Tennessee’s Lee sued over racial-based oversight board member requirement

A Virginia-based nonprofit group called Do No Harm filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, attempting to block a mandate that every government regulatory board has at least one member who is a racial minority.

The Pacific Legal Foundation filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Nashville after a Tennessee resident and Do Not Harm member has not been placed on the Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners because he was not a racial minority.

Two positions on the six-member board became open in June and one of the spots being vacated includes the only board member who is a racial minority.

Read more on The Center Square.

Medical Association Sues Red State Over Race Quotas On Government Boards

An association of medical professionals filed a lawsuit against Tennessee Wednesday over a requirement that one member of each government licensing board be a racial minority.

One of the two seats that opened on Tennessee’s Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners in June must be reserved for a racial minority. The Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) filed a lawsuit challenging the requirement on behalf of the medical organization Do No Harm, which has “one or more members who are qualified, willing, and able to be appointed to the Board of Podiatric Examiners, if the racial mandates were enjoined,” according to the complaint.

Read more on the Daily Caller.

Tennessee’s Racial Podiatry Rule

The Supreme Court’s ruling this summer in Students for Fair Admissions ended racial preferences among college applicants, but the task of extending that legal precedent for colorblindness is only beginning. Medicine might be one field to watch next, since it’s a place where the use of racial selection criteria persists under state mandates.

On Wednesday a group called Do No Harm, which says it’s “dedicated to eliminating racial discrimination in healthcare,” plans to file a federal lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s rules for appointments to more than 70 state boards, according to the draft complaint. That includes the Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners, created in 1931, whose six members are chosen by the Governor to regulate podiatry practice.

Read more on the Wall Street Journal.

Texas A&M nursing school required ‘commitment to diversity and inclusion’ for faculty hires

Texas A&M University’s School of Nursing set a threshold for showing a “commitment to diversity and inclusion” to hire faculty, according to documents.

A “Handbook for Faculty Search Committee Members” revised in February set diversity, equity, and inclusion standards for recruiting and hiring new faculty members.

The guidelines encourage having applicants write essays on their “personal commitment to diversity and inclusion” and how it “informs their past and future professional contributions.”

According to the document, which was obtained through a public records request, this shows applicants that “diversity and inclusion are core values for your department and college,” adding that hiring committees can set their own standards as to how to weigh commitment to DEI in hiring but to “consider setting a minimally acceptable score for the DEI commitment statement.”

Read more on the Washington Examiner.

‘People with cervices’: IU med school doubles down on gender ideology

Indiana University School of Medicine has doubled down on its embrace of gender ideology in contradiction with biological reality, despite widespread media coverage of one of its courses.

Documents obtained by Do No Harm and provided exclusively to The College Fix show the public university continues to teach sex and gender are both “non-binary.”

“Genetic female” and “genetic male” are the “two most common chromosomal patterns,” the slides say, “but there are others.”

The “Sex and Gender Primer” slides also instruct aspiring doctors that what they learn today could become dated – “Linguistic practices are open to change as LGBTQIA+ advocates refine their perspectives on language.”

Read more on The College Fix.

How DEI Inspires Jew Hatred

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Hell hath no fury like a donor scorned. 

In recent days, a generous supporters have withdrawn or threatened to withdraw financial support from the University of Pennsylvania, where I used to teach. The list includes former U.S. ambassador Jon Huntsman, hedge-fund tycoon Cliff Asness, and Estee Lauder heir Ronald Lauder, to name a few. They’re furious over Penn’s pathetic response to anti-Semitism on campus following Hamas’s barbaric terrorist attack on Israel. The same thing is happening at other prominent schools, especially Harvard.

The donors should be angry, but withholding money won’t make much difference. Donors need to demand concrete reforms—especially rolling back the all-pervasive “diversity, equity, and inclusion” regime that gives cover to and encourages anti-Semites.

I say this as a former associate dean and professor at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine, where I worked for 53 years, and as a Jewish person. For decades, I saw the hateful shenanigans that are, sadly, endemic to every prestigious university—the constant student protests against Israeli occupation; the fake graves representing dead Palestinians, including terrorists, suddenly appearing on campus overnight; and more.

Read more on City Journal.

EXCLUSIVE: Group That Trains Physician Assistants To Be ‘Anti-Racist’ Defended Race-Based College Admissions

The group Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA), which trains physician assistants (PA), held “anti-racism town halls,” according to leaked emails obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller.

PAEA is a membership-based group that represents PA educational programs. The group conducts learning programs at schools that train PAs across the country, including various professional development workshops.

The anti-racism events took place in September and provided “a space for PA students, faculty, and staff to share their stories, experiences, and feelings on racism that continues to pervade the fabric of the country,” according to an email.

Read more on the Daily Caller.

Med school accreditor requires ‘commitment’ to DEI in mission statements

All schools must hire DEI leaders to remain accredited

Osteopathic medical schools that want to remain accredited must show they support “diversity, equity, and inclusion” according to the new standards from the accreditor of those institutions.

The American Osteopathic Association has recently revised its accreditation standards to include DEI commitments. All of its colleges have until July 1, 2024 to become fully compliant.

All colleges “must include a commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in its mission, values, vision, goals, or objectives,” according to the standards.

They must offer an annual DEI training to all faculty and staff and “have space available for use by students in a manner intended to support diversity, equity, and inclusion, and must consult with students in the process of establishing such a space.”

Read more on The College Fix.

Amid DEI Backdrop, OU Students Condemn Israel

The University of Oklahoma has often touted its “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) efforts as a method to make the school a place of “belonging” for all.

But on Oct. 25, about 150 students marched at OU to protest the nation of Israel’s response to recent terrorist attacks by Hamas, chanting, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” according to the OU Daily, the campus newspaper.

The protest was one of many that took place at college campuses nationwide that day with such activism increasingly linked to growing antisemitism on college campuses.

Notably, one former DEI director recently said college DEI programs fuel antisemitism.

In a column in the New York Post, Tabia Lee, a black woman who previously served two years as a faculty “diversity, equity, and inclusion” director at De Anza College in California, warned that DEI programs can foster antisemitism and suggested she was driven from her position after working “to create an authentically inclusive learning environment for everyone, including Jewish students.”

Read more on OCPA.

Nonprofit Organization Releases ‘Detransitioner Bill of Rights’

This week, a nonprofit medical organization released model legislation that would help people who previously “transitioned” genders to reverse the effects of their treatments and surgeries. 

The Detransitioner Bill of Rights was created by nonprofit organization Do No Harm. The legislation would address the rise in “detransitioners” who come out against their decision to undergo experimental, so-called “gender-affirming” care, according to a report from The Daily Wire.

Reportedly, the legislation would help people seeking to detransition financial access to medical treatments that would reverse the effects of transgender care. And it would give them the ability to pursue legal action against the entities that pushed the treatments on them.

Read more on Townhall.

Anti-racism supersedes actual medicine, endangers patients

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Ibram X. Kendi’s gravy train could soon screech to a halt. The famous “anti-racist” professor is under intense public and institutional scrutiny after a Boston University investigation revealed that his “Center for Antiracist Research” squandered tens of millions of dollars, producing practically no research.  

But while the ideologue is disgraced, his ideological fingerprint remains impressed upon academia. Nowhere is anti-racism’s influence more concerning than medical research, where racialized pseudoscience has effectively replaced scientific rigor in making sense of matters of life or death.  

Anti-racism asserts that race-blind policies allow bigoted attitudes and beliefs to flourish, and that disparities across racial groups must be evidence of racism. In accordance with the ideology, leading healthcare organizations now uncritically and reflexively claim that health disparities across racial groups must be the result of racism disguised or fueled by race-neutral policies.  

Read more on Fox News.

Hardly Inclusive, Diversity Mandates Have Politicized Campus Life

College life just isn’t fun anymore. Undergraduates today often find themselves forced into the culture wars, through no fault of their own. The ubiquity of addictive smartphones and polarizing algorithms that run social media sites create trouble. But the main drivers of overly politicized campus life seem to be the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) offices — divisive, omnipresent forces on campuses that thrust students into the intense, chaotic and often vicious political world. It’s why, perhaps, that DEI offices are under scrutiny across the country.

Two decades ago, when I was an undergraduate, college life was markedly different. DEI offices did not exist, administrators did not set the tone for campus discourse, and cell phones were not in every pocket. As a result, fellow undergraduate students and I had an opportunity to slow down and digest the world around us. I was on campus for both 9/11 and the inception of growing political polarization in 2020. Nonetheless, we still had the time to pause, think deeply, and contemplate politics, history and the social world; we were encouraged by faculty to think, absorb, debate, and hear others. In my dorm, we had truly diverse programming that would be improbable, if not impossible, today. There were substantial and painful disagreements, but we were a residential community that found common ground and shared numerous collective, often joyful, experiences. We were not awash in social media and there was little chance a small dust-up would become national news.

Read more in The Messenger.

Healthcare Watchdog Crafts ‘Bill of Rights’ for Youths Escaping Transgenderism

A medical watchdog organization has launched a “Detransitioner Bill of Rights” — model legislation aimed at supporting people who seek to detransition from experimental sex change drugs and procedures they received as minors.

Do No Harm, a medical organization dedicated to opposing woke gender and racial ideologies in medicine, announced the model legislation last week, calling it “groundbreaking,” and the “first-of-its-kind.” 

“The Detransitioner Bill of Rights represents a crucial step in protecting the rights and well-being of children who have been subjected to experimental sex change treatments,” said Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, Do No Harm chairman. “Medical professionals should publicly acknowledge the plight of detransitioners and research ways to help and support those who regret undergoing these procedures.”

Read more on Breitbart.

Connecticut Children’s Hospital Creating Portal for Out-of-State Kids to Pursue Gender Transition

The Connecticut Children’s Hospital is developing a portal that will connect kids from states where gender transition surgeries and hormone injections are banned to resources that would help them pursue so-called gender-affirming care.

“With Texas now being the latest to ban evidence based care for trans kids (and DEI offices on public college campuses 🤔), we have to find more ways to support these kids and families . . . are you a family in a state banning care?” Melissa Santos, Division Chief of Pediatric Psychology at the hospital, wrote in a LinkedIn post in late September. “Reach out below . . . we want to help . . . #transhealth #pride #transcareishealthcare #forthekids #lgbtqcommunity.”

Read more in National Review.

Former DEI head exposes the truth about ‘inclusion’ on college campuses

If you’re honestly seeking knowledge and truth, your perspective is bound to change from time to time.

Dr. Tabia Lee has had to learn this the hard way.

As the former head of the diversity, equity, and inclusion department at Silicon Valley’s De Anza College, Lee once truly believed that DEI was about inclusion.

However, she quickly realized that wasn’t what DEI was about at all. “It was like I was in the Twilight Zone,” she tells Glenn Beck.

Learn more on The Blaze.

EXCLUSIVE: American Academy of Pediatrics Named In Bombshell Detransitioner Lawsuit

A woman who was pumped with testosterone and underwent hormone therapy when she was a young teenager is suing both her doctors and the American Academy of Pediatrics, which her lawyers say has knowingly lied about the impact of the radical sex-change treatments it recommends, according to a copy of the lawsuit obtained exclusively by The Daily Wire.

Isabelle Ayala, now a twenty-year-old woman, had just turned fourteen when she was committed to the hospital for suicidal thoughts, according to the lawsuit. It was during this hospital stay that she met with Dr. Jason Rafferty, who during his first brief meeting with Ayala determined that she “meets criteria to consider hormonal transition,” with the only stated obstacle being parental consent. The lawsuit states that Rafferty and other doctors sent Ayala down the “path of ‘gender-affirming’ medicalization” rather than addressing the true roots of her mental health problems — six months into her testosterone treatments, Ayala tried to commit suicide.

Read more on the Daily Wire.

UCLA study: Convince white people racism exists by showing them old photos

Medical reform group says it’s good to teach history, but that does not prove racism today

A study recently published by UCLA researchers suggests that showing white people historical photos of racism toward black Americans in the healthcare system helps them believe racism exists today.

The study, published by the American Psychological Association, exposed approximately 400 white participants to decades-old images that allegedly depicted instances of discrimination towards black Americans in the healthcare system.

“Importantly, [the study] found that learning about Critical Black History in healthcare increased White Americans’ perspective-taking and led to more recognition of and support for addressing racism broadly, and racism in healthcare specifically,” the study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General stated.

Read more on The College Fix.

Dr. Tabia Lee on Fox News’s ‘Ingraham Angle’

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Do No Harm Senior Fellow Dr. Tabia Lee joins Ingraham Angle to discuss how DEI fuels antisemitism on college campuses.

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