The Planned Parenthood slippery slope
Some progressives are outraged that it's gotten into the transgender "medicine" market
I follow a Substack called “Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans” (PITT), which features essays from parents dismayed by their children’s cooption into the trans cult, and detransitioners. It’s worth a follow if the trans issue is something that interests you; for me it’s a lesser interest than covid, but all part of the same sickness afflicting our Western society.
Today they published a post called “The US Tavistock: It’s time for Planned Parenthood to close too”. I’m fully on board with that call, but the anonymous author of the post has slightly different reasons than mine.
She (although the author is anonymous, I’m going to assume they’re female) is not concerned at all about Planned Parenthood’s decades-long mission of killing unborn children. In fact, she’s all for that. She refers to abortion as “reproductive rights” (could there possibly be a more Orwellian term?) She just thinks they’ve gone too far in dispensing opposite-sex hormones to children claiming to be trans, and should stick to killing babies.
She demands:
And before they receive a dime from me (and I hope from you), I’d like to know how Planned Parenthood funds are allocated and used.
Can someone, anyone, explain to me how Planned Parenthood differs from Tavistock GIDS in their transgender affirming care model? Can anyone explain why their gender affirming care services aren’t being shut down or at least investigated?
In other words, it’s perfectly fine for PP to rip apart healthy, living human baby bodies in the womb, but when they start giving hormones to the ones they don’t manage to kill a few years down the road, they’ve crossed a line and should be investigated and shut down.
She says:
Based on this, I’m going to venture that Planned Parenthood is experiencing what might politely be termed scope creep and what might more realistically be called institutional capture.
On the contrary, dispensing cross-sex hormones to minors fits precisely with Planned Parenthood’s mission. It has long viewed the bodies of children as cash cows. If it is perfectly ok with killing human babies before they are born (and selling their body parts for medical research), why on earth would it not be ok with medically mutilating somewhat older humans?
Not only that, a large part of Planned Parenthood’s mission has long been dispensing birth control hormones. These hormones have undisclosed harmful health effects, and their express purpose is to render females sterile as long as they are on them.
Transgender hormones have even greater harmful health effects, and often render people permanently sterile.
It’s all part of the same mission. It’s not scope creep at all. In fact, it fits perfectly into PP’s culture of death.
I only hope the author and the commenters who claim they will no longer donate to PP, will keep their word. And that their eyes will be opened to see that what they are so outraged about now is simply a totally logical extension of the carnage they’ve cheered on for decades.
My grandchild born a girl is transitioning to a male. 16 yo. He had top surgery 2 weeks ago. 😱Of course he has side effects from the puberty blockers. Of course I am worried to death about his future. We live 1000 miles away. No input. I just want to love this kid. But I knew bubkus at that age but thought I knew all. So irrevocable now. I believe all this stems from neural damage from the HPV shot and cultural grooming. They live in NY. They are visiting this weekend.