Planned Parenthood Encourages Children to Use Puberty Blockers in Cartoon Ad
By Movieguide® Staff
Planned Parenthood recently received ridicule after they promoted a new animated ad that encouraged children to get puberty blockers.
“Puberty blocker ad put out by Planned Parenthood, which tells children that they can get puberty blockers to ‘put their puberty on hold,’” the Twitter account Eye Inside the Classroom (EITC) tweeted.
Puberty blocker ad put out by Planned Parenthood, which tells children that they can get puberty blockers to “put their puberty on hold” pic.twitter.com/yjHXpevEMk
— 👁 Inside The Classroom (@EITC_Official) October 3, 2022
The ad originally aired on YouTube in January and seeks to redefine puberty for children who believe they are “trans, intersex or nonbinary.”
“Puberty blockers are safe and can give you more time to figure out what feels right for you, your body, and your gender identity,” Planned Parenthood says of puberty. “You don’t have to have all of the answers right now.”
Thankfully, not everyone is on board with Planned Parenthood’s definition of sex and gender and recently came under fire for prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to people without a medical examination or review of their medical history.
According to The Christian Post, a mother who went undercover discovered she could get a six-month testosterone prescription after only one 30-minute consultation.
While Planned Parenthood and proponents for puberty blockers and other hormone-changing drugs claim that it is harmless, testimonies from transitioned teens disagree.
Movieguide® previously reported:
The LGBTQ community expressed their anger over a recent 60 MINUTES segment on CBS that highlighted the stories of detransitioners and the danger of transgender medicalization.
Detransitioners are individuals who abandoned their transgender identity and want to live as their biological sex.
The segment comes after the promotion of several state legislations that would prohibit and restrict experimental medications and cosmetic gender surgery on minors.
CBS’s coverage of the issue could mark a shift in the transgender debate.
“I didn’t get enough pushback on transitioning. I went for two appointments and after the second one, I had my letter to go get on cross-sex hormones,” said a young man named Garrett from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Garrett continued by saying that while many transgender advocates claim that the lack of an opportunity to transition results in higher suicide rates, he experienced more severe depression post-surgery.
“I had never really been suicidal before until I had my breast augmentation,” Garrett said. “And about a week afterward, I wanted to actually kill myself. I had a plan and I was going to do it but I just kept thinking about my family to stop myself.”
Grace Lidinsky-Smith, who transitioned and detransitioned in less than one year, noted that her change in identity made her question who she was as a human rather than giving her assurance.
“I can’t believe I transitioned then detransitioned, including hormones and surgery, in the course of like, less than one year,” Lidinsky-Smith said. “[I] started to have a really disturbing sense that, like, a part of my body was missing, almost a ghost limb feeling about being like, there’s something that should be there.”
However, prominent LGBTQ leaders slammed CBS for the segment.
“Lesley Stahl [who conducted the interviews on 60 MINUTES, Alexandra Poolos, and Collette Richards knew exactly the harm they were causing with last night’s segment. They knew it was the wrong moment and a dangerous, unaccountable and limited angle. But they did it anyway. That’s on all of you,” Chase Strangio, a transgender activist and attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, tweeted.
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