Senator Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is demanding that Planned Parenthood be put under a microscope for roughly $1.5 billion in Medicare and Medicaid funding that he alleges “are flowing to an organization that promotes pediatric gender treatments on minors.” Hawley wants Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services Administrator Mehmet Oz to open an investigation into Planned Parenthood as part of the agency’s continued pursuit to uncover fraud in federally funded healthcare programs.

Concerns Over Pediatric Gender Treatments

Hawley accused Planned Parenthood of exploiting “legal loopholes to provide these dangerous and irreversible gender-transition drugs to minors without their parents’ consent.” He is pinpointing a stream of money between 2019 and 2022 that was tracked by the Government Accountability Office in a report first published in November 2023. That report did not outline that the money was used to push transgender surgeries nor medication.

Hawley’s focus now is on uncovering whether the $1.5 billion in funding was directed toward pushing minors toward pediatric gender treatments or referring minors for gender-affirming surgical procedures. The organization openly advertises that it provides sex-change drugs and refers for transgender surgeries, according to Hawley. “The organization openly advertises that it provides sex-change drugs and refers for transgender surgeries,” Hawley said. “According to one recent report, Planned Parenthood’s provision of this so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ has exploded — with a 40% year-over-year increase.”

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