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‘Mount Rushmore Of DEI’: How A Major Academic Association Is ‘Destroying’ Medicine

Do No Harm, an organization devoted to de-politicizing medicine, published an exhaustive 80-page report on Tuesday documenting how the AAMC has integrated DEI into its influential academic programs and advanced a leftist public policy agenda. This includes allowing ideology to creep into medical school testing, pushing racially-focused medical theories, and promoting transgender medical procedures on children.

“The AAMC corrupts medical education by blatantly embedding DEI into American medical schools,” Dr. Jared Ross, a senior fellow with Do No Harm, told The Daily Wire. “Our report offers practical solutions to restore excellence in the medical curriculum.

The medical education system in this country should be focused on science-based teachings rather than forcing students to engage with a radical political ideology.”

Ian Kingsbury, the director of research at Do No Harm, told The Daily Wire that the association had infused DEI ideology “into all facets of medical school application, education, and then placement into residency.”

Opponents on minor gender dysphoria care feel medicine is on their side

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The question before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday was whether a Tennessee law banning gender dysphoria treatment for minors is unconstitutional.

On the steps was Dr. Jared Ross, a member of Do No Harm, a group of medical professionals who say their mission is to keep identity politics out of medical education, research, and clinical practice.

Ross has a story, too, about a blue-haired girl who came into an emergency room one night. She described herself as “gender-confused,” Ross said in an interview with The Center Square.

“She was cutting herself with a razor blade because voices were telling her to,” Ross said. “Can you imagine if I had affirmed these voices, affirming what she was hearing? That would have been malpractice, that would have been criminal. I didn’t affirm those voices. I also didn’t affirm her gender confusion.”

Detransitioners, parents demand end to ‘butchery’ of children through sex-change surgeries

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Former transgenders, parents and activists braved frigid temperatures on Wednesday morning to rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court to demand an end to the “butchery” and “trauma” of child sex-change surgeries and treatments.

The rally took place as the court heard oral arguments in U.S. v. Skrmetti, a high-stakes case over the constitutionality of Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and transgender surgeries for minors.

One of the rally speakers, Matt Walsh, who is a podcast host for the Daily Wire and creator of the “What Is a Woman” documentary, told Fox News Digital that the case is about “basic truth.”

Four Ways Trump Can Scrap Biden’s ‘Equity’ Discrimination And Promote Real Equality

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What can the new administration do about these entrenched DEI programs? There are at least four critical steps Trump can take immediately to make good on campaign promises to vanquish DEI from the federal bureaucracy.

First, on day one, Trump should rescind Biden’s Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity. This order pointed the entire federal bureaucracy toward racialized policy agendas and the development of “equity action plans,” which discriminated against individuals in hiring, firing, promotion, and even public-facing benefits and services. According to a report from Do No Harm, this executive order resulted in more than 500 race-based equity policies installed in more than 80 agencies.

The real way to protect ‘trans kids’

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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in United States v. Skrmetti, a case dealing with a Tennessee ban on transgender medical interventions for minors. The claim is that the ban qualifies as discrimination under the 14th Amendment and its equal protection clause. State Solicitor General J. Matthew Rice and ACLU attorney Chase Strangio, a biological woman and first transgender lawyer to appear before the Supreme Court, argued their respective sides before the justices.

The decision will likely be handed down in June. Whatever the outcome, it will greatly affect the nation as 26 states have banned such treatments. It is one thing to allow unrestricted access to adults who seek to transition. Americans may disagree but do not bar them from making these and other adult-sized decisions. But when minors are involved, it is a different story entirely.

Read more on the Washington Examiner.

Transgender youth doctor faces historic lawsuit: ‘Damage has been done’

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Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, a leading figure in the field of transgender procedures for minors, is facing a landmark lawsuit filed by a female detransitioner who says she has been permanently harmed by treatment given to her before she even became a teenager.

The patient suing is Clementine Breen, a 20-year-old biological woman from California who began intensive procedures aimed at helping her identify as a boy starting from the age of 12. Breen says she began to cease her testosterone treatment around the age of 17 and now claims that rushed medical interventions under Olson-Kennedy’s advice caused irreversible harm.

“It’s no surprise yet another patient is speaking out against the irreparable harm she has caused. Minors struggling with mental health issues need compassionate counseling and support, not mutilation,” said Dr. Jared Ross, a board-certified physician and senior fellow at DNH.

Read more on the Washington Examiner.

GOP Tennessee AG reacts to oral arguments in Supreme Court transgender rights case: ‘Feel really good’

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Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti said he’s feeling “really good” about the arguments delivered Wednesday before the Supreme Court in a case over transgender treatment.

The historic case, United States v. Skrmetti, questions whether a Tennessee law passed last year violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

Tennessee Senate Bill 1 (SB1) prohibits all medical treatments intended to allow “a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex” or to treat “purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor’s sex and asserted identity.”

What I Saw Outside the Supreme Court Amid Oral Arguments About Whether States Can Protect Minors from ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

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About 1,000 transgender activists and parental rights champions rallied outside the Supreme Court as it heard oral arguments in a case that will decide whether states may ban transgender medical interventions for children.

LGBTQ+ activists with the American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal, the Human Rights Campaign, the Gender Liberation Movement, the Young Feminist Party, and other groups bused in protesters for the “Free to Be Ourselves Rally” on the court’s left.

Medical watchdog Do No Harm hosted doctors, detransitioners, and other allies on the right side.

Supreme Court heard arguments on Tennessee ban on transgender care. What does the science say?

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Last year, Tennessee banned doctors from medically slowing down a teenager’s puberty or giving them hormones or surgery to alter their gender.

Families of transgender teens in the state sued to protect their right to make their own medical decisions, and now the case is before the U.S. Supreme Court. Oral arguments ended Wednesday and the court is expected to decide by the summer.

The Tennessee law says it has a “compelling interest in encouraging minors to appreciate their sex” and in prohibiting the procedures “that might encourage minors to become disdainful of their sex.”

Transgender rights take center stage at the US Supreme Court. Here’s what to know

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Among the groups backing Tennessee’s approach is Do No Harm, Inc., a conservative medical advocacy group whose chairman told CNN that while the organization doesn’t oppose gender-affirming care for adults, it believes such care should not be administered to minors.

“Adults can do as they as they will, and there are perfectly fine people that have transitioned. That’s their business,” said Dr. Stanley Goldfarb. “But we feel that children just are really unable to do this in a way that involves informed consent, primarily, and that many of them are just children that are very troubled.”

Ben & Jerry’s promotes petition for ‘gender-affirming care’ before Supreme Court hearing

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Ben & Jerry’s shared a petition from the American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday asking social media users to sign it to show their support for “gender-affirming care.”

The petition was shared on the ice cream brand’s social media account on the eve of the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments on Tennessee’s Senate Bill 1, a law barring puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries for minors, and whether it violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. The ACLU’s petition says states such as Tennessee banning medication to transgender youth has threatened the “well-being” of children and their families.

Read more on the Washington Examiner.

FREE OF CHARGE: Protesters Flock to Supreme Court to Oppose Ban on ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

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Organizations in favor of child sex changes will protest the Supreme Court as the nine justices hear oral arguments Wednesday in a case that will decide whether states may ban irreversible transgender medical interventions for children.

LGBTQ+ activists with the American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal, Human Rights Campaign, Gender Liberation Movement, Young Feminist Party, and other groups are busing in protesters for a “Free to Be Ourselves Rally” Wednesday morning outside the Supreme Court Building during the arguments in United States v. Skrmetti.

The high court eventually will rule on the constitutionality of a Tennessee law that protects children from gender-transition procedures. The defendant in the case is Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, a Republican.

The Surprising New Front in the Fight against ‘Equity’: Red-State Licensing Boards

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When appointing members to Tennessee’s medical board, governor Bill Lee is required by law to consider important criteria — at least nine of the twelve members must be physicians with at least six years of experience and degrees from respected medical schools.

The three other board members, representing the public at large, should be non-physicians and health care consumers with no financial interest in any health care facility. Board appointees should represent the state’s geographic diversity.

Oh, and it is also helpful to be black.

According to Tennessee law, the governor is required “to the extent feasible” to ensure that at least one member of the state’s medical board is an African American.

Transgender care for minors gets first Supreme Court review: What to know

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The Supreme Court will soon hear arguments in a landmark case that could set a pivotal precedent on states’ authority to regulate transgender hormone therapy procedures for minors.

At the heart of the set for oral arguments Wednesday is whether Tennessee’s Senate Bill 1 (SB1), a law barring puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries for minors, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

While Republican lawmakers, including incoming President-elect Donald Trump, have sounded alarms about matters of fairness surrounding biological men competing on female sports teams, a larger underbelly of concern is brewing over the more than 14,000 minors who have undergone transgender-related procedures since 2019.

Read more on the Washington Examiner.

EXCLUSIVE: Biden-Harris Admin Opened Floodgates For Taxpayer-Funded Sex Changes On Kids

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The Biden-Harris administration opened the door for a massive increase of taxpayer-funded transgender interventions, including child sex-change surgeries, and the Daily Caller News Foundation has obtained enough data to give a partial estimate of the cost.

From January 2018 to September 2023, 16 states spent more than $165 million funding “gender transition services” — including puberty blockers, hormones, and sex-change surgeries — with more than $45 million spent on interventions for children 17 and younger, according to data obtained by the DCNF through a series of public record requests.

The DCNF asked states to provide reimbursement data for gender transition services covered through state insurance and medical assistance programs, such as Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which is funded through Medicaid. The states were able to identify gender transition services through medical billing codes such as International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes. Published by the World Health Organization, ICD codes provide comprehensive diagnostic information for diseases and injuries and create a valuable dataset used in medical research.

Read more on the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Pressure grows for UMich to end its failed $250 million DEI experiment

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The University of Michigan has spent about a quarter of a billion dollars on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts since 2016, but that has done nothing to unite or improve the campus community, and in fact in many ways DEI dogma produced more strife and division.

That sums up a lengthy article published recently in the New York Times Magazine headlined “The University of Michigan Doubled Down on D.E.I. What Went Wrong?”

It included interviews by more than 60 students, faculty, alumni and administrators, a stack of internal documents, and several outside research projects on the subject of UMich’s DEI efforts.

In Search of a Second Opinion

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When patients turn to professional societies like the AMA or the American College of Physicians or the American Association of Pediatrics for vital health information, one might expect that the information is based on publications in prestigious medical journals of carefully designed and meticulously interpreted studies. Dr. Marty Makary, in his book Blind Spots, shows how wrong these assumptions can be.

Makary is a frequent commentator on health-related topics. He is a surgeon and surgical oncologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Blind Spots consists of several examples where the medical establishment has perpetuated a myth often based on a single academic’s opinion that became ingrained in the culture as “truth” despite the flimsiest of evidence. Using examples like avoiding exposure to peanuts in infants, producing an epidemic of peanut allergies, or denying the benefits of hormone replacement therapy in perimenopausal women, resulting in premature deaths and suboptimal health outcomes, Makary proves his case against groupthink in medicine. He goes on to rail against the overuse of antibiotics because of their potential for altering the microbial composition in the GI tract. Recent research shows that this effect of antibiotics may contribute to serious complications, including risks for cancer and cardiovascular disease.

Read more on The Washington Free Beacon.

University of Oklahoma criticized for allegedly requiring education students to study social justice curriculum

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The University of Oklahoma has been accused of not complying with a statewide requirement preventing certain kinds of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies.

The Daily Caller has reported that the University of Oklahoma forces undergraduate education students to take a course entitled “Schools and American Culture” that involves the development of a “social justice curriculum” and advocates “centering the needs, histories and realities of marginalized and minority populations.”

The class additionally covers topics such as “critical race theory” and “critical whiteness.” One of the required books for the course is entitled “Handbook of Critical Race Theory in Education.