{"id":280221,"date":"2023-05-09T06:40:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T11:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=280221"},"modified":"2023-05-08T14:44:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T19:44:41","slug":"transgender-identifying-individuals-planned-parenthood-cash-cows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/transgender-identifying-individuals-planned-parenthood-cash-cows\/","title":{"rendered":"Are transgender-identifying individuals Planned Parenthood’s newest ‘cash cows’?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Planned Parenthood, the nation’s number one abortion corporation committing 40% of the nation’s abortions, has in recent years diversified its business by offering hormone injections for transgender-identifying individuals.<\/p>\n

As a corporation, Planned Parenthood has begun to offer children as young as 16 the ability to obtain cross-sex hormone injections. The corporation’s website states that it is also willing to offer “gender affirming care” (GAC) at even younger\u00a0ages if the child obtains parental permission.<\/p>\n

In some cases, Planned Parenthood also says it will refer a child elsewhere for GAC.<\/p>\n

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Planned Parenthood Metro DC “Gender Affirming Care”<\/p><\/div>\n

Planned Parenthood claims young children can know their “gender identity”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood claims on its website that a child can know his or her “gender identity” by the age of two. Notably, this is the same organization which is #1 in the nation for killing preborn children based on a pregnant mother’s desires.<\/p>\n

“Many people know their gender identity as young as age 2, but others may not fully understand their gender until later in life. It\u2019s OK not to know \u2014 or to be questioning \u2014\u00a0 at any age,” Planned Parenthood’s website<\/a> claims, citing no sources for these claims. “Gender identity is how you feel inside and how you express your gender through clothing, behavior, and personal appearance. It\u2019s a feeling that begins very early in life,” Planned Parenthood also\u00a0claims<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Planned Parenthood website claims a two-year-old child can know his or her gender identity<\/p><\/div>\n

“Sex is a label \u2014 male or female \u2014 that you\u2019re assigned by a doctor at birth based on the genitals you\u2019re born with and the chromosomes you have. It goes on your birth certificate,” Planned Parenthood states<\/a> online. “Gender is much more complex: It\u2019s a social and legal status, and set of expectations from society, about behaviors, characteristics, and thoughts. Each culture has standards about the way that people should behave based on their gender. This is also generally male or female. But instead of being about body parts, it\u2019s more about how you\u2019re expected to act, because of your sex.”<\/p>\n

“For example,” Planned Parenthood adds, “ideas about how men and women are expected to behave, dress, and communicate all contribute to gender. Gender is also a social and legal status as girls and boys, men, and women.”<\/p>\n

In 2021, author\u00a0Abigail Shrier<\/a>\u00a0called\u00a0transgender services at Planned Parenthood a\u00a0growing business<\/a>. In a blog post, she\u00a0claimed<\/a>\u00a0a Planned Parenthood\u00a0employee told her, \u201ctrans-identifying kids are cash cows, and they are kept on the hook for the foreseeable future in terms of follow-up appointments, bloodwork, meetings, etc., whereas abortions are (hopefully) a one-and-done situation.\u201d<\/p>\n