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stated on July 7, 2024 in a Threads post:

Project 2025 mandates women carry “period passports” to “track their menstrual cycles” and “monitor pregnancies.”

False
By Jeff Cercone
July 8, 2024

No, Project 2025 didn’t call for ‘period passports’ for women; claim originated as satire

If your time is short

  • This claim originated on a satirical X account.

  • Project 2025 is a policy agenda created by conservative groups in the hope that former President Donald Trump will enact it should he win the presidency in November. The agenda does not call for women to carry period passports.

See the sources for this fact-check

Project 2025, a sweeping agenda created by conservative groups who hope it will be enacted should former President Donald Trump win November’s presidential election, has become a hot campaign topic.

A July 7 Threads post warned, “The Project 25 group says women should be mandated to carry ‘period passports’ that track their menstrual cycles and must be kept up to date, and women must present these to police officers during random ID checks to monitor pregnancies.”

“Women and Men Must REJECT TRUMP AND PROJECT 25! This is Insanity!” the post added.

Project 2025 is a policy platform drafted by more than 100 conservative organizations that referred to it as a “2025 Presidential Transition Project.” It’s led by the Heritage Foundation, and has cropped up in the presidential campaign recently, with President Joe Biden attacking the plan and Trump trying to distance himself.

Project 2025 outlines a plan based on four pillars: a 922-page policy agenda; efforts to hire and train conservatives to implement it; and a plan to create a 180-day playbook for the next administration.

Project 2025’s plan does call for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to rescind approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, and for the Centers for Disease Control to force states to provide more accurate and complete data about abortion.

It does not, however, call for “period passports,” as the Threads post claimed. Those words do not appear in a search of the project’s policy agenda.

The Threads post claim quotes verbatim from a July 6 X post by The Halfway Post, a satirical account.

Passports screenshot, 7-8-2024
Figure 1: Passports screenshot, 7-8-2024

(Threads screenshot)

A person using the name Dash MacIntyre runs The Halfway Post X account; its profile describes the account as “halfway true comedy and satire,” and adds, “I don’t report the facts, I improve them.”

The profile links to a blog on the website Medium, where MacIntyre describes himself as a “comedian, political satirist and poet,” and a top source of “absurdist satire” on X. MacIntyre also created a blog post about the satirical Project 2025 claims shared on X.

The “period passports” post was one of several satirical claims about Project 2025 that The Halfway Post shared on X, including one that claimed “The Project 25 group is calling for all public schools to have annual purity balls starting in 3rd grade.”

Numerous social media users shared The Halfway Post’s claim as if it were real

We rate the claim that Project 2025 is calling for a mandate that women carry “period passports” to track their menstrual cycles and pregnancies False.

Our Sources

Threads post, July 7, 2024 (archived)

The Halfway Post, X post, July 6, 2024 

The Halfway Post, X  profile, accessed July 8, 2024

Dash MacIntyre, Medium page, accessed July 8, 2024

Dash MacIntyre, Project 25’s Creepiest Platform Planks, July 7, 2024

The Washington Post, Democrats focus attacks on right-wing Project 2025 pushed by Trump allies, July 8, 2024

Project 2025, 180-Day Playbook, accessed July 8, 2024

Project 2025, 2025 Mandate for Leadership, accessed July 8, 2024

Project 2025, Presidential Personnel Database, accessed July 8, 2024

Project 2025, Presidential Administration Academy, accessed July 8, 2024

Project 2025, Building now for a conservative victory through policy, personnel, and training., accessed July 8, 2024

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