A Florida Republican admitted that his bill would ban young girls from discussing menstruation with school officials but claimed it wasn’t the “intent” of his legislation.

Republican state Rep. Stan McClain introduced House Bill 1069, which would restrict education materials in schools, require schools to teach the “benefits of monogamous heterosexual marriage,” and require educators to teach that “sex is determined by biology and reproductive function at birth …and that these reproductive roles are binary, stable, and unchangeable.”

The bill also says that “instruction in acquired immune deficiency syndrome, sexually transmitted diseases, or health education, when such instruction and course material contains instruction in human sexuality, such instruction may only occur in grades 6 through 12.”

Democratic state Rep. Ashley Viola Gantt pressed McClain over the bill during a House Education Equality Subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, questioning whether it would effectively ban girls below sixth grade from discussing their periods in school.

“Does this bill prohibit conversations about menstrual cycles ― because we know that typically the […]