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Tell Planned Parenthood Stop Prescribing Life-Altering Drugs to Vulnerable Teens

A growing number of people who underwent medical interventions to try to present as the opposite sex are experiencing regret and trauma as they realize the lasting physical damage done by these “treatments.”

Detransitioners are shocked to learn that drugs to “pause” puberty are not reversible and that a few months of opposite-sex hormones can permanently alter voices and physical appearance, and that weak bones and elevated cancer risks are among potential fallout.

Planned Parenthood is a chief source of drug therapy prescriptions for minors and young adults seeking to present themselves as the opposite sex. Detransitioners, including those featured in IWF’s Identity Crisis series, have described how, when experiencing confusion about their identity, they reached out to Planned Parenthood and were quickly prescribed life-altering drugs. Planned Parenthood received in excess of $500 million in taxpayer funding in 2023—so these “treatments” are being paid for at least in part by your taxpayer dollars.

It would be impossible for these young people to ever fully understand the risks and irreversible damage these drugs could cause. Now, detransitioners struggle to find practitioners able to oversee their medical care as they seek to live again as their natural biological sex. These detransitioners deserve better treatment, and at-risk communities need more protection from those who would rush them toward a medically unnecessary and harmful “treatment” plan.

Send a message to Congress to investigate how Planned Parenthood is misusing your taxpayer dollars and has become one of the country’s largest suppliers of these hormones and other therapies that are destroying the healthy bodies of so many vulnerable young women and men.

VICTORY! Mayor Eric Adams, Stand for Fairness and Equality

UPDATE: Victory! Over 3,000 letters were sent to Mayor Eric Adams, urging him to reinstate Maud Maron to her elected school board seat. In a huge win for fairness and equality, Maud has been restored to her position.

Independent Women’s Forum recently joined a coalition of ideologically diverse national women’s organizations to stand behind Manhattan Mom and former Democratic candidate for office Maud Maron after she was abruptly banished from her elected position on New York City’s Community Education Council for District 2 (CEC 2)—the city’s largest parent council.

In February, Maud was quoted by the New York Post speaking out about antisemitism at her daughter’s high school. Chancellor David Banks claims the February quote was the reason she was booted from her elected seat on Friday, June 14.

A coalition of national women’s organizations from across the political aisle believe this was a fig leaf justification to oust a council member who is a champion for women—Maud knows what a woman is and has been a vocal advocate for protections for women, including prohibiting male athletes from participating in women’s sports. She joined the first Our Bodies, Our Sports rally in Washington, DC on June 23, 2022. Serving on CEC 2 since 2017, she has been an unwavering advocate for high-quality education, parent rights, and especially for Jewish children and families and has demonstrated exceptional dedication to the educational well-being of NYC public school children.

Send a message directly to NYC Mayor Eric Adams, urging him to reinstate Maud Maron to New York City’s Community Education Council for District 2! It is imperative that he uphold principles of fairness and equality, ensuring that all communities feel represented and supported.

As May Mailman, Independent Women’s Law Center Director, said, “Mayor Eric Adams is overseeing a school system, run by Chancellor David Banks, that devastates the core American value of debate. Maud has the true but ‘wrong’ opinion that women should be asked before giving up their sports to men and that anonymous speech is cowardly. New York schools shut that down. We should all be fearful of this shockingly successful quest to rid certain, truthful viewpoints from the public sphere.

Protect Free Speech

America was built on the principles of free speech and a vibrant marketplace of ideas. Cancel culture and growing efforts to censor politically inconvenient viewpoints threaten this tradition and weaken our country. It’s time to stand up in defense of free speech and oppose cancel culture!

83% of Americans want to feel confident that they can share their opinions freely without the fear of being canceled.

Modern cancel-culture often prevents people from being able to speak freely. It is crucial to uphold the First Amendment and preserve our right to freedom of speech without fear of cancel-culture or censorship.

As Americans, we must fight for the freedom to express our thoughts and opinions without fear. It’s time to reject the bigotry of cancel-culture. Stand up to protect this core American value: free speech.

Urge your Members of Congress to commit to supporting legislation that protects free speech and defends Americans’ right to speak freely and protest peacefully. Show that you support leaders who commit to freedom of speech!

For more information on the full Hope Agenda, click HERE.

Demand Transparency in Schools!

Parents have the right to know what their children are learning, and schools have the responsibility to tell them.

81% of Americans want more hope that schools will return to teaching academics and pathways to success, not ideology and victimhood.

Restoring parental trust in schools is incredibly important and starts by requiring full transparency. It’s common sense, but unfortunately not common practice. With your support, we can change that.

Urge your Members of Congress to commit to supporting legislation that requires schools to be fully transparent. Show that you support leaders who care what children are learning!

For more information on the full Hope Agenda, click HERE.

Take Back Title IX

The Biden administration, despite claiming otherwise, is using Title IX to require schools to allow males who identify as women to compete on women’s sports teams and to receive athletic awards for females.

Released on April 19, 2024, the Title IX Omnibus Rule codifies the Biden administration’s unlawful dissolution of women’s sports by demanding that spaces for female athletes, like locker rooms, be assigned based on gender identity. The Biden administration’s unlawful Title IX regulation unilaterally rewrites the landmark sex equality law and undermines women’s rights, free speech, and due process.

Not only is this unfair to female athletes, it is an inversion of the very purpose of Title IX, which was to protect educational opportunities, including athletic ones, for female students by protecting them from discrimination. This new Omnibus Rule, which governs all aspects of the educational experience and will go into effect on August 1, turns Title IX on its head through extra-statutory regulations that require schools to allow males to self-identify into women’s spaces, opportunities, and athletics.

What the Rule Does:

Male Invasion of Women’s Spaces
Denial of Due Process
Violation of Parental Rights
Infringement on Freedom of Speech
Mandating Harmful Medical Practices

As Riley Gaines, former 12-time All-American swimmer at the University of Kentucky and Independent Women’s Forum ambassador said: “With its new Title IX rewrite, the Biden administration is unilaterally erasing fifty years of equal opportunity law for women. The president and his administration can’t act like they care about women or our opportunities and then go and wipe out women’s protections under the country’s landmark sex equality law.”

The CRA has passed the House, and we must now put pressure on the Senate. It’s time to TAKE BACK TITLE IX. Feel free to personalize the message and share how women’s sports and spaces have benefited you

It’s time to fight back. Send a message directly to your legislators urging them to overturn this harmful Title IX rewrite through the use of the Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions, introduced by Congresswoman Mary Miller (R-IL) and Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS).

For more information on the effects of the New Title IX Regs, check out these resources:

Support Healthcare Price Transparency!

You would never agree to buy something without knowing the price, right? Knowing how much something costs helps us plan ahead and allows us to shop for a good value. Health care shouldn’t be an exception. Of course, in emergencies, you can’t stop to ask prices, but the vast majority of healthcare decisions could be shoppable. We should have pricing information, but often don’t. The result is that too many Americans are hit with surprising medical bills. In fact, medical costs are a leading cause of bankruptcy.

Americans deserve better. Healthcare providers should be required to be transparent about their prices. Implementing true healthcare price transparency would reduce our nation’s healthcare costs by 40%, helping patients and businesses.

85% of Americans want more hope when it comes to health care.

However, healthcare lobbyists and special interest groups who want to keep patients in the dark have clouded and shrouded efforts to make price transparency a reality. Shining a light on this issue holds candidates and elected officials accountable for delivering transparency and competition to our healthcare system once and for all, and making healthcare price transparency the law of the land.

Everyone has a right to know the price of healthcare services before receiving care, including cash prices and negotiated rates with health plans, so they can make informed choices when shopping for care and coverage.

Urge your Members of Congress to commit to supporting legislation that offers upfront healthcare price transparency and cash prices for all medical products, procedures, providers, and services. Show that you support leaders who commit to patient protection!

For more information on the full Hope Agenda, click HERE.