Planned Parenthood Appears to Be Evolving Into Planned Genderhood

While still recognized as one of the biggest lobbyists for abortion rights, Planned Parenthood has become equally aggressive about promoting puberty blockers and gender transitioning for children.

Besides making it a lead topic on its websites, the national organization is running an increasing number of ads and other promotional material on the subject.

Last week, Planned Parenthood released an animated video touting puberty blockers as a way to “delay puberty for awhile” for “intersex people,” defined as people born with “a combination of male and female biological traits.”

The video appears to be aimed at minors and contains advice that includes “talking to a trusted adult” and an explanation that puberty blockers are a “simple treatment” to give teens “more time” to decide what “feels right.” It also ends the video with a link to plannedparenthood.org/teens.

“Planned Parenthood has become the direct pipeline between the medical industry and the schools when it comes to transgendering kids,” Erin Friday, founder of Our Duty, told The Epoch Times.

“Of course they are targeting kids, that’s why they are called puberty blockers.”

Our Duty is a national parents’ rights organization that focuses on stopping the transgender movement for minors.

In a released statement, Planned Parenthood emphasized that its advice about puberty blockers and transgender nonconforming procedures is intended only for teens age 16 and up.

However, in a section on its national website entitled “What should I teach my middle schooler about their body?” the organization specifically promotes puberty blockers for “preteens.”

“In order to get started on puberty blockers, your preteen needs to be in the early stages of puberty,” the page advises.

Some of its offices also offer on-line instructions on self-injecting cross-sex hormones and include referrals to places where minors don’t need parental consent to obtain them.

More than 75 of Planned Parenthood’s 239 offices now offer puberty-blockers and other transgender services, according to the Heritage Foundation.

Planned Parenthood has also set up “well-being centers” in several U.S. public high schools, where gender transition counseling is available for so-called transgender students. There are 50 such centers in California alone, according to Friday.

“They are moving themselves as close as they can get to our kids,” she said. “The next step is to get them hooked on puberty blockers by gaslighting their mental health. They just need to get the parents out of the way first.”

In July, Amy Cannava, Chairwoman of the National Association of School Psychiatrists (NASP), LGBTQI2-S Committee, said she supports defying parents’ rights and even parental notification laws when it comes to helping children become “gender diverse.”

“I recognize that parental consent is a big deal, but when I’m doing anything LGBT, I don’t worry about that,” she is heard saying on a podcast entitled “Out, What Now?!”

Cannava also said she would like laws passed that make it illegal for parents “not to gender affirm” their children. And just recently—in a Sept. 28 post on the NASP website—she criticized proposed legislation that would require schools to obtain

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