GOP State Senator Who Fought Against Woke Schools Is Now Pushing Bill Requiring ‘Racial Bias’ Training For Nurses

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Republican state Sen. Chris Head of Virginia is sponsoring a bill that would require nurses to complete “racial bias” training despite having campaigned heavily against Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the past.

On the “Traditional Values” section of Head’s website, it says that the Virginia state senator regularly fights for “legislation that limits government interference in our daily lives” and “opposes the radical teaching of CRT in our public schools.” Despite this, Head has been pushing Senate Bill 35, which would require nurses to “complete continuing learning activities on the topics of unconscious bias and cultural competency” if they wish to get their license renewed.

Read more on the Daily Caller.

Venture Fund’s Diversity Grant Defense Meets Doubtful Court

An Atlanta venture fund catering to Black women business owners met with skepticism from a pair of federal appellate judges Wednesday, as its lawyers argued a grant contest doesn’t amount to illegal racial bias because the First Amendment protects its freedom of expression.

Judges Robert J. Luck and Kevin C. Newsom questioned whether the presence of a pro-diversity cause in Fearless Fund Management’s business grant program was sufficient to prevent it from being unlawful under Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866. Luck and Newsom were joined by Judge Robin S. Rosenbaum in hearing Fearless Fund’s case, which attracted an overflow crowd at the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Miami.

Read more on Bloomberg Law.

Gender Ideology with Miriam Grossman, M.D.

Dr. Miriam Grossman steps into the spotlight, bringing forth her seasoned expertise on the perplexing issue of gender ideology and the medicalization of children. Her insight cuts through the noise, unpacking the transformation of gender into a social construct and the startling rise in children identifying as transgender. This is a thought-provoking discussion that challenges the current narrative and lays bare the concerns surrounding the direction of child and adolescent psychiatric care.

Amid the exploration of this sensitive topic, we confront the burgeoning phenomenon of detransitioners, whose voices seem lost in the clamor for gender-affirming care. Dr. Grossman sheds light on the potential psychology behind this regret and the social dynamics that could be contributing to a rise in gender dysphoria diagnoses. By bringing critical attention to the work of organizations like the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine, our conversation underscores the necessity of staying abreast of the ever-evolving research in this contentious field.

Listen more on the Real Clear Podcast.

Anti-Semitism, Wokeness, And Why A Strong America Is Essential To Israel’s Survival, Part 2: Wokeness Is Destroying America — One Student at a Time

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell

I love the United States and want it to be strong and prosperous. I am embarrassed by the fact that it took a catastrophe in Israel to wake me up to the realization that American universities have become epicenters of “wokeness” and green shoots of socialism that are gradually destroying our awesome country.

I know what you may be thinking: Wokeness is the enemy? Really? Next, he’ll be picking on Winnie-the-Pooh.

Read more on the Daily Wire.

It’s not just Harvard: Woke healthcare leaders are unfit to lead, too

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Elite universities aren’t the only institutions that need to fire or force out their woke leaders. 

The resignations of Claudine Gay and Liz Magill from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, respectively, came after they demonstrated their commitment to DEI, which has enabled the rise of racial discrimination and hatred on their campuses. Yet something similar is happening at America’s most prestigious medical institutions. And as I’ve seen firsthand, medical leaders won’t ditch DEI of their own accord — they need to be ditched like these university presidents.

Consider the American College of Surgeons (ACS), of which I am a longtime member. Founded to promote the highest standards of surgery, the ACS has instead stooped to launching endless DEI initiatives, programs, and departments dedicated to them. Tellingly, voices that question this have been routinely silenced by its leadership. For instance, after I pointed out the lack of evidence justifying DEI in surgery, the ACS banned me from its online forums and blocked my access to its nationwide directory of surgeons. They don’t want me telling my fellow surgeons the truth about DEI.

The ACS’s leadership knows exactly what it’s doing. Founded in 1913 to advance the art and science of surgery, the ACS proclaimed its mission was to “Heal all with skill and fidelity.” That requires excellence in surgical care. yet DEI threatens excellence and patient health. The ACS leaders have turned their back on the reason for the organization’s existence, much as Harvard and other elite universities have abandoned excellence in education in favor of radical indoctrination.

Read more in the Washington Examiner.

EXCLUSIVE: Meet The Activist Academic Bringing Diversity Quotas And Critical Race Theory To Medical Schools

A single activist psychologist has implemented diversity quotas and left-wing policies on race and healthcare across three different medical schools

Dr. Anita Fernander, a trained psychologist and academic, has spread left-wing ideology across three medical schools by overseeing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs and teaching students about “equity” in the medical profession, documents obtained by the Daily Caller show.

Read more on the Daily Caller.

Exclusive: Poll Finds Majority Of Voters Oppose Race And Gender Identity-Based Hiring

A commanding majority of American voters oppose race and sexuality-based hiring practices and efforts to embed the dogmas of Critical Race Theory into the medical field, according to new survey results obtained exclusively by The Daily Wire.

The poll of registered voters found that, though many respondents were not familiar with the phrase diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, sizable majorities are opposed to the core practices associated with the DEI movement.

Read more on the Daily Wire.

World Health Organization Named Former Prostitute, ‘Genderf**king’ Theorist To Transgender Health Expert Board

The World Health Organization (WHO) established an expert advisory group on transgender health, seeking guidance from a transgender former prostitute who called the line of work “empowering” and an academic attempting to popularize “genderf**king” as a critical legal theory.

The WHO’s Guidelines Development Group on the Health of Trans and Gender Diverse People was established to facilitate the creation of guidelines aimed at “increasing access and utilization of quality and respectful health services by trans and gender diverse people,” and establishing “health policies that support gender-inclusive care, and legal recognition of self-determined gender identity.”

Read more on the Daily Wire.

Georgetown School of Foreign Service Pledges to ‘Embed’ DEI Throughout Campus

Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service (SFS) recently renewed its pledge to “embed” Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ideology as a core principle of the school, according to an email sent to students on January 10.

Georgetown SFS communicated the effort through its DEI Office and promoted its Strategic Plan for “boosting” the ideology throughout the school. 

While DEI advocates say the ideology is about promoting diversity in schools and workplaces, public figures across the political spectrum have criticized DEI for its ties to antisemitism on college campuses.

Read more at Townhall.

Do No Harm drops lawsuit against health journal after it scraps ‘discriminatory’ scholarship requirements

EXCLUSIVE — Nonprofit organization Do No Harm voluntarily dropped its lawsuit against Health Affairs, a prominent health policy journal, without prejudice after racial requirements in their Health Equity Fellowship were eliminated. 

Do No Harm Chairman Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, who has said his organization is “opposed to discrimination in all of its manifestations,” complained that Health Affairs ran a “race-segregated health journal fellowship” called Health Equity Fellowship for Trainees. Since his 2022 complaint, Health Affairs scrapped the “racially discriminatory” requirement. 

“We are pleased that Health Affairs has decided to drop its racially discriminatory requirements for their fellowship. Segregation based on race is illegal and Health Affairs has recognized that. Do No Harm will continue to fight divisive and discriminatory ideology healthcare wherever we can find it,” Dr. Goldfarb told Fox News Digital. 

Read more on Fox News.

Doubt As a Badge of Honor

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Do No Harm’s efforts to expose the scandal of sex-trait modification in gender non-conforming minors are getting noticed. In a recent manuscript published in the journal Social Science & Medicine, authors Joanna Wuest and Briana Last identify Do No Harm, where I am director of research, as an “agent of scientific uncertainty” in discussions of the safety and efficacy of so-called gender-affirming care.

They intended the “agent of uncertainty” label as an insult, but we wear it as a badge of honor. Doubt is a bedrock of scientific inquiry, an essential tool to separate opinion from fact. As Wuest and Last see it, however, “medical and mental health associations across the globe have widely accepted gender affirming care for children and adolescents.” They seem to think that doubt—asking basic questions—is antithetical to science.

Read more on the City Journal.

Johns Hopkins should ELIMINATE its DEI department, watchdog group says, after university was forced to apologize for memo calling all white people ‘privileged’ and LBGTQ glossary erased word ‘woman’ to appease trans activists

Healthcare watchdogs say Johns Hopkins University should get rid of its DEI department after the president apologized for calling all white people ‘privileged’ and erasing the word ‘woman’ from a glossary.

The elite Maryland university is the latest target for those opposed to DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion – for saying it goes against institutions that should be prioritizing talent over cultural activism.

Pressure increased on Chief Diversity Officer Dr. Sherita Hill after she apologized for sending a woke hit list email labeling all white people, Christians, men and English-speakers as ‘privileged.’

Read more on Daily Mail.

Group calls on Johns Hopkins to eliminate DEI program after post on ‘privilege’ draws harsh criticism: report

A watchdog group is calling on Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore to eliminate its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion program, a week after the program’s leader declared all white people, Christians and men were “privileged,” creating a “toxic culture,” according to reports.

After the post went viral, the school’s chief diversity officer Dr. Sherita H. Golden issued a statement and retracted the message, claiming she did not intend to offend anyone.

The Watchdog group Do No Harm called Golden’s apology “empty,” and demanded the DEI department be eliminated, the New York Post reported.

“Johns Hopkins needs to completely eliminate their DEI department and channel those resources toward the primary objective of preparing the next generation of healthcare professionals to give the highest quality care to all patients,” Do No Harm’s executive director Kristina Rasmussen told The Post. “They have created a toxic culture rooted in a DEI ideology that demonizes and indoctrinates the very students they’re tasked with training to become the next generation of medical professionals.”

Read more on Fox News.

Watchdog group demands Johns Hopkins eliminate DEI program that called all white people ‘privileged,’ created a ‘toxic culture’

A healthcare watchdog group is demanding that Johns Hopkins Medicine eliminate its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion program after its boss created a “toxic culture” by declaring all white people, Christians and men as “privileged.”

Do No Harm condemned the elite institution’s “empty” apology after Dr. Sherita Hill Golden, chief diversity officer for the hospital system, sent a staff-wide memo last week defining privilege as “a set of unearned benefits given to people who are in a specific social group.”

“Johns Hopkins needs to completely eliminate their DEI department and channel those resources toward the primary objective of preparing the next generation of healthcare professionals to give the highest quality care to all patients,” Kristina Rasmussen, executive director of Do No Harm, told The Post.

Read more on the New York Post.

These medical schools plotted loophole for race-based admissions after Supreme Court affirmative action ban

In the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision blocking race-based admissions at colleges and universities, medical school faculty at multiple institutions tried to find ways to circumvent the ruling, records show.

Documents obtained through a public records request made by medical advocacy group Do No Harm and obtained by the Washington Examiner show plans by faculty to maintain a diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, focus in admissions while still technically abiding by Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.

Read more on the Washington Examiner.

Paramedic group scrubs no-whites-allowed scholarship after lawsuit

The National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians scrubbed a scholarship only open to “students of color,” following a federal lawsuit.

Do No Harm, a group fighting “diversity, equity, and inclusion” in medicine, filed the lawsuit last week on Jan. 10.

The “diversity scholarships” for emergency medical services techs “will be awarded to students of color who do not hold an EMS certification but who intend to become an EMS practitioner,” according to an archived link.

Read more on The College Fix.

Patients, Not Medical Students, Are a Vulnerable Population

Two months after Hamas’s October 7 invasion of Israel, Baylor College of Medicine canceled a lecture scheduled many months before on “Antisemitism in Medicine,” to be given by me and another physician who has received many antisemitic threats, some of which led to police protection. Last year, my long-running course at Baylor on medicine and the Holocaust was canceled. It has become increasingly evident that medical schools, medical-licensing bodies, and medical organizations are reluctant to acknowledge, let alone confront, the fact that their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies breed antisemitism in medicine.

Read more on National Review (paywall).

Watchdog Organization Sues Medical Association Over Race-Based Scholarship

Do No Harm (DNH), an organization that spotlights racial discrimination in health care institutions, has filed a lawsuit against the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT), alleging that the organization disqualifies white students from its scholarship program based on their race.

“The National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians is given the important responsibility of training America’s first responders,” said Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of DNH. “Like all aspects of healthcare, training the best and brightest to provide the best care for patients should be the primary concern of all medical organizations, not the skin color of an EMT. First responders and all medical professionals should be given opportunities, training, and scholarships on the basis of merit.”

DNH had the lawsuit filed on behalf of one of its members—named “Member A” in the suit—who meets the criteria for the financial needs the scholarship would fulfill if it weren’t for her being white, a factor that disqualifies her from applying.

Read more on The Epoch Times.