Press Release

Do No Harm Report Reveals How the Human Rights Campaign Injects Gender Ideology into Children’s Hospitals

  • By Do No Harm Staff
  • August 14, 2025

RICHMOND, VA; August 14, 2025 – Today, Do No Harm released a report exposing how the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) uses its Healthcare Equality Index to infiltrate health systems and push gender ideology on children.

The report, titled “How the Human Rights Campaign’s Healthcare Equality Index Infects Pediatric Hospitals with Gender Ideology,” outlines HRC’s history of peddling gender ideology to kids, analyzes its Healthcare Equality Index (HEI), and reveals how hospitals are pressured to adopt policies and practices that promote harmful sex change interventions on minors.

“It is time to expose and root out the Human Rights Campaign’s vast influence over healthcare systems,” said Kurt Miceli, MD, Medical Director at Do No Harm and co-author of the report. “Our report sheds light on how the HRC weaponized its so-called ‘Healthcare Equality Index’ to pressure pediatric hospitals into providing dangerous, experimental gender transition services for minors. By capitulating to the HRC’s political scheme, hospitals have utterly betrayed patients, especially children struggling with gender dysphoria. If health systems care about providing high-quality pediatric care, then they should distance themselves from the HRC and its Index. Medical professionals must learn the truth about pediatric gender medicine and dare to speak out against the harmful model imposed by the HRC and other ideologues.”

The HEI measures hospitals’ adherence to the tenets of gender ideology by evaluating healthcare facilities’ policies and practices across five criteria. These criteria include requirements such as LGBTQ+ medicine training for executives, offering transgender-specific clinical services, providing coverage for puberty blockers to children, and promoting LGBTQ+ community programs. A score of 100 on the HEI indicates a hospital will proudly perform pediatric medical transitions and will not tolerate dissenting voices.

Key Findings:

  • Forty-one pediatric hospitals were listed in the 2024 HEI.
  • Twenty pediatric hospitals received a “perfect” score of 100 on the HEI.
  • Nine of the HEI-participating hospitals were included in the Dirty Dozen from Do No Harm’s Stop the Harm Database.

The report’s co-authors are Dr. Kurt Miceli, Medical Director at Do No Harm, and Beth Rempe, RN, a nurse member at Do No Harm.

To read the report, click here.

Do No Harm, established in April 2022, has rapidly gained recognition and made significant strides in its mission to safeguard healthcare from ideological threats. With over 30,000 members, including doctors, nurses, physicians, and concerned citizens across all 50 states and 14 countries, DNH has achieved over 10,000 media hits in top-tier publications and garnered widespread attention through numerous broadcast news appearances.