Dermatologists like me are being doxed for opposing DEI

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. 

Read more on Fox News.

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

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.

Read more on the Los Angeles Times.

Wokeness North

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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.

Read more on the City Journal.

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

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.

Read more on the Daily Caller.

Opinion: There is no medical consensus on child gender transition

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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.”

Read more on the National Post.

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

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. 

Read more on the Washington Examiner.

George Washington University Has a DEI Problem

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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.”

Read more on the American Spectator.

Maine government steers children to transgender activist groups

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

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.

Read more on the Daily Caller.

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

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.

Read more on The Epoch Times.

Our professional psychiatric association has abandoned evidence-based care

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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.

Read more on The Dallas Morning News.

‘Total disgrace:’ LGBTQ nursing course called out for prioritizing activism over healthcare

A Missouri lawmaker recently criticized a new LGBTQ nursing class at the University of Missouri at Saint Louis where students wrote songs and books to raise awareness about the “disparities and injustices facing the LGBTQ community.”

The course, “Healthcare Within the LGBTQIAA+ Community,” was offered for the first time in the fall 2023 semester through the nursing and honors colleges, but there are no plans to offer it again in the future.

Read more on The College Fix.

UCLA medical school assignments call for abolition of borders, says crisis ‘imagined:’ Report

First year medical students at UCLA’s medical school were allegedly assigned readings from activists and educators calling for the abolition of borders, according to a medical transparency group.

Do No Harm said the readings were assigned in the required course, “Structural Racism and Health Equity.” Copies of the documents were shared with National Review on Thursday.

In one reading from a scholarly paper entitled, “Beyond border health: Infrastructural violence and the health of border abolition,” the authors call for a “no borders system that privileges liberatory solidarity with migrants.” 

Read more on Fox News.

Opinion: Alberta is right: Children should be protected from transgender procedures

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In Alberta, at least, science and common sense still reign.

That’s the reality now that Premier Danielle Smith has prohibited transgender procedures for children. In Alberta, kids under the age of 16 will no longer be eligible to receive puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones, while sex-change surgeries will be limited to those 18 and older.

Read more on the Calgary Herald.

Veteran nurse slams Virginia bill to force nurses into implicit bias training

A veteran nurse slammed the Virginia General Assembly’s latest bill that would force nurses across the commonwealth to receive implicit bias training in order to obtain and keep their medical licenses.

“The bill proposes that without the implicit bias training, that licenses will not be able to be renewed, and this is a little surprising in a time when we’ve heard much news about the lack of nurses and physicians available to take care of patients already,” Laura Morgan, a nurse and chief of staff of Do No Harm, said in a radio interview on WMAL’s O’Connor and Company.

Read more on the Washington Examiner.

New NYT Piece Could Signal Tide Is Turning Against Child Mutilation

Transgender activists have pushed their own ideological extremism,” reads a new op-ed from the New York Times.

Yes, you read that right. This is not a Fox News chyron, a tweet from Libs of TikTok, or an excerpt from “Do No Harm,” The Daily Caller’s groundbreaking documentary on the pediatric transgender crisis. No, this is the most respectable liberal paper in the country calling out its own readers for being insane.

Read more at Daily Caller.

Med schools push flawed race-matching, watchdog warns

Many medical schools are adopting a flawed theory called “racial concordance” to justify admitting students based on their race, a medical watchdog organization warned in a new report.

Regardless of the Supreme Court’s ban on affirmative action last June, many institutions of higher education, including medical schools, still appear to be seeking ways to keep race a part of their admissions process.

Read more on The College Fix.

Here’s What the Majority of Voters Think of Life-Altering Gender Surgeries for Kids

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) ended up in hot water with his party late last year for vetoing legislation that would protect vulnerable children from irreversible, experimental sex change procedures. Following backlash for his decision, DeWine signed an executive order banning these services for children, before the state legislature overturned his veto entirely.

While LGBTQ+ advocates like to claim that children deserve to have access to these life-altering procedures, the majority of American voters feel otherwise.

Read more on Townhall.