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

Yep.

If anyone thinks that incarcerating men with women is a great developmemt
for women, then god help us all. 🙄

Wow this thread is incredible. No awareness at all of the harms that the left has done to women, both here and in the USA.

Women who believe that it is a feminist position that human being can't change sex and that there are times where that really matters to safeguard women and children are not responsible for Trump's policies.

We had this time and time again, as another poster pointed out, in the lead up to the last election here. Yet this current 'left wing' UK government is introducing policies that disproportionately harm women and we're still supposed to some how believe that left wing = amazing for women's rights.

I'm 50 this year. I've always voted Labour and supported the Democrats, I definitely do not support Trump or approve of many many things that the Tories represent but I'm not so fucking blinkered to think that the only way a feminist can do feminism properly is blindly follow the tune of the 'left'. I was brought up to think critically and that's what I do. I'm pissed off that at my age I would rather not vote because all of the options are horrific for women, yet here we are!

None of the TRAs on here have been prepared to say that the right to so-called 'trans health care' is the price to pay for women's reproductive rights which tells me everything I need to know about how feminist they are. Yet we are supposed to concede the very definition of womanhood in order to have the right to reproductive rights, hell no! And if those posters think that they are the feminists then they are very very misguided.

As has been pointed out the Democrats have only ever used reproductive rights as a carrot to dangle for the female vote. That they can't see that , and the left's insistence to promote the rights of males to encroach on women's boundaries, is directly responsible for the current status quo astounds me. Roe v Wade was overturned during a Democratic administration. There is none so blind as those who will not see.

I mean, let's face it. Women's reproductive rights have advantages for men too.

So left leaning men supported women's rights when there was something in it for them.

But the second they have to choose between women's rights and what the bros wanted, they stand with the bros.

Thanks a bunch lads 🙄

Yes absolutely!

Did you look at the study in your first quote or just the press release? They are extrapolating from just 36 incidents of violence in the transgender population, and just 16 incidents in men who identified as trans. Unsurprisingly with such a small sample size the confidence intervals are huge and curiously they have gone for 90% confidence intervals, rather than the usual 95% confidence intervals. Nevertheless the results showed no statistical difference between men who identified as trans and people who do not identify as trans - even when broken down by sex. Indeed, the graph curiously places the x axis crossing the y below zero, hiding the fact that for men who identify as women confidence intervals go to zero - meaning the number of violent incidents for trans identified men is not statistically different from zero. Whoever wrote the press release either have no understanding of statistics or was being dishonest.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7958056/

Or have they just found an angle that has got you supporting the withdrawal of life saving services for women

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On the contrary, I find it tragic and disgusting that genderists have the gall to assert that women's real need for birth control and at times abortions has any moral equivalence whatsoever to identity-driven demands for cross-sex hormones or surgery in service of a sexist and misogynist belief system, and to shame women for caring about the former but not the latter.

Hear hear, Flirts.

MakeYourOwnMusic can't pass up an opportunity to have a sly dig at the posters on FWR though.

Yep.

Trump could round all the women up, put them in camps and you'd get his cheerleaders telling you he's just keeping them safe from trans.🙄

Yet no one has said anything of the sort.

It's always easier to win a debate - at least in your own head - if you just make things up that you you wish the other person had said rather than engaging with their actual argument.

The argument seems to be: Trump's purging of DEI and cuts to women's services is damaging to women vs No they're not because Trans stuff is cut too.🙄

This is an argument that you've made up, TooBigForMyBoots.

It's not about trans 🙄, it's about MALES.

Not for me. I'm a feminist. My feminism centres WOMEN. I see the damage Trump is doing to women with his slashing of funds to women's services and his indiscriminate DEI purge.

Males are not any type of WOMAN. If your feminism centres MALES in any form, you are not a feminist.

My feminism doesn't centre males in any form. It's all about women. That's why my focus is the impact of disastrous Trump policies on WOMEN. You know, adult human females whose services are being slashed.

You don't come across like it. Trump could round all the women up, put them in camps and you'd get his cheerleaders telling you he's just keeping them safe from trans.🙄
makes it sound like you are not team feminist but team trans. Otherwise why mock your own side. What's with the friendly fire then.

Asolutely Trump is hurting women.

Amazing though it may be to some on this thread, it is possible to condemn what Trump is doing to women's (actual, real, not a sexist pastiche) women's rights and also not believe that trans women are women and be glad that the excesses of genderism are being rolled back.

Because aside from the trite TWAW slogan, the needs and demands and expectations of men who claim to be women have the square root of fuck all to do with the challenges faced by actual women and the needs and rights that these challenges gave rise to.

Trump's cheerleaders are not my side. They are on the side of Trump, not women.

Good then that absolutely none of us here are Trump's cheerleaders. So, still, that comment of yours was redundant.

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No it's not. It's the argument that was started on the first page of this thread. The OP posted a link to an article detailing the damage Trump is doing to women's services. The 2nd post was about how PP also provide trans stuff.

From then on in that became the focus of the thread. Not the women who would suffer. As one poster put it Yes, there will be consequences for some women, but overall it's a sensible move if it's only for the short term.

This is not a sensible move for women. This is not feminism that centres women.

Incorrect.

My post was pointing out that one of the reasons, probably the most likely reason that PP has been targeted for its “DEI stuff” is because of its provision of puberty blockers and cross sex hormones for children causing sterilisation, infertility, sexual dysfunction, osteoporosis, brain impacts etc. What you call “trans stuff” I call medical malpractice.

Almost every post subsequent was about PP stopping this in order to focus on its primary purpose of providing healthcare services for women, nothing about “cheerleading keeping safe from trans”. As Arabella points out, this is an argument that you have made up.

Planned Parenthood has two choices I would say:

a) stop causing harm to children and keep its funding for the provision of healthcare for women or
b) continue to push to be allowed to harm children at will and risk losing its funding that helps the provision of healthcare for women.

I think it should choose option a). What option do you think it should choose?