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‘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.

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

DEI Media Mention

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

DEI Media Mention

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.”

Advocates of Woke Medicine Play Victim While Still Pushing Their Agenda

Gender Ideology Media Mention

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.”

The latest attempt to silence detransitioners like me

Gender Ideology Op-Ed Chloe Cole

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.

Republican states are subsidizing ‘sex changes’ for minors

Gender Ideology Media Mention

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.

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

New York Gender Ideology Op-Ed Kelly Eustis

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.

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

Gender Ideology Media Mention

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.

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

Gender Ideology Media Mention

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.

Money Is Driving Medicine’s Embrace of Child Transgenderism

Gender Ideology Op-Ed Roy Eappen, MD, Stanley Goldfarb

Before his debate with Governor Tim Walz, Republican vice-presidential nominee Senator J. D. Vance slammed his Democratic counterpart for making Minnesota a “trans refuge” for children. Vance is right to highlight the medical and moral monstrosity of an establishment that encourages young boys and girls who feel that they must change their gender. But it’s also true that massive amounts of money are at stake. Medical providers stand to earn a windfall from children’s gender-transition procedures, which helps explain why the industry has endorsed the most aggressive treatments for gender dysphoria.

That’s our conclusion after looking at transgender medical interventions — puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries — performed on minors at children’s hospitals and affiliated health systems between 2019 and 2023. The facilities for which there are publicly available data provided nearly 14,000 treatments (including 5,700 surgeries) at a total cost to insurance companies and taxpayers of nearly $120 million. The real numbers are almost certainly higher, since major health systems such as Kaiser Permanente don’t disclose data, nor do patients who pay out of pocket.

Attention parents! New database provides detailed breakdown of which facilities are performing sex-change procedures on minors IN YOUR AREA

Gender Ideology Media Mention

Stop the Harm is a database created by Do No Harm that tracks and reports on “gender affirming care” for minors taking place in each state, the goal being to “encourage positive change and protect children” from the insidiousness of gender ideology.

With a click of your mouse, you can easily see the exact hospitals in your state that are offering gender affirming care to children, how many sex-change surgeries they’ve performed, how many prescriptions they’ve written, and how many patients they’ve seen.

The site also provides statistics on the worst offending hospitals and doctors in the nation.

It’s a wealth of resources for parents who want to stay informed on one of the most egregious issues of our time.

Yale mental health clinic asks kids about racism

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Yale University counselors are testing a ‘racially informed’ approach when treating kids for mental health problems

Yale University clinicians will begin asking pediatric mental health patients about their experiences with racism.

The Yale Child Study Center will use an “innovative clinical tool” called the “Racially Informed Clinical Formulation” to “address the pervasive impact of racism on mental health.”

The study center “serves as the Department of Child Psychiatry for the Yale School of Medicine,” according to its website.

Data: U.S. Hospitals Transitioned Nearly 6,000 Kids From 2019-2023

Gender Ideology Media Mention

New data shows U.S. hospitals performed at least 5,747 gender-disfiguring surgeries on minors between 2019 and 2023, according to a database released by Do No Harm, an advocacy group of medical professionals. The data also show 13,994 American children received other transgender treatments, such as puberty-blocking and opposite-sex hormones, in those four years.

Most of the children receiving such procedures were girls between the ages of 12 and 17, the database indicates. Medical practitioners made more than $119 million from the procedures, the data says.

U.S. Hospitals Earned Nearly $120 Million in Four Years for Sex-Change Treatments on Minors

Gender Ideology Media Mention

A report from the medical watchdog group Do No Harm shows that hospitals in the U.S. earned nearly $120 million in four years performing gender transition treatments on nearly 14,000 children under the age of 18.

The new watchdog group showed that between 2019 and 2023, as many as 5,747 minors underwent sex-change surgeries, while another 8,579 used puberty blockers or sex hormones.