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SUNY medical school ‘indoctrinating’ students to score 100% DEI compliance

EXCLUSIVE — The Downstate College of Medicine at the State University of New York cited providing travel stipends for faculty to attend “minority faculty development” meetings as an example of the institution’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion , internal documents show.

The New York medical school included the information in its responses to the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Diversity, Inclusion, Culture, and Equity Inventory survey. The college’s responses were obtained by the medical watchdog group Do No Harm through a Freedom of Information Act request and were shared exclusively with the Washington Examiner. SUNY Downstate College of Medicine achieved a 100% diversity score in the survey.

Read more at the Washington Examiner.

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‘Do No Harm’ Exposes Infiltration of Woke Ideologies in Tennessee Medical Schools

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A report obtained by The Tennessee Star, published by an organization of physicians, healthcare professionals, medical students, patients, and policymakers, reveals the pervasive infiltration of woke diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideologies in Tennessee medical school curricula and programs.

The report from Do No Harm, titled “The DEI Bureaucracy in Tennessee’s Medical Schools: Woke Ideologies Are Reshaping Medical Education in the Volunteer State,” warns of vast implications for medical students and all who receive medical care in the state of Tennessee.

Read more at The Tennessee Star.

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UPenn Medical School Forces ‘Diversity Statement’ on Teaching Applicants

The University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine is forcing all teaching applicants to write a “diversity statement,” showing their devotion to political ideology.

Some leading questions the medical school suggests to keep in mind when writing the one-page response are, “What does diversity mean to you, and why is this important?” or “Does your engagement with diversity help students prepare for careers in a global society?” according to the application guide.

“If you feel that you may not have a lot to write about for this one-page document, take a moment to reflect on diversity as it relates to your research topic, your teaching, and your service work,” it says. “Do you study groups or people who have been marginalized in society and have uncovered their voices as part of your research? Have you employed inclusive pedagogical techniques in your teaching to encourage students to participate in discussion?”

Read more at Breitbart.

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Mississippi Medicaid Comes Out Against ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Children

As the Mississippi Senate considers a bill that would ban the use of pharmaceuticals and sex reassignment surgery for minors who think they are experiencing gender dysphoria, the state’s leading health coverage company has taken a firm stance against the procedures.

The Mississippi Division of Medicaid said it agreed with a report from the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (pdf) concluding that there is a lack of conclusive evidence to support medical intervention for gender dysphoria in children and adolescents.

Read more at The Epoch Times.

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Pfizer Quietly Changes Requirements for Fellowship Applicants after Discrimination Lawsuit

Pfizer quietly changed the application requirements for its “Breakthrough Fellowship Program” after a nonprofit sued the pharmaceutical giant, claiming the program illegally discriminated against white and Asian applicants.

Do No Harm — a group of health-care professionals, students, and policy-makers that seeks to “protect health care from a radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology”  —  filed a lawsuit against Pfizer in September on behalf of two of its members, arguing that the fellowship discriminates against white and Asian applicants, no matter their qualifications.

Read more at the National Review.

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‘Lucrative Business’: The Child Sex Change Industry Is Exploding In The US

Child sex changes procedures, including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries, have become a rapidly-growing, multi-million-dollar industry, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation.

While there is no comprehensive data set tracking the number of children undergoing cross-sex procedures, and the cost of these procedures varies widely, existing data and experts in the field have shed light on a highly profitable and quickly growing market offering largely irreversible procedures to minors. Mastectomies and breast augmentations cost about $10,000, cross-sex genital surgeries cost about $25,000, plus several thousand dollars for anesthesia and a hospital stay, and facial and other cross-sex surgeries range from $2,000 to $15,000, according to the Philadelphia Transgender Surgery Center’s (PTSC) 2019 price list; those prices have gone up in recent years, an employee told the DCNF, but the clinic has not released an updated list and wouldn’t disclose its new prices without a patient consultation.

Read more at The Daily Caller.

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‘Gender unicorn’ taught at Oklahoma State University

LGBTQ ‘allies’ trained that ‘biological sex is an ambiguous word,’ male/female ‘mostly a European construct’

Oklahoma State University offers diversity certificate and credentialing programs that train students in LGBTQ ideology, inviting them to be “allies,” according to documents reviewed by a medical accountability nonprofit.

People “across the country are concerned about the elevation of identity politics above excellence in care,” so the organization has “many people sending in information about problematic programs and policies to our anonymous tip line,” Laura Morgan, program manager at Do No Harm, told The College Fix in an email in late January.

Read more at The College Fix.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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‘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.

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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.