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Minnesota school district seeks to hire $100-200k ‘anti-racist’ official who can examine ‘Whiteness’

A school district in Minnesota posted a racially charged job listing seeking an administrator to help steer the district’s policy on race.

The St. Louis Park Public School District recently posted a job listing for an Assistant Superintendent earning between $134,141 – $201,212. The position “Oversees the districtwide efforts related to student management/discipline” and “Participates in legislation and rulemaking at state and federal level to ensure that the District has representation regarding the impact of proposed laws and rules in the areas impacting teaching and learning for each student.”

Disney won’t help the detransitioners its transgender activism encouraged to go under the knife

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Does Disney care about more about the praise of transgender activists or the pain of its employees and their family, including children?

The answer will become clear at the company’s April 3 annual meeting, when shareholders vote on a proposal my organization filed.

We’re asking the company, which has famously associated itself with the gender-ideology movement, to stop ignoring the significant medical needs of those who’ve tried to reverse their sex transitions.

My group, as a Disney shareholder, filed our proposal with the company in October.

We want the entertainment giant to explain why its health insurance doesn’t include coverage for people who attempt to detransition.

Dangerous Quackery

United States DEI Op-Ed Ian Kingsbury, PhD

Radical activists are so determined to enshrine the idea that race is a social construct with no biological relevance that they are willing to endanger patient care to make their case. If they get their way, the next battleground for the assault on science and common sense could be obstetrics.

Historically, black race has been considered a risk factor for preeclampsia (marked by persistent high blood pressure), a dangerous and sometimes life-threatening pregnancy complication. Black women exhibit a higher incidence of preeclampsia, and the discrepancy is not fully explained by potential confounding factors such as obesity and hypertension. According to newly published commentary in The New England Journal of Medicine, the culprit is racism—the apparent causative agent of every health disparity these days.

Why I’m Saying No to NIH’s Racial Preferences

DEI Op-Ed

Do I deserve to jump the line? If I say yes, I may play a leading role in ending the scourge of atherosclerosis—also known as hardening of the arteries. If I play fair, I may lose the opportunity to save people around the world from heart attacks and strokes. I’m angry at the National Institutes of Health for putting me in this position. I’m even angrier it has done so in the name of racial equity.

My quandary comes down to whether I should “check the box” on an upcoming NIH grant application attesting to my recent African heritage. Since at least 2015, the NIH has asserted its belief in the intrinsic superiority of racially diverse research teams, all but stating that such diversity influences funding decisions. My family’s origins qualify me under the federal definition of African-American. Yet I feel it’s immoral and narcissistic to use race to gain an advantage over other applicants. All that should matter is the merit of my application and the body of my work, which is generally accepted as foundational in atherosclerosis research.

Illinois University Nursing Program Gets DEI Grant To Promote ‘Racial Healing’

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A university in Illinois has received a grant to promote “racial healing” and will hire a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) consultant to revise its nursing program.

The Department of Nursing at Elmhurst University received a $25,000 grant to hire the consultant to “ensure its Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) curriculum fully integrates diversity, equity and inclusion concepts,” the university said in a press release.

Illinois university nursing program gets ‘racial healing’ grant for DEI curriculum

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Elmhurst University will hire a “diversity, equity, and inclusion” consultant to revise its nursing program.

The $25,000 “racial healing” grant from Illinois will “help the department ensure its Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) curriculum fully integrates diversity, equity and inclusion concepts,” according to a March news release.

“We’re hoping to get people more comfortable talking and learning about the intersectionality of our lives and society,” Becky Hullet, director of the west suburban Chicago university’s graduate nursing programs, stated in the news release.

The eventual goal is to integrate DEI throughout all nursing degrees.

Your Kid Announces They’re Trans. Now What?

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It could happen on any given weeknight: While you are enjoying dinner with your family, your teenage daughter suddenly announces that she was born in the wrong body, that you have to start calling her by a male name, and that she wants to start taking cross-sex hormones. And she’s serious about it.

What do you do next?

“It’s very important for the parents to not react in a way that is terribly negative or terribly judgmental, even if they may be feeling at the moment that this is just madness, and this doesn’t make any sense,” advised Dr. Miriam Grossman, a psychiatrist and the author of five books. In her 2009 book “You’re Teaching My Child WHAT?” she warned parents about how sex education has evolved to promote sexual freedom and gender confusion. In her latest book from 2023, “Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist’s Guide Out of the Madness,” she wrote about the damage that the so-called “gender-affirming care” is inflicting on our youth.

Although there’s no one-size-fits-all guide to navigating this scenario, there are some main points to consider.

North Carolina Rep. Introduces Bill Banning Funding to Medical Schools With DEI Programs

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Rep. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.) introduced a bill on March 19 that would ban “race-based mandates” at medical schools across the country.

Known as the “Embracing anti-Discrimination, Unbiased Curricula, and Advancing Truth in Education (EDUCATE) Act,” the measure would block medical schools that provide diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs or that adopt certain policies and requirements relating to DEI, from receiving federal funds.

Specifically, the bill states that no graduate medical school at an institution of higher education will be eligible to receive government funding or any other form of financial assistance—including student loans—under any federal program if it forces students to adopt specific beliefs.

Arizona State University professor sues school over DEI training: ‘simply racism’

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A longtime professor at Arizona State University (ASU) sued the university on Tuesday over a mandatory diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) course for faculty, arguing it violates state law.

Owen Anderson, a professor of philosophy, religious studies and theology at ASU, is suing the school with the help of the conservative nonprofit the Goldwater Institute, claiming it is in violation of a two-year-old state law that forbids public agencies from requiring employees to engage in training that presents any form of “blame or judgment on the basis of race, ethnicity or sex.”

Anderson could face discipline from his superiors for refusing to participate in the DEI training, according to a press release from the Goldwater Institute. The complaint alleges the training discriminates by “compelling the speech of public employees by requiring faculty and staff to take an examination following a training that presents forms of blame or judgment on the basis of race, ethnicity or sex, and answer with Arizona State University’s ‘correct’ answers, in violation of the Arizona Constitution.”

Proposal would halt taxpayer money to medical schools promoting racial bias

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Educating from the podium and advocating for the inclusion of all, congressmen led by North Carolina’s Dr. Greg Murphy and Ohio’s Dr. Brad Wenstrup on Tuesday introduced legislation that would halt taxpayer money from going to medical schools promoting racial bias.

Multiple speakers, both Black and white and at least one saying she’s neither Republican nor Democrat, drove home the message directly and indirectly that health care is about the patients and their outcomes. Collectively, they explained how the best care comes from the best in education, that all can access it, and the promotion of “critical race theory-based woke philosophy based on DEI” will put Americans’ lives at risk.

House Republicans to introduce bill ending federal funding for medical schools with DEI, ‘race-based mandates’

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Two House Republicans are sponsoring legislation to stop federal funding for medical schools with diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices.

Reps. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, and Greg Murphy, R-N.C., will host a press conference at 2 p.m. ET on Tuesday on the EDUCATE Act, which looks “to eliminate all Federal funding, including student loans, to medical schools and accrediting institutions with race-based mandates and DEI practices,” according to a press release from Wenstrup’s office Monday.

Also scheduled to speak are Do No Harm President Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, and Tabia Lee, founding member of Free Black Thought and former head of DEI at De Anza College.

Republicans go all out to ban DEI mandates in medical schools

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GOP lawmakers proposed legislation Tuesday banning race-based mandates at medical schools and accrediting institutions.

The Embracing anti-Discrimination, Unbiased Curricula, and Advancing Truth in Education Act was introduced by North Carolina Rep. Greg Murphy, a urologist who is the only actively practicing physician in Congress.

“American medical schools are the best in the world and no place for discrimination,” said Mr. Murphy. 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.

House bill looks to end federal funding for medical schools with DEI

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House Republicans introduced a bill Tuesday to ban funding to medical schools that use diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology.

Reps. Greg Murphy (R-NC) and Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) introduced the Embracing anti-Discrimination, Unbiased Curricula, and Advancing Truth in Education, or EDUCATE, Act aiming to eliminate federal funding, including student loans, for medical schools that advance or use DEI.

Flanked by other physician House members and medical advocates at a press conference in front of the Capitol Tuesday afternoon, Murphy and Wenstrup, both of whom are doctors, decried the harm DEI has done to the medical field.

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

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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.’

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

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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

United States DEI Op-Ed Legislative Stanley Goldfarb

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.

The medical field is being razed by DEI

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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.

DEI Got Me Sacked From My Nursing Job

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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.