SPECIAL REPORT: Planned Parenthood Employees Bring Charges Against Another Sinking Affiliate (A 'they/them' complaint)

Atlanta, GA — After months of public drama among the employees and higher-ups of Planned Parenthood Southeast, six former PPSE employees recently filed discrimination charges against the affiliate, submitting the charges to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

One filing submitted by Jessica Swanson, PPSE’s former Director of Education, alleges she was fired by the new interim CEO, Mairo Akposé, in retaliation for voicing concerns about Akposé.

Before being suddenly promoted to CEO, Akposé was the Human Resources Director. Swanson alleges that she first complained about Akposé in her HR role when Akposé failed to refer to the current CEO as “they/them” in a meeting.

Swanson alleges she complained again when Akposé used the birth name of a recently fired transgender employee, “out[ing] them as transgender without their consent.”

Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue, states, “Planned Parenthood has spent exorbitant amounts of money to push transgender ideology down America’s throat. But their own leadership doesn’t even buy it. And, now, the very same ideology it tried to force Americans to follow is tearing apart this affiliate.”

Mairo Akposé took over as interim CEO in July 2024, after CEO Carol McDonald — the affiliate’s first “non-binary” CEO — abruptly resigned. McDonald was the CEO for less than eight months, and there has been little reported as to the reason for her resignation. However, her Instagram account currently lists her as a part of the Board of Directors for the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.

According to former and current PPSE employees, Akposé was considered a disconcerting choice from the start. She reportedly had little to no experience in the abortion industry and — maybe even more alarming to the abortion radicals working at Planned Parenthood — she maintains a social media presence as “The Working Wife,” stating she is “a Wife and Mother who happens to work.” It seems serving on the Board of Trustees for Berry College — a school Mother Jones described as “one of the country’s most conservative” — was another strike against her.

In the months following her promotion, Akposé apparently proceeded to clean house, firing and hiring employees, including the hire of a new Executive Director — a previous Georgia City Council Woman named Karen Rene who, just years before, had the audacity to call herself pro-life and pro-choice in the same sentence.

This was too much for the PPSE employees. By October of 2025, former and current employees created a campaign called “Save PPSE” which alleged that both Akposé and Rene were a “dangerous threat from within” and did not align with Planned Parenthood’s pro-abortion and pro-LGBTQ agenda.

PPSE higher-ups responded to the criticisms with an independent investigation that did not seem to take very long. By November 2025, a press release from the Board of Directors stated the outside firm found “no merit” to the allegations. The Board also stated Akposé would remain in her role as interim CEO.

Employees were not satisfied. The “Save PPSE” campaign gave a public statement “unequivocally reject[ing] the findings” and deemed the conclusion “false, deeply irresponsible, and…predictable.”

One month later, however, TN Repro News suddenly published an article stating that inside sources confirmed Akposé had resigned, and that Karen Rene and Claire Moon (Akposé’s Chief of Staff) “no longer appeared on staff org charts,” meaning their positions were now vacant.

Not all the changes in staffing were reportedly made public. Instead, a source told TN Repro News that all staff were asked to sign an Employee Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement by Monday, January 5. Aside from forcing employees to remain silent on protected information, “whether true or false,” the NDA also “extends confidentiality obligations indefinitely beyond employment.”

Since that time, all evidence of the “Save PPSE” campaign has been scrubbed from the internet. All posts from its Instagram account have been removed and a petition the campaign circulated on Google Docs is no longer accessible.

“Planned Parenthood’s first line of defense is always to silence the voices that could expose any truth about its abuses, whether it be its own employees, injured women, or family members of the mothers it has killed,” says Newman. “It operates exactly like the mafia — you keep quiet or Planned Parenthood will destroy you.”

However, the six former employees bringing charges of discrimination were fired months before this round of NDA’s. These reportedly include: Former PPSE Georgia State Director Kaylah Oates-Marable; Former Vice President of Communications and Marketing Jaylen Black; Former Director of Education Jessica Swanson; Former Mississippi Outreach Coordinator LaTerria Shelby; Former Public Policy and Organizing Manager Hannah Davis; Former Community Organizer Kim Luong.

In the meantime, Planned Parenthood Los Angeles unexpectedly announced in early February that it will partner with PPSE in an “interim leadership capacity.”

PPSE is a shrinking affiliate with few locations. In Alabama, there is now only one PPSE location — and it cannot perform abortions. In Mississippi, there are none. Georgia, where PPSE is headquartered, remains the only state where the affiliate can profit from abortion, and only at four locations.

Newman states, “This affiliate is losing ground, employees are bringing charges, and their leadership dynamic is a trainwreck — the same things we have seen in several other affiliates that are falling apart.”

Last year, Planned Parenthood was forced to shut down its Gulf Coast affiliate. Planned Parenthood of Greater New York (PPGNY) — located in one of the most pro-abortion states in America — has also been rife with conflict. In the last few years, employees have called it out for everything from systemic racism to financial malfeasance. In 2025, PPGNY was even forced to shut down Planned Parenthood’s main flagship clinic, the Margaret Sanger Center in Manhattan.

Lost Medicaid funding and strong pro-life protections in at least 13 states have also forced Planned Parenthood to combine separate affiliates into one. When Planned Parenthood of Gulf Coast shut down, for example, its remaining clinics were rolled into Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas. In Florida, two affiliates were combined last year to create one singular affiliate, Planned Parenthood of Florida.

It is also not unheard of for Planned Parenthood to combine affiliates across a wide range of states not geographically close to one another. The affiliate Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky (PPGNHAIK) can attest to that.

“It would not surprise me if Planned Parenthood Los Angeles acquired PPSE, rolling its funding and clinics into the region and using it as a stronghold to expand abortion in the South,” says Newman.

In fact, in PPSE’s November press release, the Board of Directors also stated Planned Parenthood Action Fund — the main political arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America — would take a “more active role in leading advocacy and political work in Georgia.”

Georgia is bordered by two states that are abortion-free (AL, TN), two states with six-week bans (FL, SC), and one state with a 12-week ban (NC). It is essentially a central hub where Planned Parenthood might believe it can make its stand to retarget preborn babies in the South.

“Abortion radicals failed to pass an abortion amendment in Florida,” Newman adds, “and South Carolina has made it clear that Planned Parenthood will not receive their taxpayer money. Georgia is the battleground that makes the most sense. And with PPSE falling apart, why wouldn’t Planned Parenthood’s radicals in California try to swoop in and take over? When everyone in your organization is dedicated to the violent destruction of human life, what’s one more hostile takeover?”

" when Akposé failed to refer to the current CEO as “they/them” in a meeting".

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

These pronoun fools who get offended when someone doesn’t refer to them with an improper pronoun, is retarded. Self-adulation at its finest.

Can a man who identifies as a woman sue Planned Parrnthood for not performing an abortion on they/them?

(when Akposé failed to refer to the
current CEO as “they/them” in a meeting)

Well, that certainly seems like the right thing to do 🙂

No?

8 posted on 02/23/2026 4:10:15 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.