September 19, 2025

From: David Spring, M. Ed., Director, Washington Parents Network

To: Federal Trade Commission
600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington DC 20580

RE: Complaint against Washington State Planned Parenthood

Sent via FTC Gender Affirming Care Comment Page

To Whom It May Concern:

The Washington Parents Network is a group of nearly 3,000 parents in Washington state concerned about protecting the rights of parents and children. One of our concerns is that profit-driven corporations, including Planned Parenthood, have been making millions of dollars by giving children toxic Trans Drugs, such as puberty blockers and cross sex hormones, for uses not approved by the FDA. These drugs have serious adverse side effects including obesity, tumors and increased rates of blood clots, heart attacks, strokes, cancer, depression, suicide and permanent sterility. Yet nowhere on the Planned Parenthood Washington State Affiliate Transgender promotional website page does it provide any warning about either off label non-FDA approved usage or adverse side effects. Instead, Planned Parenthood makes false and deceptive claims including that these drugs are safe and that they reduce the risk of suicide – when in fact these drugs are not safe and they actually increase the risk of suicide.

 Planned Parenthood promotes these toxic Trans Drugs as “Gender Affirming Care” falsely claiming that these drugs can magically “transition” children from one biological sex to the other sex despite the fact that there are at least 6,500 genetic differences between the sexes and no drugs are able to change a child from one sex to the other. A more accurate term for these drugs is “Gender Mutilation Child Abuse.”

On July 28, 2025, the FTC began accepting public comments on how to hold corporations like Planned Parenthood accountable for their fraudulent and deceptive practices. In this complaint, we provide a summary of how the fraudulent practices of Planned Parenthood harm children and their parents here in Washington state as well as a review of scientific studies on the harm of Trans Drugs.

We show that thousands of children and their families here in Washington state have been severely and permanently harmed by these fraudulent Planned Parenthood practices.

We also provide a summary of the financial harm to parents and tax payers who are forced to pay for the Planned Parenthood Money Laundering operation – not only through millions of dollars in higher state and federal taxes to pay for Medicaid billings – but also through higher Health Insurance Premiums as the Health Insurance companies are forced to pay millions of dollars each year for Planned Parenthood’s fraudulent billings.

Finally, we end our complaint with a summary of legal cases against Planned Parenthood – cases confirming that Planned Parenthood has repeatedly broken federal laws including illegally selling body parts of aborted fetuses and continuing to offer their “services” even after they were ordered to shut down.

The Federal Trade Commission is empowered to (a) prevent unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive practices; (b) seek monetary redress and other relief for conduct injurious to consumers; (c) prescribe rules defining acts or practices that are unfair or deceptive, and establishing requirements designed to prevent such acts or practices.

We ask that Planned Parenthood of Washington be prohibited from continuing to give non-FDA approved Trans drugs to children in our state and that Planned Parenthood be fined for each of the thousands of children they have harmed in the past as a result of their fraudulent and deceptive medical claims.

In addition to the attached PDF, you can view our FTC complaint against Planned Parenthood of Washington at the following web page:

https://washingtonparentsnetwork.com/news/complaint-against-washington-state-planned-parenthood

Sincerely,

David Spring M. Ed.

Director, Washington Parents Network

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Washington Parents Network FTC Complaint against Planned Parenthood of Washington

 

 

I Introduction… Follow the Money

In what can only be described as a money laundering operation, Planned Parenthood makes a huge amount of money getting thousands of kids here in Washington state addicted to toxic Trans drugs. The majority of this money comes not from the Trans victims, but from tax payers through federal and state programs like Medicaid - combined with rising mandatory payments by those paying monthly health insurance premiums as all health plans in Washington state are required to subsidize Planned Parenthood.

For more than 40 years, their evil scam has been funded by hundreds of millions – and even billions - of dollars from state and federal tax payers – through programs like Medicaid – all while failing to disclose any of the deadly side effects of their Trans drugs and while making fraudulent medical claims about the benefits of their snake oil drugs. As a result of their fraudulent medical practices, Planned Parenthood is now being sued by angry “Detransitioners” whose lives have been destroyed as a result of being suckered into believing their false medical claims. It is likely that these Trans Cult investigations and lawsuits will eventually cost Planned Parenthood millions – and even billions - of dollars in fines.

Planned Parenthood National Crime Wave
We will begin by outlining the National structure of the Planned Parenthood money laundering operation. Since 2000, Planned Parenthood has committed over 7.5 million abortions for which it was paid $11.4 billion in federal funds with annual profits leading to its current net worth of over $3 billion.

The national office of Planned Parenthood issues annual reports with the latest being the 2023-2024 annual report. Because of the harm to children of Trans Drugs, Planned Parenthood hides its Trans Drug program by calling it “Other Procedures” in their annual reports. On Page 23 of the 2024 Report, it shows 77,858 Other Procedures. It also hides its Trans Drug program under Preventive Care Visits which were 129,594. On Page 24, Planned Parenthood shows $3.1 billion in total assets. On page 25, it shows that 39% of its revenue comes from tax payers through programs like Medicaid (called Apple Health in Washington state). On page 26, the report shows that the total payments by tax payers were $792 million in 2024.

Here are links to last four Previous Annual Reports

2019 – 2020

2020-2021

2021-2022

2022-2023

Here is a table of how these numbers have changed in the past few years.

Year	# Other Procedures	Tax Payer Subsidies
2020	17791	$618 million
2021	15902	$633 million
2022	256550	$670 million
2023	177237	$699 million
2024	77858	$792 million

Note on recent decline in Other Procedures: In 2022, Congress began investigating the Planned Parenthood Trans Drug Cult expansion and the reported numbers of Other Procedures began to fall. Based on whistleblower reports and legal filings, it is likely that Planned Parenthood began hiding their Trans Drug Cult under other categories (as the number of Gender cases at Planned Parenthood of Washington have continued to rise). Nor should these numbers be regarded as accurate. For example, the 2021 Planned Parenthood report listed “15,902” Other Procedures.” But an August 2022 NPR report noted that “Over 35,000 of Planned Parenthood’s patients nationwide sought gender-affirming hormone replacement therapy in 2021.” So the real numbers may be more than double the reported ones.

Growth of Planned Parenthood Trans Drug Cult
The first time Planned Parenthood Federation of America mentioned transgender services in its annual report was in the 2014-2015 AR, which stated, “Planned Parenthood affiliates expanded access to hormone treatments for transgender patients, with 26 centers now offering this care in California, Colorado, Maine, Montana, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, New York, Vermont, and Washington State.”

By 2018, the number of facilities grew to 31 states, a tally that held into 2019 when Planned Parenthood wrote, “More than 200 health centers in 31 states” were “providing hormone therapy for transgender patients.” Thus, between 2014 and 2019, Planned Parenthood saw a 669% increase in facilities offering cross-sex hormone injections for transgender-identifying individuals, an increase from 26 centers to 200 centers.

By 2020, Planned Parenthood’s website noted, “Nationally, Planned Parenthood is the second largest provider of Gender Affirming Hormone Care” (which is more accurately described as getting kids addicted to toxic Trans Drugs).

A 2023 report found that “the average Planned Parenthood affiliate CEO is in the 98th percentile of US wage earners, making $317,564 annually.” 

Washington State Planned Parenthood Trans Drug Centers
In addition to a Virtual and Telehealth option, Planned Parenthood has 30 Trans Drug centers in Washington state including Bellevue, Bellingham, Bremerton, Centralia, Ellensburg, Everett, Federal Way, Friday Harbor, Kennewick, Lynnwood, Marysville, Moses Lake, Mount Vernon, Olympia, Pasco, Port Angeles, Pullman, Puyallup, Seattle, University District, Northgate, White Center, Spokane, Spokane Valley, Sunnyside, Tacoma, Vancouver, Walla Walla, Wenatchee and Yakima.

Here is the Transgender webpage for Planned Parenthood of Washington.

Here are quotes from their Overview Page:

“In 2018, Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho expanded its current healthcare services for transgender patients to include Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy services. “

This page does not include any warnings about Trans Drugs causing either cancer or sterility.

There are a couple of cartoon videos on the “What to Expect” page.

This page does not include any warnings about Trans Drugs causing either cancer or sterility.

Here is a quote from the “Criteria for Starting Hormone Replacement Therapy” page:

“Our criteria for hormone therapy reflect the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) guidelines.”

This page does not include any warnings about Trans Drugs causing either cancer or sterility.

Here is a quote from the “What to expect at your first visit” page:

“Our program starts with a visit with our TGA (Transgender/Gender Affirming) Team Specialist. Please anticipate an hour to an hour and a half for this visit. The TGA Team Specialist will explain the Gender Affirmation Health Program at Planned Parenthood Greater Washington & North Idaho, ask some health history and personal information questions, discuss possible changes, expectations, and limitations of hormone therapy, discuss both reversible and irreversible effects of hormone therapy, provide you a folder of resources and information and discuss any social transition questions or concerns.”

Whistleblowers and legal filings have noted that the while the discussion may mention the possibility of sterility, it does not mention that sterility is CERTAIN and irreversible or that cancer rates are greatly elevated.

Here are quotes from the “Safe Sex for Trans Bodies” page which is a 17 page PDF at this link:

Page 13 discusses Hormones and Surgery. Here is a screenshot:

This page does not include any warnings about Trans Drugs causing either cancer or sterility.

Page 15 discusses Surgery. Amazingly, this page does not include any warnings about Trans Surgery causing sterility!

The final web page is called : “Hormone Therapy Self Injection.”

Here is a quote: “Congratulations on beginning gender-affirming hormone therapy! Planned Parenthood of Washington is dedicated to ensuring you have the support and resources you need during your transition.”

This page does not include any warnings about Trans Drugs causing either cancer or sterility.

Washington Planned Parenthood Annual Reports
Here is a link to the Washington Planned Parenthood Annual Reports page. The 2018 report states that there were 642 Gender Affirming care visits. Total revenue was 18 million of which 6 million came from Medicaid, 4 million came from Federal/state assistance and 5 million came from Insurance. Expenses were 17 million meaning there was 1 million in profit.

The 2019 report states that there were 1166 Gender Affirming care visits. Total revenue was 21 million of which 6 million came from Medicaid, 4 million came from Federal/state assistance and 5 million came from Insurance. Expenses were 19 million meaning there was 2 million in profit.

The 2020 report states that there were 907 Gender Affirming care visits. Total revenue was 21 million of which 6 million came from Medicaid, 4 million came from Federal/state assistance and 5 million came from Insurance. Expenses were 19 million meaning there was 2 million in profit.

The 2021 report states that there were 1,384 Gender Affirming care visits. Total revenue was 23 million of which 7 million came from Medicaid, 4 million came from Federal/state assistance and 6 million came from Insurance. Expenses were 20 million meaning there was 3 million in profit.

The 2022 report states that there were 2,343 Gender Affirming care visits. Total revenue was 37 million of which 10 million came from Medicaid, 5 million came from Federal/state assistance and 6 million came from Insurance – which is required to pay for Trans Drugs and surgeries in Washington state. There was also a one time donation of 12 million from a billionaire. Expenses were 21 million meaning there was 16 million in profit.

The 2023 report states that there were 2,592 Gender Affirming care visits. Total revenue was 30 million of which 10 million came from Medicaid, 7 million came from Federal/state assistance and 6 million came from Insurance. So the majority of the funding was from tax payers. Expenses were 24 million meaning there was 6 million in profit.

The 2024 report indicates that there were 3,355 Gender Affirming care visits. Total revenue was 29 million of which 9 million came from Medicaid, 7 million came from Federal/state assistance and 6 million came from Insurance – which is required to pay for Trans Drugs and surgeries in Washington state. So the majority of the funding was from tax payers. Expenses were 27 million meaning there was 2 million in profit.

Below is a table showing the growth of Planned Parenthood Trans Drug Cult in Washington state from 2018 to 2024:

Year	Trans Cult Victims	Revenue $ millions	Profit $ millions
2018	642	18	1
2019	1166	21	2
2020	907	21	2
2021	1384	23	3
2022	2343	37	16
2023	2592	30	6
2024	3355	29	2

In the past 7 years, the total profit of the Washington branch of Planned Parenthood was about $32 million dollars thanks to state and federal tax payers.

How Washington Medicaid spending quintupled over a decade
Thanks in part to increases in subsidies for Planned Parenthood, Washington state’s Medicaid spending has quintupled, or increased five times over, since the 2013-15 biennium, according to a July 2025 analysis by The Center Square. Along with that increased spending, the number of those on Medicaid – including Trans Drug Cult victims - has climbed.

In the 2013-15 operating budget, Washington state taxpayers spent $4 billion per year on Medicaid. Spending was evenly split between the federal government and the state (at about $2 billion each). In the 2025-27 biennium, Washington state is planning to spend $21 billion per year on Medicaid with $13 billion per year coming from the feds. However, with President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Act, Washington state could lose $5 billion annually in federal Medicaid funding, according to estimates from the nonpartisan health research group KFF. In other words, federal spending might on Medicaid in Washington state might fall from $13 billion per year down to $8 billion per year – but still be four times more than in 2015!

This reduction will not actually occur until 2027. The BBB Act introduces mandatory "community engagement" requirements, which will require Medicaid recipients—particularly low-income adults—to log at least 80 hours per month in employment, education, or volunteer activities starting in December 2026. Certain groups, such as parents of children under 13, disabled veterans, and individuals with serious medical conditions, are exempt from these requirements.

Why the Washington State Medicaid costs exploded after 2015
According to a 2014 report by the Washington Policy Center, Washington’s Medicaid program was expanded by the state Legislature through “a one-line budget gimmick,” after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that states could voluntarily choose whether to do so under the Affordable Care Act. Prior to that, Medicaid provided health insurance for families with children that earned less than 133% of the Federal Poverty Level, for long-term care patients, and the disabled. The expansion included any adult who earns less than 138% of the Federal Poverty Level. In 2013, there was an estimated 1.3 million people enrolled in Washington’s Medicaid program, known as Apple Health. According to the Washington Health Care Authority, this number increased to 2.17 million residents enrolled in Apple Health as of January 2022. Nearly half of all births in Washington state in 2020 were covered by Apple Health.

The high point in enrollment was 2.3 million in 2023. In 2024, it was 2 million. And February, 2025, Apple Health (WA ST medicaid) enrollment was 2 million. This includes about 300,000 illegal aliens. It also includes thousands of Trans people getting drugs from Planned Parenthood.

While federal law generally bars illegal immigrants from being covered by Medicaid, a little-known part of the state-federal health insurance program for the poor pays about $2 billion a year for emergency treatment for a group of patients who, according to hospitals, mostly comprise illegal immigrants.

After the BBB was passed, Washington State Governor Bob Ferguson said that Washington tax payers would pick up the $5 billion in funding for Planned Parenthood that the federal government will no longer cover. Thus could be more than $10 million per year just for Planned Parenthood– to pay for giving our kids toxic Trans Drugs that are not even approved by the FDA. This commitment to continue Planned Parenthood funding is despite the fact that Washington state is facing a budget deficit of billions of dollars and despite the fact that the Washington legislature has already voted to impose record tax increases here in Washington state during the coming year.

Thus, the only way to stop Planned Parenthood from continuing to receive millions of dollars in fraudulent payments for giving kids toxic Trans Drugs is for the Federal Trade Commission to order Planned Parenthood to stop deceiving children and their families and to require that they instead tell parents and children the truth about the dangers of toxic Trans Drugs.

Status of Litigation on the Big Beautiful Bill Clauses Defunding Planned Parenthood

On July 7, 2025, in response to the passage of the Big Beautiful Bill, Planned Parenthood filed a motion in the Massachusetts federal court claiming that the portion of the bill defunding Planned Parenthood was done in an illegal manner. The case is called Planned Parenthood v Kennedy. Here is a link to the case filings.

On July 28, 2025, the federal judge, who was appointed by Obama ruled in favor of Planned Parenthood. On August 5, 2025, the US DOJ filed an appeal and a 24 page motion to stay the injunction pending appeal. Here are quotes from their motion:

“This Court’s preliminary injunctions bar the government from enforcing an Act of Congress that established a new limit on Medicaid spending. All three democratically elected parts of the federal government concluded that the Medicaid program should no longer subsidize certain large abortion providers. The Court recognized that under Article I of the Constitution, Congress holds broad discretion to control federal spending. Yet it entered injunctions compelling the government to distribute taxpayer dollars to entities that are not statutorily entitled to receive them based on a federal policy against subsidizing abortion.”

“Rarely if ever has an Act of Congress been enjoined on such flimsy grounds. This Court deemed the Medicaid funding restriction at issue here a bill of attainder. But the Supreme Court has only applied the Bill of Attainder Clause five times in its history—on each occasion in cases involving extraordinary laws punishing groups such as Confederates and Communist Party members. Halting federal subsidies bears no resemblance to the severe punishments—including death, banishment, and imprisonment—previously understood as implicating the Clause.”

“The Supreme Court has recognized a strong presumption that “Acts of Congress … should remain in effect pending a final decision on the merits” by the Supreme Court. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. FCC, 507 U.S. 1301, 1302 (1993) (Rehnquist, C.J., in chambers) (quotation marks omitted). Indeed, in “virtually all” cases where a lower court has held a federal statute unconstitutional, the Supreme Court has “granted a stay if requested to do so by the Government.”. That is particularly appropriate here, where the injunctions displace the democratically elected branches judgment that abortion providers should not benefit from taxpayer dollars, thus intruding both on Congress’s Article I authority over federal spending and on the Executive’s Article II authority to enforce the law.”

On August 29, 2025, the Obama judge issued a 23 page order on the motion to stay pending appeal. The judge denied the stay of her earlier ruling which now leaves the matter up to the First Circuit Court of Appeals. If they fail to stay the lower court order, the DOJ has stated that they will take the matter directly to the US Supreme Court.

The American Center for Law and Justice has filed a 23 page Amicus brief in this case. Here are quotes from their brief:

“Ordering Congress to spend money it has declined to appropriate would violate the separation of powers. The Appropriations Clause reserves the power of the purse exclusively to Congress. Courts cannot compel Congress to spend money any more than Congress can compel courts to decide cases. The relief Plaintiffs seek—an injunction forcing Congress to fund their operations—would transform federal judges into super-legislators empowered to redirect public resources according to judicial rather than legislative priorities.”

“Planned Parenthood seeks to claim a constitutional right to be subsidized by the taxpayer. There is no such right. On the contrary, there is a fundamental distinction between governmental interference with conduct and governmental decisions about what activities merit public funding. Congress has ample authority to choose not to subsidize activities like abortion and to promote life instead. This lawsuit against Congress’s appropriations decisions should fail for this fundamental reason.”

“Just a few weeks ago, the Supreme Court upheld South Carolina’s decision not to provide Medicaid to Planned Parenthood, concluding that the relevant statute did not create a right to sue. Medina v. Planned Parenthood S. Atl., No. 23-1275, 2025 U.S. LEXIS 2492, at *2 (June 26, 2025)… The Supreme Court affirmed South Carolina’s right to exclude abortion providers from its Medicaid program and held, overruling much of the precedent Planned Parenthood relies upon in its complaint, that Planned Parenthood lacked an enforceable right to sue South Carolina to stay on the state Medicaid program. “

In response to the potential cut to Planned Parenthood, Washington governor Ferguson stated that “Washington state will cover the gap caused by the federal government’s defunding of Planned Parenthood.”

Thus Washington tax payers will be paying even more in subsidizing the false medical claims of Planned Parenthood of Washington.

Here is a link to the case files for this case. Given that the Obama judge has over-ridden an Act of Congress, it is highly likely that the US Supreme Court will over-rule the Obama judge.

UPDATE: On September 11, 2025, the First Circuit Court of Appeals in a unanimous 3 judge decision issued a 2 page order overturning the Obama lower court judge. Here is a quote:

“The July 21, 2025 preliminary injunction and the July 28, 2025 preliminary injunction are hereby stayed pending disposition of the respective appeals. The separate motions by the State of Louisiana and the American Center for Law and Justice for leave to file an amicus brief also are GRANTED and the briefs are accepted for filing as of this date.”

In plain English, this means that the Act of Congress defunding Planned Parenthood is back in effect. But as a practical matter, since the Act of Congress does not go into effect until January 2027, federal funding for Planned Parenthood will continue for at least the next year and three months.

II Planned Parenthood Trans Drug Cult Sex Ed in Public Schools

The primary source of new victims for Planned Parenthood is free sex ed programs offered to teachers and students in Washington Public Schools. For example, in 2021, a teacher at a middle school in Tacoma, Washington, distributed Planned Parenthood fliers to eighth-graders. Middle school students were given a flier detailing their legal rights on sex-based issues, including their ability to get an abortion without informing their parents. The flier distributed by an 8th-grade teacher at Stewart Middle School angered parents who thought the subject matter was inappropriate. The school has since apologized and said the document was put together by Planned Parenthood, not the individual teacher.

The flier detailed at what age students could give consent to have sex with someone younger or older. For example, it says, “It is not a crime if you are … 11 and have sex with somebody 2 years older or less … 12 to 13 and have sex with somebody who is 3 years older or less … 14 or 15 and have sex with somebody who is 4 years older or less.” Additionally, the flier tells students at what age they can obtain abortions, birth control, and STD tests without parental notice or consent.

What Planned Parenthood calls “sex education” refers to programs encouraging children to engage in all manner of sexual exploration and risky sexual behaviors, circumventing and alienating their parents. Ultimately, this “sex education” creates lifelong customers who will come to Planned Parenthood for contraception, STD tests, and abortions.

In addition, Planned Parenthood has numerous online resources to circumvent parents. The section of its website devoted to reaching teens has articles on everything from sex and pornography to sexual orientation and gender identity, complete with videos like “Consent 101: How Do You Know if Someone Wants to Have Sex?” Many of the videos have explicit animations of various sexual acts, including the use of sex toys, or feature live people engaging in what could rightly be called pornography. In a video posted in January 2024 titled, “What is Virginity?”, Planned Parenthood falsely tells young people that virginity “is a completely made-up concept.”

Sex Ed To-Go
Sex Ed To-Go is Planned Parenthood’s online “gender affirming care” lesson, for students as young as middle schoolers, suggests using “liquid filled condoms” to mimic a penis and provides instructions on how to circumvent parental notice safeguards if “you’re looking for hormones without extra gate keeping.”

Sex Ed To-Go includes free sex-education lessons in Spanish and English developed by Planned Parenthood for teachers and students. The module titled “Gender Affirming Care” is designed for students in eighth grade and above. The lesson plan explains inaccurate Trans Cult gender terminology, explores “types of things people can do to help their body and appearance match their gender identity,” directs students on finding “resources,” and details “how to support someone who is transgender, non-binary, or transitioning.”

The course includes four types of Trans Cult “transitioning”:
1) “Social transition,” meaning “changing your pronouns, hairstyle, name,”
2) “legal transition,” by falsifying legal identification documents,
3) “medical transition” by taking toxic trans drugs, and
4) “surgical transition” by “removing breasts or genitals.” Planned Parenthood’s lesson also discusses different types of drugs such as cross-sex hormones administered in the form of injections, pills, patches, or topical gels.

The “social transition” section includes a range of “gender-affirming devices” that modify appearance without medical intervention. The guidance includes a description of “tucking the testicles into the body and pulling the penis back between the legs” with either tape or particular underwear to “create a smooth and flat crotch.”

The lesson tells students that a “binder” and “tape” can constrict breasts for the appearance of a flatter chest, although it warns that breast-binding can “cause injuries, like broken ribs” and advises that such devices should not be worn for more than eight hours or while sleeping. For those who want the appearance of breasts, the module mentions the options to wear “push-up bras” or “stuffing a normal bra with something soft like socks.”

When discussing “medical and surgical transitions,” the module falsely claims that “puberty blockers are medications that pause puberty” with the aim to “give young people time to explore their gender identity before permanent body changes happen,” and Planned Parenthood falsely suggests that puberty will resume after ceasing such medications. But the lesson then hints that these drugs have long-term consequences, saying they “might change someone’s body permanently, like affecting whether they can get or cause a pregnancy when they are older.”

Planned Parenthood Teen Council Sex Clubs
In addition to free but extremely inaccurate sex education, Planned Parenthood of Washington offers Teen Council Sex Clubs that actually pay students to promote Planned Parenthood in their local high schools. Kids in Grades 10 to 12 can earn $400 for being leaders of Planned Parenthood Teen Councils in several school districts in Washington including Seattle, Olympia, Skagit County and Whatcom County.

Teen Council is a year long program. Here is their website’s description of this program: “Applications are typically due in April or May prior to the enrollment year.  No one is expected to already know about sexual health or peer education before joining Teen Council. We are looking for passionate youth who want to educate their peers, create a more inclusive world, and be resources in their communities. “

Here is a “testimonial” from a person named “Rayy”:
“My sex ed has been full of misconceptions and sex ed has often been a way to just prohibit teen sexual activity. This has had adverse impacts on LGBTQ, BIPOC, and fem-identified folks. I know change is needed and that’s why I joined Teen Council. “

Planned Parenthood of Washington also offers a Sex Ed program called the Youth Empowerment Program or YEP for 10th to 12th graders in Spokane, Yakima, Wenatchee and Tri-Cities.

Here is their description of this program:

“The Youth Empowerment Program meets biweekly for two hour regular meetings. In addition to regular meetings, teens are expected to participate in community events and presentations monthly, as well as special opportunities like retreats, Lobby Day, and conferences! This program is free! There are no fees or materials to purchase, and Planned Parenthood sponsors the cost of events.”

For negative comments from parents about this group, visit this Facebook page.

In the Bellingham School District, Fifth Graders were given a sex ed lesson by Planned Parenthood described in this article. A concerned parent, Graham, wanted to discover what her fifth grader would be learning if she allowed him to take the class. “The curriculum isn’t great as written,” she said, “but the room for interpretation is vast and when you throw in an instructor from Planned Parenthood, it becomes downright dangerous.”

Beginning with the first lesson and the puberty video the principal told Graham and parents who received the newsletter fifth graders would be watching, there are many things that would potentially bother parents. The video states that children don’t have to talk to their parents about these things if they are not comfortable, but they can talk to anyone they want.

The Bellingham Schools advisory group was told that Hagstrom was the current coordinator for Whatcom Teen Council, explaining that the “Teen Council presents about abstinence in middle schools and lessons are usually 55 minutes.” That line alone shows the misleading nature of Planned Parenthood’s involvement in Bellingham’s schools, because abstinence is not remotely its focus.

The Planned Parenthood School to Gender Clinic Pipeline
The School to Gender Clinic Pipeline begins by Planned Parenthood electing Trans Drug Cult politicians to the Washington State legislature. These brainwashed politicians then pass laws requiring schools to teach Trans Drug Cult Sex Ed propaganda to kids beginning in Kindergarten. These kids are then subjected to Planned Parenthood Sex Education and Sex clubs and encouraged by their teachers to join the Trans Drug Cult.

The kids then go to Planned Parenthood to get toxic Trans Drugs.

 

 

III Planned Parenthood Sex Ed falsely claims that gender occurs along a continuum

Planned Parenthood’s Trans Drug program falsely claims that gender occurs along a continuum. The truth is that in well over 99.9 percent of all cases, infants are conceived with either XX (female) or XY (male) chromosomes. There are almost no cases of infants being born “intersex.” There are also almost no cases of children whose hormones are not consistent with their sex at birth. In fact, numerous scientific studies have proven that the hormones of boys have almost no overlap with hormones of girls. There is no Continuum.

Evidence that Biological Sex is Binary and not a continuum
The term “sex” refers to biological sex which in turn is based on genetics. In genetics, the definition of sex is based on chromosomes present in every cell of our bodies. A person who has only X chromosomes is a female and a person who has a Y chromosome is a male. Crucially, biological sex is not something “assigned at birth.” Rather biological sex is determined at conception.

Using a clinical definition for “intersex” to mean an infant who is not clearly either a male or a female at birth, the actual rate of intersex infants is about one in 2,000 – or about 0.05%. Some have falsely claimed that Transgenderism is due to a person being “Intersex.” However, a 2021 study of more than 1,000 people, who thought they were Transgender, found that the rate of an XX or XY genetic abnormality was about the same as the normal population. In plain English, less than one percent of people who thought they were Trans had an XX or XY abnormality. Over 99% of these Trans Cult victims had normal XX or XY genes – confirming that Transgenderism is a mental health problem… not a genetic problem. There is no gender “continuum.” It is extremely dishonest to associate “intersex” issues – which are extremely rare physical genetic problems - with “Transgenderism” which is a clearly a mental health problem that has no relationship to intersex problems.

Genetic Differences between Human Males and Females
In terms of differences between human males versus females, a 2017 Genetics study confirmed that there are more than 6,500 significant genetic differences between human males and females.

Nearly all of these 6,500 variations are at the cellular level – meaning they affect every cell in the body including every neuron in a person’s brain. Over 30 different areas of the body are affected by these 6,500 differences.

Varying one or two hormones still leaves a biological male with 6,498 measurable differences compared to a biological female. For example, the mitochondria in male cells have a higher metabolic rate than the mitochondria in female cells. This difference appears within two days of conception. Because mitochondria are the “energy factories” of our cells, this alone can account for male advantages in sports.

Put in plain English, it is not biologically possible to turn a male into a female or vice versa no matter how many drugs a child takes. Children who wish to change from one sex to the other deserve to be told this fundamental biological truth. Parents and teachers who currently think it is possible to change a child’s sex by giving them drugs and chopping off their body parts also need to be told this fundamental biological truth.

Serotonin differences in the brain are only one of these 6500 genetic differences

As just one example, serotonin differences in the brain are regulated by a group of genetic markers that act (are expressed) much differently in males and females. The serotonin levels in male brains is about 52% greater than in female brains. Here is a link to this study.

This is likely one of the reasons why girls are more sensitive to stress and why girls are more likely to suffer from Depression than boys. Here are brain scans of 4 male and 4 female subjects:

Serotonin synthesis capacity values declined at an earlier age in girls than in boys. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10072042/

In another recent study of brain differences using three independent cohorts (N ~ 1,500 young adults aged 20 to 35), the researchers also found huge differences in brain functioning. Here is the link: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2310012121

Here is a quote: “These findings strongly suggest that what’s going on in a woman’s brain at rest is significantly different from what’s going on in a man’s brain at rest. These findings strongly suggest that the determinants of cognitive functions in male brains are profoundly different from the determinants of cognitive functions in female brains.”

Here is a 2022 study of huge sex differences in heart mitochondria. Here is the link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31544-5

Here is the quote: “We observed that expression of genes encoding mitochondrial proteins are higher in males than females in humans.”

In short, there is no science that supports the ridiculous claims that Reykdal frequently makes about a “continuum.” Instead, hundreds of scientific studies confirm that there are only two sexes – male and female – and these two sexes are radically different.

 

 

IV Evidence that Transgenderism is a Mental Health Problem

The core symptoms of gender dysphoria in childhood rarely exist in isolation. Severe psychopathology preceding the onset of GD is common. For example, in a study of 47 adolescents seeking GD treatment, 75% (35/47) had been or were currently undergoing child and adolescent psychiatric treatment for reasons other than gender dysphoria when they sought referral. 64% (30/47) were having or had had treatment for depression, 55% (26/47) for anxiety disorders, 53% (25/47) for suicidal and self-harming behaviors. 68% (32/47) had their first contact with psychiatric services due to other reasons than gender identity issues.

Adverse Child Events precede Gender Confusion
Adverse Childhood Events (ACEs) refer to a range of negative situations a child may face or witness while growing up, such as physical neglect, parental separation or divorce, living in a household in which domestic violence occurs, or living with an alcoholic. These experiences negatively alter the brain at a deep level where most basic needs originate and a person’s identity is formed. Because there is a known and strong relationship between Childhood Mental Health problems such as anxiety, depression and detachment, and a relationship between these problems and GD, there is almost certainly a relationship between adverse child events, including sexual abuse, and the development of gender confusion.

Trauma in childhood is known to impact child development and the occurrence of mental health problems later in life, and research shows that mental illness precedes the onset of transgender ideation in young people. This suggests that gender distress is not the problem—mental illness is. For example, a major 2018 study of mental health in transgender-identifying youth found overwhelming evidence that mental illness is present before the onset of transgender belief.

This study compared over 1,300 trans-believing youth with age-matched peers using clinical data gathered from three large pediatric practices in California and Georgia. Psychological disorders such as anxiety, depression, and attention deficit disorders were several times higher than the peer group, suicidal ideation was up to 54 times higher, and self-harm was up to 144 times higher.

A 2021 Australia study found gender confused children had suffered an average of 5.5 adverse childhood events compared to 1.7 for the control group. Likely as a result of these ACEs, 86% of gender confused children suffered from at-risk attachment patterns compared to 18% for the control group. In addition, 88% of the gender confused group in this study suffered from a serious mental health problem. Thus, most gender confused kids suffered from serious mental health problems PRIOR to their gender confusion. Gender confusion is therefore a symptom of underlying mental health problems – not a condition to be “fixed” with toxic drugs.

As another example, a 2015 Finland study found that 75% of gender confused children suffered from serious mental health problems prior to their gender confusion. 64% suffered from Depression, 55% suffered from Anxiety and 53% suffered from Suicidal thoughts.

According to Dr. André Van Mol—the co-chair of the American College of Pediatricians’ Committee on Adolescent Sexuality —in the overwhelming majority of cases, the desire to switch one’s gender identity is closely connected to adverse experiences in childhood. Given the role of ACEs play in the development of gender dysphoria. it is adding insult to injury to advocate that the first and only step in treating trauma done to a child’s identity is to alter their body with cross-sex hormones and surgery. By not addressing the underlying causes of the problem, gender altering treatments are not merely ineffective, they are child abuse.

 

V Planned Parenthood claims that Trans Drugs are safe and effective are false

Nearly every claim made by the Transgender Drug Cult is based on “fake science” which uses unsupported statements by so-called “experts” and undefined terms such as “gender identity” and badly designed experiments such as self-report surveys known to suffer from confirmational bias and “rigged” experiments used by drug companies in order to sell drugs and make billions of dollars in profits.

Fake science can be recognized by a combination of the following seven characteristics:
#1 The underlying motive is greed.
#2 Data is manipulated also known as Cherry Picking the Data.
#3 The time order of events is ignored
#4 No attempt is made to isolate variables.
#5 No attempt is made to determine long term outcomes.
#6 Claims are made about studies that are not supported by the actual data in the study.
#7 Debate is eliminated by asserting that the experts all agree and that the “science is settled.”

Adverse Effects of Puberty Blockers
The most common puberty blocker is called Lupron. It was approved by the FDA in 1993 based on a 2 year study of 22 children, several rats and several rabbits. Some rats developed cancerous tumors. In rabbits, it caused birth defects and abortions. In humans, it can cause convulsions in kids taking SSRIs. It can also cause weight gain, obesity and mood swings.

The FDA has not approved the use of puberty blockers on children who have normal hormone levels in order to cause these children to have abnormal hormone levels. In July 2022, the Food and Drug Administration issued a warning about the risk of puberty blockers after six minors (ages 5-12) experienced severe symptoms of tumor-like masses in the brain. Here is a link to the 32 page FDA warning about this toxic drug.

The adverse effects of puberty blockers are serious and permanent. A 2010 drugmaker-sponsored study looked of children who took Lupron from 1991 to 2009. The study reported that several of the 55 kids suffered serious side effects. 15 (27%) suffered mood swings and headaches. One person suffered a heart attack and died after two years of taking Lupron.

More than 20,000 adverse-event reports have been filed with the FDA in the last decade. Women have reported to the FDA hundreds of cases of insomnia, depression, joint pain, and more than 100 cases of blurred vision. Among men who take Lupron, its label warns of increased risk of heart attacks, strokes and sudden death. 

In 1999, the FDA examined 6,000 adverse-event reports about Lupron filed by doctors, patients, and researchers. A court document that summarized the findings said it found “high prevalence rates for serious side effects” including depression, joint pain, and weakness, and noted similar effects in men and women with very different ailments suggested the drug was causing the problems rather than underlying medical conditions.

Lupron was back in the courtroom in 2008, when patient Karin Klein sued the drugmaker. Klein alleged that she was not adequately warned of the drug’s effects and after taking the drug as a teen for a uterine condition, developed degenerative disc disease, jaw-joint dysfunction, and bone thinning, court records show. According to a court record in her case, a report by Dr. John Gueriguian, a former FDA medical officer serving as an expert witness for Klein, said the drug causes “irreversible side effects and permanent severely disabling health problems.”

In a court document, one gynecologist said a salesperson told him he “could earn $100,000 annually” by treating women with Lupron. The settlement resulted in a corporate guilty plea for conspiracy to violate prescribing laws and one of the largest fines at the time, $875 million. 

In 2017, the Center for Investigative Reporting revealed that the FDA had received more than 10,000 adverse event reports from women who were given Lupron off-label as children to help them grow taller. They reported thinning and brittle bones, teeth that shed enamel and cracked, degenerative spinal disks, painful joints, radical mood swings, seizures, migraines and suicidal thoughts. Some developed fibromyalgia. There were reports of fertility problems and cognitive issues. Given that Lupron chemically castrates its recipients, diminishing gonadal hormone production entirely, we might expect more research and more caution in prescribing this drug.

Puberty Blocker Adverse Effect on Mood, Memory and Mental Health
The brain is a major target of and source for steroid hormones.  The prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, and amygdala, responsible for regulating behavior, memory, and emotion, have high densities of estrogen receptors. Depleting estradiol thus can have a significant impact on these functions. More than 50% of women reported severe psychological disturbances ranging from depression and anxiety. 15% reported severe to life-threatening suicidality. 33% reported moderate to severe memory loss.

When children are given drugs to alter their appearance, the use of gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists followed by cross-sex hormones results in the sterility of minors. In addition, GnRH agonists arrest bone growth, decrease bone accretion and prevent the sex-steroid dependent organization and maturation of the adolescent brain.

Dangers of giving children Cross Sex Hormones
The second batch of toxic drugs given to kids by Planned Parenthood are very high does of cross sex hormones.These toxic drugs are given to kids with no warnings to them or their parents about the adverse effects.

While in the Dutch protocol, cross-sex hormones are started at 16 years, cross sex hormones in the US often start at age 12. These cross-sex hormones will permanently sterilize these children. Cross sex hormones begun in adolescence are likely to be administered for four to six decades. A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine tracked 315 youths undergoing 2 years of gender affirming hormones (Chen 2023). Among the 315 hormone treated youth there were 2 completed suicides. Curiously, this remarkably high suicide rate is not explored in the article. Several researchers have reported that cross-sex hormones increase the occurrence of various types of cardiovascular disease, including strokes, blood clots, and other acute cardiovascular events. For example, see Getahun, D., et al. (2018). Cross-sex Hormones and Acute Cardiovascular Events in Transgender Persons.

Trans drugs such as puberty blockers and cross sex hormones are so toxic that they cause permanent sterility. A 9 year study from the world’s largest Transgender clinic in the United Kingdom found that 98% of children who were administered puberty blockers went on to take cross-sex hormones and 100% of those taking cross sex hormones became sterile.

Cross-sex hormones are also associated with a fourfold increase in heart attacks in biological females, and a threefold increase in the venous thromboembolism in biological males (Alzahrani, 2019; Nota et al., 2019) The published evidence of adverse impacts make it irresponsible to assert that cross-sex hormones “are safe.”

Danger of giving male hormones to bio females
Girls normally have almost no testosterone. So-called Gender Affirming Care (GAT) requires giving girls who want to be boys huge doses of testosterone to ultimately raise their levels of testosterone to 320 to 1000 ng/dL11 which is the same level as dangerous tumors for women.

A 2022 study of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) as part of gender affirming hormone therapies in France states that “our data show a previously unreported proportion of cases indicating cardiovascular ADRs in transgender men younger than 40 years… In transgender men (bio females) taking testosterone, all reported ADRs were cardiovascular events, with pulmonary embolism in 50% of cases” (Yelehe et al., 2022).

With respect to cardiovascular risk, studies of transgender males (bio females) taking testosterone have shown a nearly 5-fold increased risk of heart attacks relative to females not receiving testosterone”

Regarding Testosterone abuse, the FDA warning label reads: "Testosterone has been subject to abuse... steroid abuse can lead to serious cardiovascular and psychiatric adverse reactions...Abuse of testosterone is seen in male and female adults and adolescents… There have been reports of venous thromboembolic events [blood clots], including deep vein thrombosis (DVT) [blood clot of the extremity such as pulmonary embolism (PE) [blood clot of the lung which may be deadly.” “There are also serious concerns regarding liver dysfunction: “Prolonged use of high doses of androgens ... has been associated with development of tumors, cancer and life-threatening liver problems” (Actavis Pharma, 2018).

Research has shown that steroid abuse predisposes individuals to mood disorders, psychosis, and psychiatric disorders. The most prominent psychiatric features associated with testosterone abuse are manic-like presentations defined by irritability, aggressiveness, euphoria, grandiose beliefs, hyperactivity, and reckless or dangerous behavior. Other psychiatric presentations include the development of acute psychoses, depression and acute confusional/delirious states. (Hall, 20005) "Psychiatric Complications of Anabolic Steroid Abuse". Psychosomatics 46:4, July-August 2005

Danger of giving female hormones to bio males
Estradiol is a type of estrogen. The normal adult male estradiol range is 60 pg/mL. In gender affirmative therapy, the medical condition of hyperestrogenemia is being deliberately, medically induced by the off-label use of high doses of Estradiol. Estradiol levels are raised to 200 pg/mL, three times above the normal range in an attempt to increase male breast tissue development. Long-term consequences of hyperestrogenemia include increased risk of heart attacks and death due to a five-fold increase in cardiovascular disease (Irwig, 2018)."Cardiovascular health in transgender people." Rev Endocr Metab Disord. 2018;19(3):243–251

Giving bio males female hormones also greatly increases the risk of breast cancer. Breast cancer is a relatively uncommon in males. However, a 2019 study of more than 3,000 minors given hormone drugs found that the risk of breast cancer rose 46 times (4,600 percent) in minors subjected to high doses of estrogen (Christel et al., 2019).

The studies of the harms of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones are reporting changes in the young people’s bodies that are consistent with heightened risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and potential bone health issues. Here are the recent studies:

Natalie J. Nokoff, et al, Body Composition and Markers of Cardiometabolic Health in Transgender Youth on Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Agonists, Transgender Health 6, no. 2 (April 1, 2021) at 111–19

Natalie Nokoff, et al., Body Composition and Markers of Cardiometabolic Health in Transgender Youth Compared With Cisgender Youth, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 105, no. 3 (March 1, 2020) at e704–14

Oral estrogen administration to boys also places them at risk for experiencing thrombosis/thromboembolism, cardiovascular disease, weight gain, elevated blood pressure, decreased glucose tolerance and gall bladder disease.

 

 

VI The Planned Parenthood claim that giving kids Trans Drugs reduces the suicide rate is also false

In fact, giving kids Trans drugs actually increases their suicide rate. A 30 year follow up study from Sweden in 2011 showed that individuals who were subject to gender transition surgery had very high suicide rates. Below is a table of adverse outcomes compared to normal controls:

Look at the far right column in the above table to see the risk ratio for transgender adults compared to control adults. For example, those who had gender mutilation surgery were 19.1 more times likely to commit suicide. As the following chart shows, adverse outcomes including death occurred throughout the follow up period.

Nor is this study unique. A 9 year UK study found no improvement in the mental health of the victims. Instead, the study confirmed that those taking Trans Drugs reported increased thoughts of suicide. After a year on puberty blockers, there was a significant increase found in those answering the statement "I deliberately try to hurt or kill myself".

The 2024 Ruuska Finland study 2024 of 2,083 trans persons over 23 years states the average age of those when they entered the study was 18.5yrs. This is the only study with a control group of trans young adults who have NOT received transgendered healthcare. There were 16,643 in this control group. The study found that there were 55 deaths in the study group over this 23yr period. Of those deaths, 20 were by completed suicide (36%). So, compared to the control group general mortality was 66% higher and death by suicide was 300% higher. That is trans people who receive transgender health care are significantly worse off compared to trans people who do not receive transgender health care. Thus, receiving transgender healthcare increases the likelihood of experiencing suicidal thoughts and completing suicide.

The 2023 Erlangsen Denmark study of 3,759 trans clients over 41 years found there was 92 post treatment TGW suicide attempts and 12 completed suicides. These rates for suicide attempt and completed suicide were ‘significantly higher’ compared to the expected rates of the general population.

The 2021 de Blok Dutch study of 4,568 trans persons over 46 years found that the TGW client group, post receiving transgendered health care demonstrated significantly higher rates of mortality by heart disease, lung cancer, HIV related death and by completed suicide compared to expected mortality rates in the general Dutch population.

In the US, states that started giving kids Trans Drugs in the past 9 years have seen a dramatic rise in the number of suicides between the ages of 12 to 23 to the point that the rate is now 3 and a half times higher than in states where kids are not given trans drugs. See this study:

Why Trans Drugs and Gender Mutilation Increase the Suicide Rate
The reason Trans Drugs and Gender Mutilation increase the suicide rate is that the entire Trans Drug Cult is based on a fundamental lie – namely, the false claim that by taking Trans Drugs and chopping off body parts, a child can be magically changed from a girl to a boy or a boy to a girl. It may take the child 10 to 20 years to realize that they have been lied to and that these lies have destroyed their lives. But when they do finally realize that their dream of changing to the other sex is simply not possible, at least some will elect to end their life. The odds of this terrible outcome are increased by failing to give the person the counseling they need to help them address their underlying mental health problems that caused them to want to be the other sex in the first place.

Other Scientific studies on the harm of transgender drugs increasing the risk of suicide
For the past eight years, Planned Parenthood has falsely claimed that if we do not give gender confused kids toxic drugs to “affirm” their desired gender, many of these kids will attempt to kill themselves.This claim is not supported by any credible scientific study. Instead, it is based on mis-quoting a few survey “Self-reports.”

2015 self report survey of 3405 Transgender people
One of their so-called studies is a 2015 self report survey of 3405 Transgender people, 89 of whom were given Transgender “Puberty Suppression” drugs. Here is the actual table of outcomes in the study:

The last row shows that 41.6% of the Trans people given drugs had Lifetime Suicide attempts and 51.2% of the Trans people not given drugs had Lifetime Suicide attempts. But much more important, 45.5% of those given gender mutilation drugs attempted to commit suicide in the previous 12 months with the attempt putting them in the hospital. Meanwhile, only 22.8% of those not given gender mutilation drugs had a suicide attempt that put them in the hospital.

The actual studies emerging from the NIH-funded research reveal a concerning picture with an alarming finding of young people committing suicide during treatment at the rate that is at least forty times the expected rates (2/315). Here is the recent study: D. Chen, et al (2023) at 240–250, 288.

According to suicide.org, 90 percent of all people who die by their own hand, including those who identify as transgender, have untreated mental illness.” https://thefederalist.com/2018/04/25/californias-lgbt-therapy-ban-law-30-years-ago-might-killed/

Research confirms that gender counseling reduces suicides by about 42% while giving gender confused children toxic drugs increases suicides:

The 2022 Reanalysis is called “Do Sexual Orientation Change Efforts SOCE increase the suicide risk for sexual minorities?”

Paul Sullins, a senior research associate at The Ruth Institute, and former sociology professor at Catholic University, found that SOCE actually sharply decreased the risk of suicide or thoughts of suicide.

"What we're left with is a situation where we're being fed a lie that somehow attempting to change sexual orientation is going to fail all the time and it's going to cause harm, and the truth is just the opposite," Sullins told "The Daily Signal Podcast."

Why accounting for the Time Order of Events Matters
Failing to account for the time order of events will often lead to a conclusion that is the exact opposite of the actual effect of any intervention. For example, it is well known that taking small daily amounts of aspirin can reduce the risk of a heart attack. Therefore, those who have already had a heart attack often take a small amount of aspirin every day to reduce their chances of having a future heart attack.

But imagine that a careless researcher studied these heart attack prone people. The careless researcher would certainly find a relationship between taking aspirin and “lifetime occurrences of heart attacks.” Now imagine that based on this relationship, the careless researcher ignored the time ordering of events. This would cause this researcher to falsely claim that taking aspirin caused the heart attacks and therefore that taking aspirin should be banned! This turns out to be the flawed logic behind nearly every study claiming that SOCE causes suicides and should be banned.

In 2022, C. H. Rosik published a review called “A wake-up call for the field of sexual orientation change efforts research”. Here is a link to his review: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-022-02481-7

In his review, Rosik provides the following Table of 20 Anti -SOCE studies – every one of which failed to account for the time order of events by including suicide attempts that occurred before any SOCE was provided.

n short, Anti-SOCE research is based on a House of Cards that fell over thanks to the re-analysis provided by Sullins. We will next review two recent studies both of which confirmed the benefit of gender counseling.

2021 Efficacy and risk of sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE)
This next study, called “Efficacy and risk of sexual orientation change efforts: a retrospective analysis of 125 exposed men” takes a much closer look at the actual effects of SOCE compared to the 2015 Self Report Surveys. Here is a link to this study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8080940/

This study surveyed 125 men who had completed or were in the process of SOCE. At the time of the survey, 42% were still pursuing SOCE and 58% had concluded SOCE. Median time post-SOCE was about 3 years. Participants reported seeking various kinds of help for their conflicted sexuality. The most frequently were religious support groups (81%), pastoral counselors (70%), marriage or family counselors (61.3%), psychologists (57%), non-religious support groups (52%), psychiatrists (26%) and social workers (21.8%).

For all three components of sexual orientation—attraction, identification and behavior—average same-sex orientation in the sample significantly declined following SOCE intervention.

Prior to SOCE participation, the large majority of married men (71%) engaged in homosexual sex. After SOCE, that proportion plummeted to only 14%, and was only about half as prevalent among the married men as among unmarried men. From the standpoint of the men in the sample, one of the most important indications of perceived SOCE efficacy may be its association with drastically reduced unwanted same-sex activity which conflicts with the religious norms of their marriages. Exposure to SOCE was associated with significant declines in same-sex attraction and sexual activity (2.4 to 1.5 on a 4-point scale of frequency). From 45% to 69% of SOCE participants achieved at least partial remission of unwanted same-sex sexuality; full remission was achieved by 14% for sexual attraction and identification, and 26% for sexual behavior.

SOCE related to six psychosocial areas: self-esteem, social functioning, depression, self-harm, suicidality, and alcohol or substance abuse. For all six areas, the positive changes were stronger and more widely distributed than the negative changes. The positive changes affected 94% (for self-esteem) of participants. The experience of marked or extreme positive changes ranged from 12% to 61%, while equally strong negative changes only ranged from 1% to 5%. For all six areas the net change, which is the summative index of both positive and negative changes, was a positive number greater than zero. This indicates that, considering both positive and negative changes, the net effect of SOCE for each area was positive. The strongest net positive effect was for depression. Almost three-fourths (73.2%) of respondents reported positive changes in depression due to SOCE. Only 2.4% (3) of (125) participants experienced marked or extreme negative changes in suicidal thoughts or attempts as a result of SOCE, while nine times that number (28) (21.8%) experienced similarly strong positive changes in suicidality.

2017 Stephen H. Black, The Complete First Stone Ministries Effectiveness Survey Report

The second pro-SOCE study is from First Stone Ministries - a Christian ministry based in Oklahoma City that focuses on “overcoming all forms of sexual brokenness including homosexuality, sexual abuse and addiction to pornography.” They took a survey of clients who had participated in their ministry’s programs over a 25-year period (1990-2015). In the end, 185 former clients completed the First Stone survey.

This survey provides detailed information on the experiences of many people who have undergone Christian-based counseling. Of those who came to the ministry with same-sex attractions (67 percent of all clients), 23 percent reported an elimination of all same-sex attractions. Questions focused more on behaviors showed dramatic results— 78 percent said that the ministry had helped them “in overcoming [some] form of sexual sin and/or brokenness.” And of those who reported that they had a “sexual addiction” before coming to First Stone (61 percent of the total), an amazing 93 percent no longer considered themselves “addicted” at the time of the survey. As for harm, of 98 respondents who wrote concluding comments, 85 were positive, only 7 were negative, and 6 were mixed.

A certain percentage of the LGBT-identifying population will have negative experiences whether they have undergone SOCE or not. To scientifically prove that SOCE is generally “harmful,” one would have to prove that all of the following are true:

• The number of clients who report harm from SOCE exceeds those who report benefits;
• Negative mental and physical health indicators among those who have undergone SOCE exceed those among persons who have undergone alternative “gay-affirming” therapy;
• Negative mental and physical health indicators among those who have undergone SOCE exceed those among persons with same-sex attractions who have had no therapy at all.

There simply is no scientific evidence to prove each of these points. If critics of SOCE claim there is “no evidence” that it can ever be effective in changing any client’s sexual orientation, they are simply wrong.

Studies on the benefits of counseling to reduce suicidal thoughts
While giving kids toxic drugs increases the suicide rate, giving them counseling reduces the suicide rate. A 2019 review of 40 studies on counseling found that 37 (92%) concluded that counseling reduces both suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts.

2021 Study finds Talk Therapy greatly reduces Suicidal Thoughts
The two most common psychological treatments for depression and suicidal thoughts are cognitive therapy (CT) and interpersonal therapy (IPT). Cognitive Therapy relies on changing a persons thoughts in order to improve their feelings. Inter Personal Therapy helps a person deal with their feelings about past negative events. Most child counselors use a combination of both. In 2021, van Bentum et al. Published a study called, “Cognitive therapy and interpersonal psychotherapy reduce suicidal ideation”

Here is their description of their study: “We tested whether CT and IPT outperformed the wait‐list control group by comparing change in Beck Depression Inventory suicide item scores. A total of 182 outpatients, aged 18–65 years, were included and randomly assigned to one of three conditions: CT (n = 76), IPT (n = 75), or a Wait List followed by treatment of choice (n = 31). Each intervention consisted of 20 weekly sessions of 45 min. Treatments were performed by 10 licensed psychologists, psychotherapists, and psychiatrists (five in each condition) with an average 9.1 years of experience.”

The result was that the Wait List subjects had almost no change while the IPT group had a 60% reduction in Suicidal thoughts and the CT group had an 80% reduction.

This combination of studies showing that drugs do not work while counseling does work led Sweden to move away from recommending gender mutilation drugs and towards counseling as the best option for minors. Sweden concluded the risks of puberty blockers and sex hormones outweigh any benefits. They stated that “Health care should not provide interventions that we do not know to be safe and beneficial.”

2023 Psychosocial Functioning in Transgender Youth after 2 Years of Gender Hormones
One of the main claims made by those who advocate giving drugs to gender confused kids is that giving them drugs will reduce their suicide rate. The claim has never been supported by any actual scientific evidence. But it has been repeated thousands of times. Recently a study was published which analyzed the mental health of 315 transgender kids from 2020 to 2022 who were given cross sex hormones at the Seattle Childrens Hospital Gender Clinic. One of the adverse side effects was listed as “two fatalities.” Here is a link to their study. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2206297

Remarkably, the clinic had the audacity to issue a press release claiming that giving these kids drugs helped improve their mental health. But here are the facts. One suicide per 315 kids is a rate of 317 suicides per 100,000 kids. Two suicides was a rate of 634 suicides per 100,000 kids. The national rate for kids age 12 to 20 is 14 per 100,000. So a rate of 634 suicides per 100,000 is 45 times the national average suicide rate for this age group. This is even higher than a Sweden 2011 study that found the suicide rate of Transgender subjects giving both drugs and surgery was 19 times higher than the general population.

Equally concerning, this study took in a huge amount of data on the suicidal thoughts of subjects during this two year study and then at the last minute decided not to publish this data. Why? The only possible reason is that this data confirmed what we already know – that giving kids transgender drugs does not reduce their suicide rate.

VII Why Minors are not capable of providing informed consent

The next Big lie is claiming that minors are able to make their own decision about whether to start taking toxic drugs . In fact, minors cannot give informed consent because children have immature brains, they are vulnerable to peer pressure, and they don’t grasp long-term consequences. The prefrontal cortex, which is where complex decisions are made, is not fully developed until about age 20.

Final brain maturation begins during adolescence with the prefrontal cortex (that part of the brain associated with high-level reasoning, executive function, weighing of consequences, planning, organization, emotional regulation, and rational decision-making) being among the last to mature.

This is why young adults are more likely to get speeding tickets and car accidents than older adults – a fact well known by car insurance companies. This is also why adolescents are more affected by the influence of peers, less future oriented, more impulsive, and differ in their assessment of risks and rewards compared with adults.

Here is a link to a report on adolescent brain development: https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/146/Supplement_1/S18/34490/Adolescent-Brain-Development-and-Medical-Decision?autologincheck=redirected

 

 

VIII Increase in student victims of the Trans Drug Cult in Washington State

Thanks to the Planned Parenthood campaign to misinform teachers into pushing the Trans agenda on students, in the past 15 years, there has been an explosion of Gender Confused students. In 2009, only 7% of students claimed to be LBGTX. By 2015, 11% were Gender Confused. The 2017 CDC survey found that 87% of students were straight, 9% trans (including gay, lesbian and bisexual) and 4% were not sure. The 9% trans result was dramatically higher than historical studies which concluded that less than 1% of adults were trans. The 2021 National Survey found that 26% were Gender Confused. Of the Seattle School District high school students who completed the survey, 34% were Gender Confused. In short, nearly one in three Seattle High School students now claim to be LBGTX.

Gallup Polls confirm the rise in LBGTX students is a social trend.
One of the key goals of growing up is to find a group you can fit in with and belong to. A danger of this need to belong is that teenagers are highly susceptible to joining cults. We define a cult as a group that uses magical thinking to create a myth that promotes a radical lifestyle based on a series of lies. Believing that a person can magically change their gender just by changing their pronouns and then taking toxic drugs is an example of a dangerous cult.

As evidence that what is really happening is related to this generational cult formation, Gallup polls found that the rise in the percentage of those who claim to be Trans is related to their age group. Each younger generation is about twice as likely as the generation that preceded it to identify as LBGTX.

More than one in five Gen Z adults, ranging in age from 18 to 26, identify as LBGTX, as do nearly one in 10 Millennials. The percentage drops to less than 2% of baby boomers and 1% of the Silent Generation. We are thus witnessing the formation of a Trans Cult based on lies and propaganda being spread in our schools using the false claim that students need to be able to take drugs in order to reduce the risk of suicide.

How many students are taking Trans Drugs here in Washington state and what is the cost to tax payers? While the brainwashing starts in First grade, most kids do not fall victim until they are exposed to social media influences in middle school and high school. We have about 550,000 Middle and High School kids in our schools. In the 2021 Healthy Youth Survey, 1% claimed to be Trans. In the 2023 Survey, 4% or 22,000 claimed to be Trans. At this rate, by 2025, 7% or 38,000 will be Trans. By 2027, 10% or 55,000 will be Trans. 38,000 students times $20,000 per year equals $760 million dollars per year spent getting tens of thousands of students permanently addicted to toxic drugs. The lifetime cost of Trans Drugs and Surgery is about a half million dollars or one billion per 2000 kids which comes to tens of billions of dollars paid for by tax payers.

 

 

IX Harm to Washington students of 8 years of Planned Parenthood Sex Ed Propaganda

Consequence #1: Record Parental Removal of their kids from Washington Public Schools
Planned Parenthood’s radical Trans sex ed curriculum has resulted in record number of parents removing more than 150,000 students from public schools since 2017. According to data from the Washington Office of Financial Management, the population of children aged 5-19 have risen by an average of 12,000 per year over the past 12 years. This includes births and people moving to Washington state. This number includes 12,000 in 2022 and 11,000 in 2023. When including this growth of 12,000 students per year, more than 91,000 students have left our public school system since 2018.

Year	Actual October Headcount Enrollment per OFM	Change in Enrollment from previous year	Parents pulling their kids out of school - annual	Parents pulling their kids out of school - cumulative
2015	1079434	12000	0	0
2016	1092384	13000	0	0
2017	1103393	11000	0	0
2018	1107127	3724	8000	8000
2019	1115732	8605	3000	11000
2020	1077739	<38,000>	50000	61000
2021	1074262	<3000>	15000	66000
2022	1077339	3000	9000	75000
2023	1073794	<4000>	16000	91000

In addition, another 6 percent of students who were enrolled in October 2022 dropped out of school by the end of the year. This is another 64,000 students lost for a total of 155,000 students. Since Reykdal took office, there has been a 10% increase in private school enrollment and a 37% increase in home school enrollment.

Consequence #2: Dramatic Increase in Student Absenteeism

Chronic Student Absenteeism has doubled since 2017
The number of students still enrolled in the schools but chronically absent from schools has doubled since 2017. Chronic absenteeism is defined as the percentage of students missing at least 10 percent of a school year. In Washington, this means being enrolled in the schools but missing at least 18 days of instruction. Chronic absenteeism is strongly related to failing courses and later dropping out of school. It is also strongly related to mental health problems including anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, drug abuse and crime rates including the probability of being arrested later in life and related to family unemployment later in life.

A very large number of these chronically absent students are almost never at school. In 2017, Washington was already near the worst in the nation with 17% chronic absenteeism - likely due to the fact that Washington state has among the highest class sizes in the nation. From 2017 to 2022, the national average doubled from 14 percent to 28 percent. The average in Washington state rose from 17% in 2017 to 33% in 2022 and 30% in 2023. See: “Chronic Absenteeism: 2017–2023,” American Enterprise Institute, January 2024. https://www.returntolearntracker.net/

Here are the latest Chronic Absentee rates in selected school districts in Washington state:

Even 17% student absenteeism is not acceptable. In fact, it represents a serious threat to the current and future well being of our children.

Consequence #3: Dramatic Decrease in Student Test Scores

Since 2017, Washington students have suffered record learning losses. These learning losses began even before the 2020 school closures.

How to view NAEP test scores for yourself
Here is a link to the NAEP test results page for Washington: https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/profiles/stateprofile/overview/WA?chort=1&sub=MAT&st=MN&year=2022R3&sfj=NP&cti=PgTab_OT&sj=WA

Here is a chart on the 4^th Grade Math test. Historically, Washington 4^th graders averaged 5 points above the national average – which was near the top in the nation. In 2019, Washington 4^th graders fell to the national average or 25^th in the nation. In 2017, about half of our Fourth graders were proficient in math. Currently only 35% are proficient:

The Eighth Grade Math score is also bad. In 2017, Washington Eighth Graders were among the highest in the nation at 7 points above the national average - with 41% proficient. Currently, our Eighth graders are only 3 points above the national average and only 28% are proficient. Clearly our students are going in the wrong direction.

The reason Washington state students have historically performed near the highest in the nation is that Washington is one of the eight wealthiest states in the nation. It is therefore shocking that our student test performance has fallen to the national average.

Nevertheless, let’s look at State Comparisons to see how that has changed since 2017. To get to the state comparison page for Washington, go to the above link and click on the State Comparisons tab.

On Fourth Grade Math, Washington is now 27^th in the nation. In 2015, Washington was 8^th in the nation. On Eighth Grade Math, Washington is now 18^th in the nation. In 2015, Washington was 8^th in the nation. Washington is ranked 8^th in the nation in per capita income. Washington therefore should be about 8^th in the nation in NEAP test scores.

The Biggest Red Flag is NAEP Math Scores
Far more concerning than the record drop in 8^th Grade Reading scores, Washington students suffered a record decline on the 4th and 8th Grade Math tests. The reason this should set off alarm bells is that Washington is one of the ten most affluent states in the nation – and all standardized tests are known to be related to family income – with students from more affluent families performing much better than students from poorer families (also know as the Achievement Gap). Because of this factor, Washington students have always performed in the Top Ten states on the NAEP Math tests. On several occasions, our students have performed in the Top Five states as is shown by this graph:

Since 2017 Washington student test scores on the NAEP Fourth Grade Math test have declined more than in any other state in the nation! Since 2017, Washington students have lost more than a year of math learning!

Record Decline in Students passing the 8^th Grade Math Test
The Washington 8^th Grade Math test is important for several reasons. First, it can be correlated to the National 8^th Grade Math test – making it harder to rig. Second, it is a good predictor of students passing the 10^th grade math test. So it is a look into our future. In 2017, only 46% of students passed the Washington state 8^th Grade Math test. In May 2023, only 32% of students passed the 8^th Grade Math test. For the first time in State History, 68% failed the test. In many school districts, 80 to 90% of the students failed this test:

We now have only a few school districts left that are performing well. Sadly, we now have a huge number of school districts that are doing very poorly. It is stunning how many school districts in Washington state now have fewer than 20% of the students who are able to pass the 8^th grade math test.

Consequence #4: Dramatic Decrease in Student Mental Health
8 years of Planned Parenthood Trans Drug Cult propaganda has caused Washington state to fall to 48^th in the nation in childhood mental health.

Consequence #5: Dramatic Increase in Student Drug Overdoses
Studies published in December, 2021 & December 2023 found that Drug Overdoses among Washington state 14 to 18 year olds are the highest in the nation – and more than twice the national average!

In addition, 20% of high school students now think about committing suicide and hundreds of thousands of students now suffer from Depression and Anxiety.

These are only a few of the many signs of students in distress. It is the entire Trans Drug Cult propaganda that has severely harmed children. Which leads us to our final topic of how to end Planned Parenthood Trans Drug Cult propaganda in Washington state.

 

 

X Trans Cult Victim files complaint against Planned Parenthood

In April 2024, attorneys for Cristina Hineman filed a 35 page complaint against Planned Parenthood. This complaint provides a first-hand account of how Planned Parenthood deceives its victims.

Here are quotes from this complaint:

“Plaintiff Cristina Hineman is an example of the growing number of young people who have been victims of so-called “gender-affirming care,” characterized by the immediate, no-questions-asked “affirmation” of one’s desired gender identity, irrespective of the underlying reasons for such desire and without any mental health assessment. “

“At every step of the way, Cristina was failed by the medical and mental health providers that she and her family sought out for help with her depression, anxiety, social exclusion or rejection disorder, and other mental health conditions.”

“As she entered into her teen years, Cristina began dealing with significant mental health issues. Cristina began to suffer from anxiety and major depressive disorder, social exclusion disorder, self-harm, and passive suicidal ideation. After visiting online websites, Cristina became convinced that her numerous mental health struggles would resolve if she adopted a different gender identity. When she told her mental health providers that she was adopting a transgender identity, they unquestioningly “affirmed” this suddenly onset new identity, without conducting appropriate mental health evaluations or offering Cristina appropriate psychological counseling. They would eventually encourage her to pursue life-altering cross-sex hormones and even a double-mastectomy of her healthy breasts.”

“Cristina’s mental health struggles, however, continued to persist and worsen. But convinced that gender transition was the only thing that could fix her, a mere week after switching her identity from agender to transgender male, she went to Planned Parenthood, where, after a single, roughly thirty-minute visit, she was prescribed life-altering cross-sex hormones.”

“The clinicians at that Planned Parenthood would continue to prescribe her testosterone without question for well over a year, and in fact would increase her dosage at Cristina’s request (rather than their own clinical judgment). Those clinicians, however, were simply following the orders from Planned Parenthood Federation, which mandates the treatment protocols Planned Parenthood affiliates, individual health centers, and their clinicians and practitioners must abide by for any patient seeking “gender-affirming” cross-sex hormones; and those mandated protocols are that a Planned Parenthood clinician must give any patient “gender- affirming” cross-sex hormones upon request, without any mental health evaluation or even review of records.”

“Cristina ultimately sought “top surgery,” or an unnecessary removal of her healthy breasts, all the while cheered on by her supposed mental health providers. Settling on the cheapest option she could find, Cristina had a double mastectomy performed on her. “

“It was almost immediately thereafter that she experienced profound regret and realized that transitioning was not resolving her mental health issues but was in fact worsening them, that surgery and hormones had not made her a man. After this realization, she began to detransition.”

“Cristina is now 20 years old and recognizes that she had been betrayed by the lack of care and concern Defendants showed her in facilitating life-altering medical decisions. The scars across her chest and the irreversible changes to her body from prolonged usage of testosterone are constant reminders that she needed an unbiased medical expert willing to evaluate her properly and provide the care she needed.”

 

 

XI Planned Parenthood caught illegally selling Aborted Fetus Body Parts

In 2015, videos released by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) exposed Planned Parenthood for negotiating the sale of hearts, lungs, and livers from babies it had aborted. Because it is illegal to profit from aborted fetuses, hearings were held in the Senate and House – both of which found that the allegations were true – which then led to calls to defund Planned Parenthood for breaking federal laws.

2015 Texas dumps Planned Parenthood for selling Aborted Fetus Body Parts

Based on the 2015 videos and Congressional hearings confirming that Planned Parenthood broke federal laws (and Texas laws), Texas dumped Plan Parenthood as a Medicaid provider in October 2015 by sending them a termination letter. Planned Parenthood filed a 20 page complaint on November 23, 2015 in the case called Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas v. Traylor Here is a link to their 20 page complaint: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txwd.784032/gov.uscourts.txwd.784032.1.0.pdf

Here is a link to all the court documents in this case: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4560719/planned-parenthood-of-greater-texas-family-planning-and-preventative-health/

On January 4, 2017, Planned Parenthood filed a 3 page motion for a preliminary injunction which is at this link: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txwd.784032.58.5.pdf

On January 12, 2017, Texas filed a 43 page response at this link: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txwd.784032.70.0.pdf

Here is a quote from the Texas response:

“States have the right to terminate a provider’s Medicaid agreement for reasons bearing on that provider’s qualifications, and “qualified” means “to be capable of performing the needed medical services in a professionally competent, safe, legal, and ethical manner.” The termination of Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid provider agreements in Texas is attributable to the mounting evidence that they engage in gross violations of medical and ethical standards. “

“On multiple occasions, Planned Parenthood has engaged in misrepresentation and obfuscation in order to conceal their activities. After they were caught on an undercover video trying to arrange a deal with a tissue procurement company for fetal tissue, Planned Parenthood began repeating the baseless claim that the videos were deceptively edited, fraudulent, and discredited as if it were a fact. It is not—as the evidence in this case shows — and neither are so many of the other baseless claims that Planned Parenthood continues to make regarding their activities related to fetal tissue donation, their corporate structure, and their dependence on Medicaid funds.”

“Planned Parenthood has gone to great lengths to mislead the public about the grisly reality exposed by the video footage… The fact that Planned Parenthood is willing to disregard medical and ethical standards compels the OIG to terminate their Medicaid agreements.”

“The free-choice-of-provider provision in the Medicaid Act states that beneficiaries may obtain medical care from any entity or person who is “qualified to perform the service or services required.”The Medicaid statute itself, however, does not define the term “qualified.” See id. at 492. Thus, defining what it means to be a “qualified” provider has been left up to the states. The Fifth Circuit has interpreted the term “qualified” in the Medicaid act to mean “capable of performing the needed medical services in a professionally competent, safe, legal, and ethical manner.” Id. What “professionally competent, safe, legal, and ethical” means in particular is defined by state law.”

“Planned Parenthood is not qualified as a Medicaid provider under the law due to evidence that they are willing to violate medical and ethical standards.”

On January 17, 2017, Planned Parenthood filed a 22 page amended complaint against Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) claiming that Medicaid rules protected their “Medicaid freedom of choice.” This new complaint implied that the CMP videos were edited. However, Congress found that the CMP videos were not edited. Here is a link to the Planned Parenthood 22 page complaint:

On January 19, 2017 the judge issued a 2 page order temporarily granting the injunction and requesting more information bu January 30, 2017.

On January 31, 2017, Texas submitted an 11 page motion to dismiss.

On February 21, 2017, the judge issued a 42 page ruling granting the Planned Parenthood Motion for a Preliminary Injunction at this link:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txwd.784032.100.0.pdf

The judge ruled that the videos were not adequate evidence for Texas to get rid of Planned Parenthood. On August 7, 2017, Texas appealed this decision to the Fifth Circuit. Here is a link to their 69 page appeal:

Here are quotes from their appeal: page 19

“The Texas Inspector General watched the entire unedited video five times, in addition to reviewing a transcript of the video. The Inspector General also consulted with OIG’s Chief Medical Officer, who also reviewed the unedited video footage and informed the Inspector General that, in his opinion, the video demonstrated that Planned Parenthood violated accepted medical and ethical standards.”

“The Final Notice stated: These practices violate accepted medical standards, as reflected in federal and state law, and are Medicaid program violations that justify termination.”

“The Supreme Court, in O’Bannon v. Town Court Nursing Center, held that a private right of action does not exist to challenge a state agency’s determination that a provider is not “qualified” under the Medicaid Act.”

On November 23, 2020, the Fifth Circuit full panel issued an opinion in favor of Texas and against Planned Parenthood Here is the link to their 105 page November 23, 2020 decision:

https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/17/17-50282-CV1.pdf

Here are quotes from this decision:

“Our decision rests primarily on two independent bases: (1) the Supreme Court’s decision in O’Bannon v. Town Court Nursing Center, 1 and (2) the text and structure of § 1396a(a)(23), which does not unambiguously provide that a Medicaid patient may contest a State’s determination that a particular provider is not “qualified”; whether a provider is “qualified” within the meaning of § 1396a(a)(23) is a matter to be resolved between the State (or the federal government) and the provider. “

“The statute only allows Medicaid patients access to providers who are “qualified.” 42 U.S.C. § 1396a(a)(23)(A). The majority correctly concludes, consistent with O’Bannon, that a provider is qualified if and only if the state has deemed that provider qualified to participate in Medicaid… Medicaid regulations “allow states to set reasonable standards relating to the qualifications” of providers. (42 C.F.R. § 431.51(c)(2)). “

“States can, for example, terminate providers for “excessive charges; fraud, kickbacks, or other prohibited activities; failure to provide information; failure to grant immediate access under specified circumstances; default on loan or scholarship obligations; or false statements or material misrepresentations of fact.”

“The OIG provided the district court with a report from a highly regarded forensic firm concluding that both videos were authentic and not deceptively edited.”

Thus the case ended in favor of Texas and against Planned Parenthood. This led to a new case being filed on February 5, 2021 asking for $2 billion dollars in damages against Planned Parenthood. The case is called: United States ex rel Doe v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc.

A whistle blower filed this 73 page complaint against Planned Parenthood in a Texas federal court which ultimately could lead to nearly $2 billion in fines against Planned Parenthood. The complaint was based on court rulings confirming that Planned Parenthood had been submitting millions of dollars of false or illegal Medicaid claims in Texas and Louisiana as far back as January 2010. Here is a link to this complaint.

This case kicked off a mountain of litigation with Planned Parenthood filing a blizzard of motions attempting to delay the court proceedings. Here is a link to the complete 4 page case file:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/62341481/united-states-of-america-v-planned-parenthood-federation-of-america-inc/

Here is a quote from this complaint:

“This is a civil fraud action… against Planned Parenthood… as a result of Planned Parenthood having presented false or fraudulent claims for payment or approval under the Medicaid program, and having concealed or improperly avoided an obligation to repay money wrongfully obtained under the Medicaid program.”

Planned Parenthood filed a motion to dismiss the complaint. On April 29, 2022, the court issued an order denying the motion to dismiss the complaint. Here is a link to this 35 page court order.

Here are quotes from this order:

“Relator seeks civil penalties and treble damages under the False Claims Act ("FCA"), the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act ("TMFPA"), and the Louisiana Medical Assistance Programs Integrity Law ("LMAPIL") on behalf of the United States, Texas, and Louisiana… On November 1, 2021, Texas notified the Court of its election to intervene in the suit.”

“Relator plausibly pleads the existence of an obligation...Defendants argue the effective date of the terminations from the Medicaid programs did not occur until March 2021 because it was "objectively reasonable for Affiliate Defendants to rely on federal and state-court orders, and the thirty-day extension granted by Texas state authorities, in continuing to submit Medicaid claims." But this argument fails for two reasons. First, it ignores the te1minations sent by Texas and Louisiana would become effective 30 days after Defendants received the termination notices. ("If you do not request an Informal Hearing or an Administrative Appeal, your termination will become effective (30) days ... from the date of your receipt of this letter."); (" If you do not request a hearing as discussed above, the effective date of your enrollment will be the 30th calendar day following your receipt of this Final Notice of Termination."). Second, the argument ignores the effect of the Fifth Circuit's ruling vacating the injunctions. Once vacated, Defendants allegedly knew of their obligation to repay the States. “

"Planned Parenthood was effectively terminated from Texas Medicaid, at the latest, by February 1, 2017… Defendants argue Relator fails to plead facts demonstrating how PPFA allegedly directed and participated in its affiliates' alleged wrongdoings. The Court - however- finds Relator's Complaint plausibly alleges facts about PPFA's control and direction of its affiliates, as well as PPFA ' s involvement in its affiliates' violations of medical and ethical standards.”

“A parent corporation may be held liable for acts of subsidiaries when an "alleged wrong can seemingly be traced to the parent through the conduit of its own personnel and management," and when the parent has interfered with the subsidiaries' operations in a way that surpasses control intrinsic to ownership. “

On October 23, 2023, the Court issued a 47 page opinion on competing motions for summary judgment which can be downloaded from this link.

Here are quotes from this decision:

“Planned Parenthood Federation of America ("PPFA") is a nonprofit corporation with nearly $400 million in annual revenue and $500 million in assets… Planned Parenthood employees stated they could avoid federal and state partial-birth abortion laws by claiming they did not intend to procure intact or mostly intact specimens. “

“The federal termination litigation culminated on November 23, 2020, with an en bane decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit... That decision held that the individual plaintiffs had no right of action to challenge Affiliate Defendants' termination and vacated the injunction. After Affiliate Defendants asked Texas for a six-month "grace period" to remain a participant in the Medicaid program, Texas sent a letter on January 4, 2021, denying that request but allowing 30 days for Affiliate Defendants to transition patients to new providers. The day before that period expired, Affiliate Defendants filed a lawsuit in Travis County District Court in Austin, Texas and obtained a temporary restraining order ("TRO"). On March 10, 2021, Judge Livingston denied the requested relief after finding no authority that a federal injunction stays administrative deadlines.”

“Affiliate Defendants billed Texas Medicaid for services until March 10 or 12 of 2021. They have not paid back the money received during the preliminary injunctions or under the state court's TRO.”

“On February 5, 2021, Relator filed this action against Defendants, alleging that they violated state and federal law by (1) falsely certifying their compliance with Texas and Louisiana Medicaid rules and regulations and by (2) failing to repay the government millions of dollars of Medicaid funds that they knew or should have known they were obligated to repay. To those ends, Relator seeks civil penalties and treble damages under the False Claims Act ("FCA"), the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act ("TMFP A"), and the Louisiana Medical Assistance Programs Integrity Law ("LMAPIL") on behalf of the United States, Texas, and Louisiana. On November 1, 2021, Texas notified the Court of its election to intervene in the suit. “

“Plaintiffs' expert Donald Lochabay, Jr. determined that Affiliate Defendants submitted 45,181 false claims to the Texas Medicaid program and 99,230 false claims to the Louisiana Medicaid program. Plaintiffs allege there were $8,962,161 in false claims submitted to the Texas Medicaid program and $8,059,229 in false claims submitted to the Louisiana Medicaid program. The current minimum penalty for violating the FCA is $12,537 per violation, with a maximum penalty of $25,076 per violation.”

“In Texas, a provider whose Medicaid credentials are terminated is no longer eligible to seek or receive Medicaid reimbursement. Importantly, termination becomes effective 30 days from receipt of the Final Notice if no administrative appeal is requested.”

“a party who relies upon the wrong interpretation of the law should not be rewarded over a party who relies upon the correct interpretation… an overruling decision is not a change of law but a mere correction of an erroneous interpretation."

“Affiliate Defendants' reliance on the vacated injunctions to avoid repayment obligations amounts to "acting in reckless disregard of the truth or falsity of the information."

“Where the defendant has an ongoing business relationship with a repeated false claimant, and the defendant knows of the false claims, yet does not cease doing business with the claimant or disclose the false claims to the United States, the defendant's ostrich-like behavior itself becomes a course of conduct that allowed fraudulent claims to be presented to the federal government… “

“Hence, PPFA can be "directly" liable under Section 3729(a)(l )(G) for "indirectly" causing Affiliate Defendants' submission of false claims without resort to derivative liability. And this could be shown by evidence that PPF A "operated under a policy" that caused Affiliate Defendants to submit false claims. “

On January 11, 2024, the court ordered a stay in the case pending an appeal by Planned Parenthood to the Fifth Circuit. The Fifth Circuit heard oral arguments for the appeal in March 2024.

On February 26, 2025, a three-judge panel for the Fifth Circuit unanimously ruled in favor of Planned Parenthood. On June 26, 2025, the Fifth Circuit grated an en banc hearing to be heard on September 25, 2025 stating:
“ this cause shall be reheard by the court en banc with oral argument on a date hereafter to be fixed. The Clerk will specify a briefing schedule for the filing of supplemental briefs. Pursuant to 5th Circuit Rule 41.3, the panel opinion in this case dated February 26, 2025, is VACATED.”

Regardless of the outcome of the en banc hearing, it is likely that the loser will appeal this case to the US Supreme Court. The case is still ongoing but it appears likely that Planned Parenthood will eventually face a huge fine for continuing to operate in Texas and Louisiana for years after they were de-certified. Here is a link to the Fifth Circuit legal filings:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68159062/doe-v-planned-parenthood/

The latest filing is a 24 page Amicus brief from the USA (Trump Justice Department) filed on September 8, 2025. Here is the link:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.216753/gov.uscourts.ca5.216753.229.1.pdf

Here are quotes from the USA Amicus brief:

“The False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq., is the federal government’s primary tool to combat fraud and recover losses due to fraud in federal programs. The United States is a real party in interest in all FCA cases, including those brought by relators under the FCA’s provisions, and has a significant interest in ensuring that courts properly construe the FCA. The United States accordingly submits this amicus brief in support of plaintiff-appellee to address arguments concerning attorney immunity that Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. has made on appeal.”

“FCA actions may be brought by the Attorney General or by a private party in the name of the United States, known as a relator, under the FCA’s qui tam provisions. Id. § 3730(a), (b)(1).”

“Contrary to the panel’s reasoning, there is no basis for extending the absolute immunity accorded to public prosecutors to private attorneys the Supreme Court squarely rejected that equivalence in Ferri, emphasizing that there is a “marked difference” between counsel’s duty “to serve the undivided interests of his client” and the prosecutor’s duty to “represent the interest of society as a whole.”

“Conduct by persons acting under color of state law which is wrongful under 42 U. S. C. § 1983 or § 1985 (3) cannot be immunized by state law.”

“For these reasons, this Court should conclude that the federal common law immunity afforded to public prosecutors does not extend to the private attorneys of PPFA’s L&L Department. “

Based on the above, it is likely that the Fifth Circuit En Banc Panel will rule in favor of Texas. It is also likely that the US Supreme Court will rule in favor of Texas should the case ever be heard there. Thus, within the next year or two, this case will lead to billions in fines against Planned Parenthood.

In June 2024, in the case of Medina v Planned Parenthood, the US Supreme Court accepted review of the South Carolina decision to exclude Planned Parenthood from its list of Medicaid providers. Here is a link to a page summarizing all of the Amicus briefs submitted in this case. These briefs included a 24 page brief filed by 18 Republican states on February 10, 2025. Here are quotes from this brief related to the video of Planned Parenthood selling aborted fetus body parts:

“In July 2015, an organization released video footage, taken surreptitiously, allegedly showing staff at a Planned Parenthood in Texas sifting through the body parts of aborted children and negotiating the sale of those body parts. This footage sparked a congressional investigation.”

“Louisiana also launched an investigation into Planned Parenthood facilities operating in the state and, one month later, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals decided to terminate its agreements with the abortion providers. As per state law, it gave the organization thirty days to appeal the decision. Planned Parenthood did not appeal through the administrative process. Instead, it sued the State in federal court.”

“Planned Parenthood argued the qualified provider provision gave it, or the private individuals who joined the suit, a right to sue the State under § 1983 to reverse the funding decision.”

“Two months later, the Middle District of Louisiana agreed, granting an injunction prohibiting the State from terminating its Medicaid agreements with Planned Parenthood.”

“Also in 2015, the Texas Office of the Inspector General concluded that the same video footage showed Planned Parenthood violating Texas law, including prohibitions on the sale of human body parts. Based on the unlawful conduct, the State concluded that Planned Parenthood was not a “qualified provider” and was no longer eligible to participate in the State’s Medicaid program. Texas terminated its agreements with Planned Parenthood.”

“Rather than challenge the termination though the State’s administrative process—which it had a right to do—Planned Parenthood joined private individuals and sued the State under § 1983.9 Texas asked for dismissal, arguing the qualified provider provision does not clearly and unambiguously contain a private right of action enforceable under § 1983. “

“Two years later, the Western District of Texas rejected that argument. Relying solely on Gee, it held that the individual plaintiffs did have such a right to sue when a provider was determined to no longer be “qualified.” It then proceeded to find that Texas had violated that right and granted a preliminary injunction in favor of Planned Parenthood. “

“In 2019, the Fifth Circuit granted Texas’s petition for en banc review. One year later, in 2020, the en banc Fifth Circuit overruled Gee.”

“In the end, it took six years of litigation in two States for the Fifth Circuit to finally—correctly— determine that Congress never created a right to sue in the first place. Fortunately, it has now done so, and in that circuit, there will be no right to sue unless Congress expressly says there is. This result holds Congress to its duty to make any terms and conditions clear and unambiguous and prohibits courts from reading into statutes implied rights that Congress did not make explicit. This is the result the Constitution requires.”

In June 2025, the US Supreme Court ruled that states can exclude Planned Parenthood from their Medicaid programs. Their 64 page ruling rejected a Planned Parenthood challenge to South Carolina's exclusion of Planned Parenthood. Here are quotes from this decision:

“Medicaid offers States “a bargain.” Armstrong v. Exceptional Child Center, Inc., 575 U. S. 320, 323 (2015). In return for federal funds, States agree “to spend them in accordance with congressionally imposed conditions.” Should a State fail to comply substantially with those conditions, the Secretary of Health and Human Services can withhold some or all of its federal Medicaid funding. This case poses the question whether, in addition to that remedy, individual Medicaid beneficiaries may sue state officials for failing to comply with one funding condition spelled out in 42 U. S. C. §1396a(a)(23)(A).”

“A State must submit to the Secretary a “plan for medical assistance.” §1396a(a); see also §1396–1. To win the Secretary’s approval, that plan must satisfy more than 80 separate conditions Congress has set out in §1396a(a). This case concerns one of the conditions state plans must meet.”

The spending power allows Congress to offer funds to States that agree to certain conditions. See, e.g., South Dakota v. Dole, 483 U. S. 203, 207–208 (1987). But when a State violates those conditions, “ ‘the typical remedy’ ” is not a private enforcement suit “ ‘but rather action by the Federal Government to terminate funds to the State.’ ”

“§1983 provides a cause of action “only for the deprivation of ‘rights, privileges, or immunities,’ ” not “ ‘benefits’ or ‘interests. To prove that a statute secures an enforceable right, privilege, or immunity, and does not just provide a benefit or protect an interest, a plaintiff must show that the law in question “clearly and unambiguously” uses “rights- creating terms.”

“Consistent with this understanding, early courts described federal grants not as commands but as contracts. Because spending-power legislation is “in the nature of a contract,” a grantee must “voluntarily and knowingly” consent to answer private §1983 enforcement suits before they may proceed. And that consent cannot be fairly inferred if the federal spending-power statute fails to provide “clear and unambiguous” notice that it creates a personally enforceable right.”

 

 

XII Proposed Remedies

Time and again, Planned Parenthood has prioritized its profits over the health and well-being of women and children. It is time to hold them accountable for the many lies they have told parents and children to convince them to join the Trans Drug Cult. Lives are at stake — and so is the truth.

We have provided evidence that Planned Parenthood has severely harmed of children here in Washington state through false medical claims including falsely telling them that all they need to do to change from a boy to a girl is change their names and pronouns and start taking toxic Trans Drugs. Despite the harm of these drugs, Planned Parenthood of Washington continues to claim on their website that these drugs are safe and effective when in fact they are neither.

The harm from these false medical claims is not only to the children and families that are deceived by the Planned Parenthood propaganda campaign. The harm also falls on every tax payer in Washington state who is forced to pay higher taxes in order to subsidize the lies of Planned Parenthood. The harm also falls on every student, parent and teacher who are subjected to Planned Parenthood Trans Drug Cult propaganda in our public schools.

We are now left with the question of how to hold Planned Parenthood accountable for their false medical claims?

The Federal Trade Commission is empowered to (a) prevent unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive practices; (b) seek monetary redress and other relief for conduct injurious to consumers; (c) prescribe rules defining acts or practices that are unfair or deceptive, and establishing requirements designed to prevent such acts or practices.

We ask that Planned Parenthood of Washington be prohibited from continuing to give non-FDA approved Trans drugs to children in our state and that Planned Parenthood be fined for each of the thousands of children they have harmed in the past as a result of their fraudulent and deceptive medical claims. We further ask that Planned Parenthood of Washington be required to post a notice on every one of their web pages describing in detail the harms of giving kids toxic trans drugs.

In addition, we ask that Planned Parenthood of Washington be prohibited from any contact with our public schools for a period of at least ten years.

In addition, we ask that Planned Parenthood of Washington be prohibited from accepting any tax payer funds for at least ten years.

Finally, we ask that Planned Parenthood of Washington be required to set up a Independently operated Planned Parenthood of Washington Trans Victim Compensation fund to compensate any child and any family harmed by their past Trans Cult lies. In particular, this fund should automatically compensate any Detransitioner at least a million dollars per victim for the fact that their life was severely harmed by Planned Parenthood lies. Given that the Washington Planned Parenthood 2024 report admitted to 3,355 Gender Affirming care visits and that this crime against children has been going on for at least the past eight years, this fund should start with enough money to pay for at least one thousand detransitioners – meaning that the initial balance of this Washington State Planned Parenthood Trans Victim Compensation Fund should be at least one billion dollars.

Thank you for helping us hold Planned Parenthood of Washington accountable for their past and current fraudulent medical claims – and for obtaining justice for their current and past victims.

Sincerely,

David Spring M. Ed.

Director, Washington Parents Network

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To: Maureen Riordan, Voting Section Acting Chief
US Department of Justice - Voting Rights Division
950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington DC 20530

RE: Complaint against Washington Governor Bob Ferguson for violating Federal Election Laws

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Dear Ms Riordan,

The Washington Parents Network is a group of several thousand registered active voters in Washington state. We are concerned about our votes being diluted by hundreds of thousands of non-citizens being registered to vote in Washington state in violation of federal election laws. In this complaint, we provide evidence from the federal Election Assistance Commission 2024 report that Washington state likely has the least accurate voter rolls in the nation.

We believe this problem stems in part from the Washington legislature passing House Bill 2595 in 2018 allowing for Automatic Voter Registration (AVR) when a person obtains a Washington Drivers License at the Washington Department of Licensing (DOL).

While this law was intended to automatically register only US citizens, there is abundant evidence that this AVR law has been used to register hundreds of thousands of non-citizens in our state. For example, Section 202 (3) (e) of this Washington law provides: “Verification of citizenship information, via social security administration data match or manually verified by the agency during the client transaction.”

However, a recent study of Washington voters in 29 out of our 39 counties in Washington state concluded that more than 700,000 Washington voters have Washington Drivers Licenses but no Social Security number. More than 25,000 voters did not have either a Drivers License or a Social Security number. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGU5sU9bfxg

Here is a quote from Glen Morgan who reported this study:

“Based on a review of 29 (out of 39) counties and nearly a million registered active voters, it appears that 14% or more of Washington State's voter rolls are not compliant with Federal law. This would be about 709,000+ voters, and it could be far worse. Missing social security numbers means the Secretary of State's claim that they use the Social Security Administration data to "verify" voter data is false and deceptive. Missing BOTH SS numbers AND Driver's License info (25,000+/- voters) means there is zero verification they exist at all. Finally, this doesn't include the massive number of social security numbers that have been handed out like candy at a parade to non-US citizens so they could obtain Apple Health and SNAP benefits on the taxpayer dime. “

Foreign Exchange Students registered to vote when getting a Drivers License
I, David Spring, personally host students from Japan who wish to learn English and take courses at a local College. They entered our state legally with student visas. However, because they want to drive while in our state, they went to the Washington DOL to obtain a Washington Drivers License. Several of these students have been illegally registered to vote by the Washington DOL Automatic Voter Registration program - even though they clearly are not US citizens, they do not speak English very well and they did not sign a statement swearing to be a US citizen as required by federal election laws.

Statistical Analysis also confirms Washington state has a growing problem with non-citizen voters
The Washington Secretary of State posts voter transactions that include not only monthly reports but also annual reports going all the way back to 2007. You can view these tables at this link:

https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/data-research/reports-data-and-statistics/monthly-voter-registration-transactions

I used statistical analysis analysis of this data to estimate that the size of the non-citizen voter problem was between 500,000 to 1 million non-citizen voters that could not be accounted for by the normal population growth here in Washington state. Here is this analysis using the Secretary of State Voter Transactions table displayed at the above link and shown in the table below:

You can see from the highlighted line above that the year 2020 was extremely unusual. Motor Vehicle and Online Transactions that year combined for 1 million transactions. Click on the plus sign to show the monthly transactions and you will see that most of these transactions occurred in September and October of 2020. Compare this total to 2024 when they combined for 900,000 – 100,000 less than 2020 despite a growth in population.

Also look at 2008. When combining the two columns on the right, there was only 245,000 transactions. In 2012, there was a 50% jump to 400,000 transactions (despite a population increase of about 5%). And in 2016, there was an unexpected jump to 760,000 – nearly a 100% increase despite a 5% population gain. Then in 2020, there was a 1 million increase for a 30% jump - despite only a 5% population gain. Here is a graph of Registration Transactions by Month over a period of years:

In short, there were about 300,000 more registration transactions in July through October 2020 compared to prior years. This was despite the fact that there was no change in the rate of population increase from 2008 to 2020. This change is well outside of what can be explained by normal or random statistical variation for such a large sample size.

Here is a graph of total Registration Transactions from 2008 to 2024:

Note that these transactions include more than merely new registrations. Still, this distribution is also well outside of what can be explained by normal or random statistical variation for such a large sample size.

Huge increase in Voter Registrations after passage of the Washington State Automatic Voter Registration law
Here is a table of the increase in registered voters during the past 7 Presidential elections in Washington state:

Year	Registered Voters	Increase over previous Presidential election # (%)
2000	3335714	257506 (8.4%)
2004	3508208	172494 (5.2%)
2008	3630118	121910 (3.5%)
2012	3904959	274841 (7.6%)
2016	4270270	365311 (9.4%)
2020	4892871	622601 (14.6%)
2024	5017620	124749 (2.5%)

Source: https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/data-research/voter-participation-statistics
Here is a graph of changes in the number of Registered voters going back to 2000:

The average change in population between Presidential elections was about 5 percent.

This was also the average rate of voter registration increases. The 2016 increase was at the outside edge of what can be explained by random statistical variation for such a large sample size. The 2020 increase is way outside the range of what could be explained by normal or random statistical variation for such a large sample size

It does not take a statistical expert to see that none of these graphs are statistically possible – and it got much worse peaking with the 2020 election. We do not need to look far for an explanation. Here is the note just below the Table on the Secretary of State website:

“Prior to 2008, Motor Vehicle registrations involved the Department of Licensing providing a form that customers could return if interested in registering to vote. In early 2008, DOL began electronically transmitting customer information to the Secretary of State, requiring no effort on the part of customers that wished to opt in. In July of 2019, Automatic Voter Registration (AVR) was implemented and individuals applying for or renewing an Enhanced Washington Driver’s License or Identification card are automatically registered to vote or have their registration information updated unless they opt out.”

Federal law requires that voters affirmatively swear that they are US citizens in order to register to vote. Automatically registering everyone who applies for a license without this affirmative statement is a violation of federal law.

Other examples of highly unusual Washington Voter Registration data

In Washington, an additional one million total ballots were counted in the 2020 Presidential Election (4 million ballots versus 3 million ballots) – an increase of 33% - despite a population increase of only 5% since 2016. Mail In Ballots increased by 33% as Washington is an All Mail In Ballot state – over six times the rate of population growth. Keep in mind that even the 15% increase in Registered voters was outside the range of values. The maximum that can be explained by normal variation is 10% and the expected increase is 5% of 4 million which is 80,000. So the increase of 1 million implies that 900,000 unexplained ballots were counted in the 2020 Washington state general election.

There is a well known principle in statistics called “Regression to the Mean.” It means that the larger the sample size is, the more likely values will tend towards the average. Washington state has a huge number of voters. Thus, there should be very little variation in the trend lines. The fact that there have been huge variations in the trend lines of voter registrations and name changes in recent years is evidence that something is very wrong with our voter rolls.

2004 to 2020 Washington Presidential Election Ballots
We can compare elections over time to see if there is a change in the trend line of the ballots to population ratio. The average of the previous 4 Presidential elections was 3 million votes plus or minus 100,000 votes. The 2020 election suddenly skyrocketed by a million ballots to an amazing 4 million votes. This dramatic change can not be explained by a population increase because Washington’s population growth rate has not changed much over this period (it has increased by about 100,000 per year):
2004 6.1 million
2008 6.5 million
2010 6.7 million Census confirmed
2012 6.9 million
2016 7.3 million
2020 7.7 million Census confirmed

But a closer look at the data reveals an even more ridiculous set of facts. Here is a summary of voter registration increases and Mail In Ballot increases compared to population increases in Washington state since 2016.

From 2016 to 2020, the Washington State population rose from about 7.3 million to about 7.7 million – an increase of about 400,000 or about 5%. According to the US 2020 Census, 21% of the Washington State population is under 18. Therefore the increase in the voting age population was .79 x 400,000 or 316,000.

During this same time, the number of registered voters rose from 4.27 million to 4.89 million – an increase of about 620,000 or 13%. In short, all 316,000 of the new voting age population who moved to Washington State between 2016 and 2020 registered to vote - PLUS an additional 303,000 people who already lived here registered to vote. In addition, 530,000 of the 620,000 or 85% of this increase occurred in a single year – 2020.

Even more remarkable, during this same time, the number of ballots counted rose from 3,363,440 in the 2016 General Election to 4,116,894 in the 2020 General Election – an increase of 753,454 ballots or 18.3%.

Even more remarkable, during this same time the number of ballots in the Presidential Race rose from 2,964,465 in 2016 to 3,954263 in 2020 – an increase of 989,798 ballots or 33%. Even if every new voting age person was registered to vote, an increase of 316,000 in new registered voters times an 80% turn out rate would lead to 0.8 x 316,000 or 253,000 additional ballots. Yet the actual increase in the 2020 Presidential race was 989,798 additional ballots. Thus, there appears to be 500,000 to 700,000 additional Mail In Ballots in 2020 - even after accounting for the increase in population – which is completely out of the trend line for any election in Washington state for the past 20 years.

This leads to an obvious question: How could the actual increase in the number of Presidential ballots in 2020 be more than six times the increase in state population? Where did the unexplained 500,000 to 700,000 additional ballots counted come from?

Recent Federal Election Reports also confirm highly unusual data for Washington State voter registrations

Every two years, the federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC) publishes reports on voter registrations in all 50 states as well as every county in all 50 states. To view these reports, go to this link and scroll down the page:

https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data/studies-and-reports

The EAC Report PDFs provide data on all 50 states. To see the county data, download the Excel Spreadsheets. We will begin with the 2024 report which can be downloaded directly at this link. At about page 200 of the 2024 EAC report, you will see the following Table 4 Voter List Maintenance — Confirmation Notices:

Washington sent confirmation notices to 23% of active voters – similar to the national average of 19.5% of active voters. However, while the national valid response rate with Address Update (2.9%) and without Address Update (4.4%) totals 7.3%, the valid response rate in Washington is much less than 1%.

This fact confirms that Washington has a huge percent of voters with bad addresses on their voter rolls.

In the last column in the table above, it appears that Washington also has a low percent of invalid responses. However, this is only because Washington has the highest rate of Unreturned confirmation notices in the nation – a fact shown on the following table:

While the national average for unreturned notices is 69.7%, the Washington rate is 98.3% - highest in the nation. This fact is evidence that Washington state has the least accurate voter roll addresses in the nation.

Despite having a huge percent of non-returned confirmation notices, Washington has a very low percent of voters removed from the rolls. The national average is 9.1% and the rate in Washington is only 6.5% - as is shown on the following table:

Table 5 of Voter List Maintenance – Removal Actions:

The above table also confirms that while the national average rate for removals due to the voter moving is 30.8%, the rate in Washington for voter moving removals is only 9.8%.

Washington also has a very high percent of confirmation notices returned where the new voter asked to be removed from the voter rolls. While the national average voter request for removal is only 2.6%, in Washington state it is an amazing 20.2% - second highest in the nation – with only Oregon having a higher rate of 22.1% (Note that Oregon has Automatic Voter Registration like Washington and appears to have problems similar to Washington in terms of registering huge numbers of non-citizens.

In Washington state, in 2024, 73,581 people – all of whom were likely automatically registered to vote while getting a drivers license – but who were almost certainly non-citizens, returned their voter registration confirmation card requesting to be removed from the voter rolls – as is shown on the following table:

The fact that Washington has such a huge rate of voter requests is clear evidence that Washington is registering non-citizens who do not want to be on the voter rolls. But keep in mind, 73,581 is only the ones who returned the confirmation cards. It is likely that there are also huge numbers of non-citizens who did not provide a valid address and therefore never got a confirmation card in the first place and are thus still on the Washington voter rolls..

Also, these problems were not limited to 2024. They are also present in the 2022 EAC report. For example, in the 2022 report, the unreturned confirmation notice rate nationally was 57.4% but in Washington was 98.1% (again highest in the nation). The voter request removals nationally were 4.5% - but 15.5% in Washington and 24.2% in Oregon. https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/2022_EAVS_Report_508c.pdf

Note that while the national average "voter requests to be removed from the voter rolls" went way down in 2024 compared to 2022, in Washington state, there was a huge increase from 15.5% to 20.2%. We need to ask why 73,581 voters who just got put on the voter rolls by the Automatic Voter Registration process would immediately want to be taken off the voter rolls. The only rational answer is that they never wanted to be on the voter rolls in the first place – because they were non-citizens.

Evidence Washington State is also failing to remove voters who have moved out of their prior jurisdiction

Washington removed a total of 363,792 voters from the voter rolls - which was 6.5% of the 5 million voters. But of this total, 73,581 were by voter request – in other words, voters who were likely non-citizens and had been added to the voter rolls against their wishes. This was 20% of the total removed from the voter rolls in Washington - when the national average for voter requests was only 2.6% of those removed from the voter rolls. In plain English, the Washington voter requests should not have exceeded 9,000 and thus were too high by 64,000.

Subtracting 63,000 from 363,792 leaves about 300,000 removed from the Washington voter rolls for reasons other than voter requests. This is 6 percent of the registered voters removed from the voter rolls. The National average is about 9% which would be 450,0000. So about 150,000 were improperly left on the voter rolls.

The next greatest variance from the national average is voters removed for having moved out of the jurisdiction. The national average in 2024 was 31%. 31% of 450,000 is 139,500. This is the expected number of voters who should have been removed from the voter rolls if one assumes that voters in Washington move at about the same rate as the national average voters. Here is a graph of actual voters removed due to moving versus the national average for 2022 and 2024:

Instead of 139,500 Washington voters removed from the rolls after moving, only 35,506 voters were removed from the voter rolls in Washington due to moving in 2024. This is over 100,000 less than expected. Note that the failure to monitor voters who moved was much worse in 2024 than 2022.

Also note that two factors - the failure to remove voters who moved from the voter rolls combined with the huge number of voters who requested to be removed from the voter rolls - accounts for nearly the entire difference between the Washington state distribution and the National average distribution of voters removed from the voter rolls.

Thus, the two primary steps needed to clean up the voter rolls in Washington state are to first stop illegally registering hundreds of thousands of non-citizens and second, to make a greater effort to remove voters who have move from the voter rolls.

 

Which Washington state counties had the least accurate voter rolls?

To see whether these problems are limited to certain counties in Washington state, we need to download the Excel Spreadsheet. To download the 2024 spreadsheet, go to this link:

https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data/studies-and-reports

Then click on 2024 plus sign and download the EAVS excel spreadsheet released on June 30, 2025. To understand the columns, you will also need to download the EAVS Data Codebook. To simplify matters, copy and paste only the Washington 39 counties into a new spreadsheet and then relabel the table columns to plain English using the Data Codebook. Then highlight King County and Pierce County. You will see that while King County had 78,080 DMV new registrations, King County also had a huge number of DMV Duplicate voter registrations - 56,377 to be exact. Pierce County DMV also has a problem with 25,978 Duplicate voter registrations.

King County removed 89,796 voters with only 6001 removed due to having moved. This is ridiculous. The national average is about 30% moved – so King County should have had about 30,000 moved – not just 6000. The actual rate in King County was only one fifth what it should have been.

Pierce County removed 45,851 voters with only 4704 having moved – this is also ridiculous but not as ridiculous as King County. Pierce County should have had about 15,000 moved not 4704. The actual rate in Pierce County was only one third of what it should have been.

King County Voter Request removals were 25,278 (34% of the total Voter Request removals despite King County having only 28.6% of the states 5 million registered voters). Pierce County Voter Request removals were 7,666 (10% of the voter request removals which matched the fact that Pierce County has 10% of the states registered voters). These were both about ten times what they should have been had voter request removals been at the national 2024 rate of 2.6%.

While there are also significant problems with several other counties, the spreadsheet confirms that the biggest inaccuracies are in King County and to a lesser extent in Pierce County. This indicates that the primary source of the inaccurate voter roll problems in Washington state are the King County Department of Licensing and to a lesser extent, the Pierce County Department of Licensing.

US Census Data confirms we have a growing problem with non-citizen voters
One weakness of both the study provided by Glen Morgan and my statistical analysis is that neither study can be connected directly to non-citizens being registered. These unexplained voters could also be due to “ghost” voters or voters who do not actually exist but are inserted into the voter rolls by people interested in using these non-existent voters to artificially rig elections.

To correct for this problem, I published a study of non-citizens living here in Washington state according to the US Census Bureau. Here is a link to this report: https://washingtonfamilyrightscoalition.org/lessons-from-past-failed-initiatives/problems-with-the-washington-voter-id-initiative

Scroll down to Problem #8 to read this study. Here are quotes from this study: “According to the US Census, about 600,000 people living in Washington state are foreign born and not US citizens. Next, we need to estimate the percent of non-citizens registered to vote in our state. This unfortunately is going to be a very high figure since our Department of Licensing is registering voters automatically when they get a drivers license.”

“A detailed study published in 2024 estimated that 10% to 27% of illegal aliens are registered to vote in the US. While others have criticized this study and claimed that the actual number is 1% to 10% of illegal aliens registering to vote, I have reviewed the 2024 study and concluded it was accurately done. Given how bad things are here in Washington, with the Washington Department of Licensing automatically registering non-residents, I estimate that 20% of non-residents are being registered to vote here in Washington. This would put the number of non-resident registered voters in our state at 120,000.”

However, it could be as high as 600,000 to one million, given that there are huge numbers of illegal aliens in our state not in the US Census data.

Understanding the Source or Cause of the problem
Glen Morgan correctly identified the cause of the problem as the Washington State Department of Licensing. Here is his cartoon about what happens there:

Compare Glen’s cartoon to my cartoon about the Washington State Department of Licensing:

Additional evidence of non-citizens registered to vote at the Washington Department of Licensing

Glen Morgan also stated during his YouTube report that he has spoken with foreign exchange students who have automatically been registered to vote in our state. Several comments displayed during his video confirmed that this problem is widespread in Washington state.

Jury rejection letters:

On August 11, a viewer of We the Governed posted the following comment:

“I had jury duty, when they announced that Non Citizens could not server on a jury, 30 people out of 100 had to leave. These pools are filled from the voter rolls.”

Another viewer posted the following comment: “I house foreign college students. My Chinese student has been gone almost 3 years and I just received a Jury duty summons for her in my mailbox. You have to be registered to vote to get Jury duty!”

Another viewer named Rob Wastman posted the following comment:

“We get a ballot every election for a Chinese National student who lived with us for awhile. They registered him when he got his Washington ID. Although this ballot is never used, how many of them are out there? Enough to sway an election?”

There is an annual contest on social media in Washington state to see who can get the most ballots sent to them. The current record is a woman from Bellevue Washington who received 16 ballots addressed to her apartment number with different names on them.

Automatic Voter Registration Law provides no penalty for registering Non-citizens
Section 203 (2) of the 2018 Washington Automatic Voter Registration law states in part: “a person who is ineligible to vote and becomes registered to vote under section 102 or 201 of this act, and subsequently votes or attempts to vote in an election held after the effective date of the person's registration, is not guilty of violating RCW 29A.84.130, and shall be deemed to have performed an authorized act…”

Thus, the Automatic Voter Registration Act clearly violates federal laws by allowing non-citizens to vote without any penalties.

Federal laws violated by Washington State
On June 6, 2025, the US Department of Justice filed a 14 page Amicus brief in the US District Court, District of Oregon, Eugene Division, in a similar case called Judicial Watch v Tobias Read (current Oregon Secretary of State). Because Oregon Automatic Voter Registration problems are similar to the Washington Automatic Voter Registration problems, we will review this Oregon complaint. The case was previously called Judicial Watch, Inc. et al v. Griffin-Valade (previous Oregon Secretary of State). Here is a link to the US Department of Justice June 6 2025 brief: https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1402891/dl?inline

Here are quotes from this brief:

“This case presents important questions regarding enforcement of the National Voter Registration Act, 52 U.S.C. §§ 20501-11 (the “NVRA”). Congress has vested the Attorney General with authority to enforce the NVRA on behalf of the United States. See 52 U.S.C. § 20510(a). Accordingly, the United States has a substantial interest in ensuring proper interpretation of the NVRA. The United States submits this Statement of Interest for the limited purpose of addressing the requirements under the NVRA for states to maintain and make available for public inspection certain records concerning the implementation of programs and activities conducted for the purpose of ensuring the accuracy and currency of official lists of eligible voters, id. § 20507(i). “

“On October 23, 2024, Plaintiffs, Judicial Watch, Inc., the Constitution Party of Oregon, Suni Danforth, and Hannah Shipman (“Plaintiffs”), sued then-Secretary of State of Oregon, Lavonne Griffin-Valade… Tobias Read was sworn in as Oregon’s Secretary of State on January 6, 2025 and, as the current Oregon Secretary of State, takes the place of Secretary Griffin-Valade as a Defendant in this civil action.”

“The complaint alleged that the Oregon Secretary of State and State of Oregon failed to comply with the state’s obligations under the NVRA: i) to “conduct a general program that makes a reasonable effort to remove the names of ineligible voters from the official lists of eligible voters by reason of” the death or a change in residence of registrants, under 52 U.S.C. § 20507(a)(4) (“Section 8(a)(4)”), and ii) to “maintain for at least 2 years” and “make available for public inspection . . . all records concerning the implementation of programs and activities conducted for the purpose of ensuring the accuracy and currency of official lists of eligible voters, . . . [,]” under id. § 20507(i) (“Section 8(i)”).”

“On January 10, 2025, the Plaintiffs filed the First Amended Complaint (“FAC”), ECF No. 12, which is the subject of the pending motion to dismiss. The FAC alleges the same claims under Sections 8(a)(4) and 8(i) of the NVRA as the original complaint, with some additional and revised factual allegations.”

FAC first amended complaint

“Section 8 of the NVRA, 52 U.S.C. § 20507, establishes requirements for the administration of voter registration for elections for federal office in covered states, including Oregon. Section 8(a)(4) requires each state to “conduct a general program that makes a reasonable effort to remove the names of ineligible voters from the official lists of eligible voters by reason of” the death of the registrant or “a change in the residence of the registrant, in accordance with subsections (b), (c), and (d)[.]” 52 U.S.C. § 20507(a)(4)(A)-(B). Subsections (b), (c), and (d) set forth procedures and requirements governing the removal of ineligible voters from official lists of voters as part of a state’s “program or activity to protect the integrity of the electoral process by ensuring the maintenance of an accurate and current voter registration roll for elections for Federal office[,]” id. § 20507(b). “

“Section 8(i) of the NVRA specifically provides that: Each State shall maintain for at least 2 years and shall make available for public inspection and, where available, photocopying at a reasonable cost, all records concerning the implementation of programs and activities conducted for the purpose of ensuring the accuracy and currency of official lists of eligible voters, except to the extent that such records relate to a declination to register to vote or to the identity of a voter registration agency through which any particular voter is registered.” Id. § 20507(i)(1).

“Section 8(i)(2) further specifies: The records maintained pursuant to paragraph (1) shall include lists of the names and addresses of all persons to whom notices described in subsection (d)(2) are sent, and information concerning whether or not each such person has responded to the notice as of the date that inspection of the records is made. Id. § 20507(i)(2).”

“Section 10 requires each state to “designate a State officer or employee as the chief State election official to be responsible for coordination of State responsibilities” under the NVRA. Id. § 20509. States are responsible for Section 8(i)’s requirements for maintaining and making available records.”

“By its plain terms, the NVRA identifies one entity, the state, that is required to carry out obligations for voter registration administration, id. §§ 20507, 20509, and, specifically under Section 8(i), to perform two actions: (1) “maintain” for at least two years records related to activities conducted to ensure the accuracy of eligible voter lists, and (2) “make available” those records to the public, id. § 20507(i)(1). “

“To the extent Oregon state laws or practices delegate the state’s Section 8(i) responsibilities to subdivisions or local authorities, they are inconsistent with Congress’ enactment of specific state obligations under the Elections Clause.”

On August 8, 2025, the federal District Court issued a 23 page ruling which can be read at this link: https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/oregon/ordce/6:2024cv01783/182713/34/0.pdf?ts=1754485064

Here are quotes from this ruling:

“Plaintiffs bring this action alleging that the State of Oregon and its chief elections officer, the Secretary of State, failed to comply with two obligations under Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act (“NVRA”). Pls.’ First Am. Compl., ECF No. 12 (“FAC”).2 Specifically, in Count I they claim that Oregon failed to conduct a general program to remove ineligible voters from voter registration rolls pursuant to § 8(a)(4), 52 U.S.C. § 20507(a)(4). In Count II they claim that Oregon failed to make available all records concerning the implementation of such a program pursuant to § 8(i), 52 U.S.C. § 20507(i).”

“Congress enacted the National Voter Registration Act in 1993, articulating in its opening lines the following purpose:
(1) to establish procedures that will increase the number of eligible citizens who register to vote in elections for Federal office;
(2) to make it possible for Federal, State, and local governments to implement this chapter in a manner that enhances the participation of eligible citizens as voters in elections for Federal office;
(3) to protect the integrity of the electoral process; and
(4) to ensure that accurate and current voter registration rolls are maintained. 52 U.S.C. § 20501(b)(1)–(4).”

“Section 8 of the NVRA establishes the requirements that states must follow in the administration of voter registration for federal elections. Generally, Section 8 prohibits states from removing registered voters from official voter lists unless the registrant requests it, state law compels it, or Section 8(a)(4) necessitates it. § 20507(a)(3). Under Section 8(a)(4), states are to “conduct a general program that makes a reasonable effort to remove . . . from the official lists of eligible voters” the names of voters who have become ineligible by reason of death or change in residence. § 20507(a)(4). “

“Section 8(i) further directs each state’s official to “maintain for at least 2 years” and “make available for public inspection and, where available, photocopying at a reasonable cost, all records concerning the implementation of programs and activities conducted for the purpose of ensuring the accuracy and currency of official lists of eligible voters.” § 20507(i). Those records must “include lists of the names and addresses of all persons to whom [Confirmation Notices] are sent, and information concerning whether or not each such person has responded to the notice.” § 20507(i)(2).’

“In the event a person “is aggrieved by a violation of” the NVRA, the Act provides a private right of action. § 20510(b). To exercise that right, the aggrieved person must first, in most circumstances, provide written notice of the violation to the chief election official of the state involved prior to commencing a lawsuit.”

“In June 2023, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (“EAC”) published is biennial report to Congress as required by law. 52 U.S.C. § 20508(a)(3); States are mandated by federal regulation to provide election data to the EAC for use in this report, which covers state voter registration practices. See 11 C.F.R. § 9428.7(b). Plaintiffs reviewed the EAC Report cataloging data for Oregon for the year 2022 and concluded the following: First, “the largest number of removals under the NVRA are usually made pursuant to Section 8(d)(1)(B), for failing to respond to a Confirmation Notice and failing to vote in two consecutive general federal elections.”

“Second, Oregon’s self-reported data showed “that 19 counties removed zero voter registrations from November 2020 to November 2022 pursuant to Section 8(d)(1)(B). And only “10 other counties removed 11 or fewer voter registrations from November 2020 to November 2022 pursuant to Section 8(d)(1)(B).”

“Plaintiffs contrasted these findings with data from the U.S. Census Bureau which found that 14.5% of Oregon residents moved addresses over a one-year period and approximately 289,132 residents left the state in 2022 and 2023. From this data, Plaintiffs concluded that “there is no possible way Oregon’s counties can be conducting a general program that makes a reasonable effort to cancel the registrations of voters who have become ineligible because of a change of residence while removing so few registrations under Section 8(d)(1)(B).”

“Plaintiffs also “compared the total number of registrants, active and inactive, on Oregon’s voter rolls with the most recent five-year American Community Survey estimates from the Census Bureau of the citizen voting-age populations of Oregon’s counties. It “indicated that 35 of Oregon’s 36 counties had more voter registrations than citizens over the age of 18.”

“Excluding inactive registrations, “the same study showed that 10 of Oregon’s 36 counties had more active registrations than citizens over the age of 18.” These high registration rates, according to Plaintiffs, evidence “a statewide failure to conduct a general program that makes a reasonable effort to cancel the registrations” of ineligible voters.”

“Finally, Plaintiffs calculated Oregon’s percentage rate for inactive registrations and compared it to the national inactive registration rate of 11%. “Oregon’s inactive registration rate is about 20%. . . . Oregon’s median county inactive registration rate is about 18%, and its largest county, Multnomah, has an inactive registration rate of about 27%.” Oregon’s voter rolls also contain high counts of inactive registrations that show no voter activity for up to five consecutive general federal elections. Plaintiffs believe this too indicates a statewide failure to conduct a “program that makes a reasonable effort to cancel the registrations of voters who have become ineligible under the NVRA.”

“On August 4, 2023, Judicial Watch wrote a letter to the Secretary regarding several NVRA-related subjects, including the Oregon’s low number of Section 8(d)(1)(B) removals. The letter also requested the production of seven categories of public records pursuant to Section 8(i) of the NVRA.”

“Plaintiffs seek declaratory and injunctive relief, requesting an order that compels Defendants to develop and implement a program to remove ineligible registrants from voters rolls and that enjoins Defendants from refusing to allow Plaintiffs to inspect and copy records at a reasonable cost. Here, Plaintiffs allege that Defendants’ failure to comply with the NVRA’s voter list maintenance obligations has injured them in the following ways: increased concern that “the integrity of elections” is impaired by “the opportunity for ineligible voters to receive and cast ballots”; undermined “confidence in the integrity of the electoral process”; discouraged “participation in the democratic process”; and “fear that their legitimate votes will be nullified or diluted by unlawful ones.”

“Plaintiffs allege that they are “concerned” that Oregon’s practices have impaired the integrity of Oregon’s elections by “increasing the opportunity for ineligible voters to receive and cast ballots….”

“In King, the court likewise accepted an undermined confidence theory, explaining that “there can be no question that a plaintiff who alleges that his right to vote has been burdened by state action has standing to bring suit to redress that injury.” King, 993 F. Supp. 2d at 924; see also Green v. Bell, 2023 WL 2572210, *4 (W.D.N.C. 2023) (accepting both theories). For the reasons already explained, this Court does not find the reasoning of Griswold or King compelling… this Court is guided by the Ninth Circuit’s decisions. “

“Unlike associational standing, organizational standing arises where an organization has standing to sue on its own behalf for injuries the organization has sustained… the Constitution Party “purchases and relies on Oregon’s voter rolls to identify in-state voters and to contact them and encourage them to assist the candidates it supports.” These voter-contact and election-related activities are core activities of the Constitution Party,” as they are “of any political party.” The Constitution Party’s ability to contact eligible voters is impeded “because Defendants’ failure to conduct list maintenance required by the NVRA causes Oregon’s voter rolls to have many more outdated and ineligible registrations—both on its active and inactive voter lists—than they otherwise would.”

“As a result, the Constitution Party “wastes significant time, effort, and money trying to contact voters... who are listed on the rolls but who no longer live at the registered address or who are deceased…The voter rolls also allow the Constitution Party to keep track of its own members whose registrations have become inactive… If Constitution Party cannot monitor its members, it is plausible that it could lose its status as a minor party and no longer be entitled to limited liability or to nominate candidates.”

“Here, the explicit purpose of the NVRA is to establish procedures that increase the number of eligible, registered citizens; to enhance the participation of eligible citizens in elections; and to protect the integrity of the electoral process and accuracy of voter rolls. § 20510(b)(1). Like the APA, Congress provided in the NVRA a private right of action broadly to any “person who is aggrieved by a violation of this chapter,” limited specifically by the plaintiff’s compliance with the NVRA’s notice requirements. § 20510(b).”

“Plaintiffs failed to provide adequate notice before commencing a lawsuit on the public records claim… the NVRA’s private right of action imposes a mandatory notice requirement. To bring a civil action, the aggrieved party must first “provide written notice of the violation to the chief election official of the State involved.” § 20510(b)(1). Once the notice is received, a party must generally wait 90 days before filing suit in order to allow the official an opportunity to correct the identified violation. § 20510(b)(2)… “

“Plaintiffs alleged that “widespread ongoing noncompliance” and “systemic violations . . . caused by flawed practices and policies insufficient oversight and inadequate enforcement” were occurring and would continue.”

“The issue came down to a central premise on which the Ninth Circuit disagreed: that there was no reason to believe the violations identified in the field investigations were still occurring when plaintiffs sent their letter and filed their complaint. By the Ninth Circuit’s measure, it was “impossible” to read those allegations and conclude that there was no reasonable possibility that at least some of the violations were continuing as of the dates of the notice and complaint. The Ninth Circuit ultimately held that “[a] plaintiff can satisfy the NVRA’s notice provision by plausibly alleging that an ongoing, systematic violation is occurring at the time the notice is sent or, if no notice is sent, when the complaint is filed within 30 days of a federal election… Plaintiffs point solely to their FAC, which fails to allege an “ongoing, systematic” NVRA violation… the present matter is more aptly categorized as a discrete violation than an ongoing one.”

“Notice is sufficient “when it (1) sets forth the reasons that a defendant purportedly failed to comply with the NVRA, and (2) clearly communicates that a person is asserting a violation of the NVRA and intends to commence litigation if the violation is not timely addressed.” Jud. Watch, Inc. v. Pennsylvania, 524 F. Supp. 3d 399, 409 (M.D. Pa. 2021) “

Other States being investigated by the US Department of Justice
Other States recently began to receive letters on the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) and Help America Vote Act (HAVA) from the U.S. Department of Justice. Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the Civil Rights division at DOJ, said at a congressional hearing in July 2025 that the department is aggressively enforcing list maintenance requirements in federal law.

“We are active, we are opening investigations, we are seeking information from states,” said Dhillon, adding that various states have received requests for information about their “list maintenance requirements and failure thereof, [and] their noncompliance with the [NVRA].”

On May 27, 2025, the DOJ sued North Carolina

On May 27, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the new Board of Elections. The North Carolina lawsuit argues that some voter registrations, possibly hundreds of thousands, don’t comply with the Help America Vote Act of 2002. These registrations do not include the last four digits of an identifying number, such as a driver’s license or social security number. The DOJ wants the board to demand that these voters supply the information within 30 days. If they don’t provide the numbers in this time frame, their voter registrations could be canceled. The case is called United States of America v North Carolina State Board of Elections. Here is a link to the DOJ complaint:

https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/1-2025-05-27-Complaint.pdf

Here are quotes from the complaint:

“The Attorney General of the United States hereby files this action on behalf of the United States of America to enforce the requirements of Section 303(a) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (“HAVA”), with respect to the conduct of elections for Federal office in the State of North Carolina. 52 U.S.C. § 21083(a)… Defendants have failed to maintain accurate lists in North Carolina’s computerized statewide voter registration in violation of Section 303(a)(5) of HAVA.”

“Under Section 303(a) of HAVA, a voter registration application for an election for federal office may not be accepted or processed by the State unless it includes a driver’s license number from the applicant, or if the applicant does not have a driver’s license, the last four digits of the applicant’s social security number. If an applicant has not been issued a current and valid driver’s license or social security number, the State must assign a special identifying number for voter registration. See 52 U.S.C. § 21083(a).”

“Section 303(a)’s requirement that States utilize a unique identifying number to voters who indicate they have neither a driver’s license nor a social security number is an integral part of the minimum Federal standards. As the House Report explained, “It is likely that states will find it necessary to create a unique identifier to distinguish registered voters who happen to have the same name and/or birth date. The unique identifier so created will be used to assure that list maintenance functions are attributable to the correct voter; so as to avoid removing registrants who happen to have the same name and birth date as a felon, for example.”

“In violation of HAVA’s mandate and clear Congressional intent, the State of North Carolina used a state voter registration form that did not explicitly require a voter to provide a driver’s license or the last four digits of a social security number.”

“Upon information and belief there currently are a significant number of voters that do not have a driver’s license number, last four digits of a social security number, or any other identifying number, as required by Section 303 of HAVA, listed in North Carolina’s state voter registration file. Those violations will continue absent relief from this Court.”

“Among the requirements of Section 303(a) of HAVA for the statewide voter registration list are the following:

(a) The list shall serve as the single system for storing and managing the official list of registered voters throughout the State, 52 U.S.C. § 21083(a)(1)(A)(i);

(b) The list must contain the name and registration information of, and must assign a unique identifier to, each legally registered voter in the State, 52 U.S.C. §§ 21083(a)(1)(A)(ii)-(iii).”

Proposed Remedy to the Washington State Inaccurate Voter Roll problem

The Washington government agency most directly involved in implementing the "Automatic Voter Registration" state law is the Washington State Department of Licensing. Governor Bob Ferguson appoints, with minimal legislative involvement or oversight, the Director and other senior management of the Department of Licensing. We have provided evidence from several sources that the Washington State Department of Licensing is registering huge numbers of non-citizens – in clear violation of federal election law – and also in violation of existing Washington state election laws.

The NVRA requires states to review their voter registration rolls periodically and to remove the records of individuals who no longer meet eligibility requirements. We have provide evidence from the federal Election Assistance Commission that Washington state likely has the least accurate voter rolls in the entire nation.

The US Department of Justice is required to enforce federal election laws. We therefore ask the US Department of Justice to open an investigation into Washington state “Automatic Voter Registration” practices and take whatever steps are needed to force Bob Ferguson and his Department of Licensing to comply with federal election laws and to take steps needed to clean up the voter rolls – especially in King and Pierce counties.

In addition, we ask the Department of Justice to seek a Consent Decree with the state of Washington to take more meaningful steps to remove voters who have moved from the voter rolls. All states are require to remove voters who have moved to a new address outside the previous jurisdiction. We believe that the 2018 Kentucky Consent Decree can act as a framework for a similar consent decree with Washington state.

In 2018, an election watchdog group called Judicial Watch noticed that Kentucky was failing to remove voters who had moved from their voter rolls. Judicial Watch filed a complaint in federal court to force Kentucky to clean up their voter rolls. The Trump Department of Justice followed with their own complaint against Kentucky on this same issue – to enforce Section 8 of the NVRA. The case was called United States v. Commonwealth of Kentucky (E.D. Ky. 2018)

On July 3, 2018, the court entered an agreement that remedies violations of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) alleged in the US Department of Justice’s complaint-in-intervention, filed on June 21, 2018. That complaint alleged that the Kentucky violated Section 8 of the NVRA. Under the agreement, Kentucky agreed to develop a general program of statewide voter list maintenance that makes a reasonable effort to remove registrants who have become ineligible due to a change in residence, in accord with the procedures and protections provided by the NVRA. Here is a link to this 17 page PDF CONSENT JUDGMENT

https://www.justice.gov/crt/case-document/file/1083361/dl?inline=

Here are quotes from the Kentucky Consent Decree
“Section 8 also requires states to conduct a general voter registration list maintenance program that makes a reasonable effort to remove persons from the voter list who have become ineligible by reason of death or a change in residence outside of the jurisdiction, in accordance with procedures set forth in the NVRA. 52 U.S.C. § 20507(a)(4).”

“Section 8 requires states to... systematically remove the names of ineligible registrants from the official list of eligible voters, not later than 90 days prior to the date of a primary election or general election for federal office. 52 U.S.C. § 20507(c)(2)(A).”

“Kentucky does not comply with the NVRA’s requirement that states conduct a voter registration list maintenance program that makes a reasonable effort to remove ineligible persons from the voter rolls due to a change in residence. 52 U.S.C. § 20507(a)(4)(B).”

“The Kentucky State Board of Elections shall develop and implement a general program of statewide voter list maintenance that makes a reasonable effort to remove from the statewide voter registration list the names of registrants who have become ineligible due to a change in residence in accord with section 8 of the NVRA, 52 U.S.C. § 20507. “

“The Comprehensive Plan shall include a detailed description of all procedures to be followed by the Kentucky State Board of Elections for maintaining an accurate statewide voter registration list, including procedures to identify registrants who have become ineligible due to change in residence. The descriptions shall include a step-by-step account of all actions to be undertaken and the expected time frame and frequency of such action.”

For more information, please contact me via email. Thank you for your assistance in this important matter.

Regards,

David Spring M. Ed.

Director, Washington Parents Network

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It is ironic that the “No King” protesters are overlooking our own King Reykdal here in Washington state. In the past few months, we have published articles (and filed three federal complaints totalling hundreds of pages) against Washington’s King Reykdal for his violating the Title IX civil rights of a half million girls, violating the Title VI civil rights of one million students and the FERPA civil rights of over one million parents. We have also written articles explaining how Reykdal has and still is violating Article 6, Section 2 of the US Constitution. In addition, we have explained that Reykdal has committed Contract Fraud by signing annual Federal Certification Contracts falsely claiming our state was in compliance with Title IX, Title VI and FERPA. Reykdal’s 8 year crime wave could cost Washington taxpayers billions of dollars in lost federal funding.

The US Department of Justice recently announced that they will begin a massive investigation of all of Reykdal’s crimes. This investigation will almost certainly lead to a federal court case – a case in which the US Supreme Court has already ruled TWICE! (see background below). Reykdal is certain to lose. So one would think that Reykdal might want to at least pretend to comply with federal laws. But think again. On June 3, 2025, Darby Kaikkonen, a former high ranking OSPI Director and the current Tumwater School Board President, filed a complaint against King Reykdal in federal court to “redress violations of (her) constitutional rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, as well as state law claims arising under Washington law.”

In addition to violating her First amendment “Free Speech” rights and her Fourteenth amendment “Due Process” rights, Darby is suing for wrongful termination of her $137,000 a year job at OSPI and illegal retaliation by Reykdal who fired Darby in revenge for her vote at a February 2025 Tumwater School Board meeting.

Here is a link to Darby’s 10 page complaint against Reykdal:
https://washingtonparentsnetwork.com/phocadownload/2025%20June%20Tumwater%20Complaint%20against%20Reykdal.pdf

So what exactly did Darby do to incur the Wrath of Reykdal?
On February 27, 2025, Darby had the audacity to vote in favor of a school board resolution to honor the Title IX right of girls to fair sports opportunities. Before we get to the truly despicable actions Reykdal took against Darcy, we will briefly review some important events leading up to his truly insane behavior.

Background of Title IX and Girls Rights to Fair Sports Opportunities
Most young people do not know this but, a long time ago, girls did not have a right to fair sports opportunities. All of the money and all of the scholarships went to boys competing in boys sports. Girls were supposed to stay in the kitchen and make meals. Then, in the 1960’s, there was a Womens Rights Movement. This resulted in a law being passed in 1972 by Congress called Title IX which provided that girls must be given equal opportunities in all academic programs and athletic programs that received federal funds. In order to get federal funds, states had to sign annual Title IX Certification Contracts assuring the federal government that they were giving girls fair academic and athletic opportunities.

Things went fairly well and girls sports expanded without controversy for the next 47 years until about 2015 when a group of crazy people in the Obama Department of Education issued a scam letter claiming that Title IX was actually about defending the rights of boys pretending to be girls to enter girls bathrooms, locker rooms and play on girls sports teams.

For several years, Washington had a law on the books allowing boys who pretended to be girls to play on girls sports teams. But it was widely ignored until December 2016 when the Washington Civil Rights Commission came up with a new interpretation of a previous Washington state non-discrimination law to mean that boys here in Washington could now not only compete in girls sports but also go into girls bathrooms and locker rooms.

In January, 2017, Reykdal took office and immediately warned schools in Washington that, effective immediately, they needed to let boys in girls locker rooms, bathrooms and sports teams. In the next couple of years, Reykdal also changed the school curriculum in Washington state to promote Transgender Clubs in elementary schools. A ton of kids were soon sucked in by the propaganda that all they needed to do to change from being a boy to a girl was to change their names and pronouns.

In March 2024, Biden tried to take this crazy intepretation of Title IX nationwide with the Biden Title IX Final Rule. About 27 states sued and won a series of legal victories in federal courts all around the US. These victories culiminated in a US Supreme Court ruling in August 2024 in the case of Tennessee v Cardona (Cardona was Biden’s Education Czar). The US Supreme Court ruled that the word “sex” in Title IX meant biological sex and protected the rights of girls to their own bathrooms, locker rooms and sports leagues.

On January 9 2025, based on the US Supreme Court August 2024 decision, a federal judge issued a national order to all states and school boards to immediately comply with the plain meaning of Title IX. The judge specifically stated that allowing boys to compete in girls sports would “render Title IX to be meaningless.” Unfortunately, Reykdal refused to comply with this federal court order. Sadly, just a few weeks later, a girl was injured by being forced to play against a boy in a Tumwater High school basketball game. We described this incident in our February 28, 2025 Washington Parents Network Title IX complaint against Chris Reykdal.

Here is a brief summary taken from our Title IX compliant:

Girl injured by Biological Male in Girls Basketball Game
This incident started in 2024, when a 14 year old biological girl basketball player named Frances, attending Tumwater High School, was traumatized by seeing a large biological male who at the time was 17 years old in her Girls Locker Room. This was a male who has never taken any Trans drugs but is nevetheless allowed in the Girls Locker Room simply because that is where he prefers to be. The male was a player on an opposing team’s Girls Basketball team. When Frances told her parents about this incident, her parents assured her they would support her decision should she decide she did not want to play basketball against a biological male. Then, on February 6, 2025, the now 15 year old girl saw this same biological male now 18 years old during warmups for her teams final game of the year.

Frances told her mother she would not play against this boy. The girl’s mother asked her coach if he was aware that the opposing team had a biological male on the team. The coach replied that he was not allowed to comment about this. The coach said the mother needed to talk to the athletic director. The mother then went to the athletic director who was also at the game and asked if he was aware that the person on the other team was a boy. The athletic director replied that he “does not discriminate. We follow WIAA and Washington State law.”

The mother pointed out that just one day earlier, President Trump had signed an executive order protecting girls from having to compete against biological males. The athletic director replied that “We do not have to follow that order. We follow Washington State law.”

The mother then went back to her seat and asked her 13 year old son to video tape the game so she would have a record of what happened. A male school employee threatened her son who then stopped video taping the game. Frances remained on the bench and watched as one of her team mates was injured by the biological male and was carried off the court crying in pain (see pictures below).

This is a picture of a biological girl in a white jersey in a Tumwater High School Junior Varsity game being forced to play against a much larger and much taller biological male in a red jersey who is pretending to be a girl:

The girl in white went around the boy in an attempt to drive the lane and shoot the ball.

She drives past the boy who then basically tackles her like it was a football game. Note that the boy later said it was an accident and perhaps he lost his footing when he knocked the girl down:

The girl fell to the ground and the biological male landed on top of her:

The male was not injured but the girl remained motionless on the ground:

The male got up. But the injured girl remained face down on the ground. The male briefly looked down at the injured girl and then walked away. The official, who was a biological female, failed to call a foul on this play – despite the fact that tackling another player is not allowed in a basketball game. The girl’s teammates helped the injured girl get up with the male calmly walking away - as two officials looked on and did nothing:

None of the three officials called a foul or even called for an injury timeout. Note that the injured girl is clearly limping as she is being carried off the court by one of her teammates

The injured girl is still being helped off the court and her teammates appear to be looking at the official in disguist as he holds the ball for the opposing team.

The above images are a perfect example of why it is not safe to force girls to play against biological males. Here we have an example of a 15 year old girl being forced to play against an 18-year old biological male – a male who has never even taken Trans drugs. His shear size alone is why the girl was injured.

Even though Frances was on the bench, she got very upset at the male player injuring the female player, who was a friend of hers. From Frances’s point of view, the boy had used his large body mass to deliberately knock over her friend. After this incident, Frances looked at the biological male and said “You are a man.” Then after the game, she complained about this incident on her social media page. This is the post Frances made:

Tumwater School Board Resolution
After the February 6, 2025 basketball game, several Tumwater parents got mad at how badly their girls had been abused by being forced to play against a biological male. The parents demanded that the school board pass a resolution in favor of protecting the Title IX right of girls to fair and safe sports opportunities.

On February 27, 2025, just three weeks after the Tumwater High School Girls basketball game, the Tumwater school board, including Darby Kaikkonen, voted 3 to 1 for a Resolution in support of amendments to the rules of the Washington Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) to protect the right of girls to fair and safe sports opportunities. The amendments would have required athletes to compete based on their biological sex, not their gender identity. Here are quotes from the Tumwater School Board Resolution:

Darby explained her vote by saying she was a former competitive swimmer and thought it was important to protect girls sports. She said the issue “pits one historically marginalized group against another” : “I see myself in this issue, and most importantly, I see girls who are currently living it and the complexity of what they’re trying to work through. This is an impossible situation. These girls are faced with the same challenges that we all are, and that they can’t possibly stand up for themselves and share their voice and what they think is right without being accused of bigotry… You want to know why the voice for girls is quiet, and why so few people speak publicly about it?… It is fear.”

Here is a quote from Darby’s federal complaint:

“Kaikkonen maintains that she supported the amendments to ensure fair athletic opportunities for all students and to address concerns regarding equity and safety for female athletes. As a duly elected official, she believes she had an obligation to represent her constituents, and the freedom to do so under the First Amendment.”

On February 28, 2025, the Washington Parents Network filed a 99 page Title IX Civil Rights complaint against Chris Reykdal and Bob Ferguson for violating the Title IX rights of a half million girls here in Washington state over the past 8 years. Here is a link to our Title IX complaint:

https://washingtonparentsnetwork.com/news/washington-parents-network-title-ix-complaint

Reykdal’s office faces a federal probe of its own into its clash with a Clark County school district over the district’s gender inclusion policy. Kaikkonen’s work focused on reporting data for compliance with federal education policy, according to her lawsuit.

On March 4, 2025, Reykdal issued a threatening letter to the Tumwater School Board claiming that the proposed amendment violated state law (but failed to mention that the state law violated an important federal civil rights law called Title IX and was therefore null and void). Below is the threatening letter to the Tumwater School Board:

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On March 6, 2025, less than ten days after the vote and two days after the threatening letter, Darby was placed on administrative leave by OSPI. No reason, policy, conduct, or performance issue was identified as a basis for being being put on leave. She was prohibited from coming onto OSPI' s Old Capital Building grounds, or contacting any OSPI employee. Less than two weeks later, in a March 19 call from the office’s chief of staff, Tennille Jeffries-Simmons, she was fired. Again, no explanation was given.

As a result of her termination, Darby lost an annual salary of $137,000, including valuable health and retirement benefits. She has experienced reputational damage, anxiety, humiliation, and disruption to her family life.

Darby’s term on the Tumwater school board ends this year. She didn’t file to run for re-election. Meanwhile, King Reykdal posted the following inflamatory image on one of his social media pages:

If you agree that it is time to get replace Reykdal and Ferguson with folks more willing to honor the US Constitution, then please come to our next Washington Parents Network online meeting which will be Sunday, June 15^th from 4 to 5 pm where we will review our plan to restoring Family Rights here in Washington state. For the link, send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

We look forward to meeting you.

Regards,

David Spring M. Ed.

Director, Washington Parents Network

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Washington Parents Network files Title VI Complaint against Washington Superintendent Chris Reykdal

FERNDALE, WASHINGTON – Today, April 18, 2025, the Washington Parents Network filed a 64 page Title VI Complaint against Washington Superintendent, Chris Reykdal to end DEI and Critical Race Theory (more accurately known as Racial Shaming) Instruction in Washington state public schools. The complaint was filed with the US Department of Education Office of Civil Rights. Our complaint seeks to enforce an important federal law, called Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was passed 61 years ago, to end discrimination based on race or skin color in programs that receive federal funding. Our complaint details numerous violations of Title VI that have occurred and continue to occur in Washington state public schools on a daily basis.