Do you remember ‘penis inspection day’ at school?

[Rev. Rye]

I didn’t, but apparently, it might happen for real soon in Florida.

The Florida House of Representatives has passed a bill to ban female transgender student athletes from participating in women's sports— a move transgender advocates say will do further harm to an already marginalized community.

On Wednesday, Florida legislators passed House Bill 1475[/color], also known as the Fairness in Women's Sports Act. The bill prohibits public colleges and K-12 schools from allowing transgender girls to play on sports teams designated for females. The move would preclude those transgender students from playing on teams that match their gender identity.

The bill makes no mention of transgender boys playing on male sports teams.

If a competitor or someone else calls an athlete's sex into question, that student must submit to a genetic test, a testosterone level test, or an examination of their "reproductive anatomy" by a healthcare provider and submit a statement from that provider to the school, according to the bill language.

But don’t take my word for it. You can find the Bill, info and full text here. And it has passed the House, but not the senate yet.

If you needed any sign that the world was going insane, even after people are taking steps to make sure half of the episodes of Black Mirror actually happen in reality, even after we elected a wrestling heel as leader of the free world, hell, even after someone decided to turn a fucking Adult Swim informercial into reality, we have apparently resorted to defictionalising Yahoo Answers memes.

[Silver]

Wow, just wow.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I think we just found Matt Gaetz' post-Congress career.

Boru

[The Valkyrie]

I thought penis inspection day only happened in Catholic schools when the priest visited?

[The Grand Nudger]

Florida is consistently awful. There's also a bill, already passed and that will be signed, which infringes on protest, and also carries a fun little bit of language making it explicitly legal to run protesters over with your car.

So, you know, don't go getting any ideas about protesting the one law, cuz the other.

https://www.flgov.com/wp-content/uploads...on-Act.pdf

[zwanzig]

This will be based on accusation/reporting? By competitors and fellow students? Are you joking? If it's by other students, I can't imagine this will be helpful towards the anti-bullying league. I can't be the only one who remembers fellow classmates making fun of that one awkward girl who hit puberty like a truck running her over. "She has a mustache! She's turning into a dude!"

Now the mean girls and hot shot boys will turn it around and call into question, "We don't think she was ever a girl." Just another way to bully people.

[Jackalope]

Florida is doing it's very best to ensure I will never voluntarily set foot in or spend a single penny in Florida or on products made in Florida. What a dumpster fire Florida is.

[The Grand Nudger]

The place is paradise - the people are awesome. The crony government is an issue.

[Ranjr]

Yes. Sorta.  To play football, you had to pass a hernia test.  The doctor came to the locker room on the morning of tryouts.  We lined up.  "Turn your head and cough."  A hilarious display for 7th graders.  I passed despite the skewered nuts.

[Sal]

I remember well when the school nurses did the testicle check. I was only in my underwear, and she reached from behind into my underpants while I was told to cough. I'll never forget those bloody cold hands *shiver*.