Press Release

Do No Harm Survey Reveals Divide Between Physicians and Medical Establishment on Identity Politics in Medicine

  • November 24, 2025

RICHMOND, VA; November 24, 2025: Today, The Center for Accountability in Medicine released the results of a survey conducted of voters and doctors across the state of Florida. The survey aimed to compare the views of medical professionals with major medical organizations’ stances on gender ideology and DEI in medicine. The results of the survey are revealed in a report entitled, “What rank-and-file physicians think about DEI and pediatric ‘gender-affirming care’: Evidence from Florida.”

The results indicate a notable disconnect between physicians and the organizations that represent them. More specifically, doctors recognize the harm affirmative action, racial concordance, and pediatric transgender interventions present to patients when pushed aggressively through the system. 

“Our survey revealed that there are loud, radical voices in healthcare organizations drowning out the thoughts and opinions of everyday physicians,” said Ian Kingsbury, Director of CAM. “We see that a strong majority of doctors believe sex-change interventions should be prohibited for minors. That same group believes school admissions should be decided on merit only and disagrees with the disproven racial concordance theory. This overlap in opinion is no coincidence, but a clear call to re-center medicine around common sense and sound science. We cannot allow harmful ideologies pushed by woke activists to sully the integrity of medicine any longer. Instead, we must reinstitute excellence and integrity within our medical organizations, schools, and hospital systems.”

Click here to read the report and cross-tabs.

Key Takeaways from the Survey:

  • A large majority, 66%, of surveyed doctors showed support for Florida’s policies of protecting minors from sex-change interventions (puberty blockers, hormones, and surgery), and 75% support protecting women from being forced to compete against men in sports. 
  • Only 31% of surveyed doctors agree with the theory of racial concordance and think that patients experience better health outcomes when treated by doctors of the same race. 
  • The proportion of respondents who believed admissions to medical school should be based solely on merit reflects the proportion who reject the racial concordance theory.
    • 68% believe in merit-based acceptance into school and 69% reject the racial concordance theory.
  • 64% of surveyed doctors found that the increase in diagnosis of gender dysphoria among youth should be a cause for concern. 

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Do No Harm, established in April 2022, has rapidly gained recognition and made significant strides in its mission to safeguard healthcare from ideological threats. It has over 50,000 members, including doctors, nurses, physicians, and concerned citizens across all 50 states and 14 countries.