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- The goalkeeper guards the net as girls take part in the first day of tryouts for the Fort Walton Beach High School girls' soccer team in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., on Oct. 10, 2012. Facing blowback, the leader of Florida’s high school sports association is backing away from using a permission form that requires female athletes to disclose their menstrual history. The association's board is meeting Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023, to vote on whether to adopt a new recommendation that most personal information revealed on a medical history form be left at the doctor’s office and not stored at school. (Devon Ravine/Northwest Florida Daily News via AP, File)
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Menstrual questions cut from athletic forms amid criticism
By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press
Thu,02/09/23-12:54PM , 541 Reads
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Questions about female athletes’ menstrual history will no longer appear on the medical forms that Florida high school students have to fill out before participating in sports, though the new form will still ask athletes for their sex assigned at birth, rather than just their sex.
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- The goalkeeper guards the net as girls take part in the first day of tryouts for the Fort Walton Beach High School girls' soccer team in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., on Oct. 10, 2012. Facing blowback, the leader of Florida’s high school sports association is backing away from using a permission form that requires female athletes to disclose their menstrual history. The association's board is meeting Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023, to vote on whether to adopt a new recommendation that most personal information revealed on a medical history form be left at the doctor’s office and not stored at school. (Devon Ravine/Northwest Florida Daily News via AP, File)
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High school sports group rethinks menstrual cycle questions
By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press
Wed,02/08/23-1:42PM , 881 Reads
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Facing blowback, the director of Florida’s high school sports governing body is backing away from using an eligibility form that requires female athletes to disclose their menstrual history in order to compete.
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- A sign near the entrance of the Reedy Creek Improvement District administration building is seen Monday, Feb. 6, 2023, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Disney’s government in Florida was the envy of any private business, giving it unprecedented powers in deciding what and how to build at Walt Disney World. Those days are numbered as a new bill released in early February 2023 puts the entertainment giant’s district firmly in the control of Florida’s governor and legislative leaders. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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Disney faces losing control of its kingdom with Florida bill
By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press
Tue,02/07/23-12:32PM , 410 Reads
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Disney’s government in Florida has been the envy of any private business, with its unprecedented powers in deciding what to build and how to build it at the Walt Disney World Resort, issuing bonds and holding the ability to build its own nuclear plant if it wanted.
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- Owen Glick gets ready to play pickle ball at Phelps Park, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023, in Winter Park, Fla. Glick was among the 233,000 people who left a Western state for another U.S. state out of the region. The U.S. population center is on track this decade to take a southern swerve for the first time in history, and it's because of people like Glick, who moved from California to Florida more than a year ago. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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US population center trending toward South this decade
By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press
Sat,01/28/23-10:07AM , 624 Reads
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. population center is on track this decade to take a southern swerve for the first time in history, and it's because of people like Owen Glick, who moved from California to Florida more than a year ago.
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