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Do No Harm Proposes CDC Adopt New Medical Diagnosis Codes for Gender Transition and Detransition

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH; March 17, 2026 – Today, Kurt Miceli, MD, Do No Harm’s Chief Medical Officer, will present to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about the need for new medical diagnosis codes (known as ICD-10 codes) for gender transition and detransition.

“Refining the medical diagnosis codes for gender transition and detransition is urgently needed. Currently, the lack of a specific code for detransition makes these individuals effectively invisible to the healthcare system, obscuring their medical needs and limiting real-world research, follow‑up care, and outcome monitoring that responsible practice requires,” said Kurt Miceli, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Do No Harm. “The new diagnosis codes we’re proposing would help generate valuable research data, support evidence-based health standards, and enhance patient care. We commend the CDC for taking important steps toward this goal by accepting for October implementation the code we introduced at the last ICD-10 meeting: gender identity disorder in remission, or desistance. We encourage the agency to adopt our newly proposed codes so that we can further improve the quality of research and care for those suffering from gender dysphoria.”

The CDC meeting will begin at 9:00 a.m. ET. Click here for the agenda and livestream.

Why new codes are needed:

  • To more accurately document an individual’s clinical state to support the appropriate delivery of care
  • To provide clinical data that will support and improve research, quality, and standards of care
  • To inform public health needs in this evolving area of medicine
  • To improve clinician-to-clinician communication within the medical record
  • To give visibility to patients facing these clinical conditions

Do No Harm’s proposed codes aim to more precisely capture the various aspects of gender transition, distinguish those aspects from disorders of sex development, and make sure detransitioners are fully visible to the healthcare system.

These codes include:

  • Personal history of social gender transition
  • Personal history of medical gender transition
  • Personal history of surgical gender transition
  • Personal history of intersex surgery
  • Personal history of unspecified gender transition
  • Personal history of gender detransition

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.

 

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Do No Harm Files Civil Rights Complaints Against Kaiser Permanente and CommUnityCare for Operating Discriminatory Patient Programs

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH; March 3, 2026 – Do No Harm filed two complaints with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) against Kaiser Permanente and CommUnityCare for operating race-based patient programs that violate multiple federal anti-discrimination laws.

Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest private not-for-profit healthcare organization, runs the “Center for Black Health and Wellness,” an “equity in action” program meant to provide primary healthcare to black patients and “even out” alleged health disparities between black and white individuals. The center’s inherently discriminatory mission, coupled with its name (which makes clear an explicit racial preference for black patients), communicates to members of other racial groups that they are unwelcome. Kaiser Permanente’s operation of the center violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act.

CommUnityCare, based in Austin, Texas, operates a “Black Men’s Health Clinic,” which is similarly designed to discriminate on the basis of race. As one of the state’s largest Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC), CommUnityCare receives a host of federally allotted benefits and is subject to multiple federal anti-discrimination laws including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, which forbid discrimination on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, and national origin.

In illegally singling out individuals for healthcare services based on race, both programs are premised on the pernicious stereotype that individuals of the same racial group are all the same—that one’s race says all the doctor needs to know about that person’s medical needs.

“Not only are medical providers like Kaiser and CommUnityCare flouting federal law, but they are also intentionally creating wider disparities in care among patient groups,” said Kurt Miceli, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Do No Harm. “Separating patient care based on race is illegal, immoral by nature, and deprioritizes high quality care in favor of identity-based care. We filed these complaints because the healthcare industry must stop the practice of racial discrimination.”

In addition to discriminating against patients based on race, Do No Harm’s complaints point to other disturbing indications that both clinics prioritize hiring black providers based on the myth of the benefits of racial concordance, which falsely claims patient care is better when provided by a doctor of the same race. Do No Harm has shown that the weight of evidence does not support the notion that racial concordance improves health outcomes.

Read the complaint against Kaiser Permanente and the complaint against CommUnityCare.

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.

 

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Do No Harm, AAER, and Buckfire Law Agree to Amicably End Litigation over Buckfire’s Diversity Scholarships

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SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH: March 2, 2026 – On November 13, 2025, Do No Harm and the American Alliance for Equal Rights filed a lawsuit against Buckfire & Buckfire, P.C., alleging that the Michigan-based law firm’s diversity scholarships were not equally open to all participants. Buckfire denied the allegations, contending that the diversity scholarships were open to all students regardless of race or ethnicity.

On February 27, 2026, the parties agreed to amicably resolve the litigation and filed a joint stipulation of dismissal.

To make clear that the scholarship programs are open to all, Buckfire will remove all references to race as eligibility or selection criteria. Buckfire will also clarify that it does not limit “diversity” to any one experience, characteristic, or circumstance, and that its scholarships do not give any preference to any student based on race or ethnicity.

“Do No Harm believes scholarships should be equally open to all races and is thankful that Buckfire agrees,” said Stanley Goldfarb, MD, Chairman of Do No Harm.

“We’re grateful to Buckfire for working with us to resolve this matter without the need for further litigation,” said Edward Blum, President of American Alliance for Equal Rights.

“Helping students achieve their educational dreams is a core mission of our law firm. We look forward to providing scholarships that fulfill our commitment to diversity for many years to come,” said Lawrence Buckfire, President of The Buckfire Law Firm.

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.