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What Trump Can Do ‘On Day One’ To Reverse The Spread Of Transgender Ideology

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.

Missouri State University defies trend, continues DEI spending

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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.

Group commits to DEI legal challenges, says DEI policies account for $124B

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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.

The Gender-Affirming Care Double Standard

Gender Ideology Op-Ed Ian Kingsbury, PhD, Jay Greene, PhD

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.”

Study ties ‘gendered racial microaggressions’ to high blood pressure in mothers of color

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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.

Top Medical Association Academic Blames Health Care Problems On ‘Cisgenderism’

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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.

Second Circuit Revives DEI Challenge to Pfizer Fellowship

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A federal appeals court revived a lawsuit challenging Pfizer Inc.‘s fellowship program aimed at building a diverse workforce, saying that a trial judge applied the wrong standard in assessing whether the challenger had legal standing to sue.

A divided three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit last year had initially upheld the trial judge’s ruling that Do No Harm—an advocacy group of health-care professionals, students, and policy makers who said the program is discriminatory—failed to identify any individual members who allegedly were harmed by the policy.

Second Circuit precedent requires the members to provide sufficient evidence to show they were ready to apply to the program, but the organization fell short of doing that, that panel said in March 2024.

On panel rehearing, the Second Circuit on Friday withdrew that opinion.

“We conclude that the district court applied the wrong standard in assessing Do No Harm’s standing for purposes of dismissal,” it said.

Pfizer must face lawsuit over diversity fellowship program, US court rules

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A U.S. appeals court on Friday revived a lawsuit by a conservative group opposed to diversity initiatives in medicine that challenged a Pfizer (PFE.N) fellowship program designed to boost the pipeline of Black, Latino and Native American people in leadership positions at the drugmaker.

At the urging of the group Do No Harm, a 2-1 panel of the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals revisted a decision it issued last year holding the organization lacked legal standing to challenge the drugmaker’s program in court.

Medical School Opens Up ‘BIPOC’ Physician’s Directory to All Races after Lawsuit from Watchdog Group

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The University of Washington’s medical school is clarifying that a professional networking tool is available to white physicians after facing a legal challenge for alleged racial discrimination.

The University of Washington School of Medicine is renaming its “BIPOC Physicians Directory” and advertising its availability to all races to resolve a lawsuit from Do No Harm, a medical watchdog opposed to identity politics in medicine, National Review has learned.

Both parties will be seeking to dismiss Do No Harm’s lawsuit, first reported by NR in October, now that the database is open to all students and physicians seeking to make use of it. Do No Harm originally filed a legal challenge in federal court accusing UW

Medical School of violating the 14th Amendment, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Affordable Care Act.

“This is a win for University of Washington’s medical students, the medical community, and the crucial principle of equality,” said Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, Chairman of Do No Harm.

The lawsuit said an unnamed white physician who is a member of Do No Harm suffered as a result of being barred from the old version of the networking database. The database allows medical students to connect with physicians and ask them career-oriented questions and gain valuable guidance.

Here’s How Much Medical Schools Pay For Membership In Woke Academic Association

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The invoice, obtained through a public information request by Do No Harm, an organization opposed to the politicization of medicine, shows that the University of Utah’s Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine paid $75,760 for a year-long institutional membership in the AAMC starting on July 1, 2024. The AAMC counts as members all 158 American medical schools accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), which the organization co-sponsors.

The AAMC has been accused of harming medical education through leftist political initiatives, including its commitment to DEI initiatives, “anti-racism,” and promoting transgender ideology. A comprehensive report from Do No Harm highlights the full extent of the AAMC’s DEI programs.

“It’s just ironic that the medical schools are held captive to pay this kind of money to be dished out all the crap that comes out of the AAMC,” Laura Morgan, the author of the report and Do No Harm’s senior director of programs, told The Daily Wire.

Do No Harm director of research Ian Kingsbury pointed out that the AAMC’s DEI agenda has gone beyond mere recommendations. He said in one instance, the LCME pressured the University of Utah School of Medicine because it said the school’s “diversity/pipeline programs and partnerships” were “unsatisfactory.” LCME later claimed that it had a broad definition of diversity that expanded beyond race and gender.

Trump Can Bring Transparency to the Transgender Mess

Op-Ed Roy Eappen, MD, Stanley Goldfarb

Of all the messes that Joe Biden is leaving Donald Trump, the dirtiest may be the federal government’s endorsement of sex-change treatments for children.

The Biden administration has supported expanding children’s access to invasive and irreversible medical interventions while ignoring the mounting evidence — including from a landmark federally funded study — that children aren’t benefitting. Trump can right this wrong by providing physicians and families with full transparency about the sorry state of the medical research and protecting children from being subjected to further experimentation and pain.

Gender transition procedures for minors receive increased scrutiny from emboldened GOP

According to medical nonprofit group Do No Harm, between 2019 and 2023, there were at least 13,394 gender reassignment procedures on individuals 17.5 years old or younger nationwide, with the youngest seven years old.

Read ore in The Center Square.

Seattle doctor rushing to do trans surgeries before Trump inauguration slammed in scathing ad campaign

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Do No Harm, an advocacy group opposed to the performance of transgender surgeries on minors, launched a digital ad campaign largely centered in the Seattle area to spotlight the dozens of sex-reassignment surgeries Sajan has performed and intends to keep performing as President-elect Donald Trump gets ready to take office.

Do No Harm’s digital ad campaign is targeting Seattle-based Dr. Javad Sajan.

“Dr. Sajan is notorious for bragging about his aggressive approach to transitioning as many children as possible before common sense protections are put in place to protect minors from irreversible and often harmful sex change interventions,” Do No Harm’s chief operating officer Lindsay Killen told The Post.

Killen hit back at the denial, underscoring that Do No Harm presented evidence “through insurance claims data, which shows just how prolific he is in the child sex change industry.”

Do No Harm also cited a lawsuit from the Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s Office against Sajan that alleged he improperly stifled negative reviews.

Boston U. ‘Queering Health’ class to teach ‘LGBTQ+ affirming therapies’

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Ian Kingsbury, research director at Do No Harm, told The College Fix via a media statement that the course is politicizing medicine.

“The politically coded language is a strong indication that this course is activism masquerading as science,” Kingsbury said.

He said that while those who identify as part of the gay and trans communities face many health challenges, this course aims to advance a specific agenda rather than solve the problem at hand.

“Rather than substantively addressing those challenges and potential solutions,” he said, “I suspect that this course peddles ideology and pseudoscience.”

“Unfortunately, when it comes to issues around gender or race, it’s very common that medical ‘experts’ privilege ideology over dispassionate pursuit of truth. Given the course description, I’d be shocked if this course was an exception,” Kingsbury said.

Do No Harm sues Defense Dept officials, University of Colorado, for allegedly discriminating against white applicants for medical scholarships

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Non-profit advocacy group Do No Harm (DNH) recently filed a lawsuit against the Society of Military Orthopaedic Surgeons (SOMOS) on grounds that their E. Anthony Rankin Scholarship Program excludes white applicants from qualifying for the award.

The complaint centers around the particular case of “Member A,” an anonymous would-be applicant for the award who contacted DNH after learning that his racial background prevented him from receiving the scholarship.

“Member A was hurt and dismayed that SOMOS would use his race — which he cannot control — to preclude him from participating in the program and learning from some of the country’s most distinguished orthopaedic surgeons in service of our nation’s military and veteran communities,” the complaint states, according to Fox News.

Major Medical Association Pushes For DEI ‘To Be Embedded In Everything’

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AAMC Director of Gender Equity Initiatives Diana Lautenberger said Thursday that the latest webinar was focused on “how do you really institutionalize allyship at your organization” and ”what allyship looks like and sounds like at the institutional level.”

The webinar came after Do No Harm, an organization that pushes to de-politicize medicine, released an exhaustive report on how the AAMC pushes a leftist policy agenda. The report exposed how the AAMC is committed to DEI and so-called anti-racism efforts in addition to pushing leftwing theories about race and supporting transgender procedures on children.

“As people outside the bubble of academia become more aware of the endless number of DEI initiatives that the AAMC has spent tens of millions of dollars to push instead of promoting science-based medical education, the public’s trust will dwindle,” Do No Harm Senior Director of Programs Laura Morgan told The Daily Wire.

Morgan with Do No Harm said that the AAMC’s programing was a waste of time that didn’t advance medical knowledge.

Scholarship programs slapped with lawsuits for alleged discrimination against White men

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Two scholarship programs for “underrepresented” minorities are being slapped with lawsuits for allegedly discriminating against White people.

The nonprofit organization Do No Harm (DNH) is challenging the Society of Military Orthopaedic Surgeons’ (SOMOS) E. Anthony Rankin Scholarship Program on behalf of a DNH member who said he could not continue with the application process because he is a White male.

The program, which is “meant for underrepresented medical students,” matches students with a “U.S. Military host” at one of two medical centers, the complaint states. The program spans four weeks, during when students can receive up to $12,000 “to cover ‘travel, housing, and daily per diem for the duration’ of their time hosted by the military,” the filing reads, quoting the program’s website description.

US Medical Schools Cautiously Navigate Admissions in New Legal, Political Environment

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Stanley Goldfarb, MD, chairman of Do No Harm, a legal activism and policy advocacy group opposed to DEI in healthcare, credited the Supreme Court decision for validating his organization’s work. “It just set the table for the idea that what we were doing was going to be consistent with the law of the land,” he said.

Since 2022, Do No Harm has filed or supported 14 lawsuits against healthcare-related organizations and filed 86 federal civil rights complaints against medical and nursing schools for diversity initiatives the organization contended were discriminatory.

Do No Harm supports proposed legislation that would eliminate federal funding for medical schools with DEI offices. Society should be colorblind, and DEI, which racially separates people, is discriminatory, said Goldfarb, contending that medical school admissions “should be based completely on merit and nothing else.” He also challenged the notion that patients who receive care from doctors of the same race have better outcomes, noting evidence that hasn’t supported that conclusion.

Goldfarb said Do No Harm, formed in 2022, has 14,000 members, including doctors, other healthcare workers, and patients. The total figure is a small fraction of the 1.1 million practicing physicians in the United States, but Goldfarb said that membership doubled from earlier this year.