A new investigation is exposing Planned Parenthood’s so-called ‘gender affirming care’ as a one-way body destruction pipeline.
The Investigation
The probe, conducted by the pro-life advocacy group Live Action and detransitioner Chloe Cole, tested whether Planned Parenthood, one of the nation’s largest providers of so-called ‘gender-affirming’ hormone therapy, is as prepared to help patients ‘detransition’ as it is to help them ‘transition.’
The organization enthusiastically offers hormones and other transition-related services through clinics across the country. Its website lists estrogen, testosterone, puberty blockers, assistance with the social and legal aspects of transitioning, and even referrals for surgery among the services offered through its network.
Cole knows firsthand how devastating those interventions can be. She was placed on testosterone as a young teen, undergoing surgery to remove both of her breasts at just 15 years old before eventually rejecting the ‘transgender’ identity she had been pushed into adopting.
Now, she wanted to know whether Planned Parenthood’s extensive system of transition-related care also included any meaningful support for patients trying to detransition. Cole contacted Planned Parenthood clinics across the country and posing as a patient seeking help. Again and again, she encountered confusion, uncertainty, and dead ends.
The calls exposed what Cole and Live Action describe as a “one-way body destruction pipeline.”
Cole Speaks Out
On Friday’s AM Update, Cole shared she joined the investigation because she believes Planned Parenthood has found another vulnerable population to exploit:
“[Live Action] called me in April asking me to be part of this investigation of Planned Parenthood because, as many people are actually unaware, they have not only been cashing in on the suffering of young mothers and influencing them to kill their unborn children, they also… found a new demographic to make money off of, which is gender confused young men and women and even children as young as 16 years old. But I was curious as to whether they would provide any support for the most obvious outcome of transgender procedures, which would be regretting them and seeking to reverse them, and as it turned out, they had very little to say. They actually had told me that there was no help, that they had no resources for people like me who choose a detransition.”
As Cole knows all too well, detransitioning, or embracing your biological reality, is not simply a matter of stopping the drugs. She warned that many detransitioners are already struggling to find doctors equipped to treat damage the medical establishment is only beginning to understand:
“The kind of medical support that a detransitioner would need would depend case by case and by how far they go into the process. If you’ve already had the sexual surgeries that remove the genitalia, you are not going to be capable of producing your own hormones for life. So, I have many friends who are dependent on the usage of sex hormones for the rest of their life, who are not even able to get that. And many of us need routine blood testing, we need preventive care, and we need testing for these different issues having to do with our reproductive, our sexual health, and with so many different parts of our health that we have yet to really even fully learn what the consequences of these treatments are long term, and that’s why it is imperative that these providers, like Planned Parenthood, to start providing care for detransitioners now because there is going to be a massive influx of people who regret these procedures and need to get help immediately.”
Cole argued that Planned Parenthood’s inability to offer meaningful help is not an oversight … but the inevitable result of a system built to affirm every request to transition and question almost none of them:
“It absolutely is a one-way pipeline of destruction. There is nothing about this that is even remotely care. It’s not affirming anything but the delusion of the patient, and it’s really the only instance in medicine where the whims of the patient are what the treatment is solely focused on. And so we are leading young people, including children, down a path that, for many of them, leads to sterilization, that leads to adult sexual dysfunction, and so many different parts of your health being disrupted with no way out… They have decided to go all out on the destruction of life, not just before it’s born, but they also are getting the young souls who were able to make it out of the womb.”
For those already trying to reverse course, finding knowledgeable doctors can require months or even years of searching. Cole said there are early signs that a medical network dedicated specifically to detransitioners may finally be taking shape:
“For many of us, there isn’t really just one place that we can look at to find care for ourselves. It often takes a series of going through different doctors, going through different clinics, even for some of us, even months to years, in order to find a team that we can work with. But recently, there have been two clinics that are set to open up to help patients detransition, one in Texas, and one, I believe, in the Midwest, and I think that that’s going to create a massive precedent for those of us who are seeking to reverse this and are seeking to treat the trauma both physically and psychologically from it.”
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