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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.

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

Canada Gender Ideology Op-Ed Ian Kingsbury, PhD, Roy Eappen, MD

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.

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

United States Gender Ideology Media Mention

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.

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

Maryland DEI Media Mention

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.

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

California Gender Ideology Media Mention

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.

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

United States DEI Media Mention

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.

Ideology in Medical Schools Threatens Everyone’s Health

Colorado Gender Ideology Op-Ed

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.

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

New York Gender Ideology Media Mention

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.

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

United States Gender Ideology Media Mention

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.

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

United States DEI Media Mention

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.

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Top medical internship faces complaint over ‘racially discriminatory’ preferences

United States DEI Media Mention

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.

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

United States Gender Ideology Media Mention

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.

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

United States DEI Media Mention

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.”

Progressives’ Drive for Equity Is Leading Them Astray on Medical Gender Transition for Minors

Oregon Gender Ideology Op-Ed Paul Terdal

In our drive to eliminate health inequities, my fellow liberal Democrats and I are eager to help children who identify as transgender. This compassionate urge has led our state, Oregon, to fast-track Medicaid coverage of medical transition services for kids, including puberty-blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical removal of breasts and genitals. Yet I’m deeply concerned that in the push for equity, Oregon has ignored evidence, to the point of jeopardizing children’s health. I know from experience that my state can do better to ensure that kids get medically necessary care.

Oregon has long been a national and even international model for evidence-based medicine. I personally encountered my state’s strong commitment to medical science after my two young sons were diagnosed with autism in the late 2000s. At the time, few autism treatments were covered by insurance or Medicaid anywhere in America, so I worked with state leaders and a broader coalition to right that wrong. One key hurdle was Oregon’s Health Evidence Review Commission (HERC), which determines what treatments Medicaid covers and strongly influences the coverage of private health-insurance plans.

‘Social Justice Lawyers’ Told WPATH To Avoid ‘Evidence-Based Review’ Of Sex-Change Guidelines For Minors, Docs Reveal

Alabama Gender Ideology Media Mention

The World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) avoided “evidence-based” reviews of child sex-change procedures on the advice of “social justice lawyers,” a court filing states.

Republican Attorney General Steve Marshall of Alabama filed a motion for summary judgment in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama Wednesday, seeking to beat back a challenge to Alabama’s law restricting the procedures. The Alabama attorney general’s office accused WPATH of placing “advocacy concerns” at the forefront of the creation of the organization’s “Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People, Version 8” (SOC-8), which was based in part on the advice of the “social justice” attorneys who advised the organization to avoid seeking evidence-based recommendations.

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Med School Assistant Deans Urged Students To Oppose Bill Barring Child Sex Change Surgeries

New Hampshire Gender Ideology Media Mention

Dartmouth College’s medical school faculty used university communication channels to urge students to oppose a New Hampshire bill banning gender transition surgeries for children, according to emails obtained by Do No Harm, an association of medical professionals.

The Geisel Medical School encouraged students to oppose three state bills, one of which bans gender transition surgeries for minors and the other protects children from being victimized in school or receiving sex surgeries as minors. The last bill requires people at schools, sports facilities and prisons to use the bathroom corresponding to their biological sex.

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Will a Program to Increase Black Kidney Transplants Do More Harm Than Good?

United States DEI Media Mention

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed a new rule, which is aimed at increasing kidney transplants for black Americans. On its face, the rule would be a net positive. However, the group Do No Harm sees the potential for complications, and the potential for race-based discrimination is just one of them.

Retired nephrologist Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of Do No Harm’s board, submitted a written comment to CMS objecting to the proposal. Goldfarb believes that more black people should receive transplants, but also states that the “health equity plan” is extremely flawed.

Arizona Fails Detransitioners

Arizona Gender Ideology Op-Ed Ian Kingsbury, PhD

Democrats once billed themselves as defenders of the powerless against the oppressive forces of industry. Last week, Arizona’s Democratic governor, Katie Hobbs, protected the politically powerful gender-medicine industry from its victims.

Hobbs vetoed legislation that would have made insurers and health-care providers financially liable for costs associated with reversing or mitigating the harms inflicted on patients in the name of “gender-affirming care.” Currently, young people who have variously undergone surgical castration, mastectomies, and endocrine disruptions, only to realize that what they needed instead was mental-health support, are often left to shoulder the resulting medical bills themselves.