A nationwide poll revealed that about 71% of Americans say schools aren’t giving children an honest view of history. And now there’s a new debate about what’s being taught in schools. A controversial bill sponsored by Republican Florida state Representative Stan McClain prevents teachers from teaching children below the sixth grade about menstruation and other sex education topics. This bill has caused extensive backlash because, according to the Cleveland Clinic, girls in the U.S. can get their first period as young as nine years old (typically third or fourth grade) and as late as 15 years old.

Straight Arrow News contributor Jordan Reid explains why girls in the lower grades deserve to learn more about their bodies.

The fact that the need to legislate about the age at which girls can learn about the menstrual cycle is even on the table, even being discussed, when there are slightly more important issues at hand, should tell us everything. It’s not about periods. It’s not about the children. It’s about creating a culture war in order to secure and maintain power. See, when you’re not doing a great job governing, say, when you’re not actually creating actual policies that actually improve the lives of Americans, how do you keep people’s attention? You create a culture of fear. And history has shown us that a moral panic is an excellent way to achieve this. 

These men do not care about menstruation. I very much doubt that most of them could even locate the basic parts of a human vagina with a map. They’re drumming up these bizarre morality wars in order to distract from the fact that increasingly, Americans, you know, we’re waking up to just how much of a cesspool the political system is. 

And they’re saying, “Look what will happen if you don’t keep me in charge. Your children will all be gay and there’ll be shouting from the rooftops about CRT and menstruation.” They’re trying to take all of our eyes off of what’s really going on. You know what’s really going on? They’re just looking out for themselves.