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

I agree @Helleofabore. And Tanner Stage 2, when puberty blockers are recommended to be started by WPATH “the experts” in “gender affirming care”, to sound like a broken record, is unequivocally a stage which begins in childhood.

See this old Scottish Government doc from 2017 https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/foi-eir-release/2020/01/foi-201900010673/documents/foi-201900010673---document-3---puberty-blockers-and-trans-yp---april-2017/foi-201900010673---document-3---puberty-blockers-and-trans-yp---april-2017/govscot%3Adocument/FOI-201900010673%2B-%2BDocument%2B3%2B-%2B%2BPuberty%2Bblockers%2Band%2BTrans%2BYP%2B-%2BApril%2B2017.pdf

much of this document is awful, but particular looking at the para (can’t copy and paste from pdf) entitled “The Age at Which Puberty Blockers Should Be Administered” on p4, which states that age based guidelines risk missing the window as “some children may hit puberty at 9”.

Indeed.

And when you consider that PP target children outside of their remit, that stated treatment age of of 16 years and over, with their comms, it is worrying.

That seems wildly inappropriate.

IIRC the Trump administration has recently put restrictions on advertising for prescription medications, which would also hopefully prevent this kind of thing.

It's amazing how quickly we've moved from "I just care about women's healthcare" to "actually it's a good thing that kids are getting puberty blockers".

The cycle continues

You have yet to apologise for lying about children not being served by PP. So you are not in any position to ask for an apology until you give one.

Tbh I think there was a recent change in the statute of limitations, and that is what is likely to end 'gender affirming' care very quickly. Insurers will not cover treatment that is so.poorly evidenced and risky.

https://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/healthcare_youth_medical_care_bans

Trying to find where I read about insurance, found a map of where evil people are restricting children's right to have surgery to fix their inner discomfort about gender stereotypes.

Damn, won't somebody help the poor doctors remove children's sex organs?!

'37 % of transgender youth (ages 13-17) live in states that ban best practice medication and surgical care for transgender youth

3% of transgender youth (ages 13-17) live in states that ban best practice surgical care for transgender youth

60% of transgender youth (ages 13-17) live in states that do not ban best practice medical care for transgender youth'

I think it would be more accurate to replace ‘best practice’ with ‘unevidenced but financially lucrative quackery’

Thank you to posters answering my question about the resumption of puberty, if kids come off medication.

Depressing but unsurprising that the proper studies are non-existent

Talking of insurance, there are several states where astonishingly doctors are not required to have insurance. Florida, where that awful Irish surgeon is who advertises mastectomies on TikTok, is one of those. Moreover, Florida is also apparently one of the easiest places to put your assets beyond the reach of the court. This means you basically won’t get sued as you would legally protect nearly all your assets and lawyers, who would normally collect their fees from the win, would be looking for their hefty fees up front as there would be little chance of a payout.

https://palmerinjurylaw.com/injury-guide/malpractice-insurance/

*other medical malpractice lawyers are available

Certain individuals in society don't like the word children because it thwarts their interests. Ugh.

This is absolutely disgraceful. I'm sure we can all agree on that.

Who said that?

I wasn’t asking you.

Are we still going with this? Really?

True. And it has been said over so many threads that if you cannot use accurate language to describe a group, you cannot protect that group. Particularly from exploitation from whichever of the many different groups who seek to harm them.

It becomes very obvious that children quickly became the validating leverage for male adults who wished for society to accept their philosophical belief about their identity, doesn’t it? But the harms to children, of course, come from so many angles from just the groups activating for full and unquestioning acceptance of gender identity let alone any other group / purpose.

@Helleofabore

You’re obviously attempting to goad me now.

WTAF? No, I am posting in the discussion on this thread and responding to a poster who quoted me.

And why would I be goading you? I have been told by some posters recently that I have no idea who I am responding to because posters name change all the time. I haven’t interacted in any depth with you, Messinabloom, for a very long time. Why would I be goading you?

Or are you also responding to my second post asking about the link you posted, to help me work out what I was missing because I obviously was missing something. I asked twice in case you had missed the first time. However, I have left it at that.

I guess using the word children makes it more difficult for people to gloss over what's actually happening, so they find it triggering.

But stating facts accurately is very important in this debate.

It is.

”But stating facts accurately is very important in this debate.”

I agree, Keating. It is why many of us are also active in campaigning, isn’t it? To prioritise sex over gender when sex matters requires accurate language. Just as that same accuracy of language is needed to protect children. Particularly through safeguarding.

Someone doesn't understand how forums work....