According to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation, Planned Parenthood worked with now-Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine in an effort to provide cross-sex hormones at its clinics.
Documents reveal Levine’s office played a role in connecting a local Planned Parenthood affiliate with transgender clinics throughout the year it began offering hormones.
The partnership was part of a broader agenda from Levine’s office to promote cross-sex treatments and state funding for the procedures, including for children.
From The Daily Caller:
“This is such a dangerous ideology, far from any form of health care or medical science,” PA Family communications director Dan Bartkowiak told the DCNF. “Anyone responsible for overseeing the push for more children permanently harmed by these drugs and irreversible surgeries should not be in public office, let alone be given promotion to higher office.” Levine’s secretary, Sarah Boateng, coordinated with Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania (PPSP) in February 2017 to arrange an observation session at the Mazzoni Center, a Philadelphia-based group offering cross-sex medical treatments, in order to learn about operations and referrals for clinics offering hormones, according to the emails. PPSP had worked with other Planned Parenthood clinics offering hormones, but it was particularly interested in learning from Mazzoni because of its high volume of patients, according to the emails. “We’re still crossing our fingers about Mazzoni. The volume of daily trans heath [sic] visits at a PP affiliate is low and we fear we’d go and only see a visit or two,” the PPSP worker wrote in the email to Boateng.
