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OCPA Defends Ban on Child Sex-Change Surgeries

The Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (OCPA) has joined with medical professionals to defend a new state law that prevents children younger than 18 from being subjected to sex-change surgeries or given puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones.

“No reliable scientific evidence justifies the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries to treat gender dysphoria in minors. To the contrary, such treatments carry harmful lifelong consequences, including infertility, total loss of adult sexual function, and increased risk of several other serious medical conditions,” states an amici curiae brief by the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs and Do No Harm.

The brief was filed in Peter Poe v. Gentner Drummond, a case in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma.

Do No Harm is a group of physicians and healthcare professionals who believe “healthcare should be free from experimental procedures that place political agendas ahead of patient well-being.”

Read more on the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs.

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The Endocrine Society’s Dangerous Transgender Politicization

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A federal court last week struck down an Arkansas law banning the provision of sex-change procedures—off-label “puberty blockers,” opposite-sex hormones and surgery—to minors. In the June 20 ruling, Judge James M. Moody Jr. repeatedly cited the Endocrine Society, the professional organization of physicians who specialize in hormones. He wrote that the society has “published widely-accepted clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of gender dysphoria” that “were developed by experts in the field” and “are recognized as best practices.”

In truth, over the past decade transgender activists have co-opted the Endocrine Society and other professional organizations to promote such treatments for adolescents and even young children. Their guidelines are based on flimsy evidence, giving the appearance that invasive and irreversible treatments are beneficial for young patients despite a growing body of evidence to the contrary. The guidelines have been used by lawmakers in states such as California and New York to endanger children—and now by judges to block state efforts at protecting youngsters.

Read more in the Wall Street Journal.

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Medical nonprofit condemns prestigious journal that published argument for ‘space without White people’

Medical professionals blast top journal for article pushing racial segregation in medicine

Over 1,000 medical professionals have signed a petition condemning and demanding an apology from the highly esteemed New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) for publishing an article arguing for racial segregation in medical education.

The petition, first obtained by Fox News Digital, was organized by Do No Harm, a nonprofit with the stated mission of “protect[ing] health care from a radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology. We believe in making health care better for all — not undermining it in pursuit of a political agenda.”

Read more at Fox News.

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Medical Education Is Infected with DEI

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A few months ago, I was summarily fired as an editor-in-chief of the kidney section of the most widely used medical reference. UpToDate is used by tens of thousands of physicians every day, helping them make the best and most timely decisions for patient care. Even as I was fired, UpToDate’s leadership team praised my work.

So why did they fire me?

Read more at The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal.

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Dr. Stanley Goldfarb on the Rich Zeoli Show: “Woke” Comes for Medical Schools and Philly’s Mütter Museum

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Do No Harm Board Chair Dr. Stanley Goldfarb joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his latest Wall Street Journal editorial, “Cancel Culture Comes for Philly’s Weirdest Museum.” Dr. Goldfarb also talks about the startling introduction of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies into medicine and the medical school admissions process. 

Listen at PlayerFM.

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Senior Fellow Mark Perry on Twin Cities News Talk

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Tune in to Twin Cities News Talk to hear Jon Justice interview Do No Harm Senior Fellow Mark Perry on recent civil rights violations involving the University of Minnesota.

Listen at iHeart Radio.

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IN-DEPTH: Medical Gender Industry Projected to Reach $5 Billion by 2030 as Doctors Sound Alarm

A medical crusade devoted to the pharmaceutical and surgical alteration of children’s bodies is projected to become a $5 billion industry in the United States by 2030, according to a market research report by Grand View Research (pdf).

However, this lucrative commitment to the gender-affirming care model is not without dissent.

Though it may seem a majority are in lockstep with transitioning children, there remain physicians who continue to speak out, and their opposition is supported by a withdrawal from the model abroad after it’s been deduced to cause more harm than good.

Read more via the Epoch Times.

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‘Irreversible Infertility’ Listed As Risk Of Hormone Therapy On Trans Clinic Waiver

Advocates of so-called “gender affirming care” for children have sought to lower the minimum age for cross-sex hormone therapy, but waivers at a top Virginia clinic require parents to acknowledge a frightening list of potential permanent side effects.

The waivers from the University of Virginia (UVA) Medical Center, obtained exclusively by The Daily Wire, list the potentially harmful side effects of testosterone treatment and puberty blocker usage. The UVA Children’s Hospital Transgender Youth Health clinic offers “transgender youth health services for ages 11 to 25.”

Read more in the Daily Wire.

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U.S. Trails Most Nations in Child Sex Surgery Laws

While many countries throughout the world have placed restrictions or bans on sex alteration surgeries for minors, the U.S. is among the minority of countries that have not significantly limited the controversial procedures.

In fact, in addition to the absence of a federal law regulating the practice, the Biden administration has sought to pressure states out of passing their own laws limiting the performance of such procedures on children.

Read more in the Dallas Express.

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Guest columnist Roy Eappen: America should follow other countries on trans treatments for children

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What do other countries know that America doesn’t?

This question needs to be asked — and answered — in Chicago this week, specifically in regards to transgender treatments for children and adolescents.

Read more at the Daily Herald.

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Public Health Goes Woke on Counting Deaths

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A recent study on mortality rates between different races offers politicized deceptions instead of scientific inquiry.

Woke ideology isn’t corrupting just our children’s education and our political discourse. Just as troubling is its destructive impact on scientific inquiry — the foundation of progress in virtually every field of life. In medical research in particular, woke ideology has become so dominant that honest and accurate inquiry is disappearing altogether. This doesn’t bode well for patient health or public policy.

Read more at National Review.

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Get ready for the lies about affirmative action

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Barring a major surprise, the U.S. Supreme Court will put the kibosh on affirmative action in college admissions in the coming weeks. The 74 % of Americans who think that race and ethnicity should not be factored into admissions decisions will celebrate. However, they won’t encounter much sympathy from legacy media or ivory tower activists determined to see the world through a racialized lens.

Advocacy for affirmative action is largely grounded in misrepresentation of how it is implemented, why it is supposedly necessary, and the benefits that society accrues from it. The frequency of these arguments will intensify in the coming weeks, but they remain at best misleading and at worst fictional.

Read more at the Washington Examiner.

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Cancel Culture Comes for Philly’s Weirdest Museum

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Is a 9-foot human colon a symbol of colonialism? Don’t laugh. That question threatens to destroy a beloved and bizarre institution in Philadelphia. The Mütter Museum has housed medical oddities and arcana for 160 years. Yet a handful of woke elites are taking issue with its past and jeopardizing its future.

As a former president of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, which operates the Mütter Museum out of its downtown headquarters, I have a special fondness for this institution. I also know how weird it is. Where else can you see a malignant tumor removed from President Grover Cleveland, pieces of Albert Einstein’s brain, and 139 human skulls, to name a few of the head- and often stomach-turning exhibits? Many people with unique conditions have donated their organs, and even their whole bodies, to the collection. It’s equal parts intriguing and educational, since the museum fosters medical research.

The Mütter Museum has called itself “disturbingly informative,” yet a small number of activists tar it as insufficiently progressive. For years they’ve accused the museum of reflecting “colonialist” and “racist” views.

Read more in the Wall Street Journal.

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University of Michigan teaches future doctors gender ‘assigned’ at birth

Students at the University of Michigan Medical School are taught basic anatomy is “assigned” by doctors at birth , according to teaching materials reviewed by theWashington Examiner.

Slides reviewing the “foundational anatomy” of the pelvic region, which were created for first-year medical students, separate male and female body parts into the categories of “assigned male at birth (AMAB)” and “assigned female at birth (AFAB).”

Read more at the Washington Examiner.

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National organization of doctors aims to protect healthcare from woke activists

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WASHINGTON (TND) — A national organization of doctors, patients and policymakers is expanding across the country with a mission they say to fight woke activists.

Chairman of Do No Harm Dr. Stanley Goldfarb joined The National Desk’s Jan Jeffcoat to discuss the issue.

Read more and watch Dr. Goldfarb’s interview at CBS Austin.

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Children are not able to give informed consent: Dr. Stanley Goldfarb

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‘Do No Harm’ chairman Dr. Stanley Goldfarb discusses the long-term effects of putting children on puberty blockers on ‘The Bottom Line.’

Watch at Fox Business.

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EXCLUSIVE: Ohio Hospital Doubles Down On ‘Diversity Quotas’ For Its Healthcare Leaders

An Ohio hospital is setting diversity quotas for its employees in leadership positions, despite failing to reach a previous diversity threshold in 2022, according to documents obtained by medical watchdog Do No Harm and shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation.

As a part of its 2023 Objectives and Key Results (OKR), the Cleveland Clinic has set diversity quotas for several of its leadership roles, including in its finance and Clinical Transformation departments, according to documents obtained by Do No Harm and shared with the DCNF. The clinic recently partnered with OneTen, a group focused on getting black people hired, to focus “its skills-first [hiring] lens on racial equity” noting that the hospital “has experienced a significant gap in attracting, retaining and promoting Black talent.”

Read more at The Daily Caller.

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Source of Missouri State University’s opposition to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion reforms by the legislature difficult to pinpoint

Missouri State University opposed Diversity, Equity and Inclusion reforms in the recent legislative session – but without much, if any, public notice or debate about it.

The university deployed lobbyists and partnered with “business, health care, government, nonprofit and education leaders from all across the state” to oppose lawmakers’ efforts to restrict the use of DEI in state institutions.

Read more at The Heartlander.