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Ex-Trans Girl Testifies as Congress Considers Nationwide Ban on Transgender Procedures on Kids

Congress is considering a nationwide ban on transgender procedures on minors such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-change surgeries. Tens of thousands of American children have undergone such procedures. On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions heard testimony from both sides of the issue.

Chloe Cole, a 21-year-old woman who began trying to become a boy at the age of 12, said she is one of many “detransitioners” who regret the experience and attempted to reverse the procedures. She told the committee she believes trans procedures on minors should be outlawed in the U.S.

Read more at CBN.

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Detransitioner Chloe Cole Testifies on Devastating Effects of Transition

Chloe Cole testified in front of the Senate HELP Committee today, in a hearing titled “Protecting Our Children: Exposing the Dangers of Irreversible Gender Transition Procedures on Minors.” Chloe and her family fell victim to the lies of the transgender movement for years before she de-transitioned. Today, she told the Senate about the permanent harm that “gender-affirming care” has caused her. She disclosed the lie that all parents are told when their child is exhibiting normal interests in hobbies of the opposite sex: “Transition your daughter, or bury her.”

Cole’s testimony advocated for a ban on puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and gender-transition surgeries for minors. “There is no such thing as a child being born in the wrong body,” Cole said.

Read more at Townhall.

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Senate hearing exposes dangers of gender transition procedures for minors

The U.S. Senate held a committee hearing Wednesday on the debate over transgender treatments for minors.

The hearing – titled “Protecting Our Children: Exposing the Dangers of Irreversible Gender Transition Procedures on Minors” – was held by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. It discussed federal policies, state-level bans and ethics of so-called “gender-affirming care.”

Read more at The Lion.

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Senators square off over who decides on matters of gender dysphoria, transition medical procedures

The ongoing debate about gender dysphoria and transition medical treatments devolved Wednesday on Capitol Hill under expected partisan division, with Republican senators calling for an end to such procedures and liberal ones arguing that the federal government shouldn’t get involved.

Those in the packed Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing room heard from 21-year-old detransitioner and advocate Chloe Cole, legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights Shannon Minter and Do No Harm chief medical officer Kurt Miceli, as well as the committee’s senators.

Read more on Just The News

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‘I have no breasts, only scars’: Detransitioner Chloe Cole delivers testimony at Senate hearing

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions held a hearing Wednesday about concerns over gender transition procedures for minors.

Several senators, including Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), and Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), attended the hearing.

Read more on The Washington Examiner.

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Senators clash over whether parents or politicians should decide on trans youth care

A Senate hearing on gender-affirming care for minors on Wednesday became a fight over who gets to make decisions for transgender children, whether politicians should override doctors and parents, and whether the Trump administration’s escalating campaign against gender-affirming care is rooted in concern for children or hostility toward transgender people.

The hearing, convened by Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, came as the administration has intensified efforts to restrict care, including Justice Department subpoenas seeking records from providers that treat transgender minors. The committee listed three witnesses, including Dr. Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer of anti-trans and anti-diversity activist group Do No Harm; Chloe Cole, an anti-trans advocate who received gender-affirming care as a minor and who regretted that care; and Shannon Minter, legal director of the National Center for LGBTQ Rights.

Read more on Advocate.

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Company behind Black physician finder website accused of racial discrimination in a lawsuit

A race-based physician finder is facing a federal lawsuit, alleging that the company behind it and its founder are engaging in discrimination.

The lawsuit against Find a Black Doctor and its founder Dina Strachan, MD, was filed by Travis Morrell, MD—a dermatologist based in Colorado who takes issue with the services’ Black-only eligibility policy.

Read more at Health Exec.

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Medical watchdog demands removal of DEI standards in social work education

The sole accrediting agency for social work education in the U.S. is under fire for its diversity, equity, and inclusion mandates, with a watchdog group demanding the requirements removal.

The pro-meritocracy medical organization Do No Harm has sent a letter to the Council of Social Work Education demanding it remove all DEI mandates from its accreditation standards, including ones that require students understand “the pervasive impact of White supremacy” and  “demonstrate anti-racist and anti-oppressive social work practice.”

Read more at The College Fix.

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Watchdogs file civil rights complaint against Oregon over racial quotas in school funding policies

Two education watchdogs, Defending Education and Do No Harm, filed a joint complaint with the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights on Thursday, alleging that Oregon has illegally considered race in its education funding policies.

The Oregon Department of Education requires that 65% of a charter school’s student body be from a minority group or disabled to qualify for a Charter School Equity Grant. The state’s Higher Education Coordinating Commission also distributes funding to Oregon’s public universities according to the number of minority students who graduate.

Read more at the Washington Examiner. 

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Texas Creates a Clinic for Gender Detransitioners

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God bless Texas. On May 15, Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that Texas Children’s Hospital will create the nation’s first clinic for detransitioners. As someone who started down the sex-change path at age 12, I can’t overstate how much this new clinic is needed. Until now, people like me have been wandering in a medical wilderness—hurt by those we trusted, searching for a path back to health and happiness.

Here are the facts. Between 2019 and 2023 alone, according to a Do No Harm investigation, nearly 14,000 American children received medical interventions to change their genders. The real number is likely much higher, since we didn’t get every insurance company’s data and some patients self-pay. Regardless, thousands of vulnerable teenagers and preteens were told they could become something they’re not. Their bodies were pumped full of chemical cocktails—puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. At least 5,700 kids got sex-change surgeries, such as double mastectomies and even the removal of their sexual organs. All before turning 18.

Read more at the Wall Street Journal.

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‘Find A Black Doctor’ directory sued for discriminating against physicians based on race

A conservative legal group sued a physician directory on Tuesday, accusing the website “Find A Black Doctor” of illegally discriminating against physicians by limiting listings to black medical professionals.

The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court by Do No Harm and Colorado dermatologist Dr. Travis Morrell, targets the site and its founder, New York dermatologist Dr. Dina Strachan.

The complaint alleges the directory openly excludes non-black physicians by restricting eligibility to “black physicians and dentists in active clinical practice.”

Read more at the New York Post.

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Texas Children’s Hospital ends transition treatments, fires associated doctors, opens detransition clinic

Texas Children’s Hospital has made a sharp reversal since its days of providing sex-change procedures for children.

The hospital is no longer providing “gender-transition” services, has terminated five doctors who once performed gender-altering medical interventions on minors and is opening America’s first-ever Detransition Clinic, according to a press release from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

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Dr. Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer at Do No Harm, told The Lion the settlement is a “momentous victory for detransitioners and evidence-based medicine alike,” adding that the outcome defends the rights of children.

Read more at The Lion.

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What You Can Do to Hold the Southern Poverty Law Center Accountable

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The Southern Poverty Law Center faces charges of wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy for sending $3 million to members of white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups. This indictment led me to update the book I wrote in 2020, “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center.” At the end of the update, I give a list of concrete ways you can take action against the SPLC.

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[In 2024], the SPLC added groups led by medical professionals, such as Do No Harm and the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine, to the “hate map,” branding them “anti-LGBTQ hate groups” because they oppose experimental transgender “medicine” to make men appear female and vice versa. The SPLC even branded Gays Against Groomers—a group of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people who oppose the sexualization of children and transgender ideology—an “anti-LGBTQ hate group,” suggesting that their key target of hate is… themselves.

Read more at Daily Signal.

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CHOP, Planned Parenthood named in report on questionable gender care billing practices

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A new report details how local healthcare providers may exploit insurance rules to secure payment for child sex-change procedures.

Do No Harm, a national organization of healthcare professionals established in 2022, seeks to “highlight and counteract divisive trends in medicine, such as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and youth-focused gender ideology.”

Read more at Broad + Liberty.

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Stanford Medicine quietly renames DEI offices but keeps diversity programs after DOJ probe

Stanford School of Medicine quietly removed diversity, equity, and inclusion language from its website after the U.S. Department of Justice launched an investigation into alleged racial discrimination in its admissions process.

But experts are questioning whether the changes represent a meaningful shift or merely superficial rebranding.

The changes include new office names and updated personnel titles, though it is unclear whether the actual roles and responsibilities have shifted, the medical advocacy group Do No Harm reported.

Read more at The College Fix.

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Healthcare org states Black health center is for all races after civil rights complaint

After medical watchdog Do No Harm filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services over what it called Kaiser Permanente’s racially discriminatory “Center for Black Health and Wellness,” the healthcare organization updated the center with a disclaimer that all races are welcome. Do No Harm says it’s not enough.

Do No Harm’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kurt Miceli told The Center Square that “Kaiser’s disclaimer that members of any race or ethnicity may use their ‘Center for Black Health and Wellness’ does not solve the underlying racial discrimination identified in our complaint.”

Read more at The Center Square.

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Texas Tech residency program favors foreign-trained doctors, medical group says

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A recent report by medical advocacy group Do No Harm revealed that Texas Tech University’s internal medicine residency program is staffed almost entirely by residents who attended medical school outside the U.S., raising concerns about discrimination.

The group’s findings show that 95 percent of Texas Tech’s residents are from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Syria, among other countries. The program’s directors completed their medical education in Iraq, according to the report.

Following this discovery, Do No Harm filed a federal civil rights complaint against the school.

Read more at The College Fix.

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Watchdog says healthcare providers may be misrepresenting child gender treatments as routine care

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Healthcare providers may be able to misrepresent transgender treatments for minors as routine care that is unrelated to gender-affirming treatments, a new report from medical watchdog Do No Harm revealed.

Chief medical officer at Do No Harm Dr. Kurt Miceli told The Center Square: “We suspect there are healthcare providers doing exactly what our report exposes: skirting coding rules to get paid for child sex changes.”

“Our report details how providers could potentially bypass coding guidelines and identifies eight likely diagnostic codes they would use,” Miceli said.

Read more at The Center Square.