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Experts Testify on Dangers of DEI at House Education Hearing

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

DEI Op-Ed Ian Kingsbury, PhD, PhD

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.

Goldfarb: Put Patients First, Politics Last

DEI Op-Ed MD, Stanley Goldfarb

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.

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

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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.

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

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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?”

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

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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.

CA Suit Targets Anti-Bias Training in Healthcare

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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.

Dermatologists like me are being doxed for opposing DEI

DEI Op-Ed

Should dermatologists care more about skin color and group identity than treating skin conditions? The question is tearing apart my profession.

“Diversity, equity, and inclusion,” or DEI, is destroying my colleagues’ ability to have honest, open, respectful discussions. As medical professionals, we should do better, and our patients deserve better.

What’s happening in dermatology – a key medical specialty with over 11,000 specialist physicians nationwide – is the result of an attempt to fight antisemitism in the profession.

California effort to confront implicit bias among doctors faces 1st Amendment challenge

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Los Angeles anesthesiologist Dr. 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 healthcare.

Singleton, who is Black and has practiced for 50 years, sees calling doctors out for implicit bias as divisive, and argues that 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.

Wokeness North

DEI Op-Ed MD, Roy Eappen, MD

Canadians often chafe at American cultural imperialism, but Canada’s health-care leaders appear set to import American-style wokeness to the country’s medical schools.

Next year, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, which oversees the training and licensure of the country’s doctors, will roll out the newest version of CanMEDS, a physician-education framework that effectively dictates the curriculum at Canada’s 17 accredited medical schools, including McGill University School of Medicine, which I attended and where I now serve on the faculty. The Royal College, established by an Act of Parliament in the 1929, proudly notes that CanMEDS is “the most widely accepted and applied physician competency framework in the world,” surpassing the equivalent system in the U.S.

‘Criminal’: Legal, Parental Advocates Sound Alarm On Blue State Bill Allowing Minors To Consent To Medical Procedures

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Legal experts and parental advocates say a bill being considered in the New York state legislature could end up being another vehicle to allow kids to make life-altering medical decisions behind their parents’ backs.

The bill, A0 6761, which was introduced in January by Democratic state Assemblywoman Karines Reyes, alongside eight other democratic members, says in the summary that it would allow homeless youth to “give effective consent to certain medical, dental, health, and hospital services.” Parental advocates who spoke to the DCNF, however, warned that the legislation is purposefully “vague” and would allow children to consent to sex-change medical procedures without parents ever knowing.

Opinion: There is no medical consensus on child gender transition

Gender Ideology Op-Ed MD, Roy Eappen, MD

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s recently announced policies on restricting transgender medical interventions for minors have generated much outrage, notwithstanding a subsequent Leger poll that suggested more Canadians than not agree with her proscriptions.

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Doctor groups like the Alberta Medical Association (AMA) and the Canadian Pediatric Society (CPS) came out swinging, each issuing strongly worded statements expressing grave concerns. Dr. Sam Wong, head of the AMA’s pediatrics section, argued that “this is poor legislation that is targeting a small percentage of population that has already been targeted by society … and the government is piling on.”

I am black and reject diversity programming. Here’s why.

DEI Op-Ed Raheem Williams

A little more than 55 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have A Dream” speech captured the nation, demanding justice and equality. King envisioned a future built on character-based judgment, not skin color. Yet, today, it feels like this reality is slipping further away, and the Left’s diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda shares some of the blame.

As a black Southerner, I’ve never been comfortable with the idea of racial preferences in policy. At a young age, I was taught the nasty history of racial discrimination in America. I came to understand that all racists believe their preferred forms of racial discrimination to be the “good” kind.

George Washington University Has a DEI Problem

Washington DC DEI Op-Ed Ian Kingsbury, PhD, PhD

George Washington University has announced the establishment of a Center for Jewish Education whose priorities include “addressing the pressing issue of antisemitism on American college campuses.” The prestigious institution has good reason to be concerned about campus antisemitism, but whether this move represents a token gesture or an earnest desire for change will ultimately be determined by whether the university dismantles its office of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

The George Washington University is no stranger to the issue of campus antisemitism. In October, members of the organization Students for Justice in Palestine projected the slogans “glory to our martyrs” and “from the River to the Sea” on the side of the campus library. The stunt earned the organization a 90 day suspension and the university sharp words from Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, who characterized it as “a call for the destruction of the Jewish state.”

Maine government steers children to transgender activist groups

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EXCLUSIVE — Maine’s Department of Education guides gender-confused students toward a “youth programming” resource suggesting that “self-fulfillment” and “empowerment” can be found in “live gay porn cams,” according to the government website.

Outright Lewiston-Auburn, along with several other organizations, is part of a network of transgender activist organizations cited as resources for minors by the Maine government and major partners of MaineHealth, the state’s largest healthcare network. MaineHealth is host to a prolific gender clinic at the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital.

Read the full article on the Washington Examiner.

LGBT Activists Tout Survey On ‘Satisfaction’ After Gender Transitions. There’s Just One Problem

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A recent survey promoted by trans activists found that over 90% of transgender Americans reported higher “life satisfaction” after transitioning genders; however, experts who spoke to the Daily Caller News Foundation expressed concerns about the survey’s methods.

The 2022 U.S. Trans Survey’s (USTS) Early Insights, released on Feb. 7, surveyed over 90,000 people and was “open to binary and nonbinary transgender people aged 16” and up. The study found that of respondents “who lived at least some of the time in a different gender than the one they were assigned at birth,” 79% said they were “a lot more satisfied” and 15% said they were only a “little more satisfied” with their life after transitioning.

David Haskell: Rise in Anti-Semitism Related to the Proliferation of DEI Doctrine

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Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital is now receiving increased police protection following a pro-Palestinian protest held outside its doors on Feb. 12. It was reported that protesters blocked access—an offence under the Criminal Code—and chanted in support of the terrorist group Hamas.

Organizers of the protest have denied that Mount Sinai was targeted because of its links to Toronto’s Jewish community (it was founded by the city’s Jews when Jewish doctors were facing public discrimination). However, that claim has been met with skepticism.

Our professional psychiatric association has abandoned evidence-based care

Gender Ideology Op-Ed MD, Miriam Grossman, MD

In a world of confusing and contradictory messages about the meaning of male and female, where can families, health professionals and the public turn for guidance?

We are psychiatrists who care for transgender-identified youths, and we believe the answer should be simple: the American Psychiatric Association. The association calls for the “highest ethical standards of professional conduct.” Its publishing house claims to offer clinicians “authoritative, up to date … information.” But with the publication late last year of Gender-Affirming Psychiatric Care, the American Psychiatric Association has abandoned its professed mission of promoting ethical, evidence-based care.