No, 'Project 2025' does not mandate 'period passports' for women in the U.S.

What is the claim? 

Social media users have claimed that Project 2025, an initiative launched by the conservative think tank The Heritage Project, will introduce compulsory "period passports" to track women's menstrual cycles.

Project 2025, also called the "2025 Presidential Transition Project" on their website, is a policy agenda by a group of conservative organizations in the U.S. that includes proposals for the next Republican president to enact policies favorable to conservative ideologies.

A user on X (formerly Twitter) on July 7 shared: "BREAKING: 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." The archived version of this post and similar claims on X can be found here and here, and on Facebook, they can be found here and here.

Screenshots of the viral claims on social media. (Source: Facebook / X / Modified by Logically Facts) 

However, we found this claim to be false. The claim originated from a satirical account, and the project's agenda does not refer to a "period passport" anywhere. 

What we found 

This claim first appeared on an X account called The Halfway Post on July 6, 2024 (archived here). The post garnered around 1.9 million views on X. Their profile description reads: "Dada news. Halfway true comedy and satire by @DashMacIntyre." Dash MacIntyre is a comedian and satirist.

The Halfway Post's bio on X. (Source: X)

Project 2025's "Mandate for Leadership: A Conservative Promise," a 900+ page policy agenda (archived here) on their website, does not make any reference to period passports or menstruation.  

The document recommends restricting birth control access and federal policies that would limit abortion access in the U.S., but there is no mention of a "period passport" to check and track pregnancies. 

The verdict 

The claim that Project 2025 would mandate period passports originated from a satirical social media account. The Project 2025 policy agenda does not make any reference to period passports or menstruation. Therefore, we have marked this claim as false.