Just five weeks before the start of the Women's Handball World Championships to take place in Germany and the Netherlands, the discussion related to white shorts in women's sports is resurfacing.
"I hate white shorts. I can understand that they can look nice, but since we are ladies and deal with stuff every month, I don't think it's fun to wear white shorts", says Veronica Kristiansen, playmaker at the Norwegian women's handball national team.
The debate about white shorts for women in sports has raged for many years. Many nations and clubs in various sports have listened to their athletes. But in handball, there is still a way to go.
Kristiansen, who is back to full fitness after becoming a mother for the second time in January this year, has to deal with the issue of wearing white shorts every day.
Kristiansen's Hungarian club team Györ, who have played in green tops and shorts for the past year, replaced the green shorts with white in their main kit before this season.
"We have said that we don't want to play in white shorts, but nobody has really taken notice of it. For me personally, I find it embarrassing, and it (the menstrual cycle) is something you cannot control. So away with white shorts, please", says Kristiansen.
Kristiansen, who has won the World Championships twice before with Norway, is backed up by Danish former Olympic champion Mette Vestergaard, who today is vice-chairman of the Danish Handball Federation.
"The problem is that the girls feel extremely insecure about it, and if you are at the time of the month when you have your period, it is an issue that becomes a big worry", says Vestergaard to TV2 Sport.
The wish to abolish white shorts is far from new. Already after the last World Cup final tournament two years ago, both the Danish women's handball national team and women's national football team wanted to do away with the white shorts.
The International Handball Federation did not react, and Denmark were forced to play in white shorts against Norway and Sweden at the Olympics in Paris in 2024.
Now, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark have joined forces to strengthen their political influence towards the IHF and make sure that a rule change is enforced to make sure that white shorts are forever abolished within women's handball.
"We have tried during the championships themselves, and for a long time, they (IHF) seemed to be open for discussion. But now we feel that it is time for the big political issue to be written into the rules", says Mette Vestergaard.
The World Championships will be staged from 26 November until 14 December and will take place in five different cities across Germany and the Netherlands.