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

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

DEI Media Mention

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.

Former diversity officer at USF resigns after comments on DEI laws

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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

DEI Media Mention

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

DEI Media Mention

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

Gender Ideology Media Mention

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

Gender Ideology Media Mention

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.