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

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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

For the 52nd time, NO posters on this thread are supportive of that or that PP should be scrapped entirely. Please stop making up lies.

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and i know its not much of a consolation arabella but no one on this thread believes that thats what you said

Top notch posting by @TheGentleOpalMember 🏆🏆🏆

Thanks, Rufus. It's quite easy to check, and anyone will see this poster has made a bunch of stuff up, but who has the time or energy?!

Too many individual posts to thank from TheGentleOpalMember and ArabellaScott
so I’ll just say it here… without people such as yourselves for continuing the fight against TRA’s and MRA’s and indeed some women that think they alone are the only ‘true’ feminists…

🌹 👏

....and @FlirtsWithRhinos and @TempestTost and all the women on FWR who deal patiently with the MRAs on a daily basis.

Of course x.
They also have my respect and admiration (it’s a looooong list ) ✍️

So something has been niggling me about this thread which is why, against my better judgement😁), I keep coming back to it. I finally realised that it reminds me of this article posted on FWR earlier in the year

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10894160.2024.2356496#abstract

...These distinctions between the British gender critical and the global anti-gender movements are not insignificant. Such differences pose challenges for developing effective counter strategies—not least of all because gender critical feminists appeal to left-wing and liberal audiences as much as right-wing ones. Strategies designed to push back against right-wing politics can backfire when applied to left-wing campaigners.....
...[Judith] Butler invites us to consider: “How do we develop a counter-imaginary strong enough to expose [the anti-gender] ruse, scatter its force, and stop the efforts at censorship, distortion, and reactionary politics that it empowers? It is up to us to produce a compelling counter-vision, one that would affirm the rights and freedoms of embodied life that we can, and should, protect”

I submit that this thread is an attempt to get that 'reactionary' label attached to Terf-island, because they cannot come up with any other way of pushing back against us. Which means that they truly have no arguments to fight us - and they know it.

not least of all because gender critical feminists appeal to left-wing and liberal audiences as much as right-wing ones

I mean, most 'gender critical feminists' are left wing or centrists. And we are not appealing to anyone! We get blamed for men in dresses because we wanted to be able to work and support ourselves.

We just slice and dice and consider the opposite sides and make different cases and see what gets knocked down and what stands up. And get continually called evil bigots and nazis for it. It's like water off a duck's back.

I'm sorry, it's not up to you to decide that feminists can or cannot come to conclusions that are similar to conclusions you dislike.

You seem to have a very black and white view of what counts as feminist, patriarchal, right-wing, and leftist, etc.

There are and always have been a wide variety of viewpoints and approaches among all these groups, there are crossovers and its common to have opposing views on all kinds of things.

All intellectual and political movements are like this, especially those that are decades old.

And I'd just like to add, though maybe it won't be appreciated: It is massively freeing to realize that being a feminist, or a good leftist, or even a good woman-centered conservative, does not mean you need to have a tick-box set of viewpoints on issues or political policy. Nor does it mean you need to create a hierarchy of which people are important. It just means being woman-centered and considering equality of dignity and worth when you think about issues, and when you work through problems of balancing rights and responsibilities in society, when you think about the things which you know or believe to be true about nature and reality, and especially about issues that impact women.

You just need to think things through in that way and come to your own conclusions. And on a whole group level it's so much more successful than people trying to fit their reasoning and experience into little boxes defined by others, because so many more ideas and observations come out of it.

Scrolling back, it seems like someone checked and deleted a bunch of them😂😍

You know that other posters can read too, right?

That’s not my impression at all. But do enjoy that righteousness!

Seems like the MN mods disagree with you

I guess you read those posts before they were deleted as a PA then?

It looks like that poster has been kicked off for talking crap and getting deleted too many times.

Using access to abortion as leverage, when it's not included in the funding didn't seem to matter somehow!

Berating women for throwing the baby out with the bath water doesn't work, when the baby's not even in the bath.

All of the deleted posts? Most of them. And by the way you’re all talking, you’ve been so heinously attacked - and that isn’t the case. As for the deleted posts - I’ve sometimes seen other posters complain about their posts being deleted and they really can’t see why.

She didn’t “berate” women.

At this point i just cannot be arsed. My posts remain, apart from the one that said I wouldn't engage further with Kangaroo as they appeared to be trolling.

The deleted posts from them were utter spurious nonsense.

Other people are also capable of reading posts, as you point out 🤷‍♀️

Quite

Indeed we are. 😃

Now they've stopped funding DV research on homicide of pregnant women because DEI. That on top of restricting women's access to sexual health services and calling himself

Trump is destroying women's rights and services in his purge of DEI and his claim of being the Fertilisation President is downright scary. He is creating Gilead.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-admin-pulls-research-funding-protection-pregnant-women-domestic-violence_n_67e5bbf0e4b0e9fab0ffb1cc

Hmmm, I saw a great deal of twisting words, misrepresentation, insinuation, false logic, attempts to force posters to demonstrate their righteousness/purity of opinion by asking them to agree or disagree with statements, and a general need to frame any discussion into left/right = good/evil framework alongside telling posters off for perceived wrong opinions.

In the end, this tribalism and attempts at forcing others to join in with virtue signalling detract from a decent conversation and interesting debate. It’s boring and a waste of everyone’s time.

If that's so then shutting them down is probably a good thing - though just stopping them handing out puberty blockers would be better. Women in the US have trouble enough getting contraptive advice as it is!