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Medical student sues Minnesota for racial quotas on ‘health equity’ council

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.”

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Trump issues executive order to ban gender-affirming care for minors

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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.”

Affirmative Action Is Still Alive and Well. Trump Can Kill It

DEI Op-Ed Ian Kingsbury, PhD, Stanley Goldfarb

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.

Trump DEI crackdowns lauded for bringing merit back to medicine: ‘Make healthcare great again’

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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.

Biden embraced diversity efforts. Trump has moved to demolish them.

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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.

Lawsuit challenges DEI-driven racial quotas for Minnesota state board

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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.

Trump orders federal DEI staff be put on leave immediately

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(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.

Trump Admin To Put All Federal DEI Officials On Leave By End Of Day

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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.

Medical schools ‘skirting’ SCOTUS ruling rejecting race in admissions: report

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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.”

University of Washington medical school renames directory and opens program to all races after anti-DEI lawsuit

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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.

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

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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.