The Louisiana State House voted on Tuesday to override Gov. John Bel Edward’s (D) veto of a bill banning gender transition medicine for minors.
The chamber voted, 75 to 23 with 7 abstentions, in a special session to override the veto of HB 648, which prevents healthcare providers from facilitating medical gender transitions for minors, including the prescription of cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers.
Read more at the Washington Examiner.
Parents rights advocates are urging Republican lawmakers to overturn Democrat Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards’ veto of a bill banning sex changes for minors.
HB 648 bans doctors from providing sex change treatments — including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex change surgeries — to children under 18 years old. Doctors who defy the order risk losing their medical license.
Read more at the Daily Caller.
Do No Harm chair Dr. Stanley Goldfarb joins Steve Milloy on The Schilling Show to discuss identity politics, how it’s impacted medicine, and how to fight back.
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A woke watchdog organization is questioning the ethics of a divisive curriculum proclaiming students as inherently racist.
Do No Harm (DNH) has published a July report (pdf) on the Ohio State University College of Medicine (OSUCM) outlining the college’s adoption of discriminatory concepts taught to students.
Read more at The Epoch Times.
Loyola University, a Chicago-based Catholic school, is offering students a course in “transgender” medicine, including the treatment of “trans children,” according to a report from Catholic News Agency. The two-week course is listed under “Family Medicine” on the school’s website.
The two-week course is listed under “Family Medicine” on the school’s website.
Read more at Townhall.
The Ohio State University College of Medicine has engaged in extensive diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, including suggesting that all students are biased, according to a new report from a medical watchdog organization.
The report from Do No Harm, a nonprofit group of doctors and medical professionals that opposes the politicization of medicine, details a number of ways that the medical school at Ohio’s flagship university has incorporated such concepts as “anti-racism” and “health equity.”
Read more at the Washington Examiner.
Listen to Do No Harm Senior Fellow Dr. Miriam Grossman discuss her book Lost in Trans Nation with Dr. Peter McCullough on the McCullough Report.
Read more and listen at America Out Loud.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is funding research on the effects of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormone treatment on youth despite acknowledgment from the grantee that these medical interventions can result in sterility.
A parent or guardian consent form from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), titled “Pubertal Blockers for Minors in Early Adolescence,” states, “If your child starts puberty blockers in the earliest stages of puberty, and then goes on to gender affirming hormones, they will not develop sperm or eggs. This means that they will not be able to have biological children.”
Read more at The Daily Wire.
As schools cast about for ways to increase diversity after SCOTUS decision on race, experts weigh in
After the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that it is unconstitutional for educational institutions to use race as a factor for college admissions, some medical schools reportedly are looking into other ways to try to bring in a diverse study body.
One so-called idea is the notion of considering adversity when weighing applicants.
Read more at Fox News.
The Endocrine Society is ignoring the dangers that sex-change treatments pose to minors.
Stephen Hammes’s response (Letters, July 5) to our op-ed (“The Endocrine Society’s Dangerous Transgender Politicization,” June 29) proves our point: The Endocrine Society is ignoring the dangers that sex-change treatments pose to children.
Dr. Hammes, president of the Endocrine Society, leaves out that the society’s pro-sex-change guidelines are based on “low” or “very low” quality evidence. He says nothing about the growing number of progressive European countries that are abandoning America’s model of gender-affirming care following systematic reviews of the evidence.
Read more at The Wall Street Journal.
The Association of American Medical Colleges goes cherry-picking for data supporting “racial concordance” in patient treatment.
Early last month, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)—the organization that oversees the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) and cosponsors the accrediting body for all medical schools— published a story claiming that black patients fare better with black doctors, an idea that has become popular across the health-care establishment. That it was being amplified just as the Supreme Court prepared to hand down its landmark ruling on affirmative action was neither subtle nor coincidental. Woke activists are determined to sell the idea that race-based medical school admissions are noble and sensible to justify skirting bans on affirmative action. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson even paid lip service to the purported benefits of doctor-patient race concordance in her dissent.
The notion that patients benefit from seeing doctors who share their race is dubious to the majority of us who know better than to essentialize race in our encounters with others. So is the implicit claim that lowering standards and elevating race in medical school admissions maximizes patient welfare. Indeed, the quality of the studies that AAMC cited to support these claims are as poor as one might expect.
Read more at City Journal.
Activists and medical organizations that promote cross-sex interventions for minors have failed to create treatment standards for detransitioners, and often refuse to acknowledge the harm inflicted upon them, according to medical experts.
Numerous detransitioners — individuals who undergo medical transitions but come to regret it — have come forward in recent years, often expressing disappointment with doctors and other adults who rushed them through treatments at a young age without adequate mental health assessments. Detransitioners experience a host of negative health outcomes and irreversible physical changes, but the medical industry publicly downplays their struggles and does not offer guidance for safely halting or reversing medical transitions, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Read more at the Daily Caller.
Admissions policies at universities are changing — for the better. Race-driven admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina are unconstitutional, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the 6-3 majority, said the two programs “unavoidably employ race in a negative manner” and “involve racial stereotyping,” thereby violating the U.S. Constitution.
The detrimental effects of race-based admissions policies in medical schools have been evident for decades.
Read more at the Washington Examiner.
‘As far as I’m concerned, they could burn this b—h to the ground,’ the BLM activist said
FOX NEWS INVESTIGATES – Weill Cornell Medicine, a top medical institution in the United States, provides a “critical race theory” course for faculty and students which amplified negative narratives about America and was created “in collaboration” with a Hong Kong-based university which China has been exercising increasing control over.
Fox News Digital probed into a course created by The Center for Health Equity (CCHEq) at Cornell’s medical school and found radical antiracism training that extends far beyond a mission to eliminate disparities in health and facilitate diversity, equity and inclusion.
Read more at Fox News.
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.
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.
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.
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.