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Why Did Mike DeWine Rush to Ban Transgender Surgeries for Minors 1 Week After Vetoing Similar Bill? This Doctor Thinks He Knows

On Friday, Ohio’s Republican governor, Mike DeWine, issued an “emergency” executive order to ban sex-reassignment surgeries for minors just one week after he vetoed a bill that would have banned those same surgeries and addressed related issues.

The General Assembly is expected to begin the process of overriding his veto Wednesday.

Why did DeWine sign the order so quickly after vetoing the bill?

The governor did admit in his veto message that he agreed with outlawing sex-reassignment surgeries for minors, as the bill would, but he said he disagreed with other provisions, and he insisted that executive orders and regulations would be more likely to survive legal challenges. He directed his administration to draft regulations.

Psychoanalysis’s Racial Hysteria

DEI Op-Ed

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise,” Sigmund Freud once said. Psychoanalysis, the field that he founded, is taking the opposite approach.

The American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) is consumed with the idea that the profession suffers from “systemic racism,” requiring a revolution in training and practice. Unlike honesty, which heals the mind, this falsehood will destroy psychoanalysis from within and profoundly harm patients’ mental health.

Watchdog Sues Louisiana Over Racial Quota on Medical Board

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A medical watchdog group is suing Louisiana in federal court over a racial quota for the state’s board of medical examiners, which the group argues violates the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection.

Do No Harm is suing over a racial mandate that requires the state’s governor to exclude non-minority candidates for a certain number of positions on the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners.

University Of Michigan’s Spending On ‘Diversity’ Grew 66% In Just One Year

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The University of Michigan’s (UM) spending on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) increased about 66% from the 2022-2023 school year, according to an analysis by Mark Perry, a senior fellow at Do No Harm.

The school’s DEI payroll for the 2022-2023 school year came in at $18 million, but increased to over $30 million for the 2023-2024 academic year, according to Perry’s analysis. UM’s DEI department had 132 full-time diversity employees in the 2022-2023 school year and now has over 300.

More than 500 positions at UM advance DEI in some fashion at the university, including those who work full-time or part-time on DEI, unfilled positions, DEI Unit Leads and faculty that work on DEI Committees, Perry told the DCNF.

“UM is doubling down on diversity,” Perry said.

‘Gender-Affirming Care’ Is Increasingly Being Recognized as Unscientific

United States Gender Ideology Op-Ed Ian Kingsbury, PhD

American medical associations are doubling down on their support of so-called gender-affirming care for children even as lawsuits mount and European countries reverse course. America’s public reckoning with the harms inflicted on kids by pediatric gender medicine ticks closer by the day, and indeed several studies published in recent weeks bring the tragic and profound risks into sharper focus.

A study headed by Finnish researcher Riittakerttu Kaltiala examines the psychiatric needs of gender-dysphoric individuals in Finland. The researchers observe that the dysphoric population was substantially more likely than age-matched peers to have received specialist-level psychiatric contact before their first visit to a gender clinic. Worryingly, mental-health needs intensify after they begin the process of medical transition. Whereas 15 percent of patients who underwent gender-reassignment interventions had received psychiatric treatment before visiting a gender clinic, 53 percent had psychiatric contact after their first visit.

“Experts” profess certainty that “gender-affirming care” alleviates mental-health distress. They arrive at this conclusion through deeply flawed studies that rely on patient self-reports of mental health. But other clinical indicators suggest that medical transition in fact exacerbates mental-health distress. A 2021 study found that prescriptions for psychotropic medications increased after kids initiated medical transition. A 2011 study from Sweden meanwhile found that those who underwent sex-reassignment surgery had an appreciably lower life expectancy than the general population, in part due to an increased incidence of suicide.

Suit challenges required minority appointments to Louisiana medical licensing board

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A law requiring that some members appointed to the board that licenses and regulates physicians in Louisiana be from minority groups is being challenged in federal court as an unconstitutional racial mandate.

The lawsuit filed Thursday by the conservative group “Do No Harm” seeks a declaration that the law requiring minority appointees to the State Board of Medical Examiners is unconstitutional, and an order forbidding the governor from complying with it.

Ohio State health sciences program sparks controversy with mandatory ‘privilege’ assignments

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A health sciences course at The Ohio State University asks students to address their “privileges” if they are white, heterosexual, or able-bodied.

The course, which has been offered since 2009, is entitled “Individual Differences in Patient/Client Populations” and is administered as a part of Ohio State’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, according to the Daily Mail.

Fox News reported that the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences receives funds through the University’s Affordable Learning Exchange grant, which “awards grants to instructors who want to transform their courses using open and affordable materials.”

Information about the class was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request performed by Do No Harm, which according to its website is a coalition of “healthcare professionals, medical students, patients, and policymakers” that are dedicated to “protect[ing] healthcare from a radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology.”

Ohio’s Top Children’s Hospital Coaches Doctors To Circumvent Parents Wary Of Trans Treatments, Training Videos Show

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An Ohio hospital that actively lobbied Republican Gov. Mike DeWine to veto a ban on transgender procedures for minors has grossly misrepresented its approach to parental involvement in decisions, according to internal training videos obtained by The Daily Wire.

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, which both hosted DeWine onsite ahead of his veto of the ban on transgender procedures and testified against it in the legislature, said publicly in its opposition campaign that parental involvement is a priority. Steve Davis, the hospital’s president and CEO, testified that the bill “would hinder doctors and parents from collaboratively deciding the best treatment for their children.” He also stated that parental consent is always required.

Dr. Marilyn Singleton blasts MSNBC guest for blaming racism for health issues

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California anesthesiologist and ‘Do No Harm’ senior fellow Dr. Marilyn Singleton joins ‘Fox & Friends’ to follow up on her criticism against MSNBC guest Dr. Uché Blackstock’s claim that racism is behind health issues for minority communities.

Physician Group Settles Suit Over Program for Black Doctors

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Do No Harm, a healthcare professionals advocacy group, says it agreed to settle the challenge it brought against a physician-owned healthcare group’s leadership program for Black doctors.

The advocacy group argued Vituity’s Bridge to Brilliance program, meant to bridge opportunity gaps for historically marginalized groups, violated the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Affordable Care Act. Do No Harm says it is made of a group of diverse healthcare professionals who want to protect the field from anti-racism ideologies.

Vituity said that it had already made the decision to end its incentive program for Black physicians in the parties’ joint stipulation of dismissal filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida on Jan. 2. Judge T. Kent Wetherell II dismissed the suit on Wednesday.

“Medical professionals should be hired on merit alone and medical organizations should abandon the divisive identity politics being used as the basis to implement the debunked theory of racial concordance,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, the board chair of Do No Harm, said in a press release Wednesday. “Patients want and deserve the best doctors and the best medical care regardless of skin color or the racial makeup of their physician.”

Doctors Call for Withdrawal of Psychiatry Textbook Promoting ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care

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Nearly 170 health professionals have signed an open letter to the American Psychiatric Association (APA) condemning its new “gender-affirming” care textbook as “unacceptable, unethical and unsafe.”

Their open letter to the organization appears on the website of the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, a free speech and civil liberties watchdog group. The signatories demand that the APA “explain why it glaringly ignored many scientific developments in gender-related care and to consider its responsibility to promote and protect patients’ safety, mental and physical health.”

The letter calls for the APA to suspend publication of the textbook, “Gender-Affirming Psychiatric Care,” released on Nov. 8. The textbook is intended to be used as a teaching tool for doctors in training.

Gov. Mike DeWine Vetoes Bill Protecting Kids From ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed a bill to protect minors from experimental transgender medical interventions that are euphemistically referred to as “gender-affirming care.”

DeWine, a Republican, framed his veto of House Bill 68 on Friday as an effort to bring consensus on a divisive issue and to avoid having the government decide what medical decisions are best for children.

“Were House Bill 68 to become law, Ohio would be saying that the state, that the government, knows better what is best for a child than the two people who love that child the most, the parents,” DeWine said.

Penn affiliates want merit and ‘intellectual diversity’ to guide university

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The University of Pennsylvania should reorient itself to support “intellectual diversity” and merit, according to some students, faculty, and alumni.

“A Vision for a New Future of the University of Pennsylvania,” comes after Penn’s former president, Liz Magill, resigned earlier this month following remarks she made regarding antisemitism on campus in a hearing with federal lawmakers.

The constitution calls for a return to the values of the university’s founder, Benjamin Franklin. The petition supporting the new constitution has garnered the signatures of over 200 professors, alumni, and other Penn community members.

Major medical association slammed for offering ‘segregated’ scholarships to students

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The largest association of physicians in the U.S. is limiting some of its scholarships to only students of certain racial groups, drawing criticism from a healthcare researcher.

The American Medical Association (AMA) is currently offering 14 scholarships under its “Physicians of Tomorrow” program. The program gives $10,000 in tuition assistance scholarships to medical students entering their final year of schooling and targets “a variety of focus areas, including serving those underrepresented in medicine.”

It’s DEI or Bust for the American College of Surgeons

United States DEI Medical association Op-Ed

The organization has launched a diversity, equity, and inclusion tool kit to ‘help’ doctors, advocating principles that have no place in medicine.

America’s surgeons are not woke enough, according to the American College of Surgeons (ACS). Such is the message of the leadership to fellows of the ACS. In a previous column on this site, I described how the ACS doubled down on anti-racism and DEI at its annual Clinical Congress in Boston this October with courses in its educational program for surgeons. To underscore its ongoing commitment to anti-racism and DEI, the ACS just launched its DEI Toolkit and continues to promote this ideology as though its life depended on it.

To say this is puzzling is an understatement, especially given recent trends. Diversity, equity, and inclusion departments throughout the country are being shut down, DEI administrators are being handed their walking papers, and the ideologies of anti-racism and DEI are being increasingly recognized for their illiberal, divisive, and fraudulent nature. Take anti-racism. Even Ibram X. Kendi, who coined the term, is incapable of defining this in a coherent manner. When asked to define anti-racism, he offered: “Antiracism is a collection of antiracist policies leading to racial equity that are substantiated by antiracist ideas.” This is a classic circular argument that no critically thinking person would accept.

Surgeon says ‘toxic’ DEI in medicine has led to ‘erosion’ of quality care: ‘Dangerous to our patients’

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A surgeon blasted a top medical organization for doubling down on its antiracist initiatives at a time when many corporations and organizations are distancing themselves from these controversial principles.

“America’s surgeons are not woke enough, according to the American College of Surgeons (ACS),” Dr. Richard Bosshardt penned in his column for National Review this week.

The largest surgical organization in the country recently launched a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion toolkit for providers. In an announcement earlier this month, the ACS touted the materials would “provide a blueprint for implementing equitable practices” in medicine.

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb Discusses Anti-Semitism in U.S. Medical Schools

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Do No Harm chairman Stanley Goldfarb, M.D., recently joined John Solomon and Amanda Head on Just the News, No Noise on Real America’s Voice to discuss incidents of anti-Semitism on university campuses with medical schools and racial concordance.

Click the video to see the full interview.

The Biden Admin Is Investigating Elite Colleges For Antisemitism — But Don’t Expect Any Repercussions

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While Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are under investigation by the Biden administration following a rise in antisemitic incidents at the universities, it’s unlikely they’ll face any serious consequences, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Following several high-profile instances of antisemitism on campuses, the Department of Education’s (ED) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) opened investigations into Harvard, UPenn and MIT; the investigations followed a hearing in which the presidents of each university refused to say if calling for the genocide of Jews violated their universities’ codes of conduct. Though the Biden administration is looking into these private colleges, as well as many public universities, it’s doubtful the schools will face consequences such as a loss of federal funding, experts told the DCNF.