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Shake-up at Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania Advocates as executive director resigns and staff calls out widespread racism and transphobia
Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania Advocates executive director Emily Callen has stepped down mere days after the group Save Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania Advocates called for her resignation.
Today, Save PPPA rejoiced online over the news that Callen was no longer with the reproductive health care provider and advocacy organization. In a letter released on its website, the group waged a long list of allegations against Callen, including that she has engaged in or enabled transphobic, racist, and anti-abortion rhetoric, and launched a sudden restructuring that would put many of the organization's employees out of work in the midst of a pandemic.
And the issues did not end there. Fair says they experienced a lot of push-back from Callen about changing the language on mailers to be gender inclusive and to stress that Planned Parenthood was a reproductive health organization that did not just serve cis women, but men and LGBTQ people.
PPPA digital organizer Aspen Christian experienced a similar situation when they reached out to Callen about planning a campaign around International Pronouns Day, something the organization had celebrated before with fun promotional materials. They claim Callen waited until the day before the event, and then only sent out a mass email to the staff.
Others recall instances where Callen ignored racist or transphobic remarks or actions. During a conference call, Cortney Bouse, the PPPA regional field director for Western Pa., says Callen failed to call out a hired contractor for referring to undocumented immigrants with the derogatory term “illegals.”
Bouse adds that staffers were also frustrated with Callen and the board's apparent refusal to release statements calling to defund the police in the wake of the Black Lives Matter Movement or to abolish the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), especially after Vox broke a story in September alleging that women detained at an ICE detention facility in Georgia were undergoing forced sterilization.
Then, on Mon., Nov. 23, Callen announced a sudden restructuring of the organization, one that would eliminate some of the already lowest-paid staff, among them PPPA's only full-time Black female employee. Staffers claim that they were given the option to stay or take a severance package, the details of which were never disclosed. They were expected to make the decision before the Thanksgiving holiday.
It was also alleged that PPWP management fostered a culture of blatant racism and discrimination, where supervisors berated Black and Latinx employees and made them perform demeaning tasks.
Ciccone finds Evert's inclusion on the board abhorrent and says it's indicative of how Planned Parenthood feels about creating a welcoming, functional space for staffers.
“I would like folks to know on a large scale the Planned Parenthood board structure is created in a way that drastically concentrates power in the hands of folks who don't care about us,” says Ciccone.
“Our patients are overwhelmingly young folks, people coming from low-income backgrounds, folks of color, and LGBT folks,” says Fair. “And in our staff, anyone who is above a clinic level nurse is more often than not an older white women.”
Fair adds that Planned Parenthood, which has long positioned itself as a women's health care organization, has been slow to change when it comes to representing not only people of color but the LGBTQ community. Fair, whose work covers a 37-county region from State College, Pa. to around Philadelphia, says that they have experienced being misgendered while on the job and that some state Planned Parenthood affiliates have yet to install gender-neutral bathrooms. They claim state Planned Parenthood affiliates have also been slow to adopt trans-inclusive health care.
Christian, who, like Fair and Ciccone, uses they-them pronouns, agrees that, in addition to accusations of racist behavior, Planned Parenthood as a whole has been less than accommodating to LGBTQ patients and staff.
“This is a national problem embedded in a lot of affiliates,” says Christian. “We're one example of a larger problem.”
"It's just time for folks to either get on board or get out," says Fair.
https://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/shake-up-at-planned-parenthood-pennsylvania-advocates-as-executive-director-resigns-and-staff-calls-out-widespread-racism-and-transphobia/Content?oid=18482324