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Left-Wing Nonprofit Steered ‘Health Equity’ Grants Based On Race, Watchdog Says

The Greater Washington Community Foundation (GWCF) runs a “Health Equity” program that appears to racially discriminate against applicants in its grant-making process, according to the medical watchdog group Do No Harm.

The GWCF says its “Health Equity Fund” prioritizes grants to “BIPOC-led organizations” in order to achieve “equitable health outcomes for Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and other marginalized populations in Washington, DC.” Applicants are required to submit a “letter of intent” that lists demographics such as race, gender and ethnic background of board members from partner organizations, according to an informational webinar posted online in October 2023.

Read more on the Daily Caller.

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Medical School Drops Scholarship Program Offered Only to Racial Minorities

A medical school is scrapping a scholarship program that was created exclusively for racial minorities after a watchdog organization filed a civil-rights complaint alleging discriminatory behavior.

Western Michigan University’s School of Medicine shuttered its “Underrepresented in Medicine Visiting Elective Scholarship Program” earlier this week after Do No Harm, a watchdog organization opposed to race preferences in medicine, filed a civil rights complaint with the Department of Education in January 2023, National Review has learned.

“During the investigation, the Medical School notified OCR that it discontinued the program. The Medical School further confirmed that it removed promotional material regarding the program from its website,” the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights said Monday in a letter exclusively obtained by National Review.

Read more on National Review.

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UCLA medical school hired students to write course curriculum emphasizing ‘Structural Racism and Health Equity’

The University of California, Los Angeles Medical School hired students to write the curriculum for the school’s required Structural Racism and Health Equity (SRHE) courses. 

A June 2023 document that was obtained by Do No Harm, a medical and policy advocacy group, showed that UCLA’s medical school was seeking to recruit first and second year medical students to develop a curriculum associated with liberal ideas such as critical race theory.

Read more on Campus Reform.

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The Voter-Registration Guide Will See You Now

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A worrisome new consensus in the medical community holds that doctors should be as concerned with politics as they are with medicine.

“We again discussed . . . the importance of voting and the safety, security, and effectiveness of voting by mail.”

These probably aren’t the words you’d expect to see in a medical record. Yet that’s what a medical professional at a prominent northeastern hospital wrote earlier this year after seeing a patient. The record, a de-identified version of which was provided to my organization, shows a new and profoundly concerning trend in medicine: Leftists are making the doctor’s office a major cog in their voter-registration and turnout machine.

Read more on the National Review.

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No, Michael Bloomberg — black doctors don’t offer better care to blacks than white ones

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Aug. 6 was a great day for the next generation of black doctors.

But it was also a reminder that divisive and discriminatory ideology has infected American medicine.

The praiseworthy part is that Michael Bloomberg gave $600 million to four historically black medical schools.

That money will help defray the exorbitant cost of medical school, hopefully for those with the greatest financial need.

The painful part is that Bloomberg gave this gift in service to a lie — one that encourages racism and even medicine’s re-segregation, though the former mayor surely doesn’t realize it.

Read more on the New York Post.

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Seattle Children’s Hospital Segregates Doctors by Race, Asks Them To Tap ‘Repressed Racial Memories’ in Leaked Training

Stomach doctors at Seattle Children’s Hospital were forced to attend a racially segregated diversity training that included lessons on “critical race theory,” claimed black people are “systematically targeted for demise,” and pressed white doctors to “tap into their repressed racial memories” to develop a white “race-consciousness,” according to slides from the training obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Held in August 2022, the training was mandatory for the gastroenterology department and divided participants into three “racial caucuses”—a white caucus, a black caucus, and a “Non-Black POC Caucus”—to “minimize harm to our black learners and facilitator.”

Read more on the Washington Free Beacon.

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Female medical program won’t exclude white students after discrimination complaint

A top medical fellowship for women will stop excluding white applicants after a complaint accused the program of being racially discriminatory in light of the Supreme Court outlawing affirmative action last year.

Do No Harm, a nonprofit organization that serves as a watchdog in the healthcare industry, filed a lawsuit in June on behalf of female students who met the criteria for the $20,000 award offered by the American Association of University Women but were excluded on the basis of race. Attorneys for both groups wrote in a joint stipulation on Aug. 9 that the lawsuit would be dismissed after AAUW agreed to “not consider” any future applicants’ race or ethnicity.

Read more on the Washington Examiner.

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Barbara Kay: Groundswell against gender-affirming care becoming too loud to ignore

Four years in the making, the final “Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People,” written by esteemed pediatrician Hilary Cass, was released back in April. It was commissioned by NHS England in the United Kingdom, following well-publicized whistle-blowing over allegedly reckless medical experimentation on gender-confused children at the National Health Service’s prestigious Tavistock gender clinic (which was closed following the Cass Review’s inculpatory interim report in 2022).

The interim report alleged inadequate assessment, rushed medicalization, failures to safeguard children, indifference to the special vulnerability of autistic and same-sex attracted patients, substandard research, undue influence of political actors and intimidation of whistleblower staff.

Read more on the National Post.

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‘No one is losing their jobs’: After Stitt executive order, OU DEI rebranded

In December 2023, Gov. Kevin Stitt issued an executive order seeking to downsize or eliminate “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) offices and bureaucracy at Oklahoma colleges and prevent colleges from engaging in illegal discrimination.

“In Oklahoma, we’re going to encourage equal opportunity, rather than promising equal outcomes,” Stitt said at the time. “Encouraging our workforce, economy, and education systems to flourish means shifting focus away from exclusivity and discrimination, and toward opportunity and merit. We’re taking politics out of education and focusing on preparing students for the workforce.”

But at the University of Oklahoma, it appears college officials responded to the order primarily by relabeling DEI offices and positions, and no DEI staff positions were eliminated, based on emails obtained through an open-records request.

“This is a tactic that has been seen in other institutions: rename and rebrand the office to something that doesn’t mention DEI, but maintains the same leadership and initiatives,” said Laura Morgan, a registered nurse with 40 years of experience who is now senior director of programs for the organization Do No Harm. “Staff members may be distributed to other departments where the work of engaging in identity politics continues, but on the surface level the university appears to comply with the law.

Read more on OCPA Think.

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REVEALED: The proof that federal health chiefs backed puberty blockers for trans kids despite KNOWING they can kill

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is under fire for backing the use of puberty blockers for transgender children, even when officials knew they presented life-threatening health risks.

Internal FDA emails obtained in a lawsuit show how officials knew the drugs, which delay the onset of puberty, raise the risks of users having seizures, depression, and committing suicide.

Even so, FDA team chief Shannon Sullivan wrote in a January 2022 email to colleagues that ‘there is definitely a need for these to drugs to be approved for gender transition.’

The revelations have drawn fierce criticism from Republicans, including Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who called the ‘beyond troubling’ and part of a broader effort to promote sex change care.

Read more on Daily Mail.

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Med school scraps program that bars whites after federal complaint

Do No Harm hails the change as a victory against racial discrimination in medical school admissions.

The Ohio State University College of Medicine removed race-based criteria from a research program description on its website following a federal civil rights complaint filed by Do No Harm.

The Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health, offers extra research experience to prospective PhD students. It initially specified that only applicants who are “Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander” were eligible, according to the archived version of the description.

Read more on The College Fix.

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Medical school removes portraits of ‘old, white’ former deans in name of ‘diversity’

Students, faculty did not ‘always feel welcome’

Canada’s Dalhousie University Medical School has taken down portraits of its former “old” and “white” deans because they are “no longer representative of the school’s student body.”

According to Do No Harm, Dean of Medicine David Anderson announced the move in a mid-July message regarding the school’s “Valuing People” initiative.

The initiative “focuses on our belief that people and culture can set us apart, and if we start with a ‘people first’ approach, anything is possible,” Anderson wrote. “To do this, we must focus on creating positive, safe, and inclusive environments for people to thrive.”

Read more on The College Fix.

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Med School Quietly Scrubs Race-Based Criteria For Gov’t Funded Program Following Complaint

A prominent medical school silently removed a race requirement from a National Institute of Health (NIH)-funded research program on its website following an October 2022 civil rights complaint alleging the admission criteria was illegal and discriminatory.

The Ohio State University College of Medicine Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP), which is designed to equip pre-medical students with additional research experience to bolster their medical school applications, originally stated that applicants must be “Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander” in order to qualify for NIH funding through the program but silently removed the requirement sometime in late 2023 after Do No Harm’s complaint was filed. The program’s website now replaces the requirement with one stating applicants must “have encountered obstacles to gaining sufficient experience and the skills necessary for admission into a research-centric PhD graduate program in their chosen field of study.”

Read more on the Daily Caller.

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Opinion: It’s time Canadian medical leaders stood up to gender medicine

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Last spring, esteemed pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass issued her final report of an exhaustive four-year-long inquiry into clinical “gender identity” practices in the United Kingdom. After forensically plucking away at the basis for herding minors down an irreversible pathway of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and genital-revision surgery, she concluded that the evidence supporting those practices simply doesn’t exist.

Yet on this side of the pond, we remain unwilling to acquiesce to the truths laid bare by the Cass Review. The unfounded construct of “gender-affirming care,” which holds that gender incongruence can manifest as early as age four, and that questioning a minor’s gender self-identification is both harmful and unethical, continues to hold sway in Canadian and American classrooms, courtrooms, boardrooms and, sadly, doctors’ exam rooms.

Read more on the National Post.

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EXCLUSIVE: Harris VP Short-Lister Collaborated With Trans Lobby To Target Counselors Who Don’t Gender-Transition Kids

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who is reportedly on Vice President Kamala Harris’ shortlist for running mate, collaborated with transgender activists to target professionals who help children resolve gender distress without life-altering medical treatments, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The Shapiro administration and representatives of the Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ activist group, worked behind the scenes in a systematic campaign to effectively impose bans on so-called “conversion therapy,” without needing to pass any legislation. The Trevor Project also investigated individual licensed therapists, some of whom were connected to Christian groups, and shared part of that information with Shapiro’s administration, emails obtained by the DCNF show.

Read more on the Daily Caller.

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‘Really Bad For Taxpayers’: Health Dept. ‘Ill-Equipped’ To Handle Federal Funds From Biden Admin, Analysts Say

The Maryland Department of Health (MDH) is unfit to manage the four million dollar grant they received from the Biden Administration, which they plan to use towards advancing a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) health agenda that would be worse for patients, analysts told The Daily Caller.

The MDH received a four million dollar federal grant from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to fund their implementation of the federal States Advancing All-Payer Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD) Model, an “equitable” healthcare plan, according to a July press release by Democratic Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s office. Parts of MDH’s financial history, however, have been “really bad for taxpayers,” according to Marc Joffe, a federalism and state policy analyst at the Cato Institute.

Read more on the Daily Caller.

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Instead Of Taking On The Billion-Dollar Trans Industry, The Los Angeles Times Attacks Its Victim, Chloe Cole

When Chloe Cole was a young girl, she was persuaded, largely by the internet, that she was really a boy trapped in a girl’s body. According to Chloe, instead of helping her accept her natural, healthy body, her doctors affirmed her false belief and told her parents she would kill herself if her body was not chemically and surgically modified to look more like a boy’s. In other words, they lied, and their “gender-affirming” procedures have left Chloe irreversibly damaged.

She has since become one of the most prominent detransitioners in the world, speaking out against the evils that were inflicted on her. So the acolytes of gender ideology are trying to destroy her — just look at a recent Los Angeles Times hit piece that is a cornucopia of smears.

Read more on The Federalist.

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EXCLUSIVE POLL: African Americans Widely Critical Of ‘Gender Neutral’ Terms In Medical Field

African Americans are critical of the medical community’s efforts to embrace “gender neutral” terms that promote transgender ideology, according to a new poll.

The results from the poll, which was conducted by Ingram Market Research on behalf of Do No Harm, comes as a growing number of doctors embrace new language to reflect the core tenets of left-wing gender theory.

Read more on The Daily Wire.