Planned Parenthood says ‘abortion goes hand in hand’ with transgender agenda, and profits from both

Laws prohibiting the administration of puberty blockers, transgender hormones, or body-altering surgeries to children are under fire in a number of states. One of the organizations railing against these protections for minors is Planned Parenthood — which not-so-coincidentally profits from being a top provider of so-called ‘gender-affirming’ care.

For decades, Planned Parenthood has not only promoted and sold abortion to minor children but they are now openly promoting the transgender agenda to minors as well. While a limited number of Planned Parenthood affiliates admit providing transgender services to minors, the organization, which normalizes changing gender anytime you ‘feel’ like it, is willing to refer minors for life altering drugs.

In February 2023, Dr. Robyn Schickler, Chief Medical Officer for Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida (PPSWCF), told Governing.com that PPSWCF provided “estrogen and testosterone hormone therapy to approximately 1,900 patients a year, including minors as young as 14 with parental consent…” Months later, Planned Parenthood vowed to fight SB254 because, according to Planned Parenthood, the legislation “bans gender-affirming care for minors and places severe restrictions on GAC for adults.”

A press release issued by the Planned Parenthood affiliate’s political arm described the law as “extreme harm to minors in Florida by making it illegal for providers to prescribe them puberty blockers or hormone therapy in the state.” CEO, Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida piled on by calling the legislation “bigotry masquerading as public policy.”

Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood North Central States — which boasted that “3,460 patients received transgender hormone therapy” in FY2022, and claims to provide hormones to clients at “least 16 years old and post-puberty” in Minnesota and Nebraska — is challenging Nebraska’s LB574 — the “Let Them Grow Act.” The measure includes “gender-affirming restrictions for minors,” according to media reports.

Planned Parenthood South Atlantic announced the affiliate is “proud” to offer GAC services in North Carolina, and at the same time the affiliate opposes restricting transgender services for youth, falsely calling efforts to limit transitioning children “attacks” which “put their lives and well-being at risk.”

Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, where Dr. Colleen McNicholas, an abortionist, serves as co-director of the TRANSforming Community TRANSforming Care program, offers “hormone replacement therapy to patients 16 years and older” as long as clients bring a “parent or guardian” with them to their visit.

Those under 16 are referred by Planned Parenthood to the Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital which offers puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and menstrual suppression — and suggests that it is “ideal if patients come to us prior to or in the early stages of puberty.” The Center also claimed that “patients between the ages of 14 and 16 may begin taking cross-sex (gender-affirming) hormones that help make their physical body match their inner gender.”

Meanwhile, Missouri’s SB 49, contains some ‘gender-affirming restrictions’ banning gender transition surgeries on minors and imposes a moratorium on hormones and puberty blockers until 2027 unless the patients are already receiving the medications, MSN.com reported. While the law is being challenged, Planned Parenthood has vowed to “continue to see minors (age 16+) in Missouri for gender-affirming care, as long as they begin care before August 28, 2023. Patients who have begun care before August 28 can continue their care in Missouri,” Planned Parenthood wrote.

Planned Parenthood told clients that after August 28, “Missouri minors looking to start gender-affirming care can come to our health center in Fairview Heights, Illinois.”

“Autonomy and care are vital, and trans and gender non-conforming youth in Missouri deserve authentic living, unaffected by leaders’ extreme views that deny essential care,” Planned Parenthood of the Great Plains Votes tweeted. Planned Parenthood Advocates STL Region & SWMO, claimed on Twitter (X) that “politicians are again attacking our bodily autonomy, blocking trans & gender-nonconforming youth’s access to gender-affirming care…”

Earlier this year, the Texas legislature passed ‘gender-affirming restrictions’ in SB14, a “prohibition on the provision to certain children of procedures and treatments for gender transitioning, gender reassignment, or gender dysphoria and on the use of public money or public assistance to provide those procedures and treatments.” In response, Planned Parenthood of the Gulf Coast vowed on ‘X’ that their affiliate and partners “will continue to fight for health equity – including… restored abortion access, and health care for trans youth…”

Bhavik Kumar, the affiliate’s medical director for primary and transgender services, who once suggested biological men can get pregnant, told the Texas Standard that “gender care” includes “access to puberty suppression and hormone interventions if that’s what somebody chooses.”

Planned Parenthood even sells a “no more trans bans” T-shirt on its website.

States Fail to Protect Minors 

Planned Parenthood is among organizations praising legislation seeking to codify access to transgender services by shielding those providers — much like they did for abortion.

“In June 2022, Massachusetts passed An Act Expanding Protections for Reproductive and Gender-Affirming Care, also known as a Shield Law. This law constitutionally preserves and protects reproductive and gender-affirming health care in the Commonwealth, including for individuals who travel from out of state and the providers who serve them,” reported NorthHampton.gov.

In response, Planned Parenthood praised the measure, tweeting that the law “shields providers of abortion and gender-affirming care from hostile legal action, mandates insurance providers cover abortion, and expands access to medication abortion and emergency contraception.” Planned Parenthood’s Massachusetts affiltate openly advertises online that they provide “gender-affirming hormone services” to clients “16 and over.”

Planned Parenthood of Illinois (PPIL), which boasted on Facebook that it is “the state’s largest provider of gender-affirming hormone therapy services” and that it offers “gender-affirming care at all of our health centers, ” writes online, “If you’re 16 or 17, you’ll meet with our Behavioral Health team before seeing a medical provider. The clinician will discuss Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy and assess if further support is needed. All legal guardians must attend this visit and the first clinical appointment to sign a medical consent.”

In January of 2023, Planned Parenthood’s political arm in Illinois called for passage of the “Patient and Provider Protection Act (PAPPA)” which they claimed was “comprehensive legislation to protect health care providers and their patients who access reproductive and gender-affirming health care in Illinois.” Then, in April, Planned Parenthood of Illinois condemned the State of Indiana for passing Senate Bill 480, which they claimed “bans gender affirming care for minors in Indiana.”

Planned Parenthood is among other activists “urging the Department of Health and Human Services to expand a proposal protecting reproductive health information from law enforcement to also shield information related to gender-affirming care,” according to BloombergLaw.com. “Those against the rule view it as a breach of agency authority that would compromise state laws and stop law enforcement from collecting health information that could help with criminal investigations,” Bloomberg wrote.

Laws which protect providers rather than children are spreading to other states.

In April, NPR reported that “Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, New Mexico and Minnesota have all passed bills designed to shield transgender health care through legal protections, health care coverage and access.”

“Last year, California passed a similar bill, calling itself a ‘refuge’ state for transgender youth and their families. Also this year, Oregon Democrats are proposing a constitutional amendment to protect care. Washington State and Vermont have their own protective bills,” NPR wrote. “Michigan hasn’t moved to explicitly protect gender-affirming care in statue. Like some other states, though, it has expanded the state’s civil rights to include ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity’ as protected classes.”

California’s SB107, which was co-sponsored by Planned Parenthood, took effect in January of this year. California State Representative Scott Weiner, who sponsored the legislation, claimed the measure would “protect trans kids and their families if they flee to California from Alabama, Texas, Idaho or any other state criminalizing the parents of trans kids for allowing them to receive gender-affirming care.”

But an analysis by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) claimed that “SB 107 violates parental rights protected by the U.S. Constitution by giving California courts the ability to strip parents who reside in another state of their parental rights if their child travels to California to obtain gender transition procedures—including harmful puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and irreversible surgeries. It also denies parents the right to have access to their child’s medical information.”

New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed Senate Bill 13 into law in April, which, according to the Albuquerque Journal, would prohibit public agencies from releasing “information or otherwise cooperating with civil or criminal investigations launched from outside the state into medical providers who engage in ‘protected health care activity’ in New Mexico, such as abortion or gender-affirming care… A person harmed by a violation of the law could file a lawsuit seeking damages of at least $10,000 per violation.”

According to an August 2023 update to the Movement Advancement Project’s “Equality Maps: Transgender Healthcare ‘Shield’ Laws,” 11 states plus the District of Columbia (D.C.) now have “shield” laws “protecting access to transgender health care” while ‘shield’ executive orders have been signed in three states.

Parents Pass ‘Gender-Affirming’ Restrictions in Multiple States

Parents are beginning to speak out to protect their children from being targeted by transgender ideology, and several concerned parents have successfully convinced lawmakers to pass ‘gender-affirming’ restrictions in multiple states.

PatientEngagementHIT.com reviewed an analysis published in JAMA, which claimed there were “a total of 20 states” which had “enacted legislation, executive actions, or other policies restricting youth access to gender-affirming care as of May 2023” and that there were “over 100 bills restricting gender-affirming care that are currently under consideration.”

The article also claimed that 1 in 4 gender clinics are located in states with restrictions and added that “Around 30 percent of transgender youths in the US live in a state with restricted access to gender-affirming care, representing 89,100 kids,” PatientEngagementHIT.com wrote.

The University of Michigan authors of that JAMA report entitled “State Restrictions and Geographic Access to Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Youth” and funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, identified “271 gender clinics, 70 (25.8%) were considered inactive under restrictions in 20 states.”

“States considered to have restricted gender-affirming care were Alabama (SB184), Arkansas (HB1570), Florida (S254, Rule 64B8-9.019), Georgia (SB140), Idaho (HB71), Indiana (SB480), Iowa (SF538), Kentucky (SB150), Mississippi (HB1125), Missouri (SB49, Rule 15CSR60-17.010), Montana (SB99), Nebraska (LB574), North Dakota (HB1254), Oklahoma (SB613), South Carolina (Proviso 23.4), South Dakota (HB1080), Tennessee (SB1), Texas (SB14), Utah (SB16), and West Virginia (HB007). Two states (Texas, Missouri) were included based on passed legislation with governor support and expected signature. Of note, some restrictions were temporarily enjoined in court or not immediately effective following enactment,” the May 2023 supplemental stated.

Since that report published, North Carolina became the 22nd state to enact ‘gender-affirming’ restrictions for trans minors, according to CBS News.