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Former diversity officer at USF resigns after comments on DEI laws

A longtime University of South Florida administrator is no longer part of the university system after comments he made about diversity, equity and inclusion surfaced online.

Dr. Haywood Brown, who served as USF Health’s senior associate vice president for academic and faculty affairs and vice dean of faculty affairs for the Morsani College of Medicine, resigned Tuesday after Fox Newsreported on the comments, which included statements targeting White House adviser Stephen Miller.

Brown was previously the university’s vice president for diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity.

Read more in Tampa Bay Times.

Florida med school official quits over audio discussing ‘slippery’ ways to avoid DEI ban

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Haywood Brown explained how University of South Florida simply changed DEI terms to avoid legal scrutiny

The University of South Florida changed some DEI terminology within its school to avoid legal scrutiny, according to a doctor who has since resigned.

Do No Harm released audio of Dr. Haywood Brown discussing the “slippery” ways the medical school got around Florida’s ban on DEI at public universities as well as federal law. He has since resigned, according to Fox News, which first reported on the story.

Read more in The College Fix.

Medical School Accreditors Continue to Push DEI, Putting Administrators in a Bind

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Accreditation organizations continue to pressure the medical schools in their charge to prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion at the expense of rigorous training for the next generation of health-care professionals, forcing administrators to choose whether to comply with the Trump administration’s new anti-DEI push and jeopardize their accreditation, or risk their accreditation by ditching the divisive identity politics.

Do No Harm, a watchdog opposed to identity politics in medicine, found that ten prominent accreditors continue to advance DEI through accreditation standards to the detriment of medical professionals and patients, the group said in a new report first shared with National Review.

Read more in the National Review.

University doctor resigns after unearthed audio exposes him boasting about skirting anti-DEI laws

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FIRST ON FOX: A university doctor has resigned from his position after Fox News Digital reported on unearthed audio where he touted how he has been avoiding anti-diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) laws in Florida while attacking state and federal officials, including top White House official Stephen Miller.

“Shortly after learning of Dr. Brown’s comments, the university decided to place him on administrative leave to allow for a thorough review of the matter,” a University of South Florida spokesperson told Fox News Digital on Tuesday. “In response, he has chosen to resign effective immediately.”

Read more in Fox News.

EXCLUSIVE: Trump Admin ‘Reviewing’ Federal Suicide Hotline That Connects Minors With Adult Trans Activists

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The Trump administration is considering changes to the national suicide hotline’s specialized service for LGBTQ-identifying youth, which routes children to transgender activist organizations, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

The LGBTQ hotline, which routes young callers to organizations that specialize in “affirming” counseling, has received over a million contacts since it was launched in 2022, federal data shows. In those years, it placed access to transgender activists at children’s fingertips, enabling youth who text “PRIDE” to 988 or press option “3” after dialing the main hotline to connect with a counselor who will talk to them about gender identity — often without parental knowledge.

Children’s hospital masks DEI to evade Trump’s federal funding cuts: Report

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The Seattle Children’s Hospital renamed its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives to circumvent President Donald Trump’s ban, according to a whistleblower account.

A current employee with the hospital, who asked to remain anonymous over fear of retaliation, told the Daily Signal that the medical center has failed to comply with Trump’s directive to eradicate woke programs.

On Inauguration Day, Trump issued an executive order banning DEI, calling the initiatives “illegal and immoral discrimination programs.” He demanded the termination of all related “mandates, policies, programs, preferences, and activities in the Federal Government, under whatever name they appear.”

Columbia Professor Who Rallied For Hamas Connected To $100M+ In Grants

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A Columbia University professor who participated in pro-Hamas protests has been connected to more than $100 million in grants while she has promoted the idea that brain disease can be catalyzed by racism.

Columbia neuropsychologist Jennifer J. Manly “stood in a human blockade intending to prevent administrators from dismantling the unauthorized encampments last April,” City Journal’s Christopher Rufo and Hannah Grossman note, adding, “According to the National Institutes of Health and other publicly accessible databases, she has been named in connection with over $100 million in grants over the past 20 years.”

EXCLUSIVE: Seattle Children’s Hospital Renamed DEI Programs to Sidestep Trump, Employee Says

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Seattle Children’s Hospital renamed its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs to circumvent President Donald Trump’s directives, a whistleblower tells The Daily Signal.

On Day One of his presidency, Trump signed an executive order to terminate “diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) discrimination in the federal workforce and in federal contracting and spending.”

For Seattle Children’s Hospital to continue receiving hundreds of millions in federal funding for research, grants, and more, it was required to end to its DEI-focused programs.

I’m a detransitioner — Congress must stop hospitals’ abuse of kids like me

Gender Ideology Op-Ed Chloe Cole

The media have focused endless attention on the many kids who are trying to transition genders.

But what about the growing number of young adults who are detransitioning — who regret the sex changes that doctors and nurses told us to undergo when we were kids?

The young girls and boys who were lied to — who were abused — by the medical system we were told to trust when we were most impressionable, most vulnerable?

Fire professors who oppose ‘gender-affirming care,’ Harvard faculty chair says

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‘Efforts to chill speech’ have had ‘disastrous consequences for the kids caught up in this mess,’ medical advocacy group says

Professors who are critical of “gender-affirming care” should be fired and lose their academic titles, a Harvard University professor and faculty chair recently said.

“There’s a particular place in hell for academics who use their academic expertise and power to distort and do violence to people in the world,” Professor Timothy McCarthy told Washington Square News. The New York University student newspaper interviewed McCarthy for his thoughts about two professors at the school who are affiliated with groups that are critical of surgical and chemical interventions for gender dysphoria.

GOP moves to defund hospitals that perform sex-change procedures on minors

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FIRST ON FOX: A new House GOP bill would block federal funding for hospitals that perform sex-change surgeries on minors.

The legislation, led by Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, and backed by interest groups Do No Harm and Genspect, specifically targets funding that medical centers receive through a program aimed at fostering new children’s physicians.

“We’re standing for basic medical ethics and recognizing those who have been silenced and betrayed by a system that put ideology ahead of genuine care,” Crenshaw told Fox News Digital. “Medicine should be grounded in truth and healing—not in false promises that cause lasting harm.”

NIH gives Planned Parenthood exec $495K to study ‘oppression’ and abortion

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National Institutes of Health has spent nearly half a million dollars to study the effects of ‘oppression’ on access to abortion.

A Planned Parenthood executive is researching “power and oppression” and “reproductive health services” with the help of nearly half a million in taxpayer funds.

The study, “Enhancing Policy Impact for Reproductive Health Equity,” will look at “societal dynamics of power and oppression” can affect access to sexual and reproductive health services. The study runs through Aug. 2026.

Detransitioners need more than one day of recognition. They need diagnosis codes

Gender Ideology Op-Ed Aida Cerundolo

Wednesday is Detransition Awareness Day, but the healthcare system is unaware of detransitioners 365 days a year. A growing number of individuals regret having received irreversible “gender-affirming” interventions, with many having had their gender distress erroneously attributed to a transgender identity. Despite their continued medical struggles, detransitioners are invisible within the system of medical diagnosis codes, rendering them and their iatrogenic condition nonexistent.

The healthcare system recognizes patients treated for gender nonconformity with multiple International Classification of Diseases diagnosis codes that allow clinicians to accurately document these visits, making them, like all billed clinical encounters, amenable to tracking and research.

Med School Mission Statements Defy the End of DEI and Grow Even More Woke

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The election of President Donald Trump has brought the end of many ridiculous and often dangerous Biden-era practices. One thing Americans have been delighted to see is the demise of the practice of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). From classrooms to workplaces to even things like airlines and the medical field, Americans don’t care what you look like; they care whether or not you are qualified for the position you hold. Many of the nation’s colleges and universities are ending this divisive system; others, however, are digging in. Who are the schools that just can’t quit DEI? Medical schools.

In mid-February, the Department of Education issued a memo — an extension of President Trump’s executive order eliminating DEI from the federal government. It stated that schools and universities had two weeks to eliminate all DEI initiatives. But many of the nation’s medical schools are resisting that call and, in fact, are crafting mission statements that are increasingly packed with DEI language. Do No Harm is a medical advocacy organization made up of doctors and other medical professionals. One of their goals is to keep DEI and wokeness out of the medical field.

EXCLUSIVE: Medical Schools Press Ahead Answering ‘Clarion Call’ To Wokeness

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Medical school mission statements are becoming increasingly laden with diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and social justice language, a report released Monday found.

Do No Harm, a medical advocacy organization working to keep DEI and other political topics out of medicine, reviewed 158 medical school mission statements and found that 77% could be classified as “woke” in 2024, a number that increased substantially from 68% in 2021, according to a report first shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. The report also found that “Higher ranked medical schools were more likely to increase the wokeness of their mission.”

daily“There are desirable qualities to diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice, but when these terms are presented together in the context of a mission statement, they are markers for a particular worldview,” the report reads. “That ‘woke’ worldview indicates a significant departure from the traditional American emphasis on individual responsibility and equal treatment in favor of emphasizing differentiated treatment by group identity and social rather than individual justice.”

Read more in the Daily Caller.

Oregon Lies About Transgender Treatments for Kids

Oregon Gender Ideology Op-Ed Paul Terdal

The state is endangering minors despite no sound evidence showing the benefits of transgender treatments — and mounting evidence showing the harm.

Who cares about truth — or protecting kids — when gender ideology is on the line?

That’s the best way to understand Oregon’s decision on February 7 to join a court case against the Trump administration’s new limitations on transgender treatments for children and teenagers under 19 years old. The lawsuit was filed by Attorney General Dan Rayfield as one of his first acts in office, but state records reveal the suit rests on a foundation of falsehoods.

Hospitals warned they must protect children from chemical and surgical mutilation: HHS agency memo

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A major agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) sent a memo to hospitals and medical providers in the U.S. this week reminding them of “the dangerous chemical and surgical mutilation of children, including interventions that cause sterilization,” and vowed the agency would continue aligning its policies with President Donald Trump’s executive orders.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which provides health coverageto more than 100 million people through Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, sent a memo Wednesday that was obtained by Fox News Digital reiterating “the program requirements of hospitals to serve all patients, especially children, with dignity and adherence to the highest standard of care that is informed by robust evidence and the utmost scientific integrity.” The memo is effective immediately.

Nation’s top chemistry group sued over race-based scholarship

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EXCLUSIVE — The nation’s largest network for scientists and chemists is facing a legal challenge over a scholarship program that allegedly blocks students from applying based on race.

The American Chemical Society, or ACS, is facing a federal lawsuit claiming its ACS Scholars Program unlawfully excludes white and Asian students, reserving eligibility for “historically underrepresented”groups such as black, Hispanic, and Native American applicants. The complaint, filed in Washington D.C. federal court by the nonprofit organization Do No Harm, argues that the program violates the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Read more in the Washington Examiner.