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Bill planned to ban gender transitions for minors

(The Center Square) – The debate over whether children should undergo gender transition treatments has grown in fervor since Election Day, though a pending bill to ban the procedures in Pennsylvania has not.

The Senate Majority Policy Committee, filled entirely with Republicans from the upper chamber, will center the issue at a hearing in Altoona next week. Parents, medical professionals, and detransitioned patients will share their perspectives on why the pending legislation, called the Do No Harm Act, should become law.

“The gender-related procedures at the center of this hearing are not health care and are not harmless,” said bill sponsor Sen. Judy Ward, R-Hollidaysburg. “This hearing will give us a much-needed look into the real, permanent, and long-term harm that so many children are suffering because of these procedures at the hands of those who are charged to care for them.”

Organizer cites bias after losing CME credit for class on harms of ‘gender-affirming care’

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DENVER — Health care professionals may earn Continuing Medical Education credit for any number of classes promoting “gender-affirming care,” but courses on its drawbacks are apparently a different story.

A class titled “Clinicians’ Perspectives on Mitigating Harms of Gender Affirming Care” had its CME credit withdrawn this week after the Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education raised concerns about its “content validity,” as shown in an email shared with The Washington Times.

“To not jeopardize our accreditation status with the ACCME, the decision has been made to withhold credit for this event,” said the Christian Medical and Dental Association, which had approved credit for the seminar, in a Tuesday email to the event organizer.

Read more in The Washington Times.

Campus activists push for anti-Trump ‘mutual defense compact’ of major universities

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A group of universities, many of which receive significant federal funding, could soon rebel against President Donald Trump’s executive orders clamping down on progressive initiatives in public education, if campus activists have their way.

Members of a Rutgers University advisory board recently passed a resolution for establishing a “Mutual Defense Compact” to pool legal and policy resources of the member institutions within the Big Ten Academic Alliance in opposition to the Trump administration’s orders. The resolution calls on Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway to spearhead the effort and to “take a leading role in convening a summit of Big Ten academic and legal leadership to initiate the implementation of this Compact.”

We Won’t Sign an ‘Implicit Bias’ Pledge

DEI Op-Ed Aida Cerundolo

Our medical careers have an expiration date. In 2029 and 2030, respectively, we will no longer be board-certified in emergency medicine and therefore unable to work in almost all U.S. hospitals. The only way to maintain our certification is to pledge to fight so-called implicit bias, which we refuse to do on medical and moral grounds.

In 2021 the American Board of Emergency Medicine published a Code of Professionalism for all physicians who rely on the organization for certification—nearly every emergency medicine doctor in the country. The code requires us to promise to “mitigate both implicit or explicit biases based on race, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, national origin, or religion when providing patient care.”

Exclusive: Colorado Father Fights To Keep Government From Sterilizing His 14-Year-Old Son

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In Colorado, and around the country, parents can be stripped of their rights to oversee their child’s medical decisions by government courts.

After raising concerns about his then-13-year-old son taking puberty blockers and starting on a path to irreversible, experimental, and life-long medical interventions to “transition” into a girl, the Colorado government stripped father Robert Cameron of all rights to protect his child.

Colorado was able to do that because the child’s mother and Cameron’s ex-wife, Nancy Drake, used Colorado’s “affirmation only” legal structure to wage a war against Cameron through the courts. Drake, who joined forces with an activist therapist, has been able to use government force to push the now-14-year-old boy into the transition interventions which, if pursued in full, have the power to sterilize, reduce brain development, and cause bone density issues, among a host of other gruesome effects.

DeSantis Cracks Down on Colleges Repackaging DEI Despite Florida Ban

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Some college administrators have “repurposed DEI under a different banner” and “think they can get away with it” despite anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion laws Florida passed in May 2023, Gov. Ron DeSantissaid Wednesday.

“We’re making sure, yes, we don’t have DEI, but you can’t just rename it and do it,” DeSantis told Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom.” “We actually had a professor at University of South Florida that was shown the door because they violated Florida law.”

DeSantis took swift action in March after the medical advocacy group Do No Harm posted audio of former USF Administrator Haywood Brown talking about circumventing state DEI laws. Brown resigned after his comments were made public.

UConn med school drops mandatory ‘DEI-infused’ Hippocratic Oath

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Oath compelled students ‘to affirm political viewpoints,’ free speech group said

The University of Connecticut School of Medicine will no longer require students to recite its Hippocratic Oath that pledges support for social justice and “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression wrote in a post on X Tuesday that the school confirmed its “DEI-infused” oath is optional and “students will not be punished for refusing to recite it.”

Big University Health System Sued for Racial Discrimination

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The medical profession succumbed with surprising rapidity to the “woke” agenda of putting racial characteristics ahead of ability. In student admissions, faculty hiring and firing, and other aspects of medical education, “diversity” was the primary consideration.

Now, some universities are finding themselves in legal trouble over those policies. In today’s Martin Center article, Mike Markham writes about the lawsuit Do No Harm has filed against Duke Health Systems.

State Lawmaker Compares Parents Opposed To Pro-Transgender Bill To KKK

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A Colorado state lawmaker drew backlash by claiming that parental rights groups opposed to a bill on children’s gender identities are “hate groups” similar to the Ku Klux Klan.

Democratic State Rep. Yara Zokaie said there is no room for “difference of opinion” during a hearing that began Tuesday on the “Kelly Loving Act.” The Democrat-backedbill labels parents’ skepticism of a “transgender” child’s identity as a form of “coercive control” that could cost them custody rights.

Major Infant-Mortality Study Was Edited to Preserve Racial ‘Perspective’

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Researchers deliberately obscured a data point about white babies under the care of black physicians because it ‘undermines the narrative.’

When the high-profile Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard case was before the Supreme Court, the Association of American Medical Colleges submitted an amicus brief citing a 2020 study and claiming that “for high-risk Black newborns, having a Black physician is tantamount to a miracle drug: it more than doubles the likelihood that the baby will live.” The study in question, “Physician–patient racial concordance and disparities in birthing mortality for newborns,” suggested that the mortality rates for black newborns decline significantly if they are under the care of black physicians, an outcome possibly driven by white physicians harboring “spontaneous bias.”

Cassidy pressures medical association over youth trans procedures after Trump ban

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EXCLUSIVE – A key Republican senator is increasing the pressure on medical associations that are still advocating surgical procedures for youth with gender dysphoria in light of the Trump administration’s efforts to ban such treatment for those under 19.

Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee chairman Bill Cassidy (R-LA) on Tuesday sent a letter, obtained by the Washington Examiner, to the president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health regarding the organization’s continued advocacy for so-called “gender-affirming” procedures, including double mastectomy and vaginoplasty.

‘Undermines the narrative’: Scholars left out data in study finding black newborns do better with black doctors

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Professor’s note on draft says data ‘undermines the narrative,’ according to documents obtained by open records

A widely-cited study used to support racial concordance, the theory that medical professionals provide better care to patients of the same race, appears to have left out data that “undermine[d] the narrative,” according to an open records investigation.

The 2020 study, led by George Mason University business Professor Brad Greenwood, found that “when Black newborns are cared for by Black physicians, the mortality penalty they suffer, as compared with White infants, is halved.”

HHS Opens Probe Into Calif. Med School; Reportedly UCLA

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The Trump administration announced Thursday that it has opened an investigation into a “major medical school in California” for discriminatory raced-based admissions, with the Washington Free Beacon reporting the school in question is UCLA.

The probe comes nearly a year after whistleblowers told the Free Beacon that the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA held Black and Hispanic applicants to a lower standard than white and Asian applicants.

The state of California banned affirmative action in college admissions in 1996. However, whistleblowers alleged that UCLA’s med school admissions office under anesthesiologist Jennifer Lucero “frequently pushed through unqualified minority candidates to diversity the school,” the Free Beach reported.

Read more in Newsmax.

EXCLUSIVE: One Gov’t Agency Still Spending $1,000,000,000 On DEI Despite Trump’s Order To Cut It Out

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) continues to fund more than a billion dollars in diversity, equity and inclusion programs, even after President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to eliminate them.

While other agencies have moved to eliminate the “illegal and immoral programs” targeted in Trump’s day-one executive order, NIH is still funding over $1.3 billion in active grants that include DEI components — from race-based hiring schemes to “anti-racist” training initiatives and diversity-first faculty pipelines. At least $441 million of those grants explicitly cite DEI in their project descriptions, according to NIH data compiled by watchdog group Do No Harm. (RELATED: Check Out The Family Ties Of House Dem Championing Status Quo At NIH)

NIH Under Fire Over DEI Funding in Grants

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The National Institutes of Health is reportedly continuing to award grants that fund diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and initiatives despite President Donald Trump’s order for federal agencies to cease DEI efforts, The Daily Caller reports.

Do No Harm, a medical policy organization that advocates against diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the field of medicine and medical education, found that the NIH continues to fund grants for anti-racist training programs and other diversity initiatives.

According to the group, the NIH is spending about $440 million on grants that “explicitly cite DEI in their project descriptions” and more than $1.3 billion on active grants with diversity components.

NIH has awarded nearly $3 million to trans research since Trump took office

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Trump admin needs to clarify what constitutes ‘promoting gender ideology,’ policy analyst says

Since President Donald Trump took office, the National Institutes of Health has awarded nearly $3 million to studies on transgenderism or “gender-affirming care.”

The Fix conducted this research using the NIH’s Grant Reporter and inputting the following keywords: “transgender,” “gender-affirming,” and “gender identity.” This yielded eight results. The projects were already in effect and had previously received taxpayer funding – however, all eight studies had received new money since President Trump took office.

Exclusive: American Psychological Association ‘Antisemitic Hate’ Exposed

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Medical watchdog organization Do No Harm has brought eyes to the American Psychological Association’s (APA) “antisemitic hate” by stationing a mobile billboard outside of their Washington, DC, headquarters exposing quotes from members, including “Kudos to Hamas” and “Intifada, Intifada.”

The billboard displays controversial comments on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict made by members of the APA, which is the world’s largest psychology organization with over 173,000 members.

Internal message boards revealed members saying, “Kudos to Hamas,” and “Intifada, Intifada,” while former President of the APA Society of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology Dr. Lara Sheehi was exposed for calling Israelis “genocidal fucks” with a “settler psychosis.”

Read more in Breitbart.

Dozens of medical schools on DEI ‘watchlist’ as two face civil rights complaint

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EXCLUSIVE — More than 70 medical schools are under scrutiny from a watchdog group for maintaining diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and race-based selection policies, even after federal demands to eliminate discriminatory practices.

A list from medical and civil rights watchdog Do No Harm has identified up to 70 medical schools still engaging in DEI-driven selection practices despite the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision striking down race considerations and affirmative action for college admissions.

“Schools and health systems cannot be allowed to fly under the radar and continue these obviously discriminatory practices, especially when they have the vital job of producing our future doctors,” Kurt Miceli, medical director at DNH, told the Washington Examiner.