Planned Parenthood’s paved ‘gender affirming care pathway’ — from its sex ed and other propaganda to aiding minors in ‘social transition’ and medicalized interventions (like puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones) — often leads to referrals for body-damaging surgeries, which reject biological sex as reality.

Congress’ ban on tax dollars flowing to Planned Parenthood is about to lapse, and a Senate Republican wants to investigate piles of taxpayer money that has allegedly been used by the organization to push transgender procedures.

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., in a letter first obtained by Fox News Digital, 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 transgender treatments on minors.”

Unsurprisingly, what’s considered morally reprehensible differs along party lines; Republicans are more likely to reject gender transition, and Democrats are more likely to favor it. Yet Gallup noted “record-low points in moral acceptability” for the country at large. What’s changed?

For one thing, more Americans understand what falls beneath the umbrella of “trans rights”. While it may be suggested that those who modify their bodies or opt into categories at odds with sex deserve the same basic protections against discrimination as other citizens, the data show that the general population sees the specifics of trans rights. That includes males having legal access to women’s spaces, from locker rooms to prisons, as well as the reality that the evidence for youth gender medicine is of very low quality. It’s impossible to know who will benefit and who will be harmed.