{"id":329989,"date":"2025-04-21T16:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T21:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=329989"},"modified":"2025-04-22T15:44:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T20:44:02","slug":"word-street-teens-planned-parenthood-hormone-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/word-street-teens-planned-parenthood-hormone-access\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Word on the street&#8217; leads teens to Planned Parenthood for &#8216;easy&#8217; hormone access"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Planned Parenthood is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/reject-planned-parenthood-expand-gender-affirming-minors\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">one of<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the largest providers of cross-sex hormones in the nation, and it is easy for a young person to obtain these drugs quickly and with few questions \u2014 according to the word on the street&#8230; and the internet. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Planned Parenthood, the national corporation known for killing hundreds of thousands of preborn human beings in the U.S. each year, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/defund-planned-parenthood-documentary-sell-self-destruction\/\">prescribes<\/a> hormones on an \u201cinformed consent\u201d basis, requiring no medical diagnosis or a referral from a medical doctor, and handing out prescriptions for cross-sex hormones at the request of young people \u2013 even minors in some states \u2013 after single, half-hour consultations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Detransitioner <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/defund-planned-parenthood-30-minute-call-hormones\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cat Cattinson<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was prescribed a double dosage of testosterone over the phone after a 30-minute call; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/30-minutes-planned-parenthood-changed-forever-suing\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cristina Hineman<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/defund-planned-parenthood-teen-serious-danger-hormones\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Helena Kerschner<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> both obtained prescriptions for testosterone at age 18 from Planned Parenthood clinics after brief initial consultations with the staff. But they&#8217;re not the only ones who found these hormones easy to get.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>A &#8216;nightmare&#8217; in the making<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Journalist Jennifer Block, who explained to Live Action News via email that she is &#8220;100% FIRMLY pro abortion without restriction,&#8221; investigated for several months how Planned Parenthood has become one of the largest suppliers of testosterone for women. Block is a former Ms. Magazine editor and contributor to other left-leaning media outlets including The Nation, Mother Jones, and Elle.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OVm7X-O2f3Y\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">interview<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with Rebel News last year, Block said, \u201cI had heard through several sources that Planned Parenthood was known, kind of on the street, among young people as a place to go if you\u2019re a teen\u2026 you can walk in and out with hormones \u2014 that was kind of the word on the street.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Block confirmed this during her investigation. She <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/how-did-planned-parenthood-become\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wrote for The Free Press<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in August of 2024:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In less than a decade, [Planned Parenthood has] become the country\u2019s leading provider of gender transition hormones for young adults, according to insurance claim data. In 2015, around two dozen of their clinics began offering this service. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now it\u2019s available at nearly <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/health-center?location=Chicago%2C+IL&amp;service=lgbtservice&amp;channel=any\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">450 locations<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Insurance claim information provided by the Manhattan Institute shows that at least 40,000 patients went to Planned Parenthood for this purpose last year alone [2023], a number that has risen tenfold since 2017. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The largest proportion, about 40 percent, were 18-to-22-year-olds.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Block related in her interview with Rebel News that Planned Parenthood donors and supporters were &#8220;pretty surprised&#8221; to learn that Planned Parenthood was &#8220;the <\/span>largest single provider of cross-sex hormones for young people under the age of 28.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She spoke with a former Planned Parenthood executive who had helped draft the initial \u201cGender Affirming Care\u201d guidelines for Planned Parenthood; according to Block, the former Planned Parenthood exec was shocked to realize that the corporation\u2019s guidelines had evolved to the point of allowing young people cross-sex hormone prescriptions after single, 30-minute conversations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIf people are not fully informed and prepared, she said, it could be a nightmare,\u201d Block recalled.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>&#8216;Word on the street&#8217;: Social media brings hormone customers to Planned Parenthood<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Planned Parenthood sells cross-sex hormones as a golden ticket to confused young people\u2019s dreams of contentment and fulfillment. The corporation promotes its advertisements mainly on the internet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Planned Parenthood\u2019s websites, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@ppsenfl\/video\/7241671050784804142\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">social media pages<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and \u201csex-ed\u201d videos are filled with disturbing and misleading transgender propaganda, grooming children to be promiscuous and to reject biological sex, love, and commitment. Through its content, Planned Parenthood even <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-normalize-changing-gender-day\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">normalizes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the idea of people being \u201cmultigender\u201d and \u201cchanging genders\u201d whenever they want, based on their feelings on any given day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cristina Hineman, as a lonely and autistic teenager, found her way to Planned Parenthood through Tumblr. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI had heard online about Planned Parenthood as a provider which will just give you hormones if you want them, and doesn\u2019t do any kind of gatekeeping,\u201d Hineman<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2AdJCMgq3hc\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfortunately, what she found out online was correct, and by the end of her \u201ctransition journey,\u201d Hineman found herself with irreversible damages to her health: missing breasts, a scarred and tight chest, nerve damage, masculine body and facial hair, an inability to lift weights, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Helena Kerschner also found her way to Planned Parenthood via Tumblr because other teenagers had discovered that Planned Parenthood easily gives out hormone prescriptions. \u201cI had heard raving things about Planned Parenthood from people on Tumblr,\u201d Helena wrote on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/lacroicsz.substack.com\/p\/by-any-other-name?r=18ll6h&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;s=r\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">her blog<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Planned Parenthood prescribed the 18-year-old<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> four times<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the dosage of testosterone normally given to other women, at the teen\u2019s request. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Due to the testosterone, Helena experienced a mental illness so severe that it led her to attempt suicide and landed her in the ER.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Influencers on social media help point other young people questioning their gender to Planned Parenthood, and talk about their experiences getting the hormones they wanted without any proper medical barriers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPlanned Parenthood does not require you to have seen a therapist\u2026or have a diagnosis for gender dysphoria. You basically just talk about it in the room at the doctor\u2019s office and they will say, \u2018Okay yeah, you clearly have gender dysphoria,\u2019\u201d said <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@gabrielkturner\/video\/7150920720590130478\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">one influencer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on Tik Tok.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another Tik Tok influencer <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@bruububus\/video\/7328125579490839839\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">discussed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> getting testosterone through Planned Parenthood right after the initial consultation, on the same day:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All I physically had to do was check my height, weight, blood pressure, and they drew my blood for anemia for some reason\u2026 After that, they pretty much just went over the side effects and the info concerning testosterone. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They were super cool to give me a demonstration on how to prepare and inject my testosterone. After that, though, I signed a consent form and they talked to my local pharmacy and I pretty much had my prescription ready for pick-up right after my consultation\u2026 I got it the same day as my appointment.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI got [hormones] through informed consent with Planned Parenthood, which is the easiest way you can get it in America\u2026Informed consent more or less just means you say, \u2018I am of sound mind and I would like this.\u2019 So you don\u2019t have to get like a note from like a psychiatrist,\u201d said one <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Mr-9mipQsNc&amp;t=1s\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">YouTuber<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some responses to<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/MtF\/comments\/10tl3sm\/hrt_through_planned_parenthood_usa\/?rdt=47440\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a Reddit thread<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> also suggest that Planned Parenthood plays fast and loose when it comes to dealing out cross-sex hormones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cNo need for any psychological evaluation\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_329990\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-329990\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-329990\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1-300x80.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-329990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/MtF\/comments\/10tl3sm\/comment\/j77b94h\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\">Reddit<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>\u201cWalked out of my first appointment with an E and Spiro prescription.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_329991\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-329991\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-329991 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-2.jpg 660w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-2-300x50.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-2-500x84.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-329991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/MtF\/comments\/10tl3sm\/comment\/j77b621\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\">Reddit<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>\u201cEven walked in with a panic attack and no appointment&#8230;\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_329992\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-329992\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-329992 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-3-700x121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-3-700x121.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-3-300x52.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-3-500x87.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-3.jpg 709w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-329992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/MtF\/comments\/10tl3sm\/comment\/j77jfou\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\">Reddit<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty easy to get done&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_329993\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-329993\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-329993 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-4-700x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-4-700x209.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-4-300x89.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-4-500x149.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-4.jpg 718w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-329993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/MtF\/comments\/10tl3sm\/comment\/j77c9oa\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\">Reddit<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><b style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u201cI had a prescription within a few hours&#8230;\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_329994\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-329994\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-329994 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Image-5-700x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Image-5-700x162.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Image-5-300x69.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Image-5-500x116.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Image-5.jpg 708w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-329994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/MtF\/comments\/10tl3sm\/comment\/j79p5jk\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\">Reddit<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<h3><b>Planned Parenthood poses a danger to youth<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Planned Parenthood is selling hormones on a large scale across the United States and harming tens of thousands of young people each year to fill its coffers. Planned Parenthood looks to recruit life-long customers, who feel dependent on Planned Parenthood\u2019s drugs and abortions. To sell its damaging and life-taking \u201cservices,\u201d Planned Parenthood promotes dangerous sexual ideologies through its own warped brand of<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-goal-educate-sexualize-teens\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sex education<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, sells <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/record-breaking-planned-parenthood-annual-abortions-400k\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">abortions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and sells so-called \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/reject-planned-parenthood-expand-gender-affirming-minors\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gender-affirming care<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Planned Parenthood preys upon the most vulnerable\u2013helpless preborn babies, confused teenagers, and young people struggling with mental health illnesses including autism and depression.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In doing these things, Planned Parenthood harms society as a whole \u2013 using taxpayer dollars. It is time to defund Planned Parenthood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Author&#8217;s Note: Special thanks to Live Action Research Fellow, Carole Novielli<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note, 4\/22\/25: This article has been corrected and updated with additional information since original publication.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/actnow.io\/G3Bhv6M\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-325597\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1-700x251.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1-700x251.png 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1-300x107.png 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1-768x275.png 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1-500x179.png 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1.png 1167w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planned Parenthood is one of the largest providers of cross-sex hormones in the nation, and it is easy for a young person to obtain these drugs quickly and with few questions \u2014 according to the word on the street&#8230; and the internet. 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