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[–]Wanderingthehalls 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's honestly so fucking weird. I'm not American but I remember reading about the funding cuts to PP under Trump and assuming it was just about limiting reproductive rights. A much more peaked friend explained to me about how Planned Parenting is a very significant distributor of artificial hormones and helping people trans and I found it so weird. It just seemed like trans campaigners were using reproductive rights as a shield for their practices in the same way that they use LGB as a shield for their claims to be about civil rights.

[–]reluctant_commenter 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It just seemed like trans campaigners were using reproductive rights as a shield for their practices in the same way that they use LGB as a shield for their claims to be about civil rights.

Ahhhhhhh. Okay my brain hadn't quite connected those two dots. Thank you. It hadn't even occurred to me that that tactic had been applied so directly to the situation with Planned Parenthood.

[–]HelloMomo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think PP banks very heavily on having a near monopoly on it's field. If there was any other widespread chain that did low-cost contraception, who they actually had to compete with, they'd probably really have to clean up their act.

As soon as I started to look into it, apparently PP is getting caught for being sketchy all the time, like not reporting sex traffickers, not reporting underage girls impregnated by grown men (in places where that's statutory rape and is supposed to be reported), that kind of stuff. But because they have this very successful brand narrative, it's really hard get them really penalized for any of it. People are reluctant to penalize them for anything, because the thinking goes that they're necessary, so even if they do some bad stuff that basically has to be overlooked. And they really lean into this narrative, claiming that services like mammograms (which the vast majority of their locations don't do) are one of the essential services they offer and a key reason why they need to keep getting government funding.