OK, But ARE Hormones Just Like Candy, Really?

A UK-based Christian pressure group is worried about Planned Parenthood’s transgender services, and they’re using one of the worlds dumbest similies.

by Evan Urquhart

Never let anyone tell you that anti-trans crusaders are only concerned about young people who transition. If that were true, then why would they pay so much attention to Planned Parenthood, a community healthcare provider which focuses on reproductive health and, in a growing number of locations, offers prescriptions to adults for cross-sex hormones, using an informed consent care model.

Case in point, the website for a Christian pressure group based in the UK, where Planned Parenthood is not, posted an article today criticizing Planned Parenthood’s adult transgender medical services for some reason. In the article they fall back on an old pet peeve of ours, comparing hormone therapy to candy.

The post shares the perspective of detransition activist Cat Cattinson. (For more on how detransition anecdotes mislead right wing readers, see our coverage.)

The right of adults like Cattinson to make whatever changes they deem appropriate to their own bodies ought not be controversial. But right wing outlets seek to have it both ways, portraying gender transition as a choice rather than a medical necessity from one side of their mouths, and as a medical necessity poorly administrated from the other.