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Ideology in Medical Schools Threatens Everyone’s Health

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.

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.

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.

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, 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.

‘Microaggressions’ could cost doctors their medical licenses in Oregon, according to new proposed rule

Oregon DEI Media Mention

The Oregon Medical Board has introduced a new ethics rule that threatens to revoke the medical licenses of doctors who commit “microaggressions” in the workplace.

Under the proposed law first introduced in April, doctors will be required to report “unprofessional or dishonorable conduct” by themselves or a licensed colleague within 10 business days. If they do not comply with the mandatory rule, they will face disciplinary action, which could include the loss of their medical license, according to the proposal.

How The Doctor At The Center Of Latest Texas Children’s Hospital Scandal Built An Alliance With Transgender Activists

Texas Gender Ideology Media Mention

Dr. Richard Ogden Roberts III is a pediatric endocrinologist at the Texas Children’s Hospital who’s administered puberty blocking and cross-sex hormone medications to young patients suffering from gender dysphoria. He was also one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit that sought to halt a ban against child sex changes, leveraging his medical credentials as he worked alongside radical activist organizations.

Now he’s found himself at the center of a new scandal at the hospital, which has been enveloped in criticism after one whistleblower exposed the hospital for lying to the public about their offerings of transgender medical interventions to children and was then targeted by the federal government as a result.

‘Life and death’: House GOP faces mounting pressure to target DEI in medical schools

United States DEI Media Mention

More than 50 conservative groups are urging the House of Representatives to vote on a bill to block medical schools from weighing diversity as an admissions factor.

“Prioritizing the teaching of the political and social ideology at the heart of DEI, to the exclusion or expense of academic excellence, has life and death consequences for millions of patients,” they argued. “This bill takes a critical first step in reorienting medical education towards its noble, life-saving mission.”

The groups – 52 in total and include Do No Harm, Tea Party Patriots Action, Heritage Action, Physicians for Reform and others – sent a letter this week urging House Education and Workforce Committee Chair Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., to advance the bill through her panel and for Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to bring it to the House floor.

New lawsuit claims women’s medical program illegally excludes White students

United States DEI Media Mention

A new lawsuit has been filed against the American Association of University Women (AAUW) by the organization Do No Harm alleging that the AAUW’s “Selected Professions Fellowships” program is discriminatory and illegal.

The AAUW program offers $20,000 and networking opportunities to women pursuing certain degrees, but the organization has designated certain fellowships as restricted to women of color. The program is open only to women from ethnic minority groups, including Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander.

Do No Harm, a nonprofit organization that says its aim is to safeguard healthcare from ideological threats, is filing the lawsuit on behalf of its medical student members who meet the criteria for the fellowship but are ineligible to apply due to their race.

‘Microaggressions’ May Cause Oregon Doctors to Lose Licenses if Proposed Rule Adopted

Oregon DEI Media Mention

A newly proposed ethics rule regarding microaggressions by the Oregon Medical Board (OMB) could leave doctors in the state without medical licenses.

The OMB is reportedly in the process of finalizing an ethics rule regarding unprofessional conduct, which would include adding “microaggressions” into the definition, according to the Washington Free Beacon. The outlet notes that under the rule, doctors who do not report “unprofessional conduct, “within 10 business days,” may face extreme consequences, such as losing their medical license.

Oregon Doctors Could Soon Lose Their Licenses for ‘Microaggressions’ Under Proposed Medical Board Rule

Oregon DEI Media Mention

“America is the land of opportunity.” “I believe the most qualified person should get the job.” “America is a melting pot.” Those are examples of harmful “microaggressions,” according to Columbia professor Derald Wing Sue, lauded by Oregon’s state government as a “microaggressions expert.”

Now, under a soon-to-be-finalized ethics rule from the Oregon Medical Board, doctors who commit “microaggressions” risk losing their medical licenses.

Under Oregon law, doctors who fail to report “unprofessional conduct” from themselves or a colleague within 10 business days can face severe penalties, including loss of license. The state’s medical board is in the process of shoehorning “microaggressions” innocently intentioned behaviors interpreted by women or minorities to be subliminal communications of bias—into its definition of “unprofessional conduct,” according to the proposed rule, which the board unveiled in April.

Read more on the Washington Free Beacon.