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HHS review says US medical boards failed children with gender dysphoria

U.S. medical professionals and associations have failed children and adolescents struggling with gender dysphoria, the Department of Health and Human Services said in a report released Thursday.

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of the medical advocacy group Do No Harm that advocates against medical transition for minors, praised the report on social media Thursday morning.

“It is clearer now more than ever that we must end this misguided practice and replace it with evidence-based treatment for gender confused kids,” Goldfarb said.

According to Do No Harm’s database, which uses insurance information to identify the number of children receiving medical interventions for gender transition, nearly 14,000 minors in the United States underwent medical sex change treatments between 2019 and 2023.

The Group Behind The MCAT Said It Was Ditching DEI. Insiders Say It Lied.

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The Association of American Medical Colleges, which administers the medical school entrance exam and helps accredit medical schools, purged most DEI content from its website after a damning report from the nonprofit Do No Harm called the AAMC “the organization ruining medical education.”

In its report, Do No Harm revealed how the AAMC leveraged millions of dollars and its stature in the medical field to push DEI — embedding DEI in the medical school accreditation process, adding ideological questions to the MCAT, and approving race-based scholarships for medical schools.

More than 70 medical schools still have DEI offices, watchdog says

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DEI programs dilute medical education, expert says

Over 70 medical schools maintain offices dedicated to “diversity, equity and inclusion” despite federal orders to end such programs, a medical advocacy group found.

Do No Harm’s DEI tracker includes schools such as Albany Medical College, Duke University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Ohio State University College of Medicine, and Stanford University School of Medicine, among several others.

Here’s How Much The Federal Government Is Spending To Make Nurses Less White

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The Department of Health and Human Services will hand out over $20 million in “diversity” grants this year aimed at increasing the number of minority nurses, even as the Trump administration has sought to crack down on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The purpose of the initiative, known as the Nursing Workforce Diversity (NWP) Program, is to “increase nursing education opportunities for individuals who are from disadvantaged backgrounds (including racial and ethnic minorities underrepresented among registered nurses).” It is administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency of HHS, and has distributed nearly $200 million in grants since 2008.

UMinn offers course on ‘decolonizing approaches to transgender health’

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Course ‘sounds like the result of a prank,’ medical reform group says

The University of Minnesota regularly offers a course titled “Intersectional and Decolonizing Approaches to Transgender Health,” as part of several graduate degree programs.

This fully online, three-credit course is part of the Transgender and Gender Diverse Health Certificate program and the Master’s of Professional Studies in Sexual Health.

Gretchen Whitmer’s bureaucrats sued for requiring ‘implicit bias’ training to keep medical license

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The scientific rigor behind “implicit bias” has been questioned since at least 2009, when the Journal of Applied Psychology deemed the evidence “surprisingly weak” that the Harvard-designed implicit association test “predicts discriminatory behavior,” despite the confident claims of psychologists and pop-science purveyors including Malcolm Gladwell.

“Sexy But Often Unreliable,” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin declared in 2011 in reviewing the “replicability of experimental findings with implicit measures.”

Woke hospital’s outrageous N-word training video offers a flow chart on when it’s acceptable to use slur

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A Minnesota hospital ordered thousands of employees to watch a training video featuring a flowchart detailing when they apparently say it is OK to use the N-word.

Hennepin County Medical Center, part of the largest public health network in Minneapolis, rolled out a mandatory ‘language training’ module this year, requiring all 7,000 staffers to watch a bizarre eight-minute video presentation, a whistleblower at the hospital told The New York Post.

However, employees were left shocked at the video, which was filled with political commentary, Black Lives Matter imagery and focused almost entirely on the use of the N-word.

Hospital where George Floyd was declared dead makes staff watch ‘N-word’ training video: ‘Highly unorthodox’

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The Minneapolis healthcare network that includes the hospital where George Floyd was declared dead is mandating thousands of employees sit through a woke training video that includes a flowchart explaining who can and can’t say the N-word.

The Hennepin County Medical Center, part of the largest public health network in Minneapolis, added the bizarre “language training” module to its mandatory education for its 7,000 staffers in January, a whistleblower at the center told The Post.

The internal video, obtained by The Post via the medical watchdog Do No Harm, dives headfirst into slur territory — focusing almost entirely on the N-word, its history, and its so-called “reclamation.”

Wokeness in Medicine Hasn’t Been Cured Yet

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The same people and institutions who have spent years degrading the practice of medicine in service of their ideological goals are still at it.

If America is a patient and wokeness is a disease, then the surface-level prognosis has been looking good for the first few months of 2025. The leading edge of leftist opinion, defined by nothing so much as its insistence on institutional omnipresence, is seemingly in retreat. After Donald Trump’s executive order purging DEI from the federal government, companies are dropping their own programs. So are some universities.

Medical Association Removes Race Requirements from Scholarship Program After Watchdog Lawsuit

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A medical association is removing race requirements from its diversity scholarship program after a watchdog group took legal action over the association’s alleged violations of federal law.

The National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT) is revising its diversity scholarship program to clarify that it does not give preference to applicants from certain racial backgrounds, a move the organization made after medical watchdog Do No Harm filed a lawsuit in Mississippi federal court earlier this year, court papers show.

When Do No Harm filed the lawsuit, NAEMT’s scholarship page said the award was open to “students of color who are not currently certified as an EMS practitioner,” with the implication being white students were not eligible for the scholarship, potentially discriminating against those students in violation of federal law.

Federal Crackdown on Illegal Discrimination Targets OU–Tulsa School of Community Medicine

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At least one Oklahoma university may be in the crosshairs of federal investigators seeking to weed out illegal racial discrimination.

In March, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opened investigations into 45 universities for alleged violations of anti-discrimination law, backing with action the words of warning provided to colleges and universities nationwide in a Feb. 14 “Dear Colleague” letter.

The University of Oklahoma-Tulsa School of Community Medicine was among those identified as being under investigation for alleged impermissible race-based scholarships and race-based segregation.

I’m a Plastic Surgeon. This “Gender-Affirming” Procedure Is a Scam

Gender Ideology Op-Ed

I am a plastic surgeon. Over the past 35 years, I’ve seen many of my colleagues abandon the most basic premise in human biology: that there are two, immutable sexes. Their capitulation to “queer theory” has resulted in children receiving needless, dangerous, and life-altering surgeries—all based on the lie that people can change their sex.

Each of these “gender-affirming” procedures is grotesque. I want to focus on just one—“top surgery,” a breast procedure that I, as a plastic surgeon, understand well. Top surgery is a euphemism that refers to cutting off a woman’s natural breasts to masculinize her chest. Because most of today’s trans-identifying adolescents are girls, top surgery is the most common gender-related operation, and is performed on girls as young as 13 years old.

IU professor studies LGBT caregivers of dementia patients with $262,000 in NIH funds

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Professor will ‘co-design and test a culturally relevant intervention to meet these unique needs’ of LGBT caregivers

The “unique needs of sexual and gender minorities” who care for individuals with Alzheimer’s and dementia is the subject of an ongoing, $262,000 project funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Development of a Physical Activity Intervention to Meet the Unique Needs of Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) Caregivers” has received $130,000 dollars in funding administered by the National Institute for Aging for the year of 2025 on top of a similar amount for the prior year.

Trump Appointee Saves Tens of Millions by Cutting Funding for Child Sex Changes

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The Trump administration’s decision to prohibit Medicaid coverage of child sex-change procedures will save taxpayers at least $18.5 million.

Between 2019 and 2023, the total submitted charges for child sex-change surgeries in the U.S. amounted to $108,516,134, of which $18,476,978 were submitted to Medicaid, including traditional Medicaid and managed Medicaid, according to data from medical watchdog Do No Harm shared with The Daily Signal.

aThere were a total of $119,791,202 submitted charges for sex-change procedures on minors, including both surgeries and medications in the United States, between 2019 and 2023, according to Do No Harm.

Read more in The Daily Signal.

Bill planned to ban gender transitions for minors

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(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.”