Dear Planned Parenthood,
You have been an important health care provider to me in the past and I deeply value your care for everyone seeking reproductive health services. It is with great sadness that I cannot continue to support your work. Your new policy of ‘gender affirming hormone therapy’ strikes me as terribly misguided and potentially incredibly harmful.
You advertise the ability to be prescribed ‘gender affirming hormones’ “..the same day as your first visit. No letter from a mental health provider is required.” I have some specific thoughts on what makes this a very dangerous option:
- Physical Impact of Hormones: My mother passed away from complications from post-menopausal hormone replacement therapy that resulted in malignant cancer and stroke. No doctor took the time to review her genetic history to assess whether she was predisposed to cancer or cardiovascular risk from exogenous hormones. It turns out, she was in a high-risk category for both cancer and cardiovascular disease. During the same day visits you advertise, do you have a conversation about genetic risk factors? Are your younger patients able to articulate their genetic risk factors? Are you evaluating any cancer or cardiovascular risks in your patients before prescribing hormones that could elevate risks in predisposed populations? If not, why not?
- Mental Health Background of Prospective Patients: I have a child with rapid onset gender dysphoria. This child of mine was recently diagnosed with ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Other diagnoses common to this group include anxiety and depression. Does this profile sound familiar? It should, because a significant subset of the population reaching out to organizations like yours for transgender pharmaceutical treatment have ADHD, ASD, or both, and very frequently depression and anxiety. Has Planned Parenthood noticed this? Have you inquired with your new patients? If not, why not? While my child learns to live as a neurodiverse person in this world, I would hate to see him put aside skills and tools to help him achieve self-acceptance in favor of trying to become a new person, and potentially add hormonal fluctuations to existing mental health challenges. However he dresses and characterizes himself, he will always be this unique person on the inside. Could he walk into Planned Parenthood without a letter from any of his care providers, and without the rich context of his history and mental health challenges be offered the message that a new identity awaits him? Would you inform him that drugs and surgery will not help him outrun his intrinsic nature and his unique way of seeing the world? Would you care that your treatment may add to his mental health challenges? As someone on the spectrum whose struggles with my own identity as a biological woman made me the person I am, I cannot imagine peddling this ‘solution’ to vulnerable, autistic youth. This population deserves better than to be ‘affirmed’ that they are wrong and in the wrong body. They deserve better care than a one-size-fits-all solution. The autistic population tends to see gender in a different way than our neurotypical peers, but this does not mean that we have to sign up for a lifetime of pharmaceuticals to conform and be accepted.
- Gender vs. Sex: As a feminist, I find the idea of selling the narrative that society can (and must!) affirm a new identity and conflate sex and gender to be misogynistic. Where do biological women and our specific rights fit into this narrative? If gender identity is valued more than biological reality, the rights and protections for biological women become meaningless. I encourage your organization to take a step back and more fully appreciate how this new direction and set of principles may impact biological women. We owe it to young women to look out for their rights and be honest in our discussions about sex and gender and how one is immutable and the other is not. I believe you are abandoning the rights and protections of biological women in your fervor to be a provider of trans services.
For these reasons and so many more, I will no longer donate to Planned Parenthood. You are harming a whole generation of young people with the services you offer, and I cannot in good conscience support this in any way. There are so many more like me who support a woman’s right to choose and know that you have been our most important source of help in the past. I am really sad that this is where we part ways.
The above comes from an April 12 email sent by Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans.
If the Founding Fathers could have seen what America would look like in 2022, how degenerate and irrational it would become, I think they would have resigned themselves to British rule and called off the revolution.
You know, not even Star Trek envisioned a future this freakish. Gene Roddenberry thought the future of humanity would be normal even with technological progress. Nobody predicted this sort of widespread degeneracy being regarded as normal.
IDK…Capt Kirk couldn’t keep his hands off of green alien women…
Some in the U.S. have always been involved in the occult in some ways. This is true of almost every country. The wife of Abraham Lincoln had seances in the White House, or whatever state house they were using then, after their son died. Much evil has gone on in the White House over the years. Trump’s First Lady had a priest go in and perform an exorcism before she would enter.
The Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, Ca., was built by the wife of the man who invented the Winchester Riffle. She went crazy from all the seances she had and had staircases built to nowhere with her fortune.
“’The Mark of Gideon’ sees Kirk beaming down to the mysterious planet Gideon, which suffers a massive overpopulation problem. The root of the problem? The inhabitants of the planet are extremely “pro-life”, to the point where they consider even zygotes to be utterly precious. Abortion is murder to them, and as a result, their planet is an overpopulated nightmare, with not a single unoccupied bit of breathing room anywhere to be found. They kidnap Kirk aboard a giant simulation of the Enterprise (where they found the room to create this full-scale mockup is never explained) in the hopes that he might expose them to some alien diseases which would act as all-natural population control. How this is ‘better’ than abortion or contraceptives is never explained or rationalized, but it still echoes the anti-abortion activism of today, taking it to its horrific conclusion (massive overpopulation). Kirk, and by proxy the Federation, take the pro-choice argument. TNG’s ‘Up the Long Ladder’ (an otherwise terrible episode) would take things a step or two further when Commander Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and Dr. Pulaski (Diana Muldaur) destroy clones made with their stolen DNA in a very strong pro-choice statement.”
https://musingsofamiddleagedgeek.blog/2020/03/14/star-trek-has-been-and-always-shall-be-about-diversity-and-social-justice/
Texas Tech is going to host a drag queen show for all ages. This filth is spreading everywhere. Disgusting is an understatement.
I’m really very glad this parent is beginning to see PP for what it is but he/she is still breathtakingly oblivious. In the same breath that this parent compliments PP for it’s ” care for everyone seeking reproductive health services” (up to and including abortion on demand without parental notification, birth control for minors without parental notification etc, he or she criticizes their policy regarding “gender affirming” medications.
A rational person would ask what did she/he think and organization like this would do? This is coming as any kind of a surprise? Good golly…interesting that it was only objectionable when it was her/his child that had the potential to be harmed. PP will forget this donor ever existed if they cared at all in the first place.
I have seen a lot of pro-LGBTQ articles on this website but I never thought I would see an article that said to Planned Parenthood “You have been an important health care provider to me in the past and I deeply value your care for everyone seeking reproductive health services.”
Every time I give this website another chance, there is always something anti-Catholic.
Basically, you get locked out of Twitter if you tell the truth.
Not if Elon Musk buys the company. See, money rules. Not faith.
I did not need nor want to see that picture.
The Puritans of New England came to America to found a City on a Hill, a new Jerusalem where they could freely follow and practice their faith without fear of persecution. They would be absolutely shocked with what is happening today on that City on a Hill. America turn back to God. California especially California turn back to God asap. Pray! Pray! Pray!
The Puritans came here to put everyone else in their place and persecute anyone that didn’t agree with them.
Musk: Money only rules when there is no faith! With faith you could conquer the world!