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New study concludes medical societies teaching left-leaning positions unrelated to health

A medical group whose stated mission is “to keep identity politics out of medical education, research, and clinical practice” has release a study that concludes a vast majority of those surveyed have adopted left-wing ideologies in practices that have nothing to do with health.

The group, Do No Harm, conducted a study that analyzed 28 medical societies since 2010 and found 26 of them have published statements about racism or affirmative action.

The study also found that 57% of the medical societies put out statements about climate change while 18% gave standpoints on wars in the Middle East.

Medically woke: Report finds U.S. medical societies back liberal policies unrelated to research

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A vast majority of leading American medical societies have adopted left-leaning political positions unrelated to their health specializations, the anti-woke medical advocacy group Do No Harm reported in a new study made public this week.

Since 2010, the group found that 26 out of 28 — 93% — of the nation’s leading medical societies have published statements on affirmative action or racism, 57% on climate change, 50% on immigration, 39% on Ukraine, and 18% on the ongoing war in the Middle East.

Three have spoken publicly on all five issues, despite the face that the topics range far from their fields of expertise: the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Cardiology and the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

EXCLUSIVE: 26 Medical Societies Have Issued Political Calls to Action on Topics Like Racism, Climate Change

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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The majority of American medical societies have released statements infusing political ideology into their missions, according to a new study by medical watchdog Do No Harm.

Out of 28 medical specialty societies, 26 have adopted official positions relating to affirmative action or racism, climate change, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, immigration policy, or conflict between Israel and Hamas, since 2010.

Almost every society included in the study had issued a statement on racism or affirmative action, many of which feature calls to political action which falls outside the scope of health care.

EXCLUSIVE: Philly Kids Hospital ‘Leading The Nation’ In Sex Changes

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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is one of the top offenders in the United States when it comes to irreversible sex change procedures for children, according to a digital campaign launching Tuesday.

The hospital, known as “CHOP,” boasts that it is the first United States hospital devoted exclusively to the care of children. It has programs devoted to helping children explore and attempt to change their gender — and according to the advocacy group Do No Harm, the hospital is “leading the nation” in offering “life-altering sex related interventions for minors.”

Do No Harm is targeting CHOP with a new digital campaign that will make Philadelphia parents aware of the hospital’s devotion to gender ideology. The campaign also includes a video that discusses how much money CHOP has made from child transgender interventions and urges the hospital itself to “stop the harm.”

Temple opens DEI event after race discrimination complaint

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Temple University changed an event for educators who identify as Black, Indigenous and people of color to include white staff as well after a federal civil rights complaint was filed against it by Dr. Mark Perry of Do No Harm.

On Nov. 14, Perry filed a complaint against Temple with the Philadelphia Office for Civil Rights for holding “an event that illegally excludes non-BIPOC teaching assistants and faculty based on their race,” and notified the university’s president, counsel and other offices of his complaint, according to emails obtained by The Center Square.

Advocacy group sues Tennessee over racial requirements for medical boards

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A nonprofit dedicated to opposing diversity initiatives in medicine has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the requirements surrounding the racial makeup of key medical boards in Tennessee.

The Virginia-based Do No Harm filed the lawsuit earlier this month, marking the second legal battle the group has launched in the Volunteer State in the past year.

In 2023, Do No Harm filed a similar federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the state’s requirement that one member of the Tennessee Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners must be a racial minority. That suit was initially dismissed by a judge in August but the group has since filed an appeal to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Lawsuit challenges race requirements on Tennessee’s boards

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The Pacific Legal Foundation and physician organization Do No Harm are suing Tennessee over racial quotas required to serve on the state’s boards and commissions.

The 13-page lawsuit filed in U.S District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee says laws that require the governor to appoint members based on race violate the 14th Amendment.

The lawsuit specifically aims at the state’s Board of Medical Examiners and Board of Chiropractic Examiners. State law requires the governor to “strive to ensure the full twelve-member board is composed of at least . . . one (1) person who is an African-American” on the board, according to the lawsuit.

Tennessee Sued Over Race-Based Quotas on State Boards

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A federal lawsuit has been filed against the state of Tennessee, challenging laws that require the governor to consider race when appointing members to state medical and chiropractic boards.

The lawsuit, filed by the medical professionals’ association Do No Harm and represented by the Pacific Legal Foundation, alleges that these racial quotas are unconstitutional and violate the principle of equality before the law.

“Tennessee law forces governor after governor to engage in racial discrimination when making appointments to state boards and commissions,” Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Caleb Trotter said in a press release. “Using race to make appointments to government boards is not only demeaning and unconstitutional, but it undermines the distinctive spirit of the Volunteer State by precluding opportunities for Tennesseans to serve their local communities.”

The Biden-Harris Race-Preference Regime

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Much of corporate America is retreating from the diversity, equity and inclusion policies that have brought racial preferences into the workplace. But the federal government still follows this destructive progressive dogma, as a new report on DEI in the Biden-Harris Administration makes clear. This is a clean-up opportunity for the Trump Administration.

Boeing Co. said late last month it will close its DEI department as it reduces its overall employee head count by 10%. The airplane maker joins such companies as Ford Motor Co., Tractor Supply Co., Caterpillar Inc., John Deere and Toyota Motor Corp. that have reconsidered corporate DEI teams as well as equity programs and race-based hiring. Many have rolled back their policies at the prompting of conservative Robby Starbuck, who has collected details about some corporate policies and threatened to release them to the public.

Pitt gets $5 million taxpayer grant to ‘generate evidence’ for ‘racial equity’ brain training

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Proponents of “racial equity” training have received $5 million from the National Institutes of Health to “generate evidence” in support of their program at the University of Pittsburgh.

The researchers will “test the effectiveness of the Racial Equity Consciousness Institute” which is “an effort aimed at addressing systemic racism.”

The institute is run through Pitt’s Center on Race and Social Problems. The university’s page on “racial equity consciousness” describes “systemic racism” in medical terms, calling it a “public health crisis.”

The RECI approach uses “structured cognitive behavioral training” “to consciously address and assert one’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors toward racial equity and justice,” according to the website.

Dispatch From a “Hate Group” Employee

Op-Ed Ian Kingsbury, PhD

Apparently, I work for a hate group. I learned that this spring when the Southern Poverty Law Center identified Do No Harm, the medical nonprofit that employs me, as one of “more than 1,500 hard right extremist groups operating across the country.” We seemingly earned that label for our opposition, alongside a majority of Americans, to so-called gender-affirming care for minors, though I suspect that the SPLC also resents our stance against “diversity, equity, and inclusion” in medicine.

The SPLC is well-known for targeting conservative and non-progressive organizations. The center deploys a form of guilt by association, hoping that the public won’t notice the difference between genuinely awful groups and those that simply oppose the progressive Left. While the Westboro Baptist Church and the Nation of Islam rightly earn the SPLC’s “hate group” designation, groups like Moms for Liberty—which push back against progressive orthodoxy on topics like porn in schools—clearly do not.

‘Not legal’: Delta Dental excludes whites from med school scholarships

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A medical school scholarship that excludes white students is “not legal” according to a civil rights activist who regularly calls attention to illegal racial discrimination on college campuses.

Midwestern University and insurance company Delta Dental of Illinois, continue to offer five “Diversity Admissions Scholarships,” which exclude white students.

The scholarships are awarded to “first year incoming CDMI students from underrepresented minority groups,” and are based on criteria such as “academic performance” and “commitment to diversity,” according to a news release from the medical school in Downers Grove, Ill.

Biden-Harris Admin Focused On Diversity At The VA As Veterans Faced Massive Claims Backlog

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The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) expanded its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts while hundreds of thousands of veterans were stuck on a waitlist for benefits under the Biden-Harris administration.

The VA took at least a dozen actions aimed at bolstering its DEI initiatives during the Biden-Harris administration, according to a list of federal DEI programs compiled by the right-of-center nonprofit Do No Harm. While the VA was focused on pursuing diversity, the number of homeless veterans increased and the amount of claims in the VA’s backlog grew to roughly 378,000.

Biden-Harris admin pushed more than 500 ‘DEI actions’ across government, report finds

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An analysis of more than 80 “Equity Action Plans” released by federal agencies in accordance with President Biden’s executive actions on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) revealed that the Biden-Harris administration embedded more than 500 DEI actions into the federal government.

Do No Harm, a nonprofit group aiming to keep identity politics out of the medical field, found more than 200 DEI-focused measures tied to conducting research and tied to grant-writing, procurement and contracts. Meanwhile, DEI-related staffing expansions, DEI-focused training and outreach focused on minority communities accounted for close to 200 of the DEI-focused measures found by Do No Harm, as well. The remaining actions fell into an “other” category, which included measures such as the implementation of “racial equity” meetings and initiatives aimed at “reimagin[ing] many of our food and agriculture programs from an indigenous perspective.”

Thirty-six of the more than 500 actions that Do No Harm cited were directly related to medicine and health care policy.

Dozens of Federal Entities Developed ‘Equity Action Plans’ as Part of Biden-Harris Whole-of-Government DEI Push

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Over the past four years, more than 80 federal entities have developed “Equity Action Plans” leading to over 500 active or planned DEI actions, according to a report from medical watchdog Do No Harm obtained by National Review.

“Discrimination has no place in our society and certainly not in our federal government. This report documents hundreds of examples of harmful identity politics leading to differing governmental programs depending on race or sexual orientation. It is alarming that these programs, including in the way government regulates medicine and cares for our veterans, not only were implemented but encouraged and celebrated,” said Do No Harm chairman Stanley Goldfarb.

Do No Harm separated the federal DEI programs into different sectors such as health, national security, law, science and nature, and federal-state partnerships.

How ‘Rare’ Are Sex-Trait Modification Surgeries on Children?

Gender Ideology Op-Ed Jay Greene, PhD

As recently as two years ago, only three states banned surgeries on children to address gender dysphoria, up from just one a year earlier.

Today, exactly half the states have such bans, and more are considering them. The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in a Tennessee case challenging those bans on Dec. 4.

These procedures, advocates insist, almost never happen and are largely a myth concocted by the Right to scare people.

Prior to ban, Ohio ranked among top states for minor gender reassignment procedures

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Before a ban on gender reassignment procedures on minors, Ohio was ranked among the top states in the nation for total procedures as well as the number of procedures performed per residents, according to newly released data from a nonprofit.

Earlier this year, the Ohio legislature enacted House Bill 68, which banned the prescription of hormone blockers and hormone replacement therapy, along with gender reassignment surgeries on youth such as mastectomies. The law was first vetoed by Gov. Mike DeWine – which was overridden – and then later upheld in court following a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union.

Advocacy group warns med schools of civil rights violations if they comply with suspension of Israeli student org

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A nonprofit opposed to leftist ideology in health care is warning medical schools about a suspension against an Israeli medical group.

Do No Harm has sent letters to American medical schools saying that they would violate the 1964 Civil Rights Act if they comply with the International Federation of Medical Students’ Association’s (IFMSA) “blatantly antisemitic” suspension of the Federation of Israeli Medical Students (FIMS).

In a Sept. 25 letter obtained by The Daily Caller, Do No Harm called out the IFMSA for engaging “in blatant and unlawful antisemitism by terminating the members of the Federation of Israeli Medical Students.”

“Although the IFMSA rationalized its decision as a punishment for behavior by FIMS, reporting reflects this reasoning was a facade, and the decision was instead based on blatantly antisemitic factors,” which Do No Harm identified as including “false accusations of ‘genocide’ denial,” “the fact that members of the Israeli medical students’ organization serve in the Israeli military,” “the presence of students from a Jewish university,” and “alleged threats against medical students, online harassment, and hate speech.”