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Department of Education swamps Duke University with civil rights investigations

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Duke University is facing a fresh federal civil rights investigation for a racially exclusive program at its medical school days after resolving a separate civil rights matter over excluding women. 

Last week, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights informed Mark Perry, a senior fellow with the medical watchdog group Do No Harm, that Duke University was no longer excluding men from two programs the school had organized, one for high school girls interested in orthopedic surgery and engineering, and another for female medical students.

Read more at the Washington Examiner.

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Texas authorities investigate med school over child transgender procedures

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Baylor doctors performed transgender procedures on children after hospital announced a pause

A hospital connected to the Baylor College of Medicine is under investigation by Texas authorities after a whistleblower report showed that it provided cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers and transgender surgeries to children despite previously stating that it would stop.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched the probe, but was impeached by the Texas House of Representatives on May 27 for unrelated allegations over bribery and abuse of public trust, which he disputes. While Paxton is suspended and awaits his trial in the state senate, Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to appoint an interim replacement, who could continue the investigation into the med school.

Read more at The College Fix.

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Johns Hopkins Medicine staff given roadmap to navigate dozens of pronouns: ‘faerself, ve, xe”

Johns Hopkins Medicine workers were recently allowed to use their chosen names on ID badges

Employees at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Maryland were given a new pronoun usage guide that lists dozens of pronouns include “aerself” and “faerself” while staffers navigate a recent inclusive ID policy, Fox News Digital has learned.

A pronoun usage guide from Johns Hopkins Medicine details 50 different pronouns that health care employees could use in the workplace, with other options including ve, xe, per and ae.

Read more at Fox News.

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Dr. Stanley Goldfarb: How DEI is Killing Medicine

Watch Do No Harm chairman Dr. Stanley Goldfarb discuss the effects of DEI in medicine with clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst Dr. Lucas Klein on the Real Clear podcast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSZgtidgcqQ
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Med schools group embraces racial preferences

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Racial preferences in faculty hiring and student admissions are a “strategic priority for academic medicine,” the nation’s largest consortium of medical schools says.

The racial priority appears in an open letter to 157 medical schools, academic societies, teaching hospitals and health systems written by David J. Skorton, president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges, and David A. Acosta, the group’s chief diversity and inclusion officer.

Read more at The Washington Times.

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U. of Minnesota scrubs info on racially segregated event after federal complaint

University of Minnesota ‘serial offender’ of federal civil rights law, scholar says

The University of Minnesota recently held an event just for “BIPOC students” considering grad school, prompting a complaint to be filed with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights alleging racial discrimination.

As the feds review the complaint’s merits, the university scrubbed the event page and wipedinformation about the gathering from its website.

Read more at The College Fix.

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Meet the influential new player on transgender health bills

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Do No Harm, a nonprofit that launched last year to oppose diversity initiatives in medicine, has evolved into a significant leader in statehouses seeking to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youths, producing model legislation that an Associated Press analysis found has been used in at least three states.

The nonprofit, not widely known outside conservative medical and political circles, describes itself on its website as a collection of doctors and others uniting to “protect healthcare from a radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology.”

Read more at AP News.

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Many transgender health bills came from a handful of far-right interest groups, AP finds

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Aaron and Lacey Jennen’s roots in Arkansas run deep. They’ve spent their entire lives there, attended the flagship state university, and are raising a family. So they’re heartbroken at the prospect of perhaps having to move to one of an ever-dwindling number of states where gender-affirming health care for their transgender teenage daughter, Sabrina, is not threatened.

“We were like, ‘OK, if we can just get Sabrina to 18 … we can put all this horrible stuff behind us,’” Aaron Jennen said, “and unfortunately that’s not been the case, as you’ve seen a proliferation of anti-trans legislation here in Arkansas and across the country.”

Read more at AP News.

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Massachusetts recommends child abuse laws for stopping trans procedures from minors

The Massachusetts government is recommending the state enact child abuse laws for withholding transgender drugs and surgeries for children. 

The Bay State’s “Commission on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning Youth” released its legislative recommendations for next year, which include going after parents who do not allow their children to pursue cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, and genital mutilation surgeries.

Read more at the Washington Examiner.

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Prescription for Failure

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Researchers are ignoring studies on race and medicine that yield ideologically inconvenient results.

The research establishment studying racial disparities in health care has a big problem. It has made a concerted effort to ignore any literature that contradicts the narrative that racial animus underlies the health-care disparities between white and black patients.

As in any field, the more evidence you can cite in favor of your theory, the more acceptance your theory will gain. In medical literature, acceptance of ideas is achieved when other researchers cite the supporting studies for those concepts. In fact, “impact” in the medical literature is judged by frequency of citations.

A most favored hypothesis these days holds that black patients need access to black physicians to receive optimal medical care. This concept is a major motivating force behind the search for greater numbers of blacks to enter the health-care workforce. Unfortunately, the research cited to support it is often disingenuous or, at worst, dishonest.

Read more at City Journal.

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When Political Dogma Replaces Medical Truth

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The peer-review process is consistently failing to stop bad scholarship on gender medicine.

No policies are more fraught right now than those involving gender transition and children. That makes it all the more important that research on the issue be grounded in the best science, giving policymakers the insight they need to do what’s right. Yet the opposite is happening: the peer-review process, designed to ensure research quality, is failing.

Consider the recent study, “Anti-transgender rights legislation and internet searches pertaining to depression and suicide,” published in December 2022 in PLOS One, a high-impact multidisciplinary journal. The authors claim to show a link between the passage of “anti-transgender rights” legislation and Google searches for “depression” and “suicide,” which could be proxy measures of mental-health distress. They assert that “the passage of a single [anti-trans] bill led to around a 13 to 17 percent increase in the volume of searchers for the word ‘suicide’ within that state” and that “that for every anti-transgender bill passed in a week, there was about a five percent increase in searches for the word ‘depression.’”

Read more at City Journal.

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Maryland health facility’s trans-friendly policy could require minor patients to room with opposite sex

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb of Do No Harm described policy as ‘unconscionable’

A mental health clinic at a Maryland hospital has instituted a policy by which minor patients who identify as transgender could be roomed with other minor patients of the opposite biological sex.

The Behavioral Health Center at Carroll Hospital in Westminster instructed staff to use the preferred pronouns of patients “regardless of their physical appearance, legal name, medical history, etc.,” according to an April 2022 internal policy document obtained by Fox News Digital.

Read more at Fox News.

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NYT Publishes ‘Shameful’ Article Dismissing Kids Who Regret Chemical Castration

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The New York Times ran a piece Tuesday dismissing the stories of individuals who regret getting transgender treatments as children.

In a piece tiled “How a Few Stories of Regret Fuel the Push to Restrict Gender Transition Care,” the NYT treated detransitioners as a fringe group whose cases that should not be used to restrict sex changes for minors. “Republicans have amplified a group of activists who no longer identify as transgender, overriding objections from transgender people and medical experts,” the piece read.

Read more at the Daily Caller.

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Wave of blue states become ‘refuge’ for child transgender surgeries and drugs

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A number of blue states have passed laws allowing children to receive transgender surgeries and drugs, often without parental knowledge or consent. 

Many of the bills are designed to allow children to pursue such a medical route on their own, require insurance to cover it, and give legal shields to doctors who provide the services.

Read more at the Washington Examiner.

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America’s elites are using Soviet-style media to misinform and keep people impartial

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When neutrality isn’t a virtue

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About a third of the country is moving toward restoring sanity while another third seems hellbent on getting nuttier. The final third might charitably be described as “neutral.”

On the sane side, Wyoming recently became the 19th state to reserve women’s sports for women.

Read more at The Washington Times.

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Arkansas minority health commission ends diversity scholarship following lawsuit

The program’s goal was to increase diversity in the state’s health care workforce

Quinyatta Mumford credits an Arkansas Minority Health Commission scholarship with affording her the opportunity to finish her doctorate in public health with less stress.

The single mother of three will graduate from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences next week and was disheartened to learn the Minority Health Workforce Diversity Scholarship is being discontinued as part of a lawsuit settlement.

Read more at the Arkansas Advocate.

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State minority health commission discontinues scholarship in court settlement

Decision part of agreement in discrimination lawsuit

A scholarship offered to minority college students in Arkansas who plan to enter the health care field is being discontinued as part of an agreement reached in federal court this week.

A lawsuit claiming the Minority Health Workforce Diversity Scholarship offered through the Arkansas Department of Health discriminates against students because of skin color was resolved Monday after the Arkansas Minority Health Commission director agreed to its termination, according to an agreement filed Monday in federal court.

Read more at the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.

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Dr. Marilyn Singleton denounces DEI policies in med schools: ‘It’s disgusting’

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Anesthesiologist and Do No Harm Visiting Fellow Dr. Marilyn Singleton joins Fox Business to expand on her argument that medical schools are bringing back racial segregation.

Watch at Fox Business.