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American Hospitals Performed 14,000 Child Sex Changes From 2019-2023, Group Finds

Nearly 14,000 children underwent sex changes across the country from 2019 to 2023, according to a new database that tracks transgender children’s clinics.

Do No Harm, an association of medical professionals opposed to the politicization of medicine, this week launched “Stop The Harm,” a database that tracks “sex change treatments being performed on minors at healthcare facilities in the United States.” The group found that, from 2019 to 2023, at least 13,994 children underwent sex changes, for which doctors submitted charges of around $119 million. That is likely an underestimate, as the analysis could not account for claims from certain insurance companies or those who paid in cash.

Database: More than 13,000 gender reassignment procedures on minors between 2019-23

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Sex reassignment procedures and surgeries on children have gained national prominence in recent years, and half of U.S. states now have laws passed either restricting or banning them.

Newly released data provided by the nonprofit Do No Harm indicates that the number of procedures overall has increased since at least 2019.

While many of those procedures from 2019 through 2023 occurred in states known for championing the right of juveniles to have irreversible medical procedures done even without parental knowledge or consent, such as California and Washington, some states that have since placed restrictions or outright bans on the procedures also have some of the highest numbers.

Over 20 State Attorneys General Sound the Alarm on Transgender ‘Care’ for Minors

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In recent years, many states have passed laws protecting children from dangerous trangender care. This type of “care” has been promoted by several medical organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).

Other organizations, like the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, have backed away from this kind of care, noting that “there is considerable uncertainty as to the long-term efficacy for the use of chest and genital surgical interventions for the treatment of adolescents with gender dysphoria, and the existing evidence base is viewed as low quality/low certainty.”

Race-based healthcare is coming to the US

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Reparations in healthcare? Yes, it’s a thing. Throughout the nation, leading healthcare systems have been implementing programs that look to race to determine how to care for patients.

Physicians at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and elsewhere have described this approach as being based on a “reparations framework,” which they say is needed to redress “institutional racism” in healthcare. Consequently, Brigham patients presenting with chest pain, for example, may be treated differently depending on their race.

Brigham has touted a race-based program for addressing disparities in heart failure for certain minority patients. While the type of care needed to address heart failure depends on severity and not every case requires specialized cardiology services, Brigham’s program aims to use a patient’s race to determine what level of care is needed.

EXCLUSIVE: Watchdog Demands Medical Schools Not Comply With ‘Antisemitic’ Rule

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Medical watchdog group Do No Harm sent letters to every U.S. medical school on Wednesday demanding that they not comply with the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations’ (IFMSA) “blatantly antisemitic” suspension of an Israeli student group.

IFMSA suspended the Federation of Israeli Medical Students (FIMS) in August claiming the group had “a lack of morals and humanitarian values” in reference to the Israel-Hamas war, according to Israeli news outlet Ynet. Do No Harm warned medical schools that implementing the IFMSA’s suspension of FIMS would violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, according to the letters obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“Our organizations and our membership are concerned about rising antisemitism and discrimination in medical education in the United States,” the letters read. “Discrimination against Jews, Israelis, or those associated with Israeli medical institutions is never justified, regardless of your political viewpoints.”

UC Irvine trains ‘physician-activists’ to work with Latino community

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A medical residency program at the University of California Irvine is training students to become “physician-activists” to combat “social determinants” in the Latino community.

However, some medical and legal experts expressed concerns about the public university program “politiciz[ing]” medicine.

The mission of the five-year UCI Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community, or PRIME-LC, is to “create leaders and physician-activists who will work in underserved Latino communities” to close the “healthcare gap,” according to its website.

Medical students participating in the program take courses in Chicano-Latino studies that examine “social determinants,” including the influence of “history, culture, family dynamics, and spirituality” on health and illness that are “always present” in healthcare.

Read more on The College Fix.

Feds probing Cleveland Clinic over ‘minority’ health programs: ‘Racially motivated focus’

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WASHINGTON (TND) — The Department of Health and Human Services’s Office for Civil Rights (HHS-OCR) has launched an investigation into the Cleveland Clinic over programs allegedly providing medical services to minority populations, it announced last week.

HHS-OCR wrote in a Sept. 10 letter that it was investigating the clinic’s “Minority Stroke Program,” which has a stated purpose of preventing and treating strokes in racial and ethnic minorities. It will also probe the clinic’s “Minority Men’s Health Center.”

The decision follows the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) filing a complaint on behalf of medical advocacy organization Do No Harm.The organization claimed that both the “Minority Stroke Program” and the “Minority Men’s Health Center” have violated protections by the Civil Rights Act and Affordable Care Act against discrimination.

Federal Government Launches Investigation Into Cleveland Clinic For Alleged Racial Discrimination

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The Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS-OCR) is launching a federal investigation into the Cleveland Clinic for alleged racial discrimination, the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) announced Monday.

WILL filed a civil rights complaint regarding the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio and its “Minority Stroke Program” and “Minority Men’s Health Center,” alleging they violated Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act. The HHS Civil Rights Office (OCR) sent a letter to WILL informing the organization it would be investigating the allegations of racial discrimination.

HHS Opens Investigation into Alleged Anti-White Discrimination at Cleveland Clinic

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Office for Civil Rights concluded on Tuesday that it has “sufficient authority and cause” to investigate allegations that the Cleveland Clinic violated federal civil-rights law by discriminating against white patients.

The investigation was opened in response to a complaint filed by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) on behalf of the medical watchdog Do No Harm on August 14. The complaint alleges that the Cleveland Clinic “treats white individuals differently from certain racial and ethnic minorities in the tailoring and provision of services provided through its Minority Stroke Program and Minority Men’s Health Center.

Government To Probe Race-Based Medical Care Programs at Prestigious Cleveland Clinic After Bias Allegations

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The Department of Health and Human Services is investigating two programs at the Cleveland Clinic that offer preferential care to minorities, the first such probe by an agency that has been loath to police racial preferences under the Biden-Harris administration.

HHS announced last week that it had launched an investigation of the clinic’s Minority Stroke Program, which is dedicated to “treating stroke in racial and ethnic minorities,” and its Minority Men’s Health Center, which screens black and Hispanic men for disease, in response to a discrimination complaint filed by Do No Harm, an advocacy group that opposes identity politics in medicine.

“[The Office of Civil Rights] has reviewed the complaint and has determined that it has sufficient authority and cause to investigate the allegations,” HHS wrote in a letter to Do No Harm’s attorneys. “Therefore, we have initiated an investigation.”

Read more on The Washington Free Beacon.

HHS to Probe Civil Rights Complaint Against Cleveland Clinic

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The Biden administration will investigate a civil rights complaint that claims the Cleveland Clinic’s Minority Stroke Program and Minority Men’s Health Center both violate federal law by focusing their efforts on specific racial groups.

The complaint was filed in August by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty on behalf of the conservative policy group Do No Harm. It claims the group’s members have been victims of “race discrimination” due to the programs at the prominent Ohio medical center.

The HHS Office for Civil Rights will investigate whether the programs violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act. Section 1557 prohibits discrimination on racial grounds in health programs. The complaint alleges the programs violate the law by singling out people for certain services.

Feds Investigating Cleveland Clinic For Allegedly Treating ‘White Individuals Differently’

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Federal officials have opened an investigation into the Cleveland Clinic over its race-based programs after a conservative legal firm accused the healthcare provider of racial discrimination.

The Department of Health and Human Services’s Office of Civil Rights said last week that it was investigating the Cleveland Clinic over its promotion of its “Minority Stroke Program” and the “Minority Men’s Health Center,” according to a letter from HHS shared with The Daily Wire.

The department was alerted to the programs by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL), which filed a complaint on August 14 on behalf of Do No Harm accusing the clinic of engaging in racial discrimination. Do No Harm is an organization dedicated to depoliticizing medicine.

New study finds top medical schools value left-wing activism over science

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Forget anatomy or physiology: Many of the medical students heading back to class this month are taking courses that focus more on social justice and diversity.

That’s my conclusion in a new study that analyzes the curricula at medical schools across the country.

Future physicians are spending more time on divisive political topics and less time on the medical science on which individual and public health depend — a fact that should terrify policymakers and patients alike.

My study — the first to document the prevalence of ideology in medical school curricula — focuses on schools’ publicly available course catalogs.

Using the US News and World Report rankings, I started with the top-ranked institutions in the country, then worked my way down the list.

EXCLUSIVE: Red States Urge Federal Court To Halt ‘Medical Scandal,’ Unblock Child Sex Change Ban

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Nearly two dozen states are urging a federal appeals court to uphold Florida’s ban on child sex change operations, warning that history may not look kindly on the sterilization of children for gender distress.

In a brief filed Wednesday and obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and 22 other state attorneys general urged the eleventh circuit court of appeals to reverse a lower court ruling that overturned Florida’s pediatric sex-change ban. The amici noted that until recently, “providing sex-change treatments to minors was practically unthinkable,” and recognized that many states and European countries have already created age-based restrictions on sex-change medical interventions.

Climate change classes should be ‘mandatory’ in med school, doctor says

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‘Irresponsible’ not to train ‘future practitioners for the realities they will be facing’

Climate change courses should be “mandatory” for aspiring doctors, according to medical students and clinicians in Michigan.

“My personal opinion is that it should be mandatory,” Dr. Lisa DelBuono told The College Fix via email. “Climate change has been politicized, but it is not a political issue… It would be irresponsible to not prepare future practitioners for the realities they will be facing.”

“Fossil fuels pollution and climate change are making Michigan residents sick today, and the impacts are on track to become much worse going forward,” she said. “The good news is that climate solutions are health solutions and most of what we do to address climate change will improve human health, save lives, and save healthcare dollars.”

Read more on The College Fix.

Cleveland Clinic Scrubs Race-Based Center From Website After Complaint

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The Cleveland Clinic scrubbed references to its minority-only health clinic after a conservative group filed a federal civil rights complaint against the provider earlier this month.

The Clinic removed information on its “Minority Men’s Health Center” from its website sometime after August 14, when the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed a complaint with the Department of Health and Human Services accusing the clinic of illegal discrimination. The complaint was filed on behalf of Do No Harm, an organization dedicated to depoliticizing medicine.

The complaint specifically took issue with the clinic’s racially-focused “Minority Stroke Program” and the “Minority Men’s Health Center.”

International ‘equity’ scholars can’t define ‘gender’ after 5 years of research

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International scholars concluded a five-year “equity” project by determining the concept of “gender” cannot be defined but should be incorporated into all aspects of scientific research nonetheless.

Funded by the European Union, their research was part of a project called GENDER-NET Plus. Launched in 2017, it brought together scholars from various countries to overcome “challenges in achieving gender equality and gender mainstreaming in research and innovation.”

Their final report “Integrating gender analysis into research,” published in The Lancet in July, summarized the scholars’ thoughts on “how to best integrate both sex and gender into studies ranging from social sciences, humanities, and health research.”

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UC San Diego scrubs female-only STEM program after federal complaint

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The University of California San Diego removed some information about its STEM program only open to female high school students following a federal civil rights complaint.

The physical sciences’ department page for “STEM Girl Summer” returns an “access denied” message.

However, the university still lists information on the program elsewhere, including in a social media post last week.

Civil rights activist Mark Perry told The College Fix he believes the university removed the information after he shared a “courtesy copy” of his Title IX complaint. He said in his complaint that the university should open the program to all students or create an equivalent opportunity for male students.

Read more on The College Fix.