Radar Watchlist: Planned Parenthood Rainbow Room
- Daniel
- Oct 9
- 7 min read
Rainbow Room serves as Planned Parenthood's LGBTQ+ sex education program and youth center for Planned Parenthood Keystone, as well as group therapy and support groups for their members. LGBTQ sex education programs are free and open to anyone ages 14 to 21.
The youth center has direct connections to Planned Parenthood and its Keystone chapter. Rainbow Room was founded by Marlene Pray in 2002 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, just north of Philadelphia. They opened a second location in Langhorne in April 2023. Marlene Pray has been involved with Planned Parenthood for over two decades. She first became involved back in 1999 as their Director of Education and Training for the Planned Parenthood Association of Bucks County.
Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest provider of sex education for youth ages 10–14 and 14–21. Most of these groups are structured for youths aged between 14–21, though they do have some groups that are set up for ages as young as 10! This group of younger children (aged between 10–14) is called "Roy G. Biv," advertised as providing "medically accurate, social and racial justice inclusive sexuality education." They claim such a program is necessary, as "there is no set age for recognizing one’s sexual orientation or gender identity." Meetings of this younger group require parents’ permission to attend, though they make ZERO mention of parental supervision.
Their "Get Out the Vote Night!" in 2024 featured a drag performance by Phoebe Manntrappe, a drag queen who made headlines for performing "scantily clad and pantless" at a New Jersey high school for a secret event, during school hours. Roy G. Biv also puts on events geared towards younger members.
They held a "Binder Drive" in December 2022 to raise money for local LGBTQ+ youth and provide them with "gender-affirming" clothing. Even worse, they encouraged trans activists to donate their used breast binders to a "trans kid in need."
Planned Parenthood's LGBTQ summer camp, Camp Roy G. Biv, is a sex education program about puberty, sexual health, and gender identity, aimed at members aged 10–14.
This year, they rebranded Camp Roy G. Biv to Camp MEE, which offers "5 full days of making friends, games, crafts, SEX ED, nature, and so much more"… including discussions about gender identity. They hold a support group discussion centered around Planned Parenthood's services and the supportive "care" they provide. That "care" commonly comes at the expense of public health and safety.
Planned Parenthood's LGBTQ sex education program is designed to funnel children down the trans pipeline. Rainbow Room collaborates with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). They host "Pride Saves Lives" mental health events for "trans youth" aged 14 to 21. These Rainbow Room workshops target vulnerable minors who are struggling with their identity. It is designed to convince parents that their child has an identity misalignment and only Planned Parenthood sells the cure. They create gender confusion and provide the puberty blockers – the pipeline takes healthy children and makes them sick.
Since "gender-affirming care" has become more mainstream in knowledge and practice, the number of minors identifying as transgender has skyrocketed. Subsequently, many of those patients have or are actively transitioning with the assistance of puberty blockers, hormones, and mutilating surgeries. Planned Parenthood has been at the forefront of this pharmaceutical experiment and is among the largest providers of such "gender-affirming care" (GAC).
Provision of GAC increased by 49% from 2021 to 2022. In 2023, one-third to one-half of Planned Parenthood’s ≈600 health centers provided GAC, most of them providing cross-sex hormones, compared to just 32 of them in 2016. Many regions in the U.S. tripled their number (some even higher) of patients seeking GAC in recent years, though exact figures are difficult to come by. This is likely due to runarounds in reporting such services as "Other Procedures" with no specific description, hiding their true data. Rainbow Room is not making any attempts to hide their agenda, pushing children further and further down the trans pipeline by spreading their dangerous ideology to as many as they can.
Democrat state senator Steve Santarsiero announced that $630,000 in federal funding would be designated for the Rainbow Room in the form of a Pandemic Response Job Training and Education Programs Grant. This funding came from COVID-19 RELIEF MONEY, directly from the American Rescue Plan Act, intended to "respond to the COVID-19 public health emergency or its negative impacts." The grant agreement never specified the negative economic impacts they sustained from COVID-19 that would necessitate such funding, but did note Rainbow Room had a "400% increase in program participation in the past five years."
Sen. Santarsiero stated it would be used to "support and grow The Rainbow Room, ensuring the LGBTQ+ youth center’s continued presence in Doylestown and previewing a new, second location in Lower Bucks County." This additional location is the previously mentioned center that opened in Langhorne. Neither Planned Parenthood Keystone nor Pennsylvania’s Department of Education responded when asked for clarification on the specific impacts to Rainbow Room’s programs or for exact requirements for the grant.
Rainbow Room hosted "Cosmic Colors, A Queer Prom," a mixed-age event for minors and adults, ages 13–21. The event was co-sponsored by Senator Steve Santarsiero, partly funded from the aforementioned COVID-19 relief funds provided to Rainbow Room (≈$83k of the $630k was categorized as "Event Materials"). The event included a drag performance and all guests were given a "swag bag" filled with tarot cards, CONDOMS, lube, and dental dams…FOR KIDS AS YOUNG AS 13!
The details of the queer prom garnered criticism toward Senator Steve Santarsiero for co-sponsoring an event that gave out sexual paraphernalia to minors. It is also worth noting he has a son who came out eight months prior and also attended the prom. When inquired about the sexual paraphernalia, the senator sent out a press release simply stating Rainbow Room is "a safe place for LGBTQ+ youth to come together to build self-esteem" and the prom "was just a large group of teenagers having fun." He failed to include any explicit responses to the inappropriate content found in the swag bags. The senator even went on to say, "having an organization like the Rainbow Room and an event like the Queer Prom can very literally save the lives of kids."
In April 2025, the Bucks County government gave $13,500 in opioid settlement funds to Planned Parenthood Keystone as part of a mini grant (total settlement was ≈$564,000, distributed across multiple organizations). They allocated the money to provide free transportation for students from three local high schools to Rainbow Room locations, initially via Uber but wanting to eventually hire a bus driver. They also stated the money would be meant for "expanding outreach to LGBTQ+ youth…to connect with education, behavioral health, and empowerment." Proponents want something good to come out of such funds for LGBTQ+ youth, citing higher rates of opioid misuse among them versus their heterosexual and "cisgender" counterparts. This would provide a "holistic approach for substance abuse recovery and prevention for the entire community," says Langhorne mother Alix Paul. Other local residents oppose the use of these funds in such a way, questioning why taxpayer money should be used to fund rides for minors to attend a Planned Parenthood-sponsored sex education activity, while many other activities are available to kids. Another local mother, Jamie Walker, believes "they are using children’s needs as political favors to gain endorsements for Democratic candidates."
Adults are supposed to set a good example for the next generation and be mentors to developing minds navigating the most complicated time of their lives, so they can grow into well-rounded, successful human beings. But there are some opportunists and corporations who take advantage of this responsibility, and they try to mold other people's children according to their own beliefs. The mass proliferation of radical gender ideology in schools and children’s spaces is doing irreparable damage, creating confusion and inner turmoil.
Planned Parenthood has officially been added to the Gays Against Groomers Radar Watchlist. Operating under the façade of tolerance, acceptance, and diversity, the Rainbow Room's insidious tactics lead down a dark road. Marlene Pray and Planned Parenthood Rainbow Room are showing their true colors, and it would be best to run for the hills before your children find themselves on a one-way conveyor belt to the operating table.
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