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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
‘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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 wiped information about the gathering from its website.
Read more at The College Fix.
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.
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.
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.