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

Oh. While I was searching for the relevance in the article, I see several posters have already covered this.

Of course, if a male person has also had their testes removed as part of their chosen modification for gender identity, there is another rather glaring irreversible element.

Besides, once testosterone is ceased (plus any cross-sex hormones) menstruation commonly recommences

”Commonly” is doing heavy lifting here and - again- a girl who is blocked at Tanner stage 2 will not have menstruation restarted when testosterone stopped. Puberty will have been blocked years before the age of first menarche.

And this is why, unfortunately, there is so little trust in the organisation to implement honest reform. It's little wonder that going 'scorched earth' strikes some people as the only way forward.

I agree. I really don’t want the baby to be thrown out with the bathwater, but I do want the bathwater to be thrown out.

There has been a LOT of dishonest references to Puberty Blockers as a 'pause button' in the press and, more disgracefully, medical literature.

Since Cass, this has been mostly corrected in nhs material, but it seems to be still used outside of the UK, despite the medical profession knowing how dangerously misleading it is.

I had to delurk because I couldn’t believe the degree of ignorance!

I suppose that poster all the way through the thread has struggled to differentiate between children and adults 🤷‍♀️

True - and as discussed upthread, putting the baby into this particular bath was calculating and deliberate.

Why was 'gender affirming care' bucketed in with reproductive health in the first place? To create situations exactly like this, where activists argue you can't have one without the other.

Exactly @TheKeatingFive

This really isn't a rational response to that comment but you do you and all that...

I think the pp is not in the UK so maybe this is why.

It’s not ignorance.

It might be. If you’re been indoctrinated to believe that blockers are a “fully reversible pause”, even when followed by cross-sex hormones then you could perhaps, extrapolate return of function in sexually mature men to sexually immature children.

Maybe.

Given that the freezing of eggs has around a 2% success rate, I suspect the freezing of ovarian tissue will have an even lower likelihood of success, possibly in the 'science fiction and fantasy' range of results.

See also 'uterine transplants' for men who identify as women. This is genuinely suggested as a possible way to address sterility caused by 'gender affirming' care in children, despite of course a man carrying and birthing a child never having happened in the history of the world, ever.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6626312/

That article, by the by, starts right off the bat with this assertion:

'Suppression of puberty with gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist analogs (GnRHa) in the pediatric transgender patient can pause the maturation of germ cells, and thus, affect fertility potential'

It's a very 'affirmative' article.

Astonishing that anyone tries to assert that puberty blockers don't have an effect on fertility.

I felt for a moment that we had cycled back years with this original claim back on page 29 "Those 10-18 years old are just walking in to PP by themselves and walking out sterilised (and let’s just ignore the fact that PBs rarely affect fertility to any great degree)"

But I am now waiting for the clarification because the person who posted it has said they are an academic.

So, there really must be something there surely? Considering they were very clear that they would not consider the words of a gender clinician as supporting the claim that TheGentleOpalMember posted because it was not a study only an interview.

TRAs are very good at parasitising organisations. They shoehorned themselves into the LGB movement & have done the same with PP.

Indeed.

Thanks, I shall add this one to my list.

I mean, this is quite clear.

"Testosterone therapy in transgender men can suppress ovulation and alter ovarian histology, while estrogen therapy in transgender women can lead to impaired spermatogenesis and testicular atrophy."

That’s what you did, though. You’d feel exactly the same if it happened to you.

It was @PippistrelleBat that made the original accusation (that was deleted). Eresh followed that with the next post that’s been copied on the thread a few times and people seem to think is very innocent. It isn’t.

It's almost like we need new language to describe it. It IS ignorance, sort of, but coming from a position of not wanting to investigate because they fear what they'll find, and/or a willing suspension of disbelief because 'their side' will be right.

I did what?!

Exactly. That is the strategy. It's right there in the Denton document, plain as day.

Astonishing that you can’t seem to read.

Please, read properly. I have said that yes, PBs do affect fertility to a degree - males more than females.

Messina, ffs, I wasn't talking about YOU! God save us. This thread is wide ranging and includes lots of people with lots of topics and different views. People are discussing the issues. We are not on the whole personalising the whole bloody thing.

"Eresh followed that with the next post that’s been copied on the thread a few times and people seem to think is very innocent. It isn’t."

This does not explain how Eresh's post targets you or doesn't say what she has stated.