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Gender Doctor Calls Genital Surgery An ‘Adventure’ For Young People While Describing Grisly Complications

A prominent plastic surgeon referred to genital sex change surgery as an “adventure” for young individuals during a presentation hosted by the world’s most prominent professional association for gender medicine, according to video exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Dr. Alex Laungani, a Mayo Clinic-trained Canadian plastic surgeon, discussed phalloplasty procedures during two closed-to-the-public presentations at a September 2022 educational series hosted by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). The DCNF obtained video recordings of the educational series through a public records request. When asked at the conference about how “young” these patients may be, Laungani said “definitely age of majority.”

Read more on the Daily Caller.

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Private Footage Reveals Leading Medical Org’s Efforts To ‘Normalize’ Gender Ideology

Members of the world’s most prominent transgender medical organization encouraged fellow doctors to push transgender ideology beyond the healthcare field into schools and their communities, according to internal recordings obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

In September 2022, the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) Global Education Institute (GEI) hosted an event that included a series of education sessions for certification in transgender medicine. The event coincided with the release of WPATH’s updated medical guidance, called the Standards of Care Version 8 (SOC 8), and provided additional insights on its clinical applications.

Read more on the Daily Caller.

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Medical schools are ‘skirting SCOTUS’ ruling against affirmative action, report shows

FIRST ON FOX: An association of medical professionals is sounding the alarm that medical schools across the country are “skirting” the Supreme Court’s ruling requiring admissions programs to abandon race as a factor.

Do No Harm, a group of physicians, nurses and other medical professionals “focused on keeping identity politics out of medical education,” unveiled new research this week with findings that, despite the high court’s decision in the landmark affirmative action case last summer, “many in the healthcare establishment nevertheless remain ideologically committed to the principle of racial favoritism and reject the virtue of race blindness.” 

Read more on Fox News.

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THE WPATH TAPES: Behind-The-Scenes Recordings Reveal What Top Gender Doctors Really Think About Sex Change Procedures

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) is the leading authority in the field of gender medicine. Its guidance is routinely used by top medical associations in the U.S. and abroad, while its standards of care inform insurance companies’ approach to coverage policies.

But behind closed doors, top WPATH doctors discussed, and at times seemed to challenge, the organization’s own published guidelines for sex change procedures and acknowledged pushing experimental medical interventions that can have devastating and irreversible complications, according to exclusive footage obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Read more on the Daily Caller.

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ROOKE: Men In Dresses Aren’t The Only Delusional Victims Of Left-Wing Brainwashing

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) apparently blocked Johns Hopkins University researchers from publishing their findings regarding a study concerning child sex changes because they didn’t like what they discovered, newly unearthed emails reveal.

WPATH paid for Johns Hopkins researchers to study the possible effects of so-called “gender-affirming care” on children, according to the emails. “Gender–affirming care” is a euphemism proponents use to describe the use of irreversible hormone suppression and treatments that can lead to chemical castration, as well as surgeries like mastectomy, phalloplasty and vaginoplasty.

Read more on the Daily Caller.

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Why Are So Many Kids Identifying as Transgender?

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In this conversation with Glenn Beck, Do No Harm Senior Fellow Dr. Miriam Grossman speaks about the rising social contagion of young people identifying as transgender.

Listen in:

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Healthcare Is Worth the Fight

As a physician and surgeon, I witnessed the invasion of medical practice and hospital administrations by increasingly strident and nonsensical wokeness, to the detriment of high-quality healthcare. It is therefore heartwarming to see a clear diagnosis of the pathology that ails us and to be prescribed a corrective (“How We’ve Taken the Bias Out of ‘Implicit Bias Training,’” Cross Country by Stanley Goldfarb, April 27) that is rational, effective and in keeping with the Hippocratic oath.

Read more in the Wall Street Journal.

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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.

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‘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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.