during their meeting on February 26-27. The board consists of 16 members, made up of 14 men and two women.