Nonprofit Tries To Backtrack On Allegedly Racist ‘Food Equity’ Program

A North Carolina insurance nonprofit is revising its claim that certain organizations with a “white CEO” will not be eligible to receive a food equity grant, according to its website.

BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) foundation originally offered 10 three-year grants to organizations that are “led by, serving, and accountable to American Indian, Black, Latino, other People of Color and members of immigrant communities” to assist efforts in advancing food equity, according to an archived version of its webpage. Healthy Food Director Merry Davis said during a Jan. 31 information session that organizations “that have a majority people of color staff and staff leadership, and white CEO” would not be eligible for the grants, but that standard is now revoked, its current webpage reads.

Read more at The Daily Caller.

Blue Cross Blue Shield Excludes Organizations With White CEOs From Grant Program

The leader of a medical watchdog organization is calling Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of North Carolina’s grant program for organizations not run by white people a new level of apartheid.

“If ever there was a bad idea, the notion that we should start to separate our country along racial lines is amongst the worst,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb told The Epoch Times.

Read more at The Epoch Times.

White CEOs ‘Not Eligible’ for Blue Cross Blue Shield Grant

A grant opportunity to advance “healthy food equity” from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation automatically disqualifies otherwise eligible organizations if the CEO is white.

The grant awards up to ten organizations $300,000 over the course of three years as “part of an overall commitment to increase equity access to healthy food.”

Read more at Breitbart.

Medical School Quietly Scrubs Website After Federal Probe Into Race-Based Scholars Program

University of Texas (UT) San Antonio’s Long School of Medicine quietly deleted information about its Diversity in Medicine Visiting Elective Scholars Program after a federal rights investigation was dismissed earlier this month by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR).

The OCR launched an investigation into the program in November 2022 after Do No Harm, a medical watchdog group, filed a complaint that it violated students’ civil rights because applicants had to identify as a specific race. The case was dismissed on Feb. 7 and information about the program has been scrubbed from the university’s website.

Read more at The Daily Caller.

Physicians like me aren’t racist, no matter what the government says

Maryland now requires all physicians to attend an ‘implicit bias’ course that accuses me of racial bias

Am I a closet racist? After 30-plus years of providing conscientious care to diverse patients in the Washington, D.C. area, I would have thought the answer was a self-evident “no.” Yet Maryland now requires me to take training that accuses me of ingrained racial bias toward non-white patients. 

This isn’t just inaccurate. It’s deeply insulting, and it will injure our state’s medical system and those who depend on it.

Read more at Fox News.

How Woke Can You Go? Majority-Minority Groups Automatically Disqualified for ‘Food Equity’ Grant If CEO Is White

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation is offering a three-year, $300,000 grant to advance “healthy food equity,” but many organizations that work to expand access to healthy food in minority populations need not apply.

Indeed, some organizations that employ a majority nonwhite staff and have a majority-nonwhite board of directors automatically are disqualified from the grant.

Read more at The Daily Signal.

80 Percent of Kids Grow Out of Gender Dysphoria: Pediatric Psychiatrist

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A leading Finnish pediatric gender expert has warned about transgender treatments being pushed on children, pointing out that the majority of kids facing “gender identity” issues come out of such confusion when they grow up.

In an interview with Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, Dr. Riittakerttu Kaltiala, chief psychiatrist at Tampere University’s department of adolescent psychiatry, said she has come across hundreds of young people who were struggling with their gender experience. She noted that some children will strongly identify with the opposite gender at some point in their lives.

Read more at The Epoch Times.

Whitmer’s ‘implicit bias’ training pushes Michigan health workers to admit bias, ‘get out of your comfort zone

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2021 took action to require implicit bias training for licensed workers

An “implicit bias” training session required by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer encourages health care workers to admit they that are biased, and teaches them that Black people, overweight women and people with non-Western names are among those who face obstacles to success in America.

It also asks those participating in the training session to identify their closest coworkers and then describe their race, ethnicity and physical appearance in an attempt to make them realize that their choice of company in the workplace may reveal bias, and encourage them to “get out of your comfort zone.”

Read more at Fox News.

Nonprofit Charity’s ‘Food Equity’ Program Discriminates Against White People, Watchdog Alleges

UPDATE: This story has been updated to include a statement from Do No Harm.

A BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) Foundation food equity initiative will not provide grant money to organizations that staff or serve white communities, medical watchdog group Do No Harm reported.

The BCBSNC Foundation “Advancing Healthy Food Equity” initiative is offering 10 three-year grants worth $300,000 to organizations that are “led by, serving, and accountable to American Indian, Black, Latino, other People of Color and members of immigrant communities to expand their ability to engage in advocacy for transformational changes that advance equitable access to healthy food,” according to its website. Healthy Food Director Merry Davis confirmed during a Jan. 31 information session that organizations that have a white CEO are not eligible to receive funding.

Read more at The Daily Caller.

‘Descent into wokeness’: Michigan State medical school embraces DEI, documents show

EXCLUSIVE — The Michigan State College of Human Medicine achieved a diversity, equity, and inclusion score of over 80% in a survey submitted to the Association of American Medical Colleges that included admitting the school has a “holistic admissions policy.”

The college’s responses to the AAMC’s Diversity, Inclusion, Culture, and Equity inventory were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by the medical watchdog group Do No Harm and shared with the Washington Examiner. The medical school’s responses to the survey detail the extent of the school’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Read more at The Washington Examiner.

UNC Chapel Hill hit with multiple civil rights complaints

RALEIGH — In January, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNCCH) was hit with multiple complaints alleging certain programs were violating parts of the U.S. Civil Rights Act such as Title IV.  

The complaints were filed by the watchdog group Do No Harm (DNH). 

Read more at North State Journal.

Texas medical school students are ‘indoctrinated’ with DEI dogma: Report

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EXCLUSIVE — Diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts have become an integral part of the institutional fabric of a number of Texas medical schools , featuring in admissions practices, university programs, and academics, a new report found.

The report was compiled by the medical watchdog group Do No Harm, which used publicly available information to detail the extent to which the University of Texas system, Texas A&M University, Texas Tech University, the University of Houston, Baylor University, and Texas Christian University incorporated DEI principles into their medical schools.

Read more at The Washington Examiner.

Medical Advocacy Group Steps Up Fight To Protect Children

Medical advocacy group, Do No Harm, has unveiled a new initiative to protect minors from gender-affirming care. Senior fellow and parental advocate of the group, January Littlejohn, says her own intimate experience with gender ideology pushed her to join their fight. Daniel Baldwin with more.

Watch at OAN.

Tennessee Veterinary School Puts Emphasis On Diversity, Equity And Inclusion, Watchdog Finds

A Tennessee veterinary school engaged in programs to bolster commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), according to medical watchdog group Do No Harm.

Faculty at Lincoln Memorial University- Richard A. Gillespie College of Veterinary Medicine (LMU CVM)  attended a January workshop titled “Inclusivity” to learn about incorporating diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) in the workplace, according to a tip sent to Do No Harm. Its masters program partnered BLEND, a certification program, to train veterinarians in DEIB.

Read more at The Daily Caller.

Former trans kid shares agony of side effects from ‘mutilating’ medical transition: ‘I’ve gotten no help’

Chloe Cole said, ‘I’ve gotten no help… I’m not sure whether it’ll even go away or if I’ll have to live like this for the rest of my life’

A former transgender kid who detransitioned after having a double mastectomy told Fox News Digital that she was worried about living with the painful side effects of the “gender-affirming” medical interventions for the rest of her life. 

“At this point, I’m far from whole. I’m far from healed. I’m still processing and dealing with what I went through,” Chloe Cole, 18, told Fox News Digital in an interview. 

Read more at Fox News.

EXCLUSIVE: Med School Went Woke After Pressure From Accreditor, Documents Show

  • The University of Utah School of Medicine implemented a series of programs to recruit and retain diverse students and faculty after its accrediting organization said its diversity efforts were unsatisfactory, according to emails obtained by a medical watchdog group and shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
  • The school, in response, filed a status report outlining its progress in increasing its diversity on campus.
  • “This further promotes ideology ahead of quality medical education and race/ethnicity or sex over hiring the most qualified faculty and staff,” Laura Morgan, Do No Harm’s program manager, told the DCNF.

Read more at The Daily Caller.

EXCLUSIVE: Medical Group Pokes Holes in ‘Fatally Flawed’ Study Claiming to Prove Kids Benefit From Transgender Hormones

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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—An organization of doctors, nurses, and health care professionals poked holes in a study claiming to prove the marginal benefits of cross-sex hormones for teenagers who persistently identify with the gender opposite their biological sex. 

The group, Do No Harm, called the study “fatally flawed and borderline unscientific” in a report first provided to The Daily Signal. The report criticizes the study, “Psychosocial Functioning in Transgender Youth after 2 Years of Hormones,” led by Dr. Diane Chen at the Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and published by the New England Journal of Medicine in January.

Read more at The Daily Signal.

Even progressive Europe won’t go as far as America in child transgender treatments

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What do Europeans know that American medical elites don’t — or, worse, won’t even consider? Western and Northern European countries are generally much more restrictive in transgender treatments for children, with several recently becoming sharply more so. Yet America is doubling down on invasive and irreversible medical interventions for minors at steadily younger ages — with rare exceptions like Utah, which just banned such treatments this weekend.

Blame radical gender ideology, which blinds American activists to medical reality and the true needs of vulnerable children.

Read more at the New York Post.