Planned Parenthood was once considered a �women�s health� organization.

But women are out � now it�s up for debate what a woman even is anymore �
and something very different is in.

A nonprofit generally associated with abortion on demand, recently Planned
Parenthood has gotten into a different game: Luring people into the idea
that they can change their gender.

The number of people, particularly young women, being �treated� at PP for
gender dysphoria and given drugs in the mistaken belief a girl can become
a boy or vice versa has skyrocketed.

With the increase in numbers has come the inevitable trauma.

A disturbing report Thursday in The Free Press identified Cristina Hineman
as the first detransitioner to sue Planned Parenthood for medical
malpractice.

She had just turned 18 when Planned Parenthood prescribed her a cocktail
of hormonal drugs.

Hineman, like many other young women who believe they can become men, has
autism, per the report � and �had been battling a cluster of mental health
problems: self-harm, depression and anxiety.�

A second woman, identified as Anna in the story, has filed a separate
lawsuit against PP after being given hormonal drugs at age 19 without any
discussion of the many possible painful side effects. She�s seeking
$50,000 in damages.

It�s not just young adults: The Free Press cites insurance-claim data
indicating that about 12,000 youths under age 17 sought gender-related
care at PP clinics between 2017 and 2023.

Meanwhile, ever-more Americans have rightly focused on the distressing
trend of children being put on hormones or undergoing surgical procedures
in a fruitless attempt to change their gender.

Parents� rights groups are fighting on behalf of mothers and fathers
who�ve been kept in the dark about their own children�s mental health.

Alliance Defending Freedom, for example, has seven active cases
representing parents suing school districts that secretly transitioned
their children behind their backs.

But unhappy or depressed 18-year-olds, who can�t legally have a drink of
alcohol, place a bet in most casinos or rent a car, also shouldn�t be
handed life-destroying drugs when they�re having a low moment.

While plenty of parents in Hollywood seem only too happy to parade their
gender-confused children around, most of the rest of us understand that
what these kids are going through is largely a phase, much like when they
wanted to be Batman as a toddler.

A groundbreaking 15-year study from the Netherlands released in April
found just this � that feelings of �gender non-contentedness� collapsed
with age.

Hineman decided to transition at 17, but her parents� opposition made her
wait until she became a legal adult.

A troubled 18-year-old is in no position to make life-altering decisions.
This should be obvious.

Detransitioner lawsuits are rising across the country. It turns out that
many people feel that they were lied to and coerced into making damaging
and irreversible changes to their bodies.

Hineman had her breasts removed after what she described as a �superficial
consult� � a troubling example of how the deeply abnormal has been
normalized in our health-care system.

How can we simply accept that healthy breasts can be removed without any
trauma following? It makes no sense.

But the larger question is this: Why are we taxpayers supporting these
procedures?

Planned Parenthood gets $670 million a year in government funding. Its
latest annual report touts that 41 PP affiliates provide �gender-affirming
hormone therapy.�

Why is taxpayer money going to this bizarre kind of medicine that takes
advantage of vulnerable people in a state of distress?

It�s one thing to look away � and quite another to be funding it.

Other countries are facing the reality that gender transition is false,
and that pushing this concept is causing more problems than it solves.

On Wednesday, Britain�s National Health Service launched a new program for
detransitioners � because so many of them need specialized care after
botched attempts to change their birth sex.

The UK, as well as Denmark, Sweden and other countries in Europe, have
limited hormone treatments for minors after realizing the harm they have
caused.

Yet the United States is still full speed ahead.

Planned Parenthood has always asserted that its federal funding doesn�t
directly pay for the abortions its clinics provide.

But money is fungible: By supporting the organization, that $670 million
indirectly subsidizes all of PP�s services.

Now the organization is supporting extremely controversial gender
procedures with the help of our tax dollars.

Why should we pay for any of it? Defunding Planned Parenthood is an easy
call � and politicians should be braver in making it.

Karol Markowicz is the author of the book �Stolen Youth.�

https://nypost.com/2024/08/08/opinion/detransitioners-are-suing-tax-
funded-planned-parenthood/