The Kentucky Board of Nursing scrapped its requirement that nurses take “implicit bias” training as a “mandatory” continuing education course for licensure.
Documents obtained by the Washington Examiner show nursing board officials deciding to nix the requirement two days after the Washington Examiner ran a story exposing one training with heavily racialized messaging.
Read more on the Washington Examiner.
I tried to become a boy at 12. I tried to change back to a girl at 16. Now I’m 19. The “care” I received has left me with physical and mental challenges that I’ll probably carry for the rest of my life.
I was abused and lied to by the medical professionals I was told to trust. They lied to my parents, too. They’re still abusing and lying to countless young boys and girls.
My transition happened fast. At age 11, I knew I was a girl, even though I had a tomboy streak and struggled to make friends with other girls. While puberty was rough, it never occurred to me that I was “supposed” to be a boy.
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This week, the American College of Surgeons (ACS) is holding its annual Clinical Congress in Boston. The ACS is the oldest and largest professional organization in the world representing surgery and surgeons.
What is little known outside of the college is that, after the death of George Floyd, ACS leadership declared that the organization itself is structurally racist, expanding this claim to include its own member surgeons and even the practice of surgery itself.
Read more at the National Review.
The blatant antisemitism on college campuses has shocked millions of Americans over the past week and a half.
But not me.
I saw antisemitism on a weekly basis in my two years as a faculty “diversity, equity and inclusion” director.
Read more on the New York Post.
An organization that works to oppose the injection of radical gender ideology into medicine is releasing model legislation that would provide legal remedies for so-called detransitioners who are seeking a way to reverse the effects of gender transition surgeries.
The Detransitioner Bill Of Rights, which was created by medical nonprofit Do No Harm and obtained exclusively by The Daily Wire, aims to address the spike in minors who come to regret their decision to undergo sex change treatments. It would help give those seeking to detransition financial access to medical treatments that would help reverse the effects of the transition procedures, as well as the ability to bring legal action against those who pushed the radical treatments on them.
Read more on the Daily Wire.
The federal courts have spoken. Tennessee’s law protecting children from transgender treatments is constitutional, according to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals late September. As the primary author of Tennessee’s law, I’m glad to have the judiciary’s approval. But this isn’t just a legal issue. It’s a basic matter of truth.
My colleagues and I championed this reform out of a profound conviction that Tennessee should enshrine the truth in law. Modern society tells us that everyone can have their own truth, and that your truth and my truth can not only differ, but directly contradict each other. That’s not how truth works. There are scientific and moral truths that are timeless and eternal. The earth is round. Stealing is wrong. Biology is real.
Read more at Fox News.
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.”
Read more on The Messenger.
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.”
Read more on Louder with Crowder.
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.
Read more on The Blaze.
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.’
Read more on Daily Mail.
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.”
Gov. Kevin Stitt welcomed the ruling.
Read more on OCPA.
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.
Read more on Heartlander News.
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.”
Read more on Fox News.
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.
Read more on National Review.
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.
Read more on Imprimis.
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”.
Read more on North State Journal.
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.
Read more on The College Fix.
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.
Read more on JD Supra.