Republicans want to ban DEI in medical schools netting over $180 BILLION per year: New bill would specifically yank federal funding from any school with diversity offices or that ‘discriminates on race’ including by ‘forcing’ liberal beliefs

A group of lawmakers has introduced a new bill to ban diversity, equity and inclusion practices from medical schools.

‘American medical schools are the best in the world and no place for discrimination,’ said Greg Murphy, a practicing urologist and North Carolina Republican representative. 

‘The EDUCATE Act compels medical schools and accrediting agencies to uphold colorblind admissions processes and prohibits the coercion of students who hold certain political opinions. Diversity strengthens medicine, but not if it’s achieved through exclusionary practices.’ 

Read more on the Daily Mail.

This Bill Would Eliminate Federal Funding To Any Med School That Incorporates DEI

Any medical school that has diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) incorporated in their admissions or instruction could lose access to all federal funds if a new bill set to be introduced in Congress is passed.

The bill from Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC), the only practicing physician in the U.S. Congress, would bar graduate medical schools from receiving federal funding if they have policies that deprive medical students of opportunities “on the basis of race, color, or ethnicity.” Institutions that compel students, staff, or faculty to affirm their allegiance to ideological tenets associated with the DEI agenda would also lose funding, according to a copy of the bill, obtained first by Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro.

Learn more on the Daily Wire.

Ban DEI Quackery in Medical Schools

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The ideology of “diversity, equity and inclusion” is dangerous everywhere, but especially in medical education. Its influence has become entrenched nationwide. Accrediting institutions are pushing all of America’s 158 accredited medical schools to train future physicians in political activism, wasting precious time and resources that could be spent on rigorous coursework and preparation for medical practice. The result will likely be future physicians less qualified to meet patients’ needs.

Read more in the Wall Street Journal.

The medical field is being razed by DEI

Medical officials are being trained across the country to hate and exclude certain people. This is detrimental to a practice meant to save all lives. 

Activists are destroying the medical field by reforging it in the fires of identity politics. Medical schools and boards across America are requiring candidates to be intersectional first and medical practitioners second. 

The National Institutes of Health is fueling identity politics in medical schools nationwide. It convinces their leaders to update their recruitment rubrics to prioritize “diversity statements.” It does this by enticing them with large federal grants through its NIH First program. 

The NIH helps these rubrics sneak into public universities throughout blue and red states, regardless of the laws permitting or banning diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, practice. They add points for intersectional commitment and status and dock them for believing everyone is equal. They are often explicit about their “efforts to bring critical race theory to the forefront of society.” 

Unfortunately, the medical battle is going so well for these activists that it is not just occurring in private: It is in legislation deliberation, too. 

Read more on the Washington Examiner.

DEI Got Me Sacked From My Nursing Job

It’s fine to oppose diversity, equity and inclusion as long as you keep it to yourself. The moment you speak out, you have a target on your back. That’s the lesson I learned in February. I made the mistake of questioning DEI on my personal social-media account. The hospital where I worked fired me within days.

I’ve been a registered nurse for 16 years. In 2021 I began working in the emergency department at Meritus Medical Center in Hagerstown, Md., rising to assistant clinical manager in February 2023. Since I oversaw nurses, my highest priority after providing the best care to patients was protecting my team. That’s what got me into trouble.

Read more on the Wall Street Journal.

Dental schools continue to embrace DEI

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Dental school educators are receiving prizes for their work focused on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” – even as a medical watchdog organization keeps warning against such initiatives.

Two new awards specifically for DEI in dental care were given to educators at the University of Buffalo and University of Colorado dental schools in recent months.

One to the University of Buffalo School of Dental Medicine came from the National Institutes of Health late last month, according to a university news release.

The New York school received $100,000 as the first recipient of the NIH’s inaugural Institutional Excellence in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Biomedical and Behavioral Research Prize, the report states.

Read more in The College Fix.

England Banning Puberty Blockers for Kids Will ‘Save Lives,’ Experts Predict

England’s National Health Service has declared that there’s not enough evidence of “safety and clinical effectiveness” for children and young people to be given puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria.

“Puberty blockers (gonadotrophin-releasing hormone analogues) are not available to children and young people for gender incongruence or gender dysphoria, because there is not enough evidence of safety and clinical effectiveness,” the NHS notes on its site.

“From the age of 16, teenagers who’ve been on hormone blockers for at least 12 months may be given cross-sex hormones, also known as gender-affirming hormones.”

The NHS explicitly states that these hormones cause irreversible changes, including maturing girls’ development of breasts, the breaking or deepening of a person’s voice, and temporary or even permanent infertility.

Read more in The Daily Signal.

Montana’s Race And Sex-Based Requirements For Key Medical Board Are Unconstitutional, Lawsuit Alleges

A medical watchdog sued the Montana governor Tuesday over race and sex-based requirements for the state’s top medical board.

The lawsuit was filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), a public interest law firm, on behalf of Do No Harm (DNH), a medical activist organization, in the United States District Court for the District of Montana Helena Division against Republican Montana Gov. Gregory Gianforte. The PLF is representing an unidentified woman affiliated with DNH who cannot apply to the Montana Board of Medical Examiners due to the sex-based requirements, which PLF alleges violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution, according to a DNH press release.

The Montana Board of Medical Examiners is the medical licensing board in the state, and the governor confirms members to the board, according to DNH. When making appointments to the board, the governor is required to “take positive action to attain gender balance and proportional representation of minorities resident in Montana to the greatest extent possible,” a requirement adopted over 30 years ago, according to Montana law.

Read more on the Daily Caller.

Montana hit with federal lawsuit over ‘race and gender balancing’ on medical board

A national medical advocacy group filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday against Gov. Greg Gianforte’s (R-MT) office challenging Montana’s use of race and gender mandates to govern appointments to public boards.

The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Do No Harm by the Pacific Legal Foundation this week, challenges Montana’s requirement that its governor consider race and gender when making appointments to the state’s 12-member Board of Medical Examiners.

“This type of discriminatory mandate is unconstitutional and represents the politicization of healthcare that is dangerous for patients,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of Do No Harm, said in a press release. “Expertise should be the primary determining factor for these appointments, and Montana must get rid of discriminatory practices to refocus on medical excellence.”

Read more in the Washington Examiner.

Barbara Kay: Leaked files expose the ethical rot behind modern transgender medicine

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) promotes its standards of care (SOC) as a lodestar for the treatment of gender dysphoria. Its devotion to the “affirmation” transition model for gender-confused children, involving rapid introduction to hormones and surgery that allegedly prevent suicide, have long dictated policy in hospitals, health authorities and medical schools, including those in Canada.

Last week, WPATH was hit by a bombshell: the release of the “WPATH Files,” a collection of leaked internal communications between WPATH members from 2021 to 2024. The files were analyzed by Mia Hughes, a women’s rights activist, and published by investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger’s Environmental Progress.

Read more on National Post.

Johns Hopkins Diversity Chief Resigns After Backlash to ‘Privileged’ Labels on White Males, Christians

A Johns Hopkins Medicine diversity officer has stepped down from her position after a backlash to a newsletter she sent to hospital staff, in which she declared that white men, Christians, and English speakers have inherent unearned privileges.

Dr. Sherita Golden will leave her role as chief diversity officer for Johns Hopkins Medicine and continue her research in endocrinology and metabolism as a faculty member, the medical school announced Tuesday.

Read more on the Epoch Times.

Experts Testify on Dangers of DEI at House Education Hearing

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Expert witnesses on Thursday condemned Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs on college campuses during a hearing held by the Republican-led House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development. 

The hearing, titled “Divisive, Excessive, Ineffective: The Real Impact of DEI on College Campuses,” was led by Rep. Burgess Owens (R., Utah), who in his opening statement said the DEI agenda has been “a long-growing cancer that resides at the heart of American academic institutions.”

“DEI bureaucracies are hired not only to control conversations but to also stifle free speech and open discourse while asserting leverage on every aspect of university management—personnel, curriculum, policy, and college admissions,” Owens said. 

One of the experts who testified against DEI was Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, former University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine associate dean and father of Washington Free Beacon chairman Michael Goldfarb. “I’ve had a front-row seat to the corruption of medical education,” Dr. Goldfarb said. “Precious classroom and clinical time is now devoted to issues such as climate change, homelessness, policing, and other social issues that doctors cannot change.” 

Read more in the Washington Free Beacon.

Israel Takes the E Out of DEI

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The ideology of “diversity, equity and inclusion” is a direct threat to Israel’s existence. That’s what I learned from Jewish and Arab Israelis during my five days in the country in February. They didn’t only say that DEI goes hand in hand with antisemitism, which it does. They also said it sacrifices the merit that has helped Israel survive in a sea of hostility.

I traveled to Israel on a solidarity trip organized by the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine. Several professors wanted to support Israel while registering their displeasure with higher education’s largely antisemitic response to Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack. I joined at their invitation, hoping to learn how Israel approaches the DEI ideology that has swept the Western world.

Read more on the Wall Street Journal.

Goldfarb: Put Patients First, Politics Last

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Johns Hopkins Health System chief diversity officer Sherita Golden recently ignited a firestorm when she sent an email claiming that all whites, heterosexuals, and Christians benefit from privilege. While that idea is absurd and offensive, it’s hardly the most dangerous idea she has championed.

A May 2022 news release from the Johns Hopkins Health System announces the adoption of a “race-free” kidney function equation.

Read more on Newsmax.

A federal judge has ordered a US minority business agency to serve all races

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in Texas has ordered a 55-year-old U.S. agency that caters to minority-owned businesses to serve people regardless of race, siding with white business owners who claimed the program discriminated against them.

The ruling was a significant victory for conservative activists waging a far-ranging legal battle against race-conscious workplace programs, bolstered by the Supreme Court’s ruling last June dismantling affirmative action programs in higher education.

Read more on AP News.

More than half of American hospitals have plans to increase racial diversity among leadership, study says

The American Hospital Association (AHA) found that over 50% of hospitals prioritize racial diversity when adding to their board of trustees.

The AHA, which bills itself as “the leading national advocate for hospitals and health systems,” asked over 1,000 member and non-member hospitals in the U.S. and its territories a simple question: “Does your hospital have a strategy to increase the number of diverse members of the board of trustees along the range of demographic diversity?”

Read more on Fox News.

NIH spending $558,942 to apply critical race theory to opioid abuse treatments

The National Institutes of Health wants to know how critical race theory can be applied to prescriptions that address opioid addiction.

The University of Washington study, “Applying Critical Race Theory to investigate the impact of COVID-19-related policy changes on racial/ethnic disparities in medication treatment for opioid use disorder,” hopes to “inform future policy and interventions to improve equitable care for [Opioid Use Disorder],” according to the proposal.

The study is set to end in 2027. The NIH allocated $558,942 to the research.

Read more on The College Fix.

CA Suit Targets Anti-Bias Training in Healthcare

Los Angeles anesthesiologist Marilyn Singleton was outraged about a California requirement that every continuing medical education course include training in implicit bias — the ways in which physicians’ unconscious attitudes might contribute to racial and ethnic disparities in health care.

Singleton, who is Black and has practiced for 50 years, sees calling doctors out for implicit bias as divisive, and argues the state cannot legally require her to teach the idea in her continuing education classes. She has sued the Medical Board of California, asserting a constitutional right not to teach something she doesn’t believe.

Read more on Medscape.