The Washington University School of Medicine has been scrutinized after offering a course that taught about puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and how Western nutrition is linked to racism.
A summer course at the university in St. Louis, Missouri, called “Health Equity and Justice” allegedly saw professors advocate for cross-sex hormones but fail to acknowledge the neural impact of the practice, according to Fox News Digital.
According to lecture slides obtained by the news outlet, the students were also taught that nutrition is corrupted by racism.
The slide shows a TikTok video explaining that the caucasian doctor who initially discovered how many calories were needed daily in order to survive, Dr. Lionel Bradley Pett, based his findings on “exactly what it took to keep the human body alive by starving native children to death.”
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It has never been more clear that when they said ‘trust the science’ they really meant ‘trust the political science.’
We already know that fighting obesity is racist as progressives have made it clear this somehow reflects the racist” stigmatization” of Black bodies.
This is probably why Washington University of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, went all-in on pushing that agenda as they offered a summer course titled “Health Equity and Justice.”
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The Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri has taken an alarming turn in pushing progressive ideas, especially in its latest summer course entitled “Health Equity and Justice.” Included in the curriculum is something called “Care of Transgender Patients,” discussions about how nutrition is racist, and how the science behind Body Mass Index is based on a white person’s body.
There were PowerPoint slides apparently obtained by Fox News that revealed the school is pushing its medical students to advocate for cross-sex hormones, even though they have acknowledged that there is little evidence on its neural impact. They also noted that there is little known about its effect on neural circuity.
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A prestigious US medical school reportedly offered a course over the summer that promoted ‘alarming’ progressive ideals – including several relating to gender, and Diversity, equity, and inclusion.
The course, titled ‘Health Equity and Justice,’ was held at Missouri‘s Washington University School of Medicine this past summer – and some of its alleged lessons were laid bare Sunday by Fox News.
The outlet shared a series of PowerPoint slides that seemed to show the class’s irregular content – including one that insisted that BMI should stand for ‘badly mistaken idea’ because it does not take into account ‘a person’s gender or ethnicity.’
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An Oklahoma state law that makes it illegal to provide children with puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones or sex-change surgeries as a treatment for gender dysphoria has survived the first round of an ongoing court challenge.
U.S. District Judge John F. Heil, III, has denied plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction that would prevent enforcement of the law.
“Where, as here, there is robust scientific and political debate concerning a significant public-policy question, a court should be loath to step in to end the debate and thereby suggest it is all-knowing,” Heil wrote in his opinion and order. “The record in this case amply demonstrates that there is no consensus in the medical field about the extent of the risks or the benefits of the Treatment Protocols.”
Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis is pushing the idea that nutrition is somehow racist, and is still advocating for cross-sex hormones despite a new Missouri law banning them for children.
That’s according to a Sunday Fox News story that reports “Powerpoint presentation slides obtained by Fox News Digital show the school urging students in August to advocate for cross-sex hormones despite acknowledging the lack of evidence on its neural impact and admitting its effect on neural (circuitry) is ‘unknown.’”
Meanwhile, the report says a slide from the medical school’s Health Equity and Justice class this summer claims nutrition advice is steeped in racism because an early researcher “found out exactly what it took to keep the human body alive by starving native children to death.”
Moreover, the presentation seems to blame all white people.
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FIRST ON FOX: The Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, Missouri offered a summer course titled “Health Equity and Justice,” which a medical and political advocacy group tells Fox News Digital is coupled with a controversial “Care of Transgender Patients” curriculum that promotes an “alarming” progressive gender agenda.
Powerpoint presentation slides obtained by Fox News Digital show the school urging students in August to advocate for cross-sex hormones despite acknowledging the lack of evidence on its neural impact and admitting its effect on neural circuity is “unknown.”
In another slide discussing “health equity”, a course claims that nutrition is tainted by racism. The slide contains a TikTok video explaining that the white doctor who first determined how many calories a day are needed in order to survive, Dr. Lionel Bradley Pett, “found out exactly what it took to keep the human body alive by starving native children to death.”
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We now have even more evidence that a lowering of standards in service of diversity is doing real harm to the medical profession.
Diversity is good, but it should never come at the expense of quality. That’s especially true in fields like my own medical profession. For years, the medical establishment has relentlessly pushed to recruit more minorities into medical school. While a great many are highly qualified, a great many aren’t, yet the powers that be are lowering standards to let them in. A growing body of evidence demonstrates the danger of diversity gone wild. Yet when anyone points it out, they are brutally maligned as racist.
I know from experience. One year ago, I commented on a study that found that minority resident trainees in three major teaching hospitals performed less well than their white and Asian counterparts. The authors of that study posited that racism and bias were the only explanation. In response, I pointed out the possibility that the assessments may have been correct and that many of the minority residents did indeed perform less well. The blowback was as swift as it was severe.
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The transgender movement is pressing its agenda everywhere. Most publicly, activist teachers are using classrooms to propagandize on its behalf and activist health professionals are promoting the mutilation of children under the euphemistic banner of “gender-affirming care.” The sudden and pervasive rise of this movement provokes two questions: where did it come from, and how has it proved so successful? The story goes deeper than most Americans know.
North Carolina deserves the best system of higher education in the country.
That’s why I applaud lawmakers for their recent override of Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto in enacting a groundbreaking law that reforms our taxpayer-funded public institutions, including our colleges and universities. This legislation is an important step toward rooting out radical politics from our public institutions. In our government, and in higher education, this will reorient our systems to focus on educating and preparing our students for the future.
One of this bill’s most important reforms is tackling the radical ideology of so-called “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”.
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A group of Yale doctors and other healthcare researchers recently published a small study that stated there is “anti-Asian racism” in medical school programs and concluded that Asian students are “invisible.”
However, the researchers who conducted the study rejected the idea that a small sample size and biased sampling methods made the study inapplicable.
The study, funded by grants from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, interviewed 25 Asian medical students who were recruited through the Asian Pacific American Medical Students Association.
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Before the Supreme Court’s ruling in Students for Fair Admissions vs. Harvard, four Fortune 150 companies were sued over their diversity, equity and inclusion, and environmental, social and governance practices. This alert provides an update on those cases.
As we noted in our prior alert, the American Alliance for Equal Rights (Alliance), following the U.S. Supreme Court’s June opinion in Students for Fair Admissions vs. Harvard (SFFA), has sued two large law firms alleging that the fellowship programs they offered to law students violated Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (Section 1981). But as an earlier alert recognized, law firms are not the only targets of these emerging types of claims, as many prominent businesses — including Fortune 150 stalwarts Starbucks, Amazon, Pfizer and Comcast — faced legal scrutiny regarding their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices even before the SFFA decision. Below, we describe how four notable pre-SFFA cases have proceeded.
Pfizer. As we’ve previously discussed, in September 2022, a group of anonymous physicians, healthcare professionals, medical students, patients and policymakers — organized as “Do No Harm” in early 2022 — filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Pfizer, seeking to block further implementation of the company’s Breakthrough Fellowship Program (BFP).1 This program, which was designed to address gaps in recruiting, retaining, and promoting students and young professionals of “Black/African American, Latino/Hispanic and Native American” descent, was challenged as “categorically” discriminating against white and Asian American applicants through claims under Section 1981, Title VI, and other federal, state and city laws. In denying Do No Harm’s emergency motion for a preliminary injunction, Judge Jennifer L. Rochon most notably held that Do No Harm lacked “associational standing” to bring its federal claims. By failing to name any of its members, the organization was unable to establish that at least one identified member had suffered or would suffer harm. Further, Do No Harm was also unable to demonstrate that any of its members were “ready and able” to apply to the BFP or able to meet the minimum program qualifications. Do No Harm has appealed the District Court’s decision to the Second Circuit.2 While the appeal is pending, Pfizer’s description of the BFP now reads that it “works to advance students with demonstrated commitment and ability to advance diversity, equity and inclusion for Black/African American, Latino/Hispanic and Native Americans at Pfizer.”3
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Recent changes to Pfizer Inc.‘s fellowship program aimed at building a diverse workforce suggest that a legal challenge to that program might no longer be valid, a panel of federal appeals court judges in Manhattan indicated.
During oral arguments Tuesday, Judge Beth Robinson of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit suggested to Pfizer that the appeal appears moot because the company amended the program’s requirements for the 2023 fellowship class by opening it up to applicants of all racial backgrounds.
“I was looking for the mootness argument based on the changes. I thought that would be the logical play for Pfizer but that’s not what I’m seeing,” Robinson told Samantha Lee Chaifetz of DLA Piper LLC, who represented Pfizer.
“I think that is certainly our position,” Chaifetz replied.
Do No Harm, an advocacy group of health-care professionals, students, and policy makers, appealed a federal district court’s December 2022 ruling that the organization lacked standing to block the pharmaceutical giant from continuing its fellowship program.
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As colleges adjust to the recent ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and offices that the Texas Legislature passed in its 88th Legislative Session, one University of Texas System medical school is continuing to offer race-based programs as part of its recruitment efforts.
The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston has released a new “reapplicant enrichment program” promoted as being for “underrepresented minority and disadvantaged students into medical careers.”
To qualify for the program, an applicant must meet one of the following criteria: “African American male, underrepresented in Medicine (African American, American Indian, Hispanic, Hawaiian/Pacific Islander), First-Generation College Student, or educationally and/or economically disadvantaged background.”
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Health care providers and LGBTQ advocates are emphasizing the need for medical services for transgender youths in Wisconsin at the same time Republican lawmakers are pushing to ban gender-affirming care.
Three GOP legislators circulated a bill Wednesday to discipline physicians who provide gender-affirming care for minors. Another group of lawmakers want a bill to create a civil cause of action for anyone who believes they were harmed by the care.
Gender-affirming care encompasses a range of health care designed to address gender dysphoria, when a person’s identity conflicts with their gender assigned at birth. The exact treatments can vary depending on age. Younger teens can receive puberty blockers that halt or delay the onset of puberty, with the goal of allowing them more time to determine their gender identity before developing certain sex characteristics, such as those associated with genitalia, hair or breasts.
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Moms on a Mission welcomes Dr. Stanley Goldfarb who started an organization called, “Do No Harm” in April of 2022 after he wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal called, “Take Two Aspirin and Call Me By My Pronouns”. He shares that medical education was starting to take a turn at that point and he was seeing more and more focus around the country on social issues rather than on producing the best physicians who have the most knowledge about caring for sick people which is the role of physicians. He continues to say that he was noticing that the effort was made to create more of a diverse medical school class and there was sacrifice to the merit of the students in favor of making sure their skin color was of a great variety when they took a class picture.
After the article, he wrote a book with the same title expounding on these very ideas. He explains that he later felt that he needed to do more so he started an organization called, “Do No Harm”, which has been successful in producing lawsuits against people risking the quality of American medicine and producing discriminatory activities. “Do No Harm” has helped get laws passed in 20 states regarding “gender affirming care” along with “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” activities in several states. They have 5000 members now! Dr. Goldfarb has been canceled because of his activities and when you go to the University of Pennsylvania website, his name is gone even though his name is on the books as an Emeritus Professor of Medicine and was the co-director of the Kidney Division. His name has been removed from the history of that website.
Dr. Goldfarb shares that the grave concern and difficulty with fighting this is that in the face of this opinion based medicine, there has been a solid front of academic medical societies in the United States.
Join “Do No Harm” and support them with prayer, reading their newsletters, and financially if you feel so led. None of the members are making any money.
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Gender-transition treatments offered by gender clinics to minors can result in serious side effects like erectile dysfunction, loss of fertility, decreased sperm production, and even death, admitted “consent forms” obtained by advocacy America First Legal (AFL).
In June, AFL filed public records requests with gender clinics in five states to obtain records related to “gender-affirming care.” The advocacy recently received consent forms from the University of Utah Health: Gender Management and Support Clinic.
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The University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health is using curriculum that teaches that structural racism is a public health crisis and that physicians have an obligation to be antiracist.
The University of Minnesota School of Public Health’s Center For Antiracism Research For Health Equity [CAHRE], the Minnesota Department of Health, and an organization called Diversity Science collaborated on developing a curriculum to help medical professionals provide perinatal care for Black and Indigenous “birthing people.”
Diversity Science is a public company that provides training programs that are intended to help organizations foster diversity, equity, and inclusion practices. According to Diversity Science’s website, they are an “evidence-based organization” that provides clients with real-world knowledge and effective programs.
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