FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey issued an emergency regulation Thursday restricting the use of experimental transgender interventions on minors.
An organization of doctors, nurses, and health care professionals supported Bailey’s order, despite pro-transgender activist groups condemning it as based on “debunked claims” that ignore “medical evidence” and threatening a lawsuit to block it.
Read more at The Daily Signal.
A medical school spent $18,000 in a week on lecturers to spout “pure political idealogy” during a “diversity” week, critics charged.
One speaker alone, Canadian doctor and actor Evan Adams, got $3,000 to wax on about indigenous health issues in a virtual seminar for the November event at the University of Utah Medical School, which costs $35,000 a year.
Read more at the New York Post.
Do No Harm (DNH), an organization that spotlights discriminatory practices in medical institutions, has filed a lawsuit (pdf) against the executive director of a division of the Arkansas Department of Health, alleging its implementation of a scholarship program discriminates against students based on skin color.
The suit alleges that Executive Director of the Arkansas Minority Health Commission (AMHC) Kenya Eddings has violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by employing a scholarship plan that denies anyone who is not African American, Hispanic, Native American, Asian American, or Marshallese, while leaving out anyone who is white and Arab American.
Read more at The Epoch Times.
According to the NIH document, intentionally using an incorrect pronoun could be ‘a violation of one’s civil rights’
An office within the National Institutes of Health published a guideline that outlines how professionals should use gendered pronouns to “affirm gender identity” for themselves and colleagues, warning that intentionally using the wrong pronouns is “equivalent to harassment.”
Fox News Digital reviewed the NIH Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office’s “Gender Pronouns & Their Use in Workplace Communications” guide, which provides more than 40 different pronoun examples, while also providing examples on how to avoid making pronoun “mistakes” in the workplace.
Read more at Fox News.
An LGBTQ activist group’s video series features Biden’s top Health and Human Services (HHS) official Rachel [Richard] Levine, M.D. celebrating an influx of LGBTQ individuals into the medical field and the idea that gender ideology is now expanding in medical school training.
In a video from the series called “Authentic Voices of Pride,” produced by LGBTQ Nation, Levine, the assistant secretary for health at HHS, says it is important for healthcare providers to offer “culturally competent care,” a narrative of the Biden administration that uses the Marxist strategy of labeling a campaign that intends to be divisive with a seemingly innocuous name to make it easy to condemn those who disagree with it.
Read more at The Star News Network.
EXCLUSIVE — The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City has taken steps to overhaul its curriculum and approach to teaching to incorporate extensive anti-racism and diversity, equity, and inclusion principles.
According to internal documents obtained by the medical watchdog group Do No Harm and shared with the Washington Examiner, the medical school has resorted to evaluating teachers for their contributions to DEI and is advertising job postings that require applicants to share their commitment to DEI principles.
Read more at the Washington Examiner.
Castle Connolly, the organization known for publishing its “Top Doctor” list, now publishes a “Top Black Doctor” list so patients can search for specialists in their area by race.
The separate publication comes as part of Castle Connolly’s diversity, equity, and inclusion initiative. To compile the list, the company asked its doctors to “share information about their race/ethnicity, gender and sexual identity.”
Read more at the Washington Examiner.
The Arkansas Minority Health Commission has been sued for offering a scholarship that excludes white applicants .
Brought by the health advocacy group Do No Harm, the lawsuit alleges the commission, housed in the Natural State’s Department of Health, discriminates against potential applicants by only accepting persons from certain racial groups for scholarship consideration.
Read more at the Washington Examiner.
The University of Minnesota (UMN) spent more than $219,000 to develop an online Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) training course intended for healthcare professionals to comply with the state’s 2022 “Dignity In Pregnancy And Childbirth” statute, documents obtained by medical watchdog Do No Harm and shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation revealed.
UMN paid Diversity Science $219,633.00 to “design and develop evidence-based antiracism and implicit bias training eLearning course” to be used at Minnesota hospitals and birthing centers for professionals who work with pregnant or postpartum patients, the documents reveal. The course is mandated through a state statute that went into effect in January 2023 and requires hospitals and birthing centers to offer the continuing education curriculum, according to the Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes.
Read more at the Daily Caller.
The Biden administration launched an investigation into a University of Florida College of Medicine- Jacksonville program for possible civil rights violations, according to a letter obtained by Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Christopher Rufo.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opened the investigation on Monday after medical watchdog Do No Harm Senior Fellow Mark Perry filed a complaint against the Department of Pediatrics Visiting Elective Scholars Program in October 2022, according to the letter. The complaint accused the program of violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits race-based discrimination, because it is only accessible to “underrepresented” students.
Read more at the Daily Caller.
Social ideologies about race and oppression have begun to permeate every aspect of American society. Regardless of one’s views on systemic racism, everyone should be concerned about a new and dangerous movement within medicine. While seeking to promote inclusion, it has, unfortunately, put wokeness and political correctness above science and facts. This is unacceptable when people’s health and lives are on the line.
The University of Illinois – Chicago made headlines after publishing a resource guide claiming that obesity is rooted in racism. Amanda Montgomery, a research assistant and author of the controversial resource, wrote that the idea of obesity as a bad thing is merely cultural. She claims that “Fatness and differing body characteristics were used to justify lack of civilization” and the idea was used “as a way to justify slavery, racism and classism, and control women through ‘temperance.’”
Read more at RealClearHealth.
EXCLUSIVE — The medical school at the University of Buffalo earned high marks for its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion from the Association of American Medical Colleges and has incorporated aspects of critical race theory into its curriculum.
The University of Buffalo’s Jacobs School of Medicine’s responses to the AAMC’s diversity, inclusion, culture, and equity survey were obtained by the medical watchdog group Do No Harm and were shared exclusively with the Washington Examiner.
Read more at the Washington Examiner.
Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis’ hiring guidance advises that potential hires speak, act and dress ‘in ways that authentically resonate with racially minoritized students’
A public university in Indiana’s new guidelines for inclusive hiring emphasizes equity credentials over traditional merit — and even suggests new professors should talk, dress and act “in ways that authentically resonate” with racial minorities.
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis’s Office of Academic Affairs issued a document obtained by Fox News Digital that outlines “Inclusive Faculty Search Practices” to improve hiring, advising committees should “move away from abstract conceptions of ‘merit’ and ‘fit.”
Read more at Fox News.
But several other university programs closed to white male students remain a concern, watchdog says
The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill recently amended an academic program to accept applicants of all races as the result of a civil rights complaint.
Initially the Fellowship for Exploring Research in Nutrition program, or FERN, was only open to undergrads “from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) populations.”
Read more at The College Fix.
The University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix (UACOM) will revise its Educational Program Objective (EPO) policy this summer as part of its “anti-racism curriculum,” medical watchdog group Do No Harm reported.
The medical school will expand an objective found in the policy’s Medical Knowledge section to teach students about “intersectional identities” in addition to diversity demographics, Do No Harm reported. The UACOM Curriculum Committee approved the change and it will be implemented July 1.
Read more at the Daily Caller.
The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opened federal investigations into four universities this week in response to complaints filed by medical watchdog Do No Harm (DNH), according to the organization.
The OCR will investigate Wake Forest University (WFU), the University of Virginia (UVA), the University of Rochester (UR) and Thomas Jefferson University (TJU) for alleged civil rights violations, Do No Harm reported. Senior Fellow Mark Perry filed a joint complaint against WFU and UVA, alleging the institutions used school resources to partner with an organization whose activities violate Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, while Program Manager Laura Morgan violated complaints against UR and TJU for allegedly participating in programs that violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Read more at the Daily Caller.
A medical doctor is poking holes in claims and research touted by the Department of Defense (DOD) to argue that children as young as seven years old can consent to sex change medical treatments, according to a statement sent to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
DOD researchers wrote in this month’s issue of the American Journal of Public Health that the department should publicly affirm support for sex change procedures for children of military families. The researchers said that young children can be involved in making their own medical decisions, but Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of medical watchdog Do No Harm and a board-certified kidney specialist, said that the rationale behind the argument is flawed.
Read more at the Daily Caller.
The DoD doctors claimed 7-year-olds are capable of ‘medical decision-making’
FIRST ON FOX – Health providers at U.S. military bases, some of whom are involved in treating military-connected minors, blasted the idea of waiting before injecting kids diagnosed with gender dysphoria with puberty blockers and hormones.
The DoD providers said in the March edition of the American Journal of Public Health that the only pathway for children of military members who present with gender dysphoria symptoms is to immediately move towards “gender-affirming health care, such as puberty suppression and affirming hormones.”
Read more at Fox News.