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.

‘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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

‘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.

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.

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.

Ideology in Medical Schools Threatens Everyone’s Health

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Beware the rising generation of physicians. In June, an army of medical students defeated my attempt to protect children from radical transgender ideology. My fellow physicians in the Colorado Medical Society overwhelmingly stood with me in defense of basic medical ethics and evidence, yet students from Colorado’s premier medical school overruled us. Americans should worry that when today’s trainees become tomorrow’s doctors, they’ll put political activism ahead of patient health.

I never expected to learn this lesson when I filed a resolution with the CMS in March. I did so based on the rapid rise of transgender medical interventions for children, both in Colorado and around the nation. I began my medical career in gynecology and know how transgender treatments can affect young people’s bodies. They can ruin healthy sexual function and damage reproductive ability, potentially leading to a lifetime of physical and mental ailments.

Read more on The Wall Street Journal.

Autism Advocacy Group Pushes Child Sex Changes, Condemns Laws That Protect Children

An advocacy organization for people with autism partnered with a New York state agency to create a guide to child sex changes, condemning efforts to protect children from irreversible medical interventions as “based on lies.”

The 198-page document, titled “A Self-Advocate’s Guide to Gender-Affirming Health Care,” was published by the Autistic Self Advocacy Network in conjunction with the New York State Developmental Disabilities Planning Council. The guide advances the core tenets of gender ideology and condemns laws that protect children from irreversible medical procedures that can render them infertile.

Read more on The Daily Wire.

The conservative doctor who’s got the GOP’s ear on trans kids’ care

A retired kidney doctor has become Republicans’ go-to source for medical expertise in making the case to ban gender-affirming care for kids.

Twenty-five states led by Republicans have enacted laws banning or restricting that care for kids with gender dysphoria. They’ve often relied on nephrologist Stanley Goldfarb and his organization, Do No Harm, to argue that hormone treatments, puberty blockers and rare surgeries to change physical characteristics are medically harmful.

Read more on Politico.

Medical Internship Program Under Fire For Rejecting Anyone Who Doesn’t ‘Identify’ As Black

A medical internship program is under fire for allegedly racially discriminating against otherwise qualified applicants, requiring that applicants must “identify” as black or African American.

Do No Harm filed a complaint on behalf of a member on Thursday requesting the federal government investigate an internship offered by the Alliance for Regenerative Medicine (ARM). The anonymous member was qualified academically and met all other requirements but was rejected because of his race.

Read more on the Daily Caller.

Top medical internship faces complaint over ‘racially discriminatory’ preferences

A top medical internship program designed to offer career opportunities in the regenerative medicine sector is facing criticism for “racially discriminatory” preferences favoring only black students, according to a new complaint.

The Alliance for Regenerative Medicine was accused of unlawful racial discrimination in a complaint filed Thursday with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by the advocacy group Do No Harm. The complaint accuses ARM, which describes itself as the “leading international advocacy” group for regenerative medicine practices, of operating a racially exclusive internship program that violates federal law.

Read more on the Washington Examiner.

Top Biden Official Pushes ‘Irreversible Harm’ On Kids As White House Pretends Otherwise, Docs Say

The Biden administration’s stated opposition to sex-change surgeries for minors doesn’t match the actions of its top health officials and legal strategy.

Recently unsealed court documents from an Alabama court case over a pediatric sex-change treatment ban show that Assistant Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Rachel Levine, a man who believes he is a woman, pressured the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) to eliminate age requirements for transgender surgical treatments in their standards of care.

Read more on The Daily Caller.

NIH spends $136 million in taxpayer funds on racism and medicine studies

A study on black drinkers and “microaggressions” is just one of the 267 research projects from the National Institutes of Health focusing on racism and medicine.

In total, the taxpayer-funded entity has spent $136 million on racism-focused studies so far during the 2024 fiscal year, according to a College Fix analysis.

Some focus on race and racial disparities from an observational standpoint, such as research from the University of Colorado Denver which looked into the relationship between “food insecurity and cardiometabolic health in diverse children and adolescents.”

Read more on The College Fix.