Is President Trump pushing gender-confused kids to commit suicide?
This shocking claim hit mainstream and social media within minutes of the president’s Jan. 28 executive order banning federal funding for child sex-change treatments, among other strong policies that will make those treatments less likely.
The way the argument goes, if kids can’t get puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries, their mental health will deteriorate to the point of no return.
Read more in the New York Post.
‘Pervasiveness of DEI’ means ending it will take work at state, federal, and accreditor levels, Rep. Henry Stone says
A retired member of the United States Air Force and former college football coach, Iowa state Rep. Henry Stone never saw his path leading to politics.
But after being prompted to run for office, Stone (pictured) now is championing efforts to end diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education institutions – both in Iowa and nation-wide.
Read more in The College Fix.
Three days short of 45 years before the Supreme Court largely invalidated race-based affirmative action in college admissions as a violation of equal protection under the 14th Amendment, it struck down even more blatant racial quotas in medical school admissions.
Yet activists keep finding racial quotas in even government organizations, where they seem hardest to defend, raising the question of how many taxpayer-funded bureaucracies continue flouting a precedent settled since the Carter administration.
Medical advocacy group Do No Harm sued the Minnesota Department of Health on Friday, arguing its Minnesota Health Equity Advisory and Leadership Council‘s racial quotas violate the 14th Amendment and are “demeaning, patronizing, and unconstitutional.”
Read more on Just the News.
President Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive order meant to broadly restrict access to gender-affirming care for transgender children and teenagers younger than 19, inching closer to fulfilling a key campaign promise to ban treatments that he and his administration have cast as experimental and dangerous, in conflict with major medical associations and transgender health experts.
“Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions,” Tuesday’s order states. “This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end.”
Read more on The Hill.
Many institutions continue to discriminate on the basis of race. Here’s what the president can do to stop the practice once and for all.
The death of affirmative action has been greatly exaggerated. Donald Trump knows it — and he’s already moving to end this racial discrimination once and for all.
This is the reality of the executive order that Trump signed on January 21. He ordered the attorney general and secretary of education to ensure compliance with the Supreme Court’s 2023 ban on affirmative action, which is both unconstitutional and illegal. Trump is targeting colleges and universities that receive federal funding, which is essentially all of them.
Read more on the National Review.
President Trump is waging war on the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) philosophy entrenched in various U.S. entities, signing an executive order scaling back the practice as he encourages companies in the public and private sectors to prioritize merit in the workplace.
“It’s just enormous, and I think the president is really, really going to make healthcare great again,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of the “Do No Harm” nonprofit, told Fox News while addressing the potential changes to the medical industry.
“I think it’s going to do three things. It’s going to have a huge impact on medical school admissions. First of all, it’s going to demand that medical schools now comply with… the Students for Fair Admission, the famous case in the Supreme Court against Harvard and [the University of] North Carolina,” he added, referencing the landmark 2023 ruling that barred race-based “affirmative action” admissions practices for most institutions of higher education.
Read more on Fox News.
Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden couldn’t be further apart on values that once were considered foundational American ideals — but no longer are.
While the country never fully embraced or implemented diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), those stood as vital principles and goals to guide the nation.
Not now, thanks to Trump and his aggressive, methodical, fiercely implemented attack on diversity.
Read more on The Washington Post.
A new federal lawsuit in Minnesota is challenging the racial quotas for membership on the state’s Health Equity Advisory and Leadership, or HEAL, Council, an advisory board tasked with addressing “inequities” in public health policies.
In the suit, Do No Harm, a nonprofit organization of medical professionals, argues the quotas violate the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit comes amid a national shift against diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, driven by the Trump administration’s aggressive rollback of DEI programs.
Read more on the Washington Examiner.
(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump ordered that starting Wednesday, all federal staff working on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion activities will immediately be put on paid leave.
That announcement came via a memo from the Office of Personnel Management, essentially the federal government’s human resources department. According to the memo, all DEI offices will be closed, and federal agency leaders have until the end of the month to submit plans on how they will close those offices.
All online websites and social media accounts must be removed as well, according to the memo.
Read more on The Center Square.
The Trump administration will be placing all federal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) officials on paid leave by the end of the business day Wednesday, a document from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) says.
The OPM memo, which is being sent to the executive agencies as a result of President Donald Trump’s executive order “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEl Programs and Preferencing and Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions,” instructs agency heads to tell all DEI employees that they are being placed on leave immediately.
The move from the Trump administration is an attempt to undo the Biden administration’s wide-reaching campaign to embed far-Left DEI policies and personnel throughout the executive branch. One study from Do No Harm found that the Democrat administration took at least 500 different actions to embed the ideology within the federal bureaucracy and executive branch.
Read more on The Daily Wire.
A new report conducted by nonprofit organization Do No Harm (DNH) is sounding the alarm on medical schools allegedly “skirting” a 2023 Supreme Court ruling rejecting the use of race-based factors in admissions.
DNH says it “represents physicians, nurses, medical students, patients, and policymakers” in an effort to keep “identity politics out of medical education, research, and clinical practice.” The organization had previously released a report where they found “many in the healthcare establishment nevertheless remain ideologically committed to the principle of racial favoritism and reject the virtue of race blindness” despite the high court ruling.
DNH states that a previous report also indicated that the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) “and several medical specialty societies and medical schools” “rebuked” the Supreme Court decision shortly after it was handed down through means that included “veiled threats to circumvent the Court’s decision.”
Read more on Fox News.
The University of Washington’s medical school recently decided to rename its “BIPOC Physicians Directory” into the “MD Connections Directory,” thus removing the reference to a left-wing racial buzzword in the title of its program.
The school also began advertising that the program is not only available to “Black, Indigenous, and People of Color” but is, in fact, open to all races, according to National Review.
The University of Washington was sued by the anti-DEI group Do No Harm in October for its allegedly discriminatory program.
Read more on Campus Reform.
President-elect Donald Trump promised throughout his campaign to dismantle the transgender agenda by taking actions to protect women’s sports, remove gender ideology from schools and limit access to dangerous sex change procedures.
On the first day of his second term, Trump has the opportunity to roll back the Biden administration’s four year attempt to weave gender ideology into the fabric of American institutions and government agencies, and set the tone for his administration’s approach to gender ideology, several policy experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“He [Trump] has a clear mandate on this. Ran very clearly on it. Public opinion is waking up to just how hurtful this can be,” Kristina Rasmussen, executive director of the medical watchdog group Do No Harm, told the DCNF.
Read more on the Daily Caller.
Missouri State University is continuing its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) spending, even as public sentiment and many state lawmakers have turned against it.
A survey of the DEI programs at MSU by The Lion, however, raises questions about what exactly the DEI money is paying for, besides supporting nearly 20 staff members.
In contrast, the University of Missouri at Columbia axed its DEI department in July in response to concerns about budget priorities after lawmakers in Jefferson City made it clear DEI could jeopardize funding.
Read more on The Lion.
The Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty is vowing to take on diversity, equity and inclusion practices in government with a series of lawsuits and legal actions, including a federal complaint against the University of Wisconsin-Madison for awarding and promoting at least 60 race-based scholarships.
The Wisconsin legal group says that DEI programs represent at least $124 billion in federal spending. WILL’s Roadmap to Equality is aimed at identifying DEI programs that it believes should be eliminated.
WILL also filed a federal complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on behalf of Do No Harm against Johns Hopkins claiming the medical school impose used race- and sex-based eligibility criteria for clinical clerkships and scholarship programs.
Read more on The Center Square.
In medical terms, is one in 1,000 a rare event? The answer, it turns out, is political.
When it comes to Type-2 diabetes, the health-care establishment appears to agree that the prevalence of 1.04 cases per 1,000 among 15- to 19-year-olds is cause for alarm. Diabetes Care, the flagship journal of the American Diabetes Association, noted in 2009 an “increasing and alarming incidence of type 2 diabetes in adolescent populations.” By 2023 that journal referred to it as “an awakening epidemic.” That same year, another journal echoed the sentiment, calling pediatric Type-2 diabetes an “urgent challenge.”
While a one-in-1,000 event is an “epidemic” and “urgent challenge” when it comes to Type-2 diabetes, however, it’s apparently nothing of the kind when it comes to so-called gender-affirming care for minors. A newly published study in the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics estimates that 1.40 of every 1,000 adolescents born female have received a prescription for cross-sex hormones by the time they turn 18. The study therefore concludes that, from 2018 through 2022, “receipt of puberty blockers and hormones was rare.”
Read more in City Journal.
Pregnant women of color who complain about medical professionals committing “gendered racial microaggressions” during OB/GYN visits are more likely to experience elevated blood pressure after giving birth, a study shows.
Three researchers reported this month in Hypertension, a journal of the American Heart Association, that more than one-third of 373 Asian, Black and Hispanic mothers they studied reported at least one “GRM” while receiving obstetrical care at four maternity hospitals in Philadelphia and Queens, New York.
Others pushed back on the conclusions. Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of the anti-woke medical advocacy group Do No Harm, criticized the study’s lack of data on participants’ diet habits and prenatal blood pressure trends.
He called its definition of microaggressions “highly subjective,” noted that many Black women do not receive prenatal care during the first trimester of pregnancy and dismissed its analysis of structural racism in economic and housing conditions as irrelevant to patient-doctor interactions.
Read more in The Washington Times.
A top employee for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) said that he had dedicated his career to unpacking people’s “invisible knapsacks” of white privilege, and blamed problems with American health care on “isms” like “cisgenderism.”
Do No Harm senior director of programs Laura Morgan criticized Alberti’s comments, saying he was “the product of a politicized higher education system that taught him illogical concepts that do not have a legitimate place in medical schools like ‘the invisible knapsack of white privilege.’”
Do No Harm released a report last month that exposed the AAMC’s embrace of DEI.
A report from The Daily Wire last week revealed the membership costs of being a part of the AAMC, which has 171 members in both the United States and Canada. An invoice obtained by Do No Harm showed that the University of Utah School of Medicine paid over $75,000 for a full year of membership.
Read more on The Daily Wire.