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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.

Anti-racism supersedes actual medicine, endangers patients

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.

Hardly Inclusive, Diversity Mandates Have Politicized Campus Life

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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.

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

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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.”

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

Connecticut Gender Ideology Hospital System Media Mention

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.”

EXCLUSIVE: American Academy of Pediatrics Named In Bombshell Detransitioner Lawsuit

Gender Ideology Media Mention

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.

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

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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.

When ‘Critical Social Justice’ Rules on Campus

DEI Op-Ed

When I started in 2021, I made it a priority to create an inclusive learning environment for all students, including Jews, only to be stymied by some colleagues and administrators who were fully bought into “critical social justice.”

I was repeatedly told that fighting anti-Semitism and promoting Jewish inclusion don’t matter. Why? Because Jews are “white oppressors” and it was our job to “decenter whiteness.” Besides being willfully ignorant of the diversity of the Jewish diaspora, such racist language reflects an obsession with dividing people of different racial groups into categories of “oppressor” and “oppressed.”

Missouri Treasurer: Reps. Cleaver and Bush are wrong. Say no to race-based admissions | Opinion

Missouri DEI University of Missouri School of Medicine Medical School Media Mention

Should universities discriminate by race? The obvious answer is no, and over the summer, the U.S. Supreme Court applied that answer to higher education nationwide. Missouri’s universities have now put an end to discriminatory and divisive race-based admissions.

As Missouri’s first person of color to hold statewide office,. I’m glad to see this backward practice disappear. Yet I’m deeply concerned that two of Missouri’s members of Congress are calling on Mizzou to bring back racial discrimination.

Kentucky nursing board scraps ‘implicit bias’ training following Washington Examiner report

Kentucky DEI Board of Nursing Media Mention

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.

Detransitioners like me need a bill of rights

Gender Ideology Op-Ed Chloe Cole

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.

The American College of Surgeons Doubles Down on Anti-Racism

DEI Op-Ed Richard Bosshardt, MD

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.

‘Detransitioner Bill Of Rights’ Gives States Blueprint To Push Back On Radical Gender Ideology

Gender Ideology Media Mention

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.

Tennessee trans law is constitutional and necessary. The left can’t handle the truth

Tennessee Gender Ideology Media Mention

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.

Top Med School Criticized for Offering ‘Health Equity Course’

Missouri Gender Ideology Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Medical School Media Mention

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.”

Leading Medical School Claims Your Body Mass Index is Racist (Which We Guess Makes Being Fat “Equity”)

Missouri DEI Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Medical School Media Mention

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.”

Prominent med school pushes curriculum claiming BMI and nutrition are racist

Missouri Gender Ideology Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Medical School Media Mention

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.

Washington University School of Medicine says BMI is steeped in racism as its based on ‘ideal’ Caucasian and ignores other factors to determine health

Missouri DEI Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Medical School Media Mention

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.’