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

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.

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

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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.