Planned Parenthood enters transgender-hormone market as abortions decline, clinics close

Washington Times ^ | Jan 03, 2018 | Valerie Richardson

[Oshkalaboomboom]

As dozens of its clinics closed amid a dwindling U.S. abortion rate, Planned Parenthood has moved to diversify its business model by getting into transgender hormone therapy.

The 2016-17 Planned Parenthood annual report showed the nation’s largest abortion provider struggling to keep its doors open as fewer women undergo abortions and patients seek health care services elsewhere.

In response, “We’re expanding access to care — from pioneering research on self-injectable birth control to offering new services for our transgender patients,” Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards said in the report’s introductory message.

“Planned Parenthood has focused on expanding services to people who are too often overlooked by the larger medical community — including trans patients,” says the report, released Sunday. “17 states now have Planned Parenthood health centers that provide hormone therapy.”

Providing sex-change therapy may not be enough to reverse Planned Parenthood’s ongoing skid — a 2016 UCLA study found just 0.6 percent of the U.S. adult population identified as transgender — but it offers an opportunity to develop a new client base as women continue to stay away in droves.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Remember when PP tried to justify its existence as something other than an abortion mill by saying they offered a valuable service to women, breast exams, but when fact checkers called clinics around the country they couldn't find one that offered that service? Apparently, there's a lot more money to be made in transgender hormone therapy than women's health.

[Dr. Sivana]

Looks like we are going to need a new breed of sidewalk counselor.

[rjsimmon]

They appear to be a solution, desperately looking for a cause.

[a fool in paradise]

A monied foundation seeking more revenue streams.

[rdcbn]

Now we begin to understand why the “transgender issue”was manufactured - aside from any damage it does to society, government funded hormone treatment and gender reassignment surgery are big business and easy money id the government and ObamaCare supply the bucks.

[CharlesOConnell]

So much of the surgical abortion decline is just obsolescence with the proliferation of chemical abortion.

[Fhios]

This is not going to go over well with women in general. Still there’ll be heaps and praises from liberals (who snicker behind the backs of transgenders).

[relictele]

and $$$ of course.

I used think mass psychosis was a figure of speech but it is quite obviously a real world phenomenon.

[oldasrocks]

Do you know how to make a hormone? Don’t pay her.

[WayneS]

Planned Parenthood enters transgender-hormone market as abortions decline, clinics close...

What the hell does plotting to transgednerize the population have to do with parenthood?

[Robert357]

You got to wonder what their next perversion will be....underage teen sex trafficking?

[WayneS]

The hypocrisy included in a protest sign reading: “Not Trump, Not the State, Women Must decide Their Fate” is beyond mind-boggling.

Fine! Let “women decide their fate” - and let them pay for their decisions with their OWN money, not mine.

[WayneS]

I think they’ve already been dabbling in that.

[Titus-Maximus]

They’ll do anything to tear down Western Civilization.

[I want the USA back]

It’s not planned parenthood. It’s the Church of NON-Christianity, with abortion and dickchopping as the major sacraments.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

What the hell does plotting to transgednerize the population have to do with parenthood?

Destroy life, alter life, as long as there's money to be made it's only life. PP has long shown that life means nothing to them.

[tomkat]

Is there a more demented ‘organization’ in this country than PP ?

It’s as though all these various grotesque creatures are vying amongst themselves to be preeminently monstrous.

[exDemMom]

...a 2016 UCLA study found just 0.6 percent of the U.S. adult population identified as transgender...

Now that we have a president fostering a culture that does not glorify "transgenderism," I wonder how much of the adult population is still "identifying as transgender"?

[fwdude]

They also claimed that abortions were a paltry 3% of their business. Yeah, right....

[fwdude]

You got to wonder what their next perversion will be....underage teen sex trafficking?

Since they already cover for that, they are effectively involved in it.