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Groups applaud HHS for ending taxpayer-funded child sex change procedures

The Department of Health and Human Services’ announcement that it will end taxpayer-funded child sex change procedures by terminating Medicaid and CHIP coverage for such interventions as puberty blockers and more has met with approval from organizations working to protect children from identity politics.

Chairman of medical watchdog Do No Harm Dr. Stanley Goldfarb told The Center Square: “We applaud the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid for taking such a critical step toward prohibiting the use of taxpayer dollars on harmful and irreversible sex-rejecting surgeries on minors.”

Read more at the Center Square.

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CDC has made sure detransitioners are no longer invisible

American healthcare just took a powerful step toward justice, safety, and compassionate medicine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced that it will recognize the patients who’ve suffered from so-called gender-affirming care. CDC is shining a light on those who resolve their confusion about their gender, as well as those who seek to reclaim their biological gender after a transition. Our country will become the first in the world to finally give them the attention they need–so they can finally get the medical care they deserve.

Read the full piece at the Hill.

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HHS Opens Civil Rights Probe into Kaiser Permanente for Allegedly Prioritizing Black Patients

The Department of Health and Human Services is investigating Kaiser Permanente for allegedly violating anti-discrimination law with its Center for Black Health and Wellness.

Earlier this year, Do No Harm, a conservative medical civil rights group opposed to DEI and gender ideology, filed a complaint against the health care group, which alleged that the Portland, Oregon, center’s branding implied that non-black patients were unwelcome to access services there. HHS’s Office for Civil Rights confirmed to Do No Harm last week that it was opening an investigation into Kaiser in a letter obtained by National Review.

Read more at National Review Online.

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Colorado Has Been Running A State-Funded Grooming And Mutilation Operation For Years

Colorado has been using taxpayer dollars to groom children into believing they are “transgender” and point them to mutilation surgeries, emphasizing that many do not need parental consent.

According to a new report from Do No Harm, Colorado spends millions of dollars on government programs, social media influencer campaigns, and medical school curriculums all aimed at convincing children they are a different gender, pointing them toward medicalization, and bullying the parents who do not want to destroy their children. Colorado even paid “queer” children ages 12-18 to participate in virtual meetings about “transition” resources, the report stated.

Read more at the Federalist.

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Trump Should Act Against Colorado’s Transgender Subsidies

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The child transgenderism craze has begun to recede, largely thanks to legal, financial and political pressure from the Trump administration. Yet a critical piece of the story is only now coming to light. As I show in a new report for Do No Harm, state and federal taxpayers have long been co-opted into encouraging boys and girls to try to become something they aren’t and can never be. Through public funding for state education and healthcare programs, taxpayers are unwittingly complicit in physically harming vulnerable children.

The Trump administration has highlighted part of this dismal picture, proposing a rule to end federal Medicaid payments for so-called gender-affirming care for children. Yet a significant amount of taxpayer funding for pretreatment promotion occurs at the state level. Taxpayers are not only paying for irreversible and dangerous treatments for children through Medicaid. They are also funding the state-run programs that encourage children down the gender-ideology path in the first place.

Read more at the Wall Street Journal.

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Health watchdog: Nation’s social work accreditor refuses to remove DEI requirements

The Council on Social Work Education refused to oblige medical watchdog Do No Harm’s May letter that requested the accreditor remove diversity, equity, and inclusion requirements from its accreditation standards that Do No Harm sees as abandoning its “fundamental duty” to determine quality education.

Do No Harm chief medical officer Kurt Miceli told The Center Square that the Council on Social Work Education’s (CSWE) “refusal to remove DEI standards from accredited social work education programs stands in sharp contrast to the widespread rollbacks occurring across other higher‑education accreditors, particularly in the helping professions.

“As the exclusive accreditor for social work education in the United States, CSWE continues to embed concepts such as ‘anti‑racism’ and other DEI principles into curricular standards,” Miceli said.

Read more at the Center Square.

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Bill Would Make Insurance Cover Body-Acceptance Treatments For Trans Desisters

Soren Aldaco was 19 when a surgeon amputated her healthy breasts on the recommendation of a therapist who responded to the teen’s gender dysphoria by encouraging her to pursue irreversible surgery. Now one of the many young people who regret being deceived by transgender ideology, Aldaco sued her therapist for malpractice, and in a landmark case the Texas Supreme Court affirmed her suit can move forward.

But there’s another cost for the victims of trans mania that Aldaco told me is “too often overlooked”: the expensive medical care that’s often required to treat the lifelong physical consequences of transgender interventions.

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Anticipating the need, Do No Harm recommended a new code for “Gender Identity Disorder in Remission (Desistance)” to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If added to the CDC’s ICD-10-CM system, it would make detransitioners visible in health care records, insurance billing, and research, [Dr. Michelle Cretella, Adolescent Health Council co-chair at the American College of Pediatricians] said. She said Do No Harm and ACPeds are “cautiously optimistic” the CDC will implement the change.

Read more at the Federalist.

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U. Kansas Medical Center ‘gender-affirming care’ fellowship sponsors doctors to join global trans group

The University of Kansas Medical Center operates an “Adult Comprehensive Gender Care and Surgery” fellowship that sponsors participants to join a global transgender organization, according to a recent report by The Daily Wire.

As part of the fellowship program, the federally funded school partners with the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, encouraging fellows to become members of the organization. WPATH’s goal is to “promote a high quality of care for transsexual, transgender, and gender-nonconforming individuals internationally,” according to its website.

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Dr. Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer at Do No Harm, condemned the fellowship in an email interview with The College Fix. 

“Residency and fellowship programs are expected to provide rigorous, professional training environments free from ideological pressure, safeguarding objective academic standards that support safe, high‑quality medical practice,” he said.

Read more at the College Fix.

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WPATH FILES: Trans Org Admits Need For Detransitioner Protocols While Pushing Child Sex-Changes

Members of the world’s leading transgender medical organization admitted protocols were needed to help transgender patients “detransition” back to their real sex while publicly recommending children receive sex-change surgery.

In a private online forum, members of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) asked for advice on treating the complex medical needs of patients wanting to return or “detransition” to their real sex after undergoing sex-change surgeries such as vaginoplasty, breast augmentation, double mastectomy, hysterectomy, and oophorectomy. WPATH members acknowledged in the forum the brutalized bodies of detransitioners needed specialized care and these struggling patients were often forsaken by the medical community which gave them their scars.

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Dr. Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer at Do No Harm, told The Daily Wire there is an “undeniable need” for detransitioner medical protocols.

“There is a critical and undeniable need for detransitioner protocols — a reality acknowledged even by WPATH’s own members. Yet this is the same organization that has ignored systematic review upon systematic review as it promotes harmful and irreversible sex-rejecting procedures for minors,” Miceli told The Daily Wire. “This contradiction cannot be brushed aside: it exposes a fundamental inconsistency in which life-altering interventions are championed for minors on the one hand while the reality of those who later seek to reverse them has unfortunately been minimized and gone unaddressed.”

Read more at Daily Wire.

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Medical Watchdog Calls on AMA to Condemn Practice That Doesn’t Belong ‘in Any Clinical-Care Plan’

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The medical watchdog group Do No Harm is calling on 10 major medical associations to explicitly condemn transgender genital surgeries on minors.

“Professional medical societies that endorse so-called gender-affirming care in minors bear tremendous responsibility for the harm done to American children in the name of gender ideology,” Dr. Kurt Miceli, a psychiatrist and chief medical officer at Do No Harm, told the Daily Signal in a statement on the letters.

Do No Harm sent ten largely identical open letters Wednesday morning, addressing the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Medical Association, the Endocrine Society, the American Urological Association, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Physicians, and the Pediatric Endocrine Society.

Read more at the Daily Signal.

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The APA awarded a ‘human rights’ prize to a Holocaust revisionist. Yes, really

In the days following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led invasion of Israel, a particularly memorable headline from the Babylon Bee exclaimed that “Ivy League Student Leaves Lecture on Microaggressions to Attend ‘Kill the Jews’ Rally.” Someone should alert the leadership of the American Psychiatric Association that the site is satire and not a manual.

Back in March, the APA — a 40,000-plus strong medical specialty organization that represents psychiatrists around the globe — announced Johns Hopkins professor Mansoor Malik as the 2026 recipient of the Chester M. Pierce Human Rights Award. Malik was supposed to deliver an acceptance speech at the APA’s annual meeting in May. Instead, according to Malik’s account published in Mondoweiss, the lecture titled “From Microaggression to Mass Violence: Psychological Autopsy of the Gaza Genocide“ was “canceled” (later to be presented digitally on a rescheduled date) due to “organized outside email campaigns and pressure from advocacy groups.”

Read more at the Washington Examiner.

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Medical Orgs Slapped With Complaints For Alleged Discriminatory Hiring Practices

Medical advocacy organization Do No Harm filed complaints Tuesday against Atlantic Health System and Nemours Children’s Health, alleging discriminatory DEI practices. The complaints, filed with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (HHS-OCR), accused these organizations of race-based hiring practices that may violate federal anti-discrimination laws.

Atlantic Health’s Minority Visiting Clerkship Program (MVCP) for fourth-year medical students is a program specifically for groups “underrepresented in medicine.” According to Atlantic Health, these groups include “African American, Hispanic/Latino and American Indian/Alaska Native.”

“Students selected to participate are awarded inpatient residency rotations, an interview for full-time residency after medical school, mentorship, and valuable networking opportunities with hospital staff,” according to a Do No Harm (DNH) press release obtained by The Federalist.

Similarly, Nemours Children’s Visiting Student Scholar Program is limited to those “underrepresented in medicine as any racial, ethnic, religious, socioeconomic, or ability status group whose numbers in medicine are not reflective of that group’s population of the United States.” Therefore, only members of minority groups qualify for this program, which offers a stipend, several rotation options, and networking opportunities.

Read more at the Federalist. 

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Some US Medical Schools May Still Be Promoting DEI Efforts, Watchdog Says

Some U.S. medical schools may be continuing to promote certain diversity, equity and inclusion ideology in some form, according to emails and meeting notes obtained by Do No Harm.

The University of Iowa (UI) announced in March 2025 that it was shuttering its Division of Access, Opportunity, and Diversity following a directive from the Iowa Board of Regents. However, DNH obtained a copy of a March 26, 2025 email from a UI employee via a Freedom of Information Act request suggesting that the university’s Carver College of Medicine (CCOM)’s DEI office was “still fully up and running” under a different name despite the other diversity division closing, the Daily Caller News Foundation first learned.

Read more at the Daily Caller.

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Trump Lucks Into a Plan to Reform the AMA

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The Trump administration has stumbled onto a chance to help rid medicine of radical ideology. On July 14, the Department of Health and Human Services began soliciting ideas for reforming Medicare’s physician payment system. It’s a massive and complicated undertaking that would have seismic effects on medicine, and it’s worth pursuing for another reason: It would likely force the American Medical Association—the most powerful medical group in the country—to focus on representing physicians and improving medicine, not harming patients by advocating race-based politics and gender ideology.

Combating ideology isn’t necessarily the Trump administration’s goal, but the issue is unavoidable given how Medicare payments work. Physicians use billing codes that come from the Current Procedural Terminology system, which the AMA developed in the 1960s. The AMA holds the copyright, so it earns licensing royalties when the codes are used.

Read more at the Wall Street Journal.

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Medical students are being trained in left-wing activism. That puts us all in danger

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American medicine is freaking out. Polls show that trust in medical professionals is the lowest in decades. Barely half the public has high levels of trust in doctors, with double-digit percentage declines in recent years. While the media is pointing the finger at politicians like President Donald Trump, the truth is that a different kind of politics has infected medicine. Left-wing activism has corrupted medical education and medical practice alike. Americans deserve to know exactly who’s sacrificing patient care in the name of politics.

In a new report, my organization has shown how political activism has overtaken the biggest trendsetters in medicine — medical journals. While most Americans have never encountered these publications, they affect every American by setting and reflecting the direction of medical education, practice, and policy.

Read more at the Washington Examiner. 

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Medicine’s identity crisis: When ‘health’ means everything

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For nearly a decade, the most influential medical journals in the world have been telling medical professionals that almost everything is their business: housing markets, immigration status, climate change, criminal justice, internet access, even colonialism.

The concept driving this expansion is “social determinants of health” (SDOH). The World Health Organization defines the term as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age,” including the health system itself – conditions that the WHO says are “shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national, and local levels.”

Originally centered on material circumstances, the concept of SDOH has grown far more expansive. It risks drawing healthcare professionals into policy domains in which they have little training and less expertise.

Read more at the Center Square. 

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Okla. schools face civil rights complaint over American Indian-only scholarship

Medical watchdog Do No Harm filed a complaint with the Department of Education against two Oklahoma schools that offer nursing scholarship programs that the watchdog says discriminate on the basis of race by only awarding the scholarship to those of American Indian descent.

Chief Medical Officer at Do No Harm Dr. Kurt Miceli told The Center Square that Northeastern State University and Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College “are excluding qualified individuals from rich learning opportunities based solely on race, regardless of their academic ability, skills, experiences and perspectives.”

Read more at the Center Square.

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Colleges trying to ‘increase the number of Native American nurses’ face civil rights complaint

A watchdog group filed a civil rights complaint against Oklahoma schools offering a federally funded scholarship catered toward Native American nursing students.

Northeastern State University and Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College are “discriminating against white students and other races they disfavor” through the program, medical advocacy group Do No Harm told the Department of Education in a Tuesday complaint obtained by the Washington Examiner. The public colleges “will distribute scholarships to Native American nursing students” to boost their representation in the field, according to NSU’s online description cited in the complaint.

Read more at the Washington Examiner.