In 2024, the National Women's Soccer League removed white shorts from its uniform lineup after its players named what girls in school sports have been carrying for decades — the anxiety of bleeding through. Peer-reviewed research now backs the experience: women's teams in white shorts averaged 0.32 to 0.37 fewer points per game than teams in dark shorts, a gap that doesn't appear in men's soccer. Adidas found 65% of menstruating athletes call period leakage their #1 concern in sport. Six in ten girls fear playing sport because of it. Vermont's female student-athletes have told us the same thing in their own words. We're listening — and acting.