Lawsuit challenges race requirements on Tennessee’s boards

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.

Read more on The Center Square.

Tennessee Sued Over Race-Based Quotas on State Boards

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.”

Read more on The Epoch Times.

The Biden-Harris Race-Preference Regime

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.

Read more on the Wall Street Journal.

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

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.

Read more on The College Fix.

Dispatch From a “Hate Group” Employee

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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.

Read more on City Journal.

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

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.

Read more on The College Fix.

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

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.

Read more on the Daily Caller.

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

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.

Read more on Fox News.

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

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.

Read more on National Review.

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

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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.

Read more on The Daily Signal.

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

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.

Read more on The Center Square.

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

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.”   

Read more on Campus Reform.

Advocates of Woke Medicine Play Victim While Still Pushing Their Agenda

The forces driving the politicization of medicine have a complaint: People are starting to notice what they’re doing.

Their effort to view health care through a DEI lens, which has proceeded almost unabated for years, has only recently begun to have genuine opposition. And this is supposedly threatening their cause’s very existence. “It’s very taxing,” Chandra L. Ford, a professor at Emory University and founding director of the Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health, recently lamented to the Washington Post. “This anti-DEI movement creates a climate of fear.”

Read more on National Review.

The latest attempt to silence detransitioners like me

Apparently, my story is too dangerous for doctors to hear. At least, that’s what the radical activists who control medicine think, because they tried to stop me from speaking out.

I learned this lesson at the American Academy of Pediatrics’ annual conference last week. I attended the conference to participate in a booth on mental health care for children. This issue is personal for me, because as a young girl, I desperately needed mental health care.

Starting at age 12, I was confused about my gender and tried to transition to a boy. Yet, by the time I was 16, I realized I’d made a terrible mistake. By then, I’d already received major hormone treatments and even a double mastectomy. 

Read more on Fox News.

Republican states are subsidizing ‘sex changes’ for minors

Red state universities are complicit in the permanent damage that transgender drugs and surgeries inflict on minors who are confused about their gender.

Do No Harm, a medical reform group, has a new database that shows which hospitals are prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones as well as removing healthy organs from minors. The group found there have been a total of 5,747 surgeries for “sex changes” performed on children between 2019 and 2023, according to insurance data.

Read more on the Washington Examiner.

NY’s ‘Equal Rights Amendment’ aims to abolish the right to parent our kids

My fellow New Yorkers and I are poised to answer a profound question on Election Day: Do parents have the right to make decisions for our children, or do politicians in Albany get to control our kids?

Shockingly, most New Yorkers don’t even know this question is on the November ballot.

But that’s the reality of Proposition One — the so-called “Equal Rights Amendment.”

Activists and politicians are loudly saying that this constitutional amendment is key to protecting abortion, but that’s not true: The amendment doesn’t mention abortion at all.

Read more on the New York Post.

Blaze News original: Damning new database names and shames hospitals that have subjected thousands of kids to sex-change mutilations

Do No Harm is a medical advocacy group that works with health care professionals, hospital administrators, patients, policymakers, and others to reverse the ideological capture of medicine and medical education.

Since 2022, DNH — which comprises members across all 50 states and in 14 countries — has focused primarily on curbing two harmful ideological currents in particular: DEI-branded racism and radical gender ideology. DNH made a major strategic play last week to help expose the latter.

The organization launched the Stop the Harm database Tuesday, revealing precisely which hospitals and medical facilities around the country are presently subjecting thousands of vulnerable children to sex-change mutilations and sterilizing chemical treatments.

Read more on The Blaze.

How Do Americans Feel About Transgender Surgeries for Minors? Here’s What a New Poll Shows.

This month, medical watchdog organization Do No Harm (DNH) launched a first-of-its-kind database revealing the medical facilities that are providing so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors. This encompasses irreversible sex reassignment surgery, as Townhall covered.

DNH revealed that over 5,000 children in the United States had undergone some form of gender transition surgery. This includes procedures like mastectomies.

Read more on Townhall.