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CDC to Weigh Feedback on Transgender Medical Code Proposal

Detransitioning, a catch-all term for individuals who received some form of gender-affirming care before stopping or in some cases reversing these procedures, has become a focus for such groups.

“One of the things that we often hear is that we don’t really know what the rate of detransition is,” said Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer of Do No Harm. “I think one way to potentially get that data is to have a code that’s within the medical lexicon, and then real-world data could be harvested, so to speak, to understand what these rates are.”

Read the full article at Bloomberg Law.

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Higher Ed Is Hiding Racial Discrimination

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Racial discrimination is alive and well in higher education.

That’s what the Trump administration strongly – and rightly – suspects. In late March, the Department of Justice opened investigations into admissions policies at three major medical schools, including those at Stanford University, the University of California at San Diego, and Ohio State University. The administration wants their admissions data to see if the medical schools are still practicing the discriminatory DEI policies that the Supreme Court banned in 2023.

The president’s team is asking the right questions. And based on investigations we’ve done at Do No Harm, the answer is clear: Racial discrimination endures to this day.

Read the full op-ed in RealClearPolitics.

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Beyond Disparities: The Case for Restoring Merit as the Foundation of Medical Education

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Editor’s note: This article originally appeared as a comment to and investigation, “Disparities for Asian American Medical Students in Alpha Omega Alpha and Gold Humanism Honor Societies,” published in JAMA Network Open.

Beyond the disparities noted in this JAMA article lies a more fundamental need to re-center medical education on excellence and merit. The AΩA constitution explicitly commits the organization to “the belief that in the profession of medicine we will improve care for all by recognizing high educational achievement…” Yet the path toward that mission has grown increasingly blurred. In describing how members are selected, AΩA does not begin with merit; rather, it states its commitment to “advancing diversity and inclusion.” This marks a shift from a historical emphasis on academic rank to a modern selection process that permits schools/Chapters to weigh a broad mix of factors—many unrelated to academic performance. The result is a dilution of the very academic standards the organization claims to uphold.

Read the full comment here.

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DEI, Louis Vuitton, And Casino Chips: Inside A Billion-Dollar VA Scandal

Dr. Kurt Miceli, the chief medical officer of Do No Harm, told The Daily Wire that the case showed the danger of implementing DEI initiatives at the federal level.
“Diversity initiatives in federal contracting elevate race, gender, or other demographic traits over merit and proven capability when awarding taxpayer‑funded work,” he said. “The result: set-asides and preferences that explicitly discriminate based on identity rather than awarding projects through competitive bidding and qualifications.”
Read the full story at the Daily Wire.
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Complaint Filed with IRS Seeks to Strip AMA Foundation of Tax-Exempt Status Over “Racially Discriminatory” Scholarships

Do No Harm filed a formal complaint with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), urging an investigation into whether the American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation should lose its tax-exempt status. The watchdog organization is asking the federal government to take action, alleging that race-based scholarship programs violate federal law and undermine public trust.

“Racially discriminatory scholarships are unlawful and morally wrong, to say nothing of the negative impact they have on public confidence in our medical system,” said Dr. Kurt Miceli, Chief Medical Officer at Do No Harm. “Based on the evidence in our complaint, we believe the IRS should revoke the AMA Foundation’s tax-exempt status for operating a racially discriminatory program.”

Read the full story in the Iowa Standard.

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Why cardiovascular medicine should focus on patients, not environmental advocacy

The treatment of cardiovascular diseases has advanced at an extraordinary pace over the past half-century resulting in an age-adjusted 60 percent reduction in heart disease death rates. This dramatic decline is directly attributable to primary and secondary preventive therapies such as statins and small interfering messenger RNAs along with disruptive technologic advances in procedural techniques.

Read the full op-ed at KevinMD.com.

 

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Racial scholarships could jeopardize American Medical Association Foundation’s tax-exempt status, complaint says

“Racially discriminatory scholarships are unlawful and morally wrong, to say nothing of the negative impact they have on public confidence in our medical system,” Dr. Kurt Miceli, the chief medical officer of Do No Harm, said in a statement accompanying the complaint. “Based on the evidence in our complaint, we believe the IRS should revoke the AMA Foundation’s tax-exempt status for operating a racially discriminatory program. The AMA’s obsession with identity politics is no secret, and it should be held accountable for allowing race to dictate applicants’ eligibility for valuable and lucrative learning opportunities. If the AMA Foundation wants to retain its federal tax advantage, it must open its scholarships to applicants of all races.”

Read the full story at The Washington Examiner.

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EXCLUSIVE: American Medical Association Should Lose Tax-Exempt Status, Watchdog Group Says

The IRS should investigate and potentially revoke the tax-exempt status of the American Medical Association’s philanthropic arm, according to a new complaint filed Tuesday.

“Based on the evidence in our complaint, we believe the IRS should revoke the AMA Foundation’s tax-exempt status for operating a racially discriminatory program,” Dr. Kurt Miceli, a psychiatrist and chief medical officer at Do No Harm, told The Daily Signal.

Read the full story at The Daily Signal.

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American healthcare may be illegally favoring foreigners

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It’s no secret that healthcare is a hotbed of anti-American ideology. Medical educators and providers have thoroughly embraced DEI, with all its demands for indoctrination and discrimination. But it also seems increasingly clear that employers across the medical establishment are favoring foreigners over Americans, too — potentially in direct violation of federal law.

On Monday, our organization filed a civil rights complaint with the Trump administration, asking it to investigate this situation and remedy any illegal discrimination against Americans.

Read the full op-ed in The Washington Examiner.

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Foreign grads sideline US-trained doctors in coveted programs, bombshell complaint alleges

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Three internal medicine residency programs are being accused of favoring foreign-trained doctors over American-trained doctors, with more than 90% of the most recent cohort of residents across the three programs coming from overseas, according to a civil rights complaint.

Medical watchdog Do No Harm filed a complaint Tuesday with the Department of Health and Human Services against healthcare providers Corewell Health, Texas Tech University and HCA Healthcare, raising concerns over the demographics of their internal medicine residency programs.

Read the full story in Fox News.

 

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Patients Need Trump To Go Further With Higher Ed Reform

A year ago, President Trump signed one of his most important executive orders. He called out the decline of higher education, where merit and excellence have given way to indoctrination in “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” He then targeted the accreditors who have actively forced this decline in learning on colleges and universities. The president’s ultimate goal was to refocus higher education on actual education that strengthens our country.

Some accreditors that oversee health-focused colleges quickly responded by dropping their requirements on DEI. But a year later, others continue to prioritize indoctrination over education. For the sake of patients, President Trump needs to break their stranglehold on training health professionals.

Read the full op-ed in RealClearPolitics.

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As political pressure mounts, medical school accreditor drops requirement to teach about health equity

In the year since, there has been no sign that the pressure is letting up. In February, the CEO of Do No Harm, a group that advocates against diversity initiatives in medicine, wrote an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal calling DEI “a threat to Americans’ health,” specifically calling out the language in the structural competency standard. In the days after LCME published the 2027-2028 standards, Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer at Do No Harm, wrote in a statement that “this marks a major victory and step forward in the ongoing battle over the future of medical education in America.”

Read the full article at STAT News.

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Your Therapist Is Being Told To ‘Affirm’ Child Transgenderism

Kurt Miceli, the chief medical officer at Do No Harm, says the APA wants to “have it both ways.”

“The American Psychological Association continues its attempt at having it both ways,” Miceli told The Daily Wire. “In its 2024 Policy Statement, the APA explicitly endorses ‘medical gender‑affirming care,’ even urging insurers to cover these interventions for minors.”

Read the full article at The Daily Wire.

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A Welcome Setback for Medical DEI

Some of the worst excesses of racial identity politics have been in U.S. medical schools, but maybe that is starting to change. The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), which accredits M.D.-granting institutions, has quietly removed diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) protocols from its official guidance.

Under the old guidance on curricular standards, schools were advised to mind their “cultural competence and healthcare disparities.” The section instructed medical school faculty to make sure doctors-in-training “learn to recognize and appropriately address biases in themselves, in others and in the healthcare delivery process.”

Read the full op-ed by The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board.

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Now is the Time for Detransition Diagnosis Codes

It was an honor to join Genspect’s Detrans Awareness Day on March 12. I was truly humbled by the opportunity to meet so many brave individuals who were willing to share their stories with honesty and courage. To those individuals: your willingness to speak openly—often at personal cost—continues to shape the national conversation in ways that matter. I remain deeply grateful for the kindness you extended to me and for the work you are doing to ensure that no one walks this path alone.

Read the full article at Genspect’s “Inspecting Gender” publication.

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CDC considers more medical codes for gender transition and detransition

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention heard from medical advocacy group Do No Harm on Tuesday on adding new medical codes for patient histories of gender transition or detransition.

Do No Harm has advocated for removing diversity, equity and inclusion policies from medical school admissions and education and against gender-transition hormones or surgeries for minors. The group has proposed multiple codes classifying aspects of the gender transition and detransition process and in September, proposed the first code strictly for gender detransition, which was accepted by the CDC. The CDC plans to implement the code on Oct. 1.

Read the full story in The Center Square.

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Measuring Belief, Not Benefit: A Flawed Test of ‘Interactional Diversity’

Editor’s note: This comment is in response to a study published in JAMA Network Open titled “Meaningful Interactional Diversity, Professional Development, and Service Intent in White Medical Students.”

This study purports to evaluate the educational benefits of “meaningful interactional diversity” for white medical students, yet its design and analytic choices offer no such evidence. Despite claiming to assess how a diverse student body shapes development and competence, it relies entirely on self-reported attitudes, creating a feedback loop that reflects agreeableness and social desirability more than any educational effect. Students who endorse one positive sounding item simply tend to endorse the rest.

Read the full comment at JAMA Network Open.

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Do No Harm claims racial discrimination in civil rights complaints against 2 health groups

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Do No Harm filed two individual civil rights complaints against healthcare organization Kaiser Permanente and health center CommUnityCare for offering what it describes as racially discriminatory programs.

Do No Harm Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kurt Miceli told The Center Square that Kaiser Permanente’s program in question – the Black Health and Wellness Center – “uses racial segregation to address purported health disparities,” methods which are “illegal, immoral, and unfounded.” The program is based out of Portland.

Read the full story at The Center Square.