Trump team to stop family-planning funding as it reviews whether it’s being used for DEI programs

[IwantToRetire]

The Trump administration is planning to freeze tens of millions of dollars in federal grants to organizations providing family planning and other reproductive health services, as it reviews whether the funds violate the president’s order to cease all government-backed diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work.

A Health and Human Services spokesperson told The Wall Street Journal, which reported on the plan, that the department was reviewing grants to make sure they complied with the crackdown on DEI.

The freeze to the Title X program could impact as much as $120 million worth of grants to a network of roughly 4,000 clinics providing free and discounted pregnancy testing, contraception, sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing and treatment, and evaluations and testing for infertility.

Planned Parenthood, whose affiliates could lose roughly $20 million if the paused grants are ultimately cut, reacted with alarm.

“The Trump-Vance-Musk administration wants to shut down Planned Parenthood health centers by any means necessary, and they’ll end people’s access to birth control, cancer screenings, STI testing and treatment, and more to do it,” Planned Parenthood Federation of America CEO Alex McGill Johnson told the newspaper.

https://www.aol.co.uk/trump-team-stop-family-planning-211853228.html

I'm amazed this took them two whole months. This lot like their women barefoot and pregnant.

Planned Parenthood is one of the biggest providers of puberty blockers and wrong sex hormones for children in the US. Testosterone in particular:

https://www.thefp.com/p/how-did-planned-parenthood-become

They could just stop sterilizing children, admit they were wrong on that, and then maybe they could get the money to carry on with actual family planning support?

This article is terrifying.
Minimal time spent with patient before irreversible treatment occurred, no consideration of comorbidities.

Kudos to the trans identifying member of PP staff who is being a whistleblower over their failure to properly inform about side effects of testosterone. That cannot be an easy path.

The suggestion PP is more interested in anti Trump political activism than healthcare seems bourne out by the statement made in the OP. Why would you make such an antagonistic political statement if you want to retain funding currently only frozen? Surely a better option would be to demonstrate all the good work you're doing that isn't DEI related?

Perhaps it might be worth remembering this is the Feminism and Women's Rights forum, and the issue of family planning is central to most women's lives.

This isn't a single issue forum.

And irrespective of the trans issue to just ignore this threat to women controlling their reproductive health is callous and anti woman.

For heavens sake.

Dont you have any empathy.

Can you not engage your brain and think that Trump and his henchmen are so demented that they probably do think that to give women for support re reproduction is in their limited intelligence DEI.

Ignoring of course that men take no responsibility.

But this could lead to women getting no support, particularly those with low incomes.

Its embarrassing to find comments that have so little empathy for women.

And irrespective of the trans issue to just ignore this threat to women controlling their reproductive health is callous and anti woman.

No one has done that, what are you talking about? I pointed out a reason why Planned Parenthood has been targeted by the Trump administration and what is meant by their “DEI” treatments. Planned Parenthood’s provision of appropriate healthcare for women is under threat from funding because they spend a lot of their time and money providing inappropriate healthcare by medically transitioning children.

The fact that organisations like PP have focussed on the trans issue is most likely contributing to this threat to women, not posters here pointing it out. Maybe the Trump administration does think PP providing healthcare for women is classed as “DEI nonsense” to them, but I would wager PP’s gender affirmation nonsense is more likely to be raising their ire and it’s not a lack of empathy to point that out.

Damn there’s a lot of lawsuits coming.

Planned Parenthood deserves to be wiped from the face of this Earth. It has gone so far down the rabbit hole of mutilating children and young adults it has lost sight of its original purpose. It didn’t just didn’t just tip its toes into gender “healthcare”- it wholeheartedly embraced it and threw safeguarding and caution to the wind.

Maybe when the slate is wiped clean, it can rise again and go back to its original purpose as a grassroots organisation providing affordable contraception, pregnancy terminations and sexual healthcare for Americans.

Planned Parenthood are the demented ones here in this picture and should be decimated forever.

And face jail time if at all possible. And the people in charge be banned from ever receiving federal funds forever.

Planned Parenthood belong in the bin

I'm not surprised PP has been targeted, they're a loathsome organisation now and their name bears very little relevance to their activities. The US government has done the right thing.

Where do you draw the line, @IwantToRetire? If PP provide one person with contraception but 99 with advice about blocking puberty, is that OK? Or if it's 5:95 - is that acceptable?

Yes, there will be consequences for some women, but overall it's a sensible move if it's only for the short term.

What IS embarrassing is the ignorance around what organisations like PP have been up to behind everyone’s backs. What started out as a vital service for sexual health and reproduction has turned into a fast track under the counter service to sterilise youth by the handing out of puberty blockers. Ironic really that one of the side effects of such actions is the sterilisation of those being prescribed. A comparison can be made between PP and Stonewall - once a very creditable organisation doing much needed work, now a front for an ideology that harms vulnerable people.
@IwantToRetire , did you complain so much about how federal funding was being denied to schools and colleges who didn’t subscribe to TWAW policies, which in turn has led to males taking the places of females in sport particularly across the US?
The US government is telling organisations like PP to get their house in order - stick to your original purpose and stop spending federal money on this very dangerous ideology. They are NOT pulling the plug on much needed sexual health services.

It's a rather odd political motivation to focus on trans stuff ahead of the fact that women and girls will lose their lives from this.
It's a rather odd political motivation to focus on the trans stuff ahead of the fact that women and girls are losing control of their reproductive rights.
This is a feminism board and to do otherwise is quite suspicious.

This is a feminism board and to do otherwise is quite suspicious.

What do you mean?

"It's a rather odd political motivation..."

= The old "bigoted fascist TERFS" in new clothing.

PP are giving testosterone to teenagers.

Anyone on a feminists board on a parenting site who thinks this is irrelevant, or not as imporant as access to contraception and terminations of pregnancy is bonkers.

PP could get funding back if they stopped handing out testosterone to any teenager who walks through the door. Its therefore their choice to provide contraception and TOP.

The reproductive rights of girls includes not being sterilised for the sake of an ideology.

It isn't a focus on 'trans stuff'. It's a focus on protecting girls and young women from irreversible treatments being promoted and provided with no evidence base whatsoever.
By the very organisations they should be able to trust to 'do no harm'. They are doing this behind the smokescreen of once being a respected organisation; as a pp said, the parallels with Stonewall are clear.

Actually, don’t bother replying to my question.

I don’t support the provision of Gender Affirming ’care’ offered by this organisation.
You clearly would not only support it but would actively encourage it.

I mean it sounds to me that folk are pointing out the bleeding obvious: that Mumsnet FWR is (and always has been) used by posters with an ultimate patriarchal agenda to manipulate those who are naive enough to believe that trans rights are the single biggest issue facing women today.

So that is used as a smokescreen to convince women to agree with the wholesale devastation of reproductive services that are proven to save lives.

Because someone, somewhere was given testosterone once, right? So therefore we must stop access to all those life saving abortions, contraception, support for rape victims, treatment and prevention of STIs.

This board is not populated in the main by women who care about women, it is populated by those fueling an agenda that will ultimately work against women. As this thread demonstrates.

Mumsnet HR are fully aware of this by the way, they have access to the posting stats.

PP don't seem that bothered about helping women and girls given they're poking the bear / biting the hand that feeds it. They don't seem focused on helping women and girls.

According to the article instead of using donations to help women and girls, they hired political activists. They have a trans employee who takes testosterone themselves whistle blowing about their lack of informed consent or explanation of risks. Imagine what it must have taken to do that given they'll almost certainly be branded right wing and abused for actually trying to help young women.

I know it's upsetting when women employ critical thought and care about safeguarding young people and don't just jump on board with child harming groupthink but here we are.

Because someone, somewhere was given testosterone once, right? So therefore we must stop access to all those life saving abortions, contraception, support for rape victims, treatment and prevention of STIs.

Or, crazy idea here, organisations who claim to think it's important to provide life saving abortions, contraception, support for rape victims, treatment and prevention of STIs, and who want funding for that, could choose to stop giving girls testosterone to retain their funding for the services feminists want them to provide.

If those organisations think giving testosterone to girls is more important than everything else they do and we want them to do, well, that's on them, not us.

Mumsnet HR keep data on the inner thoughts and political motivations of posters? Are you quite sure about that?

I thought this thread had gone weird, then good old TRAs showed up with their bonkers conspiracy theories about how we’re all trying to force births on women and now it’s really gone 😜.

The Trump administration is targeting PP funding for its DEI work. The most obvious DEI work that PP does is sterilise children with “gender affirming care”. Ergo, PP are at risk of losing their funding for the good work they do with abortion and contraception because of the malpractice they do in other areas. It’s that simple.

Anyone who thinks that’s “anti women” or that pointing that out is part of a force birthing smokescreen from us all is really scraping the barrel.

They have access to data on posting patterns, ISPs and use of VPNs.