How We’ve Taken the Bias Out of ‘Implicit Bias Training’

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Is there any escape from woke indoctrination? I’ve heard versions of this question from countless doctors, nurses and other medical professionals. Healthcare has been captured by activists pushing divisive and discriminatory ideologies, especially through education and training. One of the most visible manifestations is mandatory “implicit bias training,” which seven states have adopted and at least 25 more are considering. In Michigan, medical professionals will soon be free.

On May 1, my organization will launch a continuing medical education course that fulfills Michigan’s implicit-bias-training mandate. Created by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2021 and updated last year, the mandate requires regular indoctrination for the members of 26 medical fields—not only doctors and nurses, but athletic trainers, acupuncturists, massage therapists, midwives and many others. As many as 400,000 medical professionals are now required to learn about implicit bias every time they apply for or renew a license. Michigan’s mandate is one of the most expansive in the nation.

Read more in the Wall Street Journal.

‘Pedagogical Malpractice’: Inside UCLA Medical School’s Mandatory ‘Health Equity’ Class

Students in their first year of medical school typically learn what a healthy body looks like and how to keep it that way. At the University of California, Los Angeles, they learn that “fatphobia is medicine’s status quo” and that weight loss is a “hopeless endeavor.”

Those are two of the more moderate claims made by Marquisele Mercedes, a self-described “fat liberationist,” in an essay assigned to all first-year students in UCLA medical school’s mandatory “Structural Racism and Health Equity” class. Launched in the wake of George Floyd’s death, the course is required for all first-year medical students.

The Washington Free Beacon has obtained the entire syllabus for the course, along with slide decks and lecture prep from some of its most explosive sessions. The materials offer the fullest picture to date of what students at the elite medical school are learning and have dismayed prominent physicians—including those sympathetic to the goals of the class—who say UCLA has traded medicine for Marxism.

Read more on the Washington Free Beacon.

Medicine shuns gender detransitioners like me — but we deserve to be heard and helped

When I was 12, I tried to transition my gender.

Everyone supported me.

Therapists told me I was doing the right thing.

Doctors put me on puberty blockers and then cross-sex hormones before cutting off my breasts — a double mastectomy.

My parents’ health insurance covered everything.

The medical establishment believed I should transition, based on the idea of “gender-affirming care.”

The message I got was loud and clear: Transitioning was the best decision I’d ever made.

At age 16, I realized I’d made a mistake.

Read more at the New York Post.

How Neuropsychology Lost Its Mind

A critical health-care field has suddenly found itself confronted by far-left activists demanding to transform it based on unfounded accusations of systemic racism.

Is the pilot on your airplane fit to fly? Is your surgeon too old to operate on your heart? Does your daughter have brain damage? Such are the serious questions that neuropsychologists must answer daily, and to ensure that we reach the right decisions, we spend years in advanced scientific study and training.

But since 2022, neuropsychology has suddenly found itself confronted by far-left activists demanding to transform it based on unfounded accusations of systemic racism.

Read more on National Review.

Woke medicine KILLS: 10 examples of how DEI is creating the next public health crisis

The left’s woke agenda is chock-full of phony public health crises – racism, climate change, inaccessible “gender-affirming care.”

But there’s a real public health crisis on the horizon, and it goes by the name of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

DEI, which Glenn Beck calls “a sick cancer,” has “infiltrated our medical schools, our doctors, and our health care,” and the results will be nothing short of devastating.

“Do No Harm” – an organization founded on the principle of “protecting health care from the disastrous consequences of identity politics” – has revealed that “23 of America’s top 25 medical schools now have anti-racism instruction as the core part of their curriculum.” And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Read more on Blaze Media.

Disturbing left-wing propaganda infects our medical schools

If there is one area of life you would hope might be off limits to the left-wing insanity ripping through the nation like wildfire, surely it would be the field of medicine. When it comes to your health, politics should not have anything to do with how you’re treated by your doctor.

Yet, a guest speaker, whose lecture was required by all first-year medical students at UCLA as part of their mandatory course on “structural racism,” said a prayer to “the ancestors” and “mama earth.” She went on to criticize private property and accuse “colonizers” of “pimp[ing] and play[ing] mama earth.” She concluded her talk by having the students get on their knees and touch “mama earth” with their fists while she prayed. Then later, according to a report in the Washington Free Beacon, she led the students in chanting, “Free, Free Palestine.”

Read more on Blaze Media.

Breast cancer surgeons must submit DEI statement for UC Davis job

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Applicants for a job as a surgical oncologist must submit a “Statement of Contributions to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,” to be considered at the University of California Davis.

“Contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion documented in the application file will be used to evaluate applicants,” the job listing for an “academic surgical oncologist/breast surgeon” states.

The job is with UC Davis’ surgery department in its health department.

University policy requires all faculty applicants to “submit a statement about their past, present, and future contributions to promoting equity, inclusion, and diversity in their professional careers.”

Read more on The College Fix.

Stuck in Wokeness’s Waiting Room

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The edifice of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), a reasonable-sounding concept that serves as a dog whistle for critical race theory and is premised on the claim that our country is systemically racist, is cracking. But the road to the dismantling of this illiberal, anti-science, racist, and now antisemitic ideology promises to be long and hard. There will be a lot of collateral damage in this battle, as DEI ideology has spread everywhere, including the medical field.

Examples abound. Just recently, medical colleagues of my generation watched in disbelief as first-year students at UCLA’s School of Medicine were forced to attend a mandatory lecture on structural racism given by Lisa Gray-Garcia in which they were led in chants of “Free Palestine” and told to kneel in prayer to “Mama Earth.” Gray-Garcia is not a physician. She is a self-proclaimed “formerly unhoused, incarcerated, revolutionary journalist, lecturer, poet, visionary, teacher and single mama.” She is a “Poverty Scholar” in UCLA’s Activist in Residence program. This is who UCLA is enlisting to educate future physicians.

Read more on National Review.

We were pushed to transition as teens — now we’re ‘vindicated’ by study showing kids grow out of it

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A study which finds gender-confused youth mostly grow out of it and a ban on puberty blockers in England are both being hailed as “vindication” by “detransitioners” — people who have gone back to their birth sex after transitioning as teenagers.

Detransitioners told The Post that they were living evidence for a major study in the Netherlands which found that what psychiatrists refer to as “gender dysphoria” — a desire to be the opposite sex — diminishes significantly between adolescence and early adulthood.

And the also backed a report in England where doctors were told to stop prescribing “puberty blocking” hormones after a bombshell audit of the country’s leading gender clinic, the Tavistock in London, found troubled teens were given the drugs without medical evidence that they were safe.

Read more at the New York Post.

Kansas Governor Vetoes Bill Protecting Children From Transgender Surgeries

The governor of Kansas vetoed a bill seeking to protect minors from gender transition surgeries, insisting that it “tramples parental rights.”

On Friday, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed Substitute Bill for Senate Bill 233 prohibiting health care providers from performing transgender surgeries and procedures on children. The bill allows a civil cause of action against providers offering such treatments with professional disciplinary action taken against such individuals. The bill restricts the use of state funds to promote gender transition procedures. SB 233 also prohibits professional liability insurance firms from covering damages for health care providers offering gender transition procedures to children.

Read more on The Epoch Times.

Philly med school will pursue ‘diverse workforce’ through scholarships, special programs

A Philadelphia medical school says it wants to create a “diverse workforce” by attracting students through special scholarships, mentoring, and other programs.

But in comments to The College Fix, a medical doctor criticized the idea that matching patients and doctors by race is beneficial.

The new dean of medicine at Thomas Jefferson University medical school says racial minority healthcare professionals can “alleviate health disparity,” according to a report paraphrasing his comments.

“One of the things that I intend to do is make the case that we need a diverse workforce and students, Dr. Said Ibrahim told WHYY, a PBS affiliate.

Read more on The College Fix.

Critics warn schools are skirting Texas DEI ban after university shuffles DEI officials to other departments

Texas A&M University responded to a state law banning diversity, equity and inclusion on college campuses by giving the department head a raise before reassigning her and other employees to other departments. It sparked concerns schools are attempting to further “embed” the controversial practice at Texas universities despite the law.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law banning DEI on college campuses in June 2023. In the months that followed, documents obtained by Fox News Digital show Texas A&M reassigned several DEI employees to other departments, including the vice president of the program, who received a 10% raise, a new position and a nine-month paid leave.

Read more on Fox News.

UCLA med school cancels lecturing blaming ‘whiteness’ for opioid crisis

The University of California at Los Angeles Medical School recently canceled a scheduled lecture making the case that the American opioid crisis of the past two decades should be blamed on “whiteness.”

The topic was changed two days before the lecture was scheduled to take place and attendance was limited to in-person only, National Review reported.

Read more on The College Fix.

Discrimination and Identity Politics Have No Place in Medical Education

In 2019, Stanley Goldfarb, the former associate dean of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, wrote an article lamenting the change in his institution’s mission from training future doctors to treat every patient equally and nonjudgmentally to prioritizing “social justice.” In January, a Wall Street Journal editorial reported that students at the University of California School of Medicine are now required to take a course on “structural racism,” which segregates them by race, requiring them to withdraw to different areas and discuss anti-racist prompts. That same month, Jeffrey Flier, former dean of Harvard University Medical School, wrote a lengthy essay bemoaning the school’s curriculum changes. “In a rush to embed vague, contestable, and potentially harmful versions of social justice into medical education, we risk compromising the very foundation of medical training, and ultimately, patient care,” he concluded.

On March 19, Representative Greg Murphy, (R., N.C.), a medical doctor, introduced the Embracing anti-Discrimination, Unbiased Curricula, and Advancing Truth in Education (EDUCATE) Act. The bill would cut off federal funding for medical schools that force students and faculty to adopt specific beliefs, take loyalty oaths, or discriminate against students or patients by implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) classes in their curricula.

Read more on National Review.

Boston hospital to scale back on child abuse and neglect reports that can perpetuate ‘structural racism’

A Boston, Massachusetts, hospital announced Tuesday that after finding Black mothers were more likely to be reported for child abuse and neglect if a toxicology report came back positive, it would be taking steps to reevaluate the process in order to avoid perpetuating “structural racism.” 

“Black pregnant people are more likely to be drug tested and to be reported to child welfare systems than white pregnant people,” said Mass General Brigham, a nonprofit health care system. 

“As a part of our United Against Racism effort to achieve health equity for patients and communities across our system, we… are addressing policies that may unwittingly perpetuate structural racism,” Mass General stated.

Read more at Fox News.

De-transitioner warns shareholders that Disney will pay a price for ‘stealing the voices of thousands of little Ariels’

A victim of so-called “gender-affirming care” informed Disney shareholders Wednesday that the company may soon face lawsuits over its support of employees’ genital mutilations. Chloe Cole, a woman left permanently scarred by gender ideology, further stressed the importance of the company looking into providing benefits for those who seek to “detransition.”

Read more on Blaze Media.

Puberty blockers may NOT be reversible and could raise children’s risk of fertility problems and even cancer, Mayo Clinic study suggests 

Mayo Clinic experts say puberty blockers can lead to withering testicles, fertility problems and even cancer among the trans kids who take them, in the latest study to raise alarm about transgender medicine.

The findings cast doubt on the ‘reversibility’ of puberty blockers — a key claim of the trans activists who promote the drugs, saying they only ‘pause’ puberty and buy time for trans kids to make decisions about their gender.

Instead, researchers say puberty blockers hurt the development of testicles and sperm production in ways that are not fully reversible and could affect users’ ability to have children when they grow up.

Read more on the Daily Mail.

Minority Contracting Comes to Medicine

When public hospitals purchase medical equipment or rely on outside doctors, they typically consider the price and quality of each vendor.

In Tarrant County, Texas, they consider something else, too: the race and gender of the vendor’s owners.

Tarrant County’s public hospital system, JPS Health, evaluates bids for contracts on a 100-point scale that gives more weight to “diversity and inclusion” (15 points) than to the reputation of a vendor’s goods and services (10 points) when assessing providers of transcatheter heart valves—devices used to counteract cardiac failure and keep blood flowing throughout the body.

Read more on the Washington Free Beacon.