Dear Planned Parenthood, I cannot support you at this time and here is why. Planned Parenthood does not require any sort of mental health assessment before youth seeking hormones for transition can obtain those powerful medicines. What else are you neglecting here? Careful health assessment for other underlying medical conditions that could make hormones physically dangerous? This is simply irresponsible, and may even cross the line into medical malpractice. At the least, it completely ignores even the WPATH standards of care.
Great article! Please provide at the end of each of your emailed articles an email address we can easily forward your article to, with our signature. That way, for example, the correct office or person at Planned Parenthood will receive hundreds of these from people on your email list who want Plalnned Parenthood to know we agree with you.
This will be far more effective than sending us disturbing emails but no convenient action to take, such as forwarding your email to the right party with my signature and the comment, "I wholeheartedly ageee!"
Please help us help you in this way. Strength in numbers, through easy actions that don't require sending money, for those of us who cannot help out in that way. Donations aren't all that's needed here.
These organizations need to hear from those of us who agree with your wonderful article and don't have time to write our own. Most effective to have one person write it, and then hundreds of others easily forward it to Planned Parenthood.
I am utterly appalled at how cavalier attitudes have become about taking cross sex hormones. Hormones are powerful things. It's not like trying out a new hairstyle. Everything under the sun should be tried before sending a patient down the path of being a lifetime medical patient. I keep getting ads on facebook from a company called Plume - health care "for trans people by trans people" - and they showcase a clientele of "theys" (don't want their sex to be obvious but you can usually figure it out) as well as "shes" who clearly look like men with breasts. It's one thing to want to be the opposite sex - it's another to want to be something that doesn't exist*. I really feel as if the whole thing has become the newest form of body modification - tatoos, piercings, even forked tongues and foreheard implants - those have all been done. Scultping a new look by tinkering with sex characteristics? Now THAT'S something different! Who can be the queerest of them all?
At least planned parenthood isn't doing surgery? Yet?
I say "doesn't exist*" because yes. Intersex people exist. Trans rights activists love using intersex people to push the "sex isn't binary" line of reasoning. But outliers do not disprove a rule. Wanting to remove all sexual characteristics or to combine sexual characteristics should be seen as a sign of deep psychological distress, not something to be catered to and celebrated. But hormones "on demand" are looking frightfully more and more easy to access. Young people who believe they are expressing their "authentic selves" may be basking in the adoration of their peers in the moment but have likely signed themselves up for a future of unknown physical problems and may deeply regret so carelessly tossing aside their once healthy, intact body.
Planned Parenthood has always been a place I have seen as empowering to women. By latching on to the gender affirmation philosophy, they will be taking part in rolling back gains for women while causing harm to countless men and women. We have donated money to them every year but I can no longer get behind them because of this. An organization I have always hoped would be there if my daughters needed them has become an organization that could easily destroy their lives.
I totally agree. Please planned parenthood rethink your senseless embrace of trancing children just to be nice to who! And lawsuit will come your way. Any people have tried being nice it won’t work here.
Dr. Anderson's opinion piece is excellent, and I hope everyone will take the time to read it. She is an acknowledged expert in the field of trans therapy, a trans woman, and the letter was published by the San Francisco Examiner. The link in this letter does not work. I found it here: https://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/are-we-seeing-a-phenomenon-of-trans-youth-social-contagion/
Is it OK to post an interview with Dr. Anderson? It gives me hope. Please delete it if it is not. I appreciate her professional explanations of the issues and her willingness to make herself a target of the trans-kids-at-any-cost activists. Not only is she a trans woman who treats gender confused children, adolescents and teens, she was on the USPATH board of directors. https://lisaselindavis.substack.com/p/my-interview-with-erica-anderson
I sent a similar letter five years ago, just before Leana Wen started at PP, sent one copy to the national hq and one to my state, after years of supporting the cause. In response, they dis-invited me to a fundraiser and refunded my ticket. Didn't stop requesting donations from me, though. It's so disheartening that they can't see how off the rails this is.
Excellent. PP used to be one of two non-profits who received generous donations from me every year (the other was to the ACLU, which I also no longer support). I’m going to print this out and send it back to them…much better than a donation.
Same here. I used to donate to both PP and the ACLU, and interned at the Sam Feancisco ACLU decades ago. Unfortunately, both groups have capitulated to Big Trans, Inc. and the money and donations they're receiving.
Well said! I, too, wrote to them last year and added that providing hormones that can potentially render these young people sterile smacks of a return to their eugenic roots.
I also discontinued my monthly donation and wrote them something similar. It pained me to do so, but knowing they are prescribing HRT without an assessment, I just couldn't continue to support them in good conscience.
I, too, have stopped donating to them after 30+ years. This is painful, as I am very concerned about abortion rights. I've shared this with the family and friends who know about my daughter's dysphoria.
Great to call out the specific mainstream organizations like PP for diving into the deep end of this phenomenon! Educators, medical and psychological professionals, legislators and the courts, all of whom the public should trust to look out for their best interests, have recklessly misrepresented gender dysphoria and transitioning, leading innocent and vulnerable individuals down an inappropriate path, while blocking and villainizing loving family members who are normally the best protectors. Trans people deserve care and protection, but certainly emotionally and mentally vulnerable people who are not trans deserve as much, too.
I too, have stopped donating to Planned Parenthood (as well as ACLU). I got my first birth control at age 19 at PP. They violated my loyalty with this wrong hormones practice, and I am no longer a long term donor. I send every request showing up in my mailbox, back, on their dime (they insert a return envelope with postage) with this message about their malpractice in thick, dark marker. I take my name and address off, but send the rest of their literature back. Every time. Please come to my essay about donating to send girls to school where they are vulnerable in Africa and India, my 100th essay at uteheggengrasswidow.wordpress.com
Great article! Please provide at the end of each of your emailed articles an email address we can easily forward your article to, with our signature. That way, for example, the correct office or person at Planned Parenthood will receive hundreds of these from people on your email list who want Plalnned Parenthood to know we agree with you.
This will be far more effective than sending us disturbing emails but no convenient action to take, such as forwarding your email to the right party with my signature and the comment, "I wholeheartedly ageee!"
Please help us help you in this way. Strength in numbers, through easy actions that don't require sending money, for those of us who cannot help out in that way. Donations aren't all that's needed here.
These organizations need to hear from those of us who agree with your wonderful article and don't have time to write our own. Most effective to have one person write it, and then hundreds of others easily forward it to Planned Parenthood.
Thanks for your wonderful. invaluable work. xo
I am utterly appalled at how cavalier attitudes have become about taking cross sex hormones. Hormones are powerful things. It's not like trying out a new hairstyle. Everything under the sun should be tried before sending a patient down the path of being a lifetime medical patient. I keep getting ads on facebook from a company called Plume - health care "for trans people by trans people" - and they showcase a clientele of "theys" (don't want their sex to be obvious but you can usually figure it out) as well as "shes" who clearly look like men with breasts. It's one thing to want to be the opposite sex - it's another to want to be something that doesn't exist*. I really feel as if the whole thing has become the newest form of body modification - tatoos, piercings, even forked tongues and foreheard implants - those have all been done. Scultping a new look by tinkering with sex characteristics? Now THAT'S something different! Who can be the queerest of them all?
At least planned parenthood isn't doing surgery? Yet?
I say "doesn't exist*" because yes. Intersex people exist. Trans rights activists love using intersex people to push the "sex isn't binary" line of reasoning. But outliers do not disprove a rule. Wanting to remove all sexual characteristics or to combine sexual characteristics should be seen as a sign of deep psychological distress, not something to be catered to and celebrated. But hormones "on demand" are looking frightfully more and more easy to access. Young people who believe they are expressing their "authentic selves" may be basking in the adoration of their peers in the moment but have likely signed themselves up for a future of unknown physical problems and may deeply regret so carelessly tossing aside their once healthy, intact body.
Planned Parenthood has always been a place I have seen as empowering to women. By latching on to the gender affirmation philosophy, they will be taking part in rolling back gains for women while causing harm to countless men and women. We have donated money to them every year but I can no longer get behind them because of this. An organization I have always hoped would be there if my daughters needed them has become an organization that could easily destroy their lives.
I totally agree. Please planned parenthood rethink your senseless embrace of trancing children just to be nice to who! And lawsuit will come your way. Any people have tried being nice it won’t work here.
Dr. Anderson's opinion piece is excellent, and I hope everyone will take the time to read it. She is an acknowledged expert in the field of trans therapy, a trans woman, and the letter was published by the San Francisco Examiner. The link in this letter does not work. I found it here: https://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/are-we-seeing-a-phenomenon-of-trans-youth-social-contagion/
The link is fixed now
Is it OK to post an interview with Dr. Anderson? It gives me hope. Please delete it if it is not. I appreciate her professional explanations of the issues and her willingness to make herself a target of the trans-kids-at-any-cost activists. Not only is she a trans woman who treats gender confused children, adolescents and teens, she was on the USPATH board of directors. https://lisaselindavis.substack.com/p/my-interview-with-erica-anderson
I sent a similar letter five years ago, just before Leana Wen started at PP, sent one copy to the national hq and one to my state, after years of supporting the cause. In response, they dis-invited me to a fundraiser and refunded my ticket. Didn't stop requesting donations from me, though. It's so disheartening that they can't see how off the rails this is.
Excellent. PP used to be one of two non-profits who received generous donations from me every year (the other was to the ACLU, which I also no longer support). I’m going to print this out and send it back to them…much better than a donation.
I also supported the ACLU, but they've gone crazy woke.
Same here. I used to donate to both PP and the ACLU, and interned at the Sam Feancisco ACLU decades ago. Unfortunately, both groups have capitulated to Big Trans, Inc. and the money and donations they're receiving.
What a shame.
They want to be woke, but fail because of this.
Well said! I, too, wrote to them last year and added that providing hormones that can potentially render these young people sterile smacks of a return to their eugenic roots.
I didn't know they had eugenic roots!
Planned Parenthood admits it! https://www.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/cc/2e/cc2e84f2-126f-41a5-a24b-43e093c47b2c/210414-sanger-opposition-claims-p01.pdf
I also discontinued my monthly donation and wrote them something similar. It pained me to do so, but knowing they are prescribing HRT without an assessment, I just couldn't continue to support them in good conscience.
I, too, have stopped donating to them after 30+ years. This is painful, as I am very concerned about abortion rights. I've shared this with the family and friends who know about my daughter's dysphoria.
Great to call out the specific mainstream organizations like PP for diving into the deep end of this phenomenon! Educators, medical and psychological professionals, legislators and the courts, all of whom the public should trust to look out for their best interests, have recklessly misrepresented gender dysphoria and transitioning, leading innocent and vulnerable individuals down an inappropriate path, while blocking and villainizing loving family members who are normally the best protectors. Trans people deserve care and protection, but certainly emotionally and mentally vulnerable people who are not trans deserve as much, too.
Who are those “trans people” that you are talking about? “Fixed” homosexuals? Or autogynophiles?
100% exactly
I too, have stopped donating to Planned Parenthood (as well as ACLU). I got my first birth control at age 19 at PP. They violated my loyalty with this wrong hormones practice, and I am no longer a long term donor. I send every request showing up in my mailbox, back, on their dime (they insert a return envelope with postage) with this message about their malpractice in thick, dark marker. I take my name and address off, but send the rest of their literature back. Every time. Please come to my essay about donating to send girls to school where they are vulnerable in Africa and India, my 100th essay at uteheggengrasswidow.wordpress.com
I do exactly the same, with big black marker! On their dime, too.