Editor’s note: Do No Harm is a membership organization representing healthcare professionals, students, patients, policymakers, and concerned citizens of all faith backgrounds. We were invited to provide our medical expertise to assist leaders of a faith community in crafting guidance to address the challenges of gender ideology. Do No Harm’s contributions to this report are intended to provide the best possible medical and scientific information.
SALT LAKE CITY, UT; January 14, 2025 – This week, Do No Harm released a guide co-authored with the Coalition for Jewish Values entitled Rethinking Gender Affirmation. The guide is designed to properly inform observant Jewish parents on the challenging issue of gender dysphoria and expose progressive Jewish organizations injecting radical gender ideology into their teachings. The guide unites Jewish scriptures and sound science to debunk and reject so-called “gender-affirming care” on minors.
Organized in three key parts, the guide addresses the distress parents of gender-confused children face and provides answers to the influx of misinformation on the topic of gender dysphoria.
Part I: Sex and Gender in Jewish Law, clarifies in detail what the Jewish scriptures have to say on the topic of gender.
Part II: What the Science Says, addresses and debunks several popular scientific myths surrounding transgenderism and provides an overview of the lack of evidence supporting pediatric gender medicine.
Part III: Problems and Solutions, explains how education plays a key role in the transmission of values from one Jewish generation to the next and identifies the actors who continue to inject gender ideology into Jewish communities.
“Jewish parents of gender distressed minors have had nowhere to turn for scientifically sound and doctrinally-based guidance when navigating their child’s gender confusion,” said Ian Kingsbury, Director of Do No Harm’s Center for Accountability in Medicine. “Our first-of-its kind guide offers an alternative to the deluge of misinformation parents are fed by radicalized medical professionals pushing a pro-transgender agenda. The guide uses both medicine and Jewish scripture to strip the activists’ narrative and expose the lies of the radical gender cult.”
“We are delighted to collaborate with Do No Harm to bring this resource to the public,” said Rabbi Moshe B. Parnes, Southern Regional Vice President of the Coalition for Jewish Values. “In an environment where activists erroneously claim that Judaism recognizes ‘a wide range of gender identities,’ it is important for rabbis and laypeople to be equipped with the facts: that male and female are Divine creations, that these are unaffected by psychological difficulties, and that there are groups attempting to cloud these eternal truths in the vulnerable minds of our precious next generation. This is an important document that we hope will be studied broadly.”
Click here to read the report by Do No Harm and the Coalition for Jewish Values.
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.
