'Everyone I have told about this proposed bill has looked at me and said, 'No way,' or 'I don’t think that’s right.' But this bill is very real and it’s very terrifying.'
in Florida, their sponsors promoting the idea that these bills are necessary to protect young Floridians and their education. But these bills seem less poised to protect children than to silence them — particularly silence young girls and LGBTQ+ students — by a group that is majority male and who don’t understand these students’ experiences.
Yet, it is not uncommon to see girls get their period before they turn 11. I got mine at 9, I know girls who got theirs at 8. And when I knew how to deal with my periods, talking about them with other girls who had gotten them early just like me, who had to grow out of carelessness and into a structured existence so early just like me, made it that much easier. We were going through it together in real time, able to laugh about this painful transition from being girls to becoming women when we could barely call ourselves the latter.
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