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Report warns of harmful rise in social ideology in medicine

Medical journals’ tripled engagement with non-health related factors such as environmental, economic, and social well-being over the past decade as well as the phrase’s broadening scope may allow harmful ideologies to influence healthcare overall, a new report from medical watchdog Do No Harm warns.

Senior director of Do No Harm’s Center for Accountability in Medicine Ian Kingsbury told The Center Square that “the expansion of the social determinants of health framework is a serious cause for concern.”

The World Health Organization defines social determinants of health (SDOH) as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age,” and states that “these circumstances are shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national and local levels, which are themselves influenced by policy choices.”

Kingsbury told The Center Square that “introducing new areas outside a physician’s scope is a tool to advance a leftist political ideology rather than allowing providers to focus on high-quality patient care.”

Read more at the Center Square.

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Trump administration probe could upend widely used transgender youth treatment guidelines

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The organization widely regarded as the leading authority on transgender medical treatment is facing allegations from the Federal Trade Commission that it built influential treatment guidelines for minors on evidence its own leaders privately acknowledged was limited and uncertain.

The complaint, filed in a Texas federal court by the Federal Trade Commission and the attorneys general of Alaska, Iowa, Nebraska and Texas, accuses World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) of developing and promoting guidance that healthcare providers relied upon when recommending puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and sex-change procedures for minors.

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Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer for Do No Harm, a medical ethics advocacy organization, said the allegations raise serious questions about how the organization’s guidelines were developed.

“The conflicts of interest that are within the standards of care are significant, and again, not brought to light, and this is part of that deception, and the concern that WPATH has sort of stated that the science is there behind pediatric medical transition when it is not.”

Read more at Fox News.

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The Lawsuit That Could Blow Up The Child Sex-Change Industry

The federal government is suing an infamous transgender medical activist group and alleging it has deceived the public about the harms of child sex changes to make a profit.

The Federal Trade Commission announced it’s suing the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) over allegations the group made “false and unsubstantiated claims” that made it possible for medical providers to “sell” child sex-change interventions to the public, according to a press release.

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Kurt Miceli, M.D., Chief Medical Officer at Do No Harm, told The Daily Wire he applauds the action taken by Chairman Ferguson.

“We applaud Chairman Ferguson for taking decisive action against the engine of the transgender industrial machine, WPATH,” Miceli told The Daily Wire. “By falsely portraying pediatric gender transition as a lifesaving intervention, this activist organization promoted a narrative that irreversible, life-altering procedures were the only viable option for gender-confused children.”

Read more at Daily Wire.

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Free speech groups dogpile ‘three-time loser’ Colorado in appeals court for misgendering law

The Supreme Court has so frequently used Colorado as a punching bag on free speech issues that George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley thanked “arguably the most anti-free speech state in the union” for its “spectacular legal failures that reaffirmed rather than restricted the First Amendment.”

A trio of appeals to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals seeks to take down one of Colorado’s remaining affronts to the First Amendment, as plaintiffs see it, before the justices can do it themselves: a public accommodations law that prohibits so-called deadnaming, misgendering or otherwise making transgender people feel “unwelcome.”

Barely a year old, HB 25-1312 was immediately challenged by gender-critical clothing brand XX-XY Athletics, Christian bookstore Born Again Books, and a coalition including Colorado doctors, medical advocacy group Do No Harm and parental rights groups Defending Education, Colorado Parent Advocacy Network and Protect Kids Colorado.

Read more at Just the News.

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New Report Says Major School System Hid Admissions Data Defying Supreme Court

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A nonprofit released a report Tuesday showing that the University of Texas system may continue to discriminate based on race in defiance of a recent Supreme Court ruling.

Do No Harm released an admissions analysis report of seven medical schools in the university system to raise concerns about its practices regarding racial preferences. A previous report by the organization had found that the schools’ acceptance rates barely changed across racial groups after the Court’s landmark 2023 ruling on affirmative action — and that testing data continued to show racial discrepancies.

Read more at the Daily Caller.

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Medical watchdog urges Congress to protect children from transgender procedures

Medical watchdog Do No Harm is urging Congress to “codify safeguards” to protect children from transgender ideology after a member of the group testified Wednesday before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) about medical organizations that promote transgender procedures for minors despite “significant harms.”

After testifying, Do No Harm’s chief medical officer Dr. Kurt Miceli told The Center Square: “For too long, many major medical organizations have endorsed pediatric medical transition despite systematic reviews finding very low certainty evidence of benefit in the setting of significant harms.”

Read more at the Center Square.

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Cleveland Clinic Agrees to Stop Performing Trans Procedures on Children After DOJ Pressure

A second major medical institution with centers worldwide has announced its doctors will stop performing transgender procedures on minors.

In a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, Ohio’s renowned Cleveland Clinic will no longer provide transgender services like puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries to minors at its six medical centers for the next 20 years.  In addition, the organization will pay $2 million toward de-transition care and $308,000 to resolve billing allegations.

Dr. Kurt Miceli, Chief Medical Officer for Do No Harm, a medical organization that seeks to counteract youth-focused gender ideology, told CBN News the agreement represents a “momentous victory.”

“The evidence just simply isn’t there in terms of pediatric medical transition,” he said. “There’s very low evidence of any benefit, and there’s significant harm, significant risks. And that includes infertility, cardiovascular effects, the impacts to bone health, and certainly the surgeries.”

Read more at the Christian Broadcasting Network.

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Trans ‘Medicine’ in Retreat

Transgender “medicine” has suffered tremendous setbacks in the last two years, but it remains entrenched in much of America’s medical establishment.

Although hundreds of health care facilities have distanced themselves from the transgender orthodoxy demanded by the LGBTQ+ activist group the Human Rights Campaign, hundreds of others remain committed to it.

HRC ranks health care facilities on a “Healthcare Equality Index” according to several criteria, including their promotion of transgender orthodoxy and their coverage of experimental transgender medical interventions euphemistically described as “gender-affirming care.”

“Declining participation in the HRC health care equality index proves our fight against identity politics in medicine is working and we must keep our foot on the gas,” Dr. Kurt Miceli, a psychiatrist and chief medical officer at Do No Harm, told the Daily Signal.

Read more at the Daily Signal.

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Are Democrats Dropping WPATH?

Last week, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) held a hearing titled “Protecting Our Children: Exposing the Dangers of Irreversible Gender Transition Procedures on Minors.”

The hearing proceeded in predictable ways. Republicans and their invited expert witnesses—Kurt Miceli, a psychiatrist and medical director of Do No Harm, and Chloe Cole, a detransitioner—spoke about the harms of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries; the lack of evidence for benefits; and how the international consensus has changed to a more cautious stance on “gender transition” procedures. Democrats and their witness—Shannon Minter, a lawyer at the National Center for LGBTQ Rights—stressed the benefits of “gender-affirming care,” insisted that it rested on a solid evidence base, and accused Republicans of launching politically motivated attacks on marginalized people.

Read more at City Journal.

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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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Democrats Put On Masterclass In Missing The Point During Child Sex Change Hearing

Senate Democrats repeatedly dismissed concerns about gender-transition procedures for minors during a Wednesday hearing, arguing that the issue affects too few children to warrant congressional scrutiny even as witnesses testified about the serious and sometimes irreversible consequences of such treatments.

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions held a June 3 hearing titled “Protecting Our Children: Exposing the Dangers of Irreversible Gender Transition Procedures on Minors.” The committee called three witnesses: Dr. Kurt Miceli, the medical director of Do No Harm, an organization that seeks to protect minors from harmful medical procedures which come out of identity politics, Chloe Cole, a detransitioner, and Shannon Minter, the legal director of the National Center for LGBTQ Rights.

Read more at The Daily Caller.

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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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UNC uses bridge funds for DEI-targeted research

Shortly after Donald Trump returned to the White House, his administration moved to restrict National Institutes of Health-funded research  that it views as related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). But at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, several of these research projects live on through support from state taxpayers.

A Jan. 27, 2025 memorandum from the Office of Management and Budget placed grants related to “foreign aid, nongovernmental organizations, DEI, woke gender ideology, and the green new deal” on the chopping block. NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya and NIH Principal Deputy Director Matthew Memoli later elaborated in a December Spectator article that the agency would not fund projects that support “ideologies that promote differential treatment” based on race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation.

Read more at The Carolina Journal.

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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.