Imagine how upset you'd be to find out that your tax dollars were funding radical sexual propaganda targeted at your kids. Well, thanks to Planned Parenthood, you already are. Apparently, the nation's biggest abortion business isn't content with destroying innocent lives anymore. Now it wants to undermine your moral values too.
Of course, Americans got a whiff of this back in 2016, when then-president Cecile Richards surprised people by saying, "Planned Parenthood believes that reproductive rights are deeply connected to LGBTQ rights..." In an announcement that raised more than a few eyebrows, because there is no obvious connection, she made it clear that the organization was quickly becoming one-stop shopping for the Left's social agenda. "[Our] affiliates now provide hormone treatments for transgender people in 26 centers across 10 states."
Now, the group that enjoys more than a half-billion of your hard-earned tax dollars a year is already wrapping its tentacles around another hot-button topic: the transgender debate. And based on the firestorm in Sarasota, Florida, Planned Parenthood is off to a flying start. Its idea of a sex education video -- men groping women and same-sex couples making out -- made parents hit the fan.
Despite the backlash in Florida, the group is back at it this week with a special project for "Trans Awareness Week." In partnership with the LGBT activists at GLAAD, Planned Parenthood has taken it upon themselves to teach people to be less offensive to men who identify as women and vice-versa. The campaign, called "Beyond the Binary," includes a new vocabulary list that makes the abortion group the newest members of the politically-correct language police.
Among other things, Breitbart points out, the "linguistic guide" scraps the terms "boys and girls" for the more generic "children." "His" or "her" should be "their" -- which is not only ridiculous, but grammatically incorrect. Apparently, science isn't the only casualty of the Left's gender-free march. If activists get their way, English will be the next to go. Group salutations like "guys" are supposed to give way to "folks." "'Brothers and sisters,' should simply be 'siblings,' while 'ladies and gentlemen' should be 'distinguished guests.'" All of this, Williams goes on, with a backdrop of rainbow birth control. "With its cheery backdrop of multi-colored condoms, one could almost forget that Planned Parenthood's chief business is killing little children in their mothers' wombs."
Although LGBT activism can't be as lucrative as the group's biggest moneymaker -- abortion -- it certainly diversifies their already fanatical portfolio. And with Planned Parenthood's latest hire, Dr. Sara Flowers, the organization shows no signs of slowing down. Flowers may not be a household name -- but she's about to become a household presence, now that the former director at the Gay Men's Health Crisis has just been put in charge of Planned Parenthood's "education" efforts. And, as far as she's concerned, sex ed is "more than learning about birth control and sexually-transmitted infections. Ideally, sex education should address... gender identity and sexual orientation..." If you think the public-school indoctrination is bad now, just wait. Planned Parenthood has unlimited access to more than 1.5 million kids through sex education. Is yours one of them? Make sure you contact your local district office and find out.
Meanwhile, when the group isn't busy brainwashing children (or aborting them), it's spreading plenty of misinformation online. In new videos targeting moms and dads (no doubt also funded by unwilling taxpayers), Planned Parenthood has disturbing answers to questions like "How do I know if my kid is transgender?" Children, they insist without a scrap of science to back it up, can know their gender identity by age three, the group suggests. And, "there's nothing you as a parent can do to change [it]." Some little kids, the narrator says, "may understand that the gender that everyone says they are is not who they really know they are inside. And that's the definition of transgender." If you want to try counseling, the videos urge, talk with someone who's "supportive of transgender identities." Forcing them into a gender box, Planned Parenthood warns, will hurt them. That's hardly the advice of the real experts at the American College of Pediatricians, who insist this kind of guidance is "child abuse."
After its baby body parts sales, overbilling scandals, sexual abuse cover-ups, gender targeting, unsanitary clinic conditions, botched abortions, falsified medical information, and political campaigns, Planned Parenthood didn't have a lot of credibility to fall back on. Now, with this stampede into LGBT activism, whatever shred of credibility Planned Parenthood had in claiming to be a "health care provider" should be put to rest. This is all the more reason for Congress to finish the job it started last fall and cut off Planned Parenthood's funding at the source: the federal government.
Tony Perkins' Washington Update is written with the aid of FRC senior writers.
