Menstruation

FILE - Florida state Rep. Stan McClain, R-Belleview, attends a legislative session, March, 13 2019, in Tallahassee, Fla. Legislation moving in the Florida House would ban discussion of menstrual cycles and other human sexuality topics in elementary grades. The bill sponsored by McClain would restrict public school instruction on human sexuality, sexually transmitted diseases and related topics to grades 6 through 12. McClain confirmed at a committee meeting that discussions about menstrual cycles would also be restricted to those grades. The GOP-backed legislation cleared the House Education Quality Subcommittee on Wednesday, March 15, 2023, by a 13-5 vote mainly along party lines. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon, File)

Florida may ban girls’ period talk in elementary grades

Legislation moving in the Florida House would ban discussion of menstrual cycles and other human sexuality topics in elementary grades.

Kenyan senator Gloria Orwoba distributes free sanitary pads to girls at Mukuru Community Center Primary school, while explaining to them the need to openly discuss menstruation to end period shaming, in the Mukuru neighborhood on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. Orwoba has said that she attended parliament last month while wearing a white pantsuit stained by her menstruation in order to combat the stigma surrounding women's monthly periods. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

With stained pants, Kenyan senator fights menstruation taboo

FILE - 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. 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. The Florida High School Athletic Association axed the questions on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023, after listening to a flood of complaints contained in letters read aloud during an emergency meeting of the board. (Devon Ravine/Northwest Florida Daily News via AP, File)

Florida backs off athlete menstrual data, but debate lingers

Menstrual questions cut from athletic forms amid criticism

High school sports group rethinks menstrual cycle questions

Menstruation huts destroyed in Nepal, where exile persists

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Authorities are knocking down tiny huts in western Nepal where women have been exiled during menstruation and exposed to cold weather and threats from animals and even sexual assaults.

For many African girls, menstruation means humiliation

WAKISO, Uganda (AP) — Some menstruating schoolgirls were locked in dormitories while their peers were in class. To avoid the humiliation, others stayed home.