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

If this is what you are getting from all the posts here, you are not understanding them. No one has said anything like this.

Now did you actually have any further opinion on these cuts and the right wing agenda or do you still just have an issue with me posting mine?

No, post away. It's just that we can have all these discussions about Trump and reproductive rights and the patriarchy and so on IRL with our friends and families and in our women's groups and political parties. Women on here tend to focus the discussion on the huge MRA issue that we are not allowed to talk about anywhere else. If no-one wants to engage with you I suggest that is because you are coming across as snippy, judgemental, arrogant, rude and with some sort of a hidden agenda. Sorry, but it is what it is.

I don't agree with either of those things, you don't seem to be able to understand any of the points being made.

It's called 'feminism chat', that other place that they don't talk about sex and gender, which you'd know if you'd been here any length of time.

It's not about my personal view point, it's about feminist hard fought for gains on women's freedoms. It's all well and good for you to say "well actually some feminists define reproductive rights differently" as a hypothetical but that doesn't really hold up when those 'feminists' are spouting the same patrichal restrictions feminists fought against get us access to legal safe abortion. A right by the way that only very recently became UK wide, so I'm not going to let it slide when someone with a religious-right moral objection to women's reproductive freedoms wants to coopt the word feminist as a cover for their antichoice thetoric. That's not me defining feminism, it's feminism at its basic core being about the full social, political, and economic equality of the sexes. If you don't understand how reproductive freedom being taken out of the hands on men and legislature's with patriachal views isn't 100% necessary in order to achieve that then I don't know what to say to you. Feminists can hardly lots of viewpoints, a feminist can define themselves as religiously "pro life" for themselves but when they want to restrict other women's freedoms based on their POV their intention is no longer driven by feminism.

Kankangeroo · Yesterday 15:07

That's not what 'gender-affirming hormone replacement therapy' is. That means cross sex hormones. And/or puberty blockers.
And again an adult taking said hormones isn't a child be sterilised.

It's probably been pointed out already, but... wrong sex hormones and puberty blockers, as boasted of by PP most certainly is sterilising children.

I'm aware of the board, OP posted this here because trumps actions in particular he is using the trans issue to garner women's support for their agenda.

The suggestion that just because people support Trump’s specific policies protecting women’s sport and the medicalisation of children means they will inevitably fall into support for everything Trump does is wildly bonkers.

I have seen no such suggestion.
From @IwantToRetire's OP:

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.

I have seen people seeming to justify Trump's cuts to women's services like PP because the cuts will also hit trans. That is mad.🤯 Women's rights and access to reproductive health services should not be used as a bargaining chip or collateral damage in the fight against trans encroachment.

Yes these cuts will piss off TRAs but they represent a massive loss to women. Such misogyny from the Trump administration is not a bug. It's a feature.

The suggestion was from the poster I took the quote from, because the suggestion is in the bit I quoted.

HTH.

So you asked why people specifically post about 'trans' here and I explained that this was the board that sex and gender discussions are hived off into.

You asked what possible 'feminist analysis' could be given to explain why abortion isn't just a 'body automony' issue in the USA. I gave some minor reasons for these and you start ranting to me about right wing tropes and insulting me.

Um, it's about WOMENS rights. Not 'trans rights'.

And that data would show overwhelmingly that bar 3 or 4 Mens Rights/'trans rights' Activists, every poster on this board cares deeply about womens sex-based rights.

Yes we all know FWR is targeted by Mens Rights Activists. That's no secret. You aren't telling us anything new there.

any argument you want to use to support revoking the right of those people to access that care because you dislike it could and is used to argue against access to contraception and abortion.

Abortion doesn't cause Osteoporosis in your 20s, lack of intellectual development, narrow spine or faecal and urinary incontinence. Not even remotely the same. These wrong-sex hormones are not 'healthcare'. It's like saying PP giving out Thalidomide for HG is 'healthcare' and lobotomies are 'healthcare'.

Musk says his child died because they transitioned. That IS anti trans.

I guess you've never heard of deadnames.

Not one single person on this board has ever said anything even remotely like that. And you know it.

You really don't know that these 'cross-sex' hormones do in deed and in fact sterilise people?

Just who on here is parroting "right wing smearing"?

That's a lot to post to answer that you don't know a number of children that were even patients let alone children sterilised.

How many children sterilised is enough for you? For me, even one is one too many.

Smearing a key organisation for women's healthcare with the kind of unfactual scare tactics

I have not seen one person on this thread do that. So why are you making things up that are not true?

Again, it's about WOMENS rights, not 'trans rights'. It never, ever, EVER was about 'trans rights'. Er, that's the entire point.

And if women cannot be defined, cannot participate in society because there are no safe facilities for women to go; our economic, physical and emotional health are stuffed.

It ALL comes back to defining women to defend women and to providing safe health and facilities for women to go. It's basically the lynchpin womens rights revolves around.

It's a fact that children, even at 16, are being given cross sex hormones at PP. PP admit this. That, is child sterilisation. Therefore, we KNOW it occurs. PP admit it. So whether it is one or 579 doesn't matter.

No one is losing the right to abortion. The Federal government has never funded abortion in PP anyway.

if that's your focus over womens access to abortion care, and your happy for the nations largest provider to be scrapped

Abortion care is not affected by this freeze in funding, as no Federal funding went to abortion care anyway.

Therefore even mentioning abortion care in the same sentence as the freeze in funding makes no sense. PP will still exist, it is primarily funded outside government. No one is suggesting that PP will be scrapped, it won't ever be.