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. A New Hampshire school district banned two dads from attending their daughters' varsity soccer games after they donned pink "XX" wristbands during a match-up against a high school with a male-to-female transgender athlete. (Devon Ravine/Northwest Florida Daily News via AP, File)
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