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HHS Responds to Democrat’s Head-Scratching Defense of Transgender ‘Medicine’

The Department of Health and Human Services pushed back after Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, compared transgender medical procedures to circumcision.

HHS under President Donald Trump published a comprehensive peer-reviewed study finding “extremely weak evidence” for any benefits from sex-rejecting procedures in pursuit of a transgender identity. The agency has also investigated allegedly false medical billing for experimental transgender medical procedures, which supporters call “gender-affirming care.”

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Do No Harm, a medical watchdog, also condemned the circumcision comparison.

“The suggestion that circumcision in any way is equitable to or justifies transgender surgeries on minors is a weak and dishonest attempt to muddy the waters on a politically toxic issue,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, a nephrologist who serves as Do No Harm’s chairman, told the Daily Signal in a statement Tuesday.

Read more at Daily Signal.

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No, slavery does not explain black-white health disparities

The latest paper linking poor health outcomes in black Americans to past racial injustices has come under scrutiny from independent experts.

“Historical slavery predicts contemporary disparities in mortality between Black and White Americans,” claims a paper this summer in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The authors argue “[c]ounties with greater reliance on slavery in 1860 have higher contemporary mortality rates for Black Americans but lower rates for White Americans.”

Researchers, led by University of California Berkeley Professor Manuel Galvan, did not look at the actual number of slaves. Rather, they used the “cotton suitability” of soil as a proxy.

This is one of the key issues with the study, however, according to experts from Do No Harm.

Read more at the College Fix.

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Bill Seeks to Block Taxpayer Funding for Gender Transition Research on Minors

A congressional bill is attempting to stop taxpayer money from researching or publishing material that promotes gender transition procedures for minors.

U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), along with U.S. Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and James Lankford (R-OK), introduced the Protecting Our Kids from Harmful Research Act.

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From 2019 to 2023, health care providers performed gender transition procedures on almost 14,000 children, according to Do No Harm, a nonprofit medical advocacy group.

Read more at the Tennessee Star.

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CDC Recognizes Detransitioning As Official Condition, Opens Door To Medical Treatment For Mutilated Kids

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in October will start recognizing detransitioning — reversing gender “transition” mutilation — in official diagnosis codes for purposes of insurance billing and data collection.

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The new diagnoses and codes will help provide needed documentation of the harms of transgender procedures and facilitate an avenue of recovery for these young people. The CDC update comes after medical watchdog group Do No Harm helped the CDC establish the codes.

Read more at the Federalist.

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Universities Should Prove They’re Playing Fair

Regarding your editorial “The New College Race Preferences” (Aug. 11): The Justice Department’s finding that Duke Law continues to discriminate—evidenced by higher scores among rejected applicants from some racial or ethnic groups than among accepted applicants from others—isn’t unique to one elite law school.

My organization, Do No Harm, submitted public-records requests to all 94 public medical schools seeking post-Students for Fair Admissions data on race, GPA, MCAT scores and admission decisions. Most schools either didn’t respond, stonewalled the request or demanded excessive fees to process the request. Among the 23 schools that responded by the time we published our findings, 13 showed that the average MCAT score of rejected Asian or white applicants exceeded the average MCAT score of accepted black applicants.

Read more at the Wall Street Journal.

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Trump administration accuses hospitals of improper billing over gender care for minors

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services accused dozens of hospitals and healthcare providers on Thursday of improperly billing for gender-affirming care ​and referred them to the Office of Inspector General and the Justice Department ‌for investigation.

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HHS said that as gender care for ​minors has grown, it has become a larger revenue source for hospitals, creating financial incentives for more frequent billing. Citing conservative medical advocacy organization Do No Harm, the agency said hospitals and clinics billed ​nearly $120 million for the services provided to minors since 2019.

Read more at Reuters.

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Groups applaud HHS for ending taxpayer-funded child sex change procedures

The Department of Health and Human Services’ announcement that it will end taxpayer-funded child sex change procedures by terminating Medicaid and CHIP coverage for such interventions as puberty blockers and more has met with approval from organizations working to protect children from identity politics.

Chairman of medical watchdog Do No Harm Dr. Stanley Goldfarb told The Center Square: “We applaud the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid for taking such a critical step toward prohibiting the use of taxpayer dollars on harmful and irreversible sex-rejecting surgeries on minors.”

Read more at the Center Square.

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CDC has made sure detransitioners are no longer invisible

American healthcare just took a powerful step toward justice, safety, and compassionate medicine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced that it will recognize the patients who’ve suffered from so-called gender-affirming care. CDC is shining a light on those who resolve their confusion about their gender, as well as those who seek to reclaim their biological gender after a transition. Our country will become the first in the world to finally give them the attention they need–so they can finally get the medical care they deserve.

Read the full piece at the Hill.

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HHS Opens Civil Rights Probe into Kaiser Permanente for Allegedly Prioritizing Black Patients

The Department of Health and Human Services is investigating Kaiser Permanente for allegedly violating anti-discrimination law with its Center for Black Health and Wellness.

Earlier this year, Do No Harm, a conservative medical civil rights group opposed to DEI and gender ideology, filed a complaint against the health care group, which alleged that the Portland, Oregon, center’s branding implied that non-black patients were unwelcome to access services there. HHS’s Office for Civil Rights confirmed to Do No Harm last week that it was opening an investigation into Kaiser in a letter obtained by National Review.

Read more at National Review Online.

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Colorado Has Been Running A State-Funded Grooming And Mutilation Operation For Years

Colorado has been using taxpayer dollars to groom children into believing they are “transgender” and point them to mutilation surgeries, emphasizing that many do not need parental consent.

According to a new report from Do No Harm, Colorado spends millions of dollars on government programs, social media influencer campaigns, and medical school curriculums all aimed at convincing children they are a different gender, pointing them toward medicalization, and bullying the parents who do not want to destroy their children. Colorado even paid “queer” children ages 12-18 to participate in virtual meetings about “transition” resources, the report stated.

Read more at the Federalist.

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Trump Should Act Against Colorado’s Transgender Subsidies

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The child transgenderism craze has begun to recede, largely thanks to legal, financial and political pressure from the Trump administration. Yet a critical piece of the story is only now coming to light. As I show in a new report for Do No Harm, state and federal taxpayers have long been co-opted into encouraging boys and girls to try to become something they aren’t and can never be. Through public funding for state education and healthcare programs, taxpayers are unwittingly complicit in physically harming vulnerable children.

The Trump administration has highlighted part of this dismal picture, proposing a rule to end federal Medicaid payments for so-called gender-affirming care for children. Yet a significant amount of taxpayer funding for pretreatment promotion occurs at the state level. Taxpayers are not only paying for irreversible and dangerous treatments for children through Medicaid. They are also funding the state-run programs that encourage children down the gender-ideology path in the first place.

Read more at the Wall Street Journal.

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Health watchdog: Nation’s social work accreditor refuses to remove DEI requirements

The Council on Social Work Education refused to oblige medical watchdog Do No Harm’s May letter that requested the accreditor remove diversity, equity, and inclusion requirements from its accreditation standards that Do No Harm sees as abandoning its “fundamental duty” to determine quality education.

Do No Harm chief medical officer Kurt Miceli told The Center Square that the Council on Social Work Education’s (CSWE) “refusal to remove DEI standards from accredited social work education programs stands in sharp contrast to the widespread rollbacks occurring across other higher‑education accreditors, particularly in the helping professions.

“As the exclusive accreditor for social work education in the United States, CSWE continues to embed concepts such as ‘anti‑racism’ and other DEI principles into curricular standards,” Miceli said.

Read more at the Center Square.

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Bill Would Make Insurance Cover Body-Acceptance Treatments For Trans Desisters

Soren Aldaco was 19 when a surgeon amputated her healthy breasts on the recommendation of a therapist who responded to the teen’s gender dysphoria by encouraging her to pursue irreversible surgery. Now one of the many young people who regret being deceived by transgender ideology, Aldaco sued her therapist for malpractice, and in a landmark case the Texas Supreme Court affirmed her suit can move forward.

But there’s another cost for the victims of trans mania that Aldaco told me is “too often overlooked”: the expensive medical care that’s often required to treat the lifelong physical consequences of transgender interventions.

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Anticipating the need, Do No Harm recommended a new code for “Gender Identity Disorder in Remission (Desistance)” to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If added to the CDC’s ICD-10-CM system, it would make detransitioners visible in health care records, insurance billing, and research, [Dr. Michelle Cretella, Adolescent Health Council co-chair at the American College of Pediatricians] said. She said Do No Harm and ACPeds are “cautiously optimistic” the CDC will implement the change.

Read more at the Federalist.

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U. Kansas Medical Center ‘gender-affirming care’ fellowship sponsors doctors to join global trans group

The University of Kansas Medical Center operates an “Adult Comprehensive Gender Care and Surgery” fellowship that sponsors participants to join a global transgender organization, according to a recent report by The Daily Wire.

As part of the fellowship program, the federally funded school partners with the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, encouraging fellows to become members of the organization. WPATH’s goal is to “promote a high quality of care for transsexual, transgender, and gender-nonconforming individuals internationally,” according to its website.

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Dr. Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer at Do No Harm, condemned the fellowship in an email interview with The College Fix. 

“Residency and fellowship programs are expected to provide rigorous, professional training environments free from ideological pressure, safeguarding objective academic standards that support safe, high‑quality medical practice,” he said.

Read more at the College Fix.

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WPATH FILES: Trans Org Admits Need For Detransitioner Protocols While Pushing Child Sex-Changes

Members of the world’s leading transgender medical organization admitted protocols were needed to help transgender patients “detransition” back to their real sex while publicly recommending children receive sex-change surgery.

In a private online forum, members of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) asked for advice on treating the complex medical needs of patients wanting to return or “detransition” to their real sex after undergoing sex-change surgeries such as vaginoplasty, breast augmentation, double mastectomy, hysterectomy, and oophorectomy. WPATH members acknowledged in the forum the brutalized bodies of detransitioners needed specialized care and these struggling patients were often forsaken by the medical community which gave them their scars.

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Dr. Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer at Do No Harm, told The Daily Wire there is an “undeniable need” for detransitioner medical protocols.

“There is a critical and undeniable need for detransitioner protocols — a reality acknowledged even by WPATH’s own members. Yet this is the same organization that has ignored systematic review upon systematic review as it promotes harmful and irreversible sex-rejecting procedures for minors,” Miceli told The Daily Wire. “This contradiction cannot be brushed aside: it exposes a fundamental inconsistency in which life-altering interventions are championed for minors on the one hand while the reality of those who later seek to reverse them has unfortunately been minimized and gone unaddressed.”

Read more at Daily Wire.

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Medical Watchdog Calls on AMA to Condemn Practice That Doesn’t Belong ‘in Any Clinical-Care Plan’

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The medical watchdog group Do No Harm is calling on 10 major medical associations to explicitly condemn transgender genital surgeries on minors.

“Professional medical societies that endorse so-called gender-affirming care in minors bear tremendous responsibility for the harm done to American children in the name of gender ideology,” Dr. Kurt Miceli, a psychiatrist and chief medical officer at Do No Harm, told the Daily Signal in a statement on the letters.

Do No Harm sent ten largely identical open letters Wednesday morning, addressing the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Medical Association, the Endocrine Society, the American Urological Association, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Physicians, and the Pediatric Endocrine Society.

Read more at the Daily Signal.

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The APA awarded a ‘human rights’ prize to a Holocaust revisionist. Yes, really

In the days following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led invasion of Israel, a particularly memorable headline from the Babylon Bee exclaimed that “Ivy League Student Leaves Lecture on Microaggressions to Attend ‘Kill the Jews’ Rally.” Someone should alert the leadership of the American Psychiatric Association that the site is satire and not a manual.

Back in March, the APA — a 40,000-plus strong medical specialty organization that represents psychiatrists around the globe — announced Johns Hopkins professor Mansoor Malik as the 2026 recipient of the Chester M. Pierce Human Rights Award. Malik was supposed to deliver an acceptance speech at the APA’s annual meeting in May. Instead, according to Malik’s account published in Mondoweiss, the lecture titled “From Microaggression to Mass Violence: Psychological Autopsy of the Gaza Genocide“ was “canceled” (later to be presented digitally on a rescheduled date) due to “organized outside email campaigns and pressure from advocacy groups.”

Read more at the Washington Examiner.

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Medical Orgs Slapped With Complaints For Alleged Discriminatory Hiring Practices

Medical advocacy organization Do No Harm filed complaints Tuesday against Atlantic Health System and Nemours Children’s Health, alleging discriminatory DEI practices. The complaints, filed with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (HHS-OCR), accused these organizations of race-based hiring practices that may violate federal anti-discrimination laws.

Atlantic Health’s Minority Visiting Clerkship Program (MVCP) for fourth-year medical students is a program specifically for groups “underrepresented in medicine.” According to Atlantic Health, these groups include “African American, Hispanic/Latino and American Indian/Alaska Native.”

“Students selected to participate are awarded inpatient residency rotations, an interview for full-time residency after medical school, mentorship, and valuable networking opportunities with hospital staff,” according to a Do No Harm (DNH) press release obtained by The Federalist.

Similarly, Nemours Children’s Visiting Student Scholar Program is limited to those “underrepresented in medicine as any racial, ethnic, religious, socioeconomic, or ability status group whose numbers in medicine are not reflective of that group’s population of the United States.” Therefore, only members of minority groups qualify for this program, which offers a stipend, several rotation options, and networking opportunities.

Read more at the Federalist.