Taxpayers Set To Fund Abortion And Transgender Kids Mill

Planned Parenthood’s expansive exploitation of minors and women through sex-rejecting treatments and abortion services should compel Congress to extend funding restrictions on the abortion goliath through budget reconciliation — a last-ditch effort to rectify what should have been accomplished at the start of the session.

Last year Congress had the exceptional opportunity to pass a 10-year funding ban on abortion providers. They botched it, approving only a one-year ban instead, set to expire July 4. Congress had another opportunity to extend funding restrictions in April by attaching an amendment to “Reconciliation 2.0.” It failed.  

Congress now has very little time to act to block hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars from once again funding the nation’s leading abortion and sex-rejecting treatment provider. The coming week will determine how representatives in government work to protect or misdirect the money placed at their disposal.

Taxpayer Funding Continues

Planned Parenthood raked in more than $700 million in 2023-24 taxpayer funding, acquiring unprecedented wealth as a not-for-profit. Federal funding of the organization took a significant hit when the Trump administration halted Medicaid payments for abortion providers under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on July 4, 2025. Restrictions on Title X funds and a U.S. Supreme Court ruling directing abortion reimbursements to remain in states’ hands have also contributed to cuts. 

But revenue is still coming in. A report by the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) and the American Principles Project found that Planned Parenthood has expanded into the lucrative “transgender medicine” business in a big way, capitalizing on sex-rejecting treatments and mutilation of gender-confused youth.

In fiscal year 2024-2025, Planned Parenthood “reported receiving approximately $832 million in ‘Government Health Services Reimbursements & Grants,’” according to the report.

The numbers are significant and disturbing. According to the report, cross-sex hormone treatments and procedures are now accessible at nearly 80 percent of Planned Parenthood clinics, outstripping access to abortion. Data is limited, but some states reported a more than 400 percent increase in sex-rejecting procedure visits between 2018-2025. 

In a press statement, Dr. Jill Simons, ACPeds executive director, said the evidence in the report should send an urgent message to Congress to defund Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood and its affiliates received more than $1.5 billion in Medicaid and Medicare payments in a three-year period, noted Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., in a letter to Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, earlier this month. These taxpayer dollars were designed to aid the impoverished and elderly but have instead funded the sex-change drugs and transgender surgeries Planned Parenthood openly advertises. A lack of medical documentation in dealings with minors, subversive actions, and “pushing transgender madness” onto children warrants immediate investigation, he said.

Planned Parenthood’s Non-Compliance

Planned Parenthood has aided the transgender medical market for years, at an unknown cost to the American public. Concerns over misuse of funds led the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency to open an investigation into the organization last June regarding abortions and the provision of “gender-affirming care” services to minors by circumventing parental consent. Lawmakers said that as of May, Planned Parenthood was still not fully compliant with information requests.

Another federal effort aimed at dismantling the madness, the “Kennedy Declaration,” denounced “sex-rejecting procedures for children and adolescents” in 2025. A peer-reviewed report preceding the declaration, aligned with evidence from rigorous European reviews, found the risks of transition treatment of gender dysphoric youth outweigh any benefit.

Groups like Planned Parenthood profit from irreversible mutilation and sterilization. The result has been a cascade of lawsuits, detransition cases, and suicides. The experiment has evidently failed.

While the government battles a multi-state coalition fighting to retain Medicaid funding of the so-called “care,” after Kennedy declared it unsupportable, Planned Parenthood clinics continue to ignore the federal directive to stop the treatment.

Next Steps

The American people, federal government, and major international medical associations have all rejected the medicalization of minors with irreversible mutilating surgeries and cross-sex hormones. 

Detransitioned young adults, increasingly in the public eye through high-profile lawsuits, repeatedly identify Planned Parenthood clinics as their gateway to these procedures. Their stories shine a light on widespread malpractice and negligence at the hands of Planned Parenthood staff and management.

Planned Parenthood’s continued involvement in disproven, radically experimental surgeries targeting vulnerable populations should forfeit their ability to access federal dollars. 

The Trump administration has taken significant steps to disentangle taxpayer dollars from ideologically driven organizations that campaign on the degradation of children and dismantling of families, most recently filing a lawsuit against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health for deceiving parents; Congress has a similar responsibility to protect public dollars from funding subversive and harmful medical practices. 

Congress should act quickly to extend the ban on abortion funding, limit the targeting of minors suffering irreparable harm, and cement a necessary turning point from what is sure to be a stain on America’s national history.   

Ashley Bateman is a policy writer for The Heartland Institute. Her work has been featured in The Washington Times, The Daily Caller, The New York Post, The American Thinker, the Ascension Press blog, and numerous other publications. She previously worked as an adjunct scholar for The Lexington Institute and as editor, writer, and photographer for The Warner Weekly, a publication for the American military community in Bamberg, Germany. She and her brilliant engineer/scientist husband homeschool their six children.