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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. 

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Some US Medical Schools May Still Be Promoting DEI Efforts, Watchdog Says

Some U.S. medical schools may be continuing to promote certain diversity, equity and inclusion ideology in some form, according to emails and meeting notes obtained by Do No Harm.

The University of Iowa (UI) announced in March 2025 that it was shuttering its Division of Access, Opportunity, and Diversity following a directive from the Iowa Board of Regents. However, DNH obtained a copy of a March 26, 2025 email from a UI employee via a Freedom of Information Act request suggesting that the university’s Carver College of Medicine (CCOM)’s DEI office was “still fully up and running” under a different name despite the other diversity division closing, the Daily Caller News Foundation first learned.

Read more at the Daily Caller.

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Trump Lucks Into a Plan to Reform the AMA

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The Trump administration has stumbled onto a chance to help rid medicine of radical ideology. On July 14, the Department of Health and Human Services began soliciting ideas for reforming Medicare’s physician payment system. It’s a massive and complicated undertaking that would have seismic effects on medicine, and it’s worth pursuing for another reason: It would likely force the American Medical Association—the most powerful medical group in the country—to focus on representing physicians and improving medicine, not harming patients by advocating race-based politics and gender ideology.

Combating ideology isn’t necessarily the Trump administration’s goal, but the issue is unavoidable given how Medicare payments work. Physicians use billing codes that come from the Current Procedural Terminology system, which the AMA developed in the 1960s. The AMA holds the copyright, so it earns licensing royalties when the codes are used.

Read more at the Wall Street Journal.

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Medical students are being trained in left-wing activism. That puts us all in danger

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American medicine is freaking out. Polls show that trust in medical professionals is the lowest in decades. Barely half the public has high levels of trust in doctors, with double-digit percentage declines in recent years. While the media is pointing the finger at politicians like President Donald Trump, the truth is that a different kind of politics has infected medicine. Left-wing activism has corrupted medical education and medical practice alike. Americans deserve to know exactly who’s sacrificing patient care in the name of politics.

In a new report, my organization has shown how political activism has overtaken the biggest trendsetters in medicine — medical journals. While most Americans have never encountered these publications, they affect every American by setting and reflecting the direction of medical education, practice, and policy.

Read more at the Washington Examiner. 

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Medicine’s identity crisis: When ‘health’ means everything

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For nearly a decade, the most influential medical journals in the world have been telling medical professionals that almost everything is their business: housing markets, immigration status, climate change, criminal justice, internet access, even colonialism.

The concept driving this expansion is “social determinants of health” (SDOH). The World Health Organization defines the term as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age,” including the health system itself – conditions that the WHO says are “shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national, and local levels.”

Originally centered on material circumstances, the concept of SDOH has grown far more expansive. It risks drawing healthcare professionals into policy domains in which they have little training and less expertise.

Read more at the Center Square. 

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Okla. schools face civil rights complaint over American Indian-only scholarship

Medical watchdog Do No Harm filed a complaint with the Department of Education against two Oklahoma schools that offer nursing scholarship programs that the watchdog says discriminate on the basis of race by only awarding the scholarship to those of American Indian descent.

Chief Medical Officer at Do No Harm Dr. Kurt Miceli told The Center Square that Northeastern State University and Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College “are excluding qualified individuals from rich learning opportunities based solely on race, regardless of their academic ability, skills, experiences and perspectives.”

Read more at the Center Square.

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Colleges trying to ‘increase the number of Native American nurses’ face civil rights complaint

A watchdog group filed a civil rights complaint against Oklahoma schools offering a federally funded scholarship catered toward Native American nursing students.

Northeastern State University and Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College are “discriminating against white students and other races they disfavor” through the program, medical advocacy group Do No Harm told the Department of Education in a Tuesday complaint obtained by the Washington Examiner. The public colleges “will distribute scholarships to Native American nursing students” to boost their representation in the field, according to NSU’s online description cited in the complaint.

Read more at the Washington Examiner.

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Methodological Barriers to Suggesting Mental Health Benefits Associated with Puberty Blockers

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared as a comment on the study “Mental Health of Youths Who Use Puberty Blockers,” published in JAMA Network Open.

While this study notes that its findings should be interpreted with caution given “unmeasured confounding” and “selection bias,” these limitations are significant and not in isolation. As a retrospective observational study, the underlying claims data “do not allow for determining definitive causes,” limiting the conclusion suggesting that mental-health (MH) benefits are associated with puberty blockers (PBs).

For one, the study does not establish temporal ordering between initiation of PBs and an individual’s MH. The study treats the presence of a PB and that of mood or suicidality ICD-10 codes in sum. Thus, for any attenuation in MH observed among youths receiving PBs, it is impossible to determine whether the PB improved MH outcomes or whether those who received PBs were already a lower risk subgroup. Notably, a recent preprint study found that depression symptoms did not improve over 2 years after PB initiation.

Read the full comment here.

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American Psychological Association Pushes Bias on College Campuses

Professional associations drive progressive bias into college classrooms, and this needs to stop. Accreditation is not just a tiresome administrative routine. It’s a seal of approval that drives access to student loans, official diplomas, and occupational licenses. The Trump administration’s work to reform accreditation should give lawmakers new energy to challenge progressive orthodoxy.

Start with the American Psychological Association. The APA is the professional organization representing clinicians and educators in the field. Yet it also accredits university psychology departments. Most states require psychologists to have a degree from an accredited program.

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The advocacy group Do No Harm, which exposes identity politics in medicine, recently reminded the APA that the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce has warned the association about racial bias within its ranks. Last December, Committee Chairman Tim Walberg, R-Mich., wrote that his committee “is gravely concerned about antisemitism at the APA” because “Jewish APA members have reported being harassed and ostracized by their colleagues within the APA and at APA events because of their Jewish identity.”

Read more at the Daily Signal.

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New numbers reveal the child sex-change mania is worse than we knew

The child sex-change craze is worse than almost anyone realizes — and a Colorado hospital just proved it.

Recently released court documents show that Children’s Hospital Colorado, affiliated with the University of Colorado School of Medicine, prescribed puberty blockers to more than 250 patients and cross-sex hormones to nearly 550 patients in a single year, 2025.

Those are shockingly high numbers — at least 5 to 10 times higher than previously thought.

Read more at the New York Post.

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Medical watchdog reveals issues with recent medical student reports

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Medical watchdog Do No Harm released a report Tuesday that it says shows how the quality of medical students’ reports has deteriorated, becoming more “weak” and more “woke” since letter grades were terminated.

Director of research at Do No Harm Dr. Jay Greene told The Center Square: “Without the use of the letter-grade system, students are searching for other ways to stand out for fellowships and residency programs.”

This has “inevitably led to an arms race in publications authored by medical students,” Greene said.

Read more at the Center Square. 

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Medical Students Are Undermining Medical Research – And Public Health

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Say a prayer for public health. Medical education, practice, and policy are heavily influenced by academic journals, and in a new report, I document a disturbing trend. Medical students have dramatically increased their publication of research – if you can call it that. Academic journals are now awash in low-quality woke screeds written by young people who haven’t even finished their training. It doesn’t bode well for the health and well-being of the American people.

Read more at RealClear Politics.