Report: US ‘More Aggressive and Radical’ Than Europe on Experimental Transgender Hormones and Surgery for Children

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Although the United States may be more conservative than many European countries on some social issues, doctors, activists, and politicians in the U.S. have pushed experimental transgender interventions for children far beyond many European countries, which have stronger protections for kids, according to a new report.

“Europe is becoming ever more conservative while the United States has pursued a path that’s ever more aggressive and radical,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, a board-certified kidney doctor, former professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and board chair of Do No Harm, told The Daily Signal in a phone interview Tuesday.

Read more at The Daily Signal.

Harvard Medical School dumps US News rankings following law school exodus

The dean of Harvard Medical School announced Tuesday that the school would no longer participate in the U.S. News and World Report rankings less than two months after multiple law schools across the country did the same.

In a letter to the school’s community, Dean George Daley said that the prestigious Ivy League medical school would no longer submit data to the publication that has annually ranked colleges and universities for quality.

Read more at the Washington Examiner.

University of Houston medical school lobbies for bigger Pell Grants to support diversity

The University of Houston College of Medicine says part of its institutional commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion includes lobbying for the doubling of the federal Pell Grant program, new documents revealed.

In a series of responses to a survey by the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Texas medical school said lobbying the federal government to double the maximum award for Pell Grants was an example of the institution’s advocacy for diversity, equity, and inclusion at the public policy level.

The school’s responses to the AAMC’s Diversity, Inclusion, Culture, and Equity Inventory survey were obtained by the medical watchdog group Do No Harm through a Freedom of Information Act request and shared exclusively with the Washington Examiner. Among the dozens of questions included in the survey was whether or not the school had advocated at the national, state, and local level for policies and legislation in line with diversity, equity, and inclusion goals.

Read more at the Washington Examiner.

America ‘Most Permissive Country’ For Sex Change Surgeries, Study Shows

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America makes sex change surgeries and treatments more easily accessible than any other European country, according to a new study by Do No Harm.

The study analyzed laws in European countries, and compared them to laws in America, concluding that minors in America have more access to puberty blockers, hormonal therapies, and sex change surgeries than youths in Europe, Fox News reports. (RELATED: Attorney Generals Plead With The FDA To Reverse Decision On ‘Abortion Inducing Drugs’)

Read more at The Daily Caller.

US more lenient on transgender treatment than Europe, study shows

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EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. is more lenient than any European country when it comes to allowing children to access medical services for gender transitions, according to a new study.

The study, published by Do No Harm, a group that seeks to insulate the health care profession from “radical, diverse and discriminatory ideology,” analyzed the laws of European countries and concluded “the United States is the most permissive country when it comes to the legal and medical gender transition of children.” Laws vary in the U.S. by state, but overall, transgender youth in America have greater access to gender clinics, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries, oftentimes without parental consent.

Dr. William Malone, a board-certified endocrinologist, said the U.S. political environment discourages doctors from critiquing the use of unproven and risky medical interventions in youth because they fear backlash from influential medical associations and politicians.

Read more at Fox News.

Education Department Investigating California Medical Schools for Racial Discrimination

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The Department of Education is investigating a pair of California university medical schools for allegedly engaging in racial discrimination in their programming and scholarships offerings.

The probe was launched after Mark Perry of Do No Harm, a nonprofit fighting against the progressive capture of medicine, filed a federal civil-rights complaint alleging that the schools violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race by academic programs that receive federal funding.

Read more at the National Review.

Florida medical schools should teach medicine, not extremism

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Have Florida’s taxpayer-funded colleges and universities embraced divisive and even discriminatory ideas?

That’s the question Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered them to answer in a Dec. 28 letter his administration sent to each school in the Florida College System and the State University System. It’s a valid ask, given the politicization of higher education, and the truth is essential to ensuring that colleges and universities operate at the highest level. Yet the governor and his team may want to pay special attention to institutions that hardly anyone expects: Florida’s public medical schools.

The governor’s order is focused on race-based ideology, especially Critical Race Theory and “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” These concepts typically hold that society suffers from “systemic racism,” while explicitly if not entirely focusing on people’s skin color instead of, say, their character or individual characteristics. They have been used to justify policies like preferential treatment by race in the name of righting past wrongs. No matter the attempted justification, the name for that is racial discrimination.

Read more at the Orlando Sentinel.

‘Do you speak English?’ labeled a microaggression in Texas hospital bias training

Employees working for a West Texas healthcare system were required to take an implicit bias training that said asking someone if they spoke English amounted to a microaggression.

According to documents obtained by the medical watchdog group Do No Harm and shared with the Washington Examiner, Covenant Medical Center in Texas required its employees to complete an implicit bias training that contained a list of microaggressions worthy of an apology, including asking if someone spoke English and asking to speak to a manager.

Read more at the Washington Examiner.

Permanent Woke Bureaucracy’: Watchdog Organization Criticizes Arizona Medical College’s High Score on Implementing Discriminatory Ideology

An Arizona health care education institution has self-reported to have instituted 95 percent of woke ideologies encouraged by a flagship medical association.

According to a Freedom of Information Act request obtained by Do No Harm (DNH)—a nonprofit watchdog organization that spotlights the emergence of divisive concepts in medical schools—the University of Arizona College of Medicine’s (UACOM) report to the Association of American Colleges (AAMC) touted a high score in what DNH called racially discriminatory admission practices under the guise of affirmative action.

“This means it’s potentially lowering standards in the name of diversity, thereby threatening patient health,” DNH told The Epoch Times.

Read more at The Epoch Times.

EXCLUSIVE: California Med School Scored Near-Perfect Marks On Its Wokeness Report Card, Docs Show

UPDATE: This piece has been updated to include a statement from David A. Acosta, MD, Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) chief diversity and inclusion officer.

  • The Association of American Medical Colleges gave the University of California, Davis School of Medicine a 98.9% rating for its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.
  • The medical school said in response to AAMC’s survey that it prioritizes DEI in admission and hiring practices.
  • “This particular score is the highest one that we’ve seen,” Laura Morgan, Do No Harm program manager, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The University of California, Davis School of Medicine (UCDSOM) received a nearly perfect rating in diversity, equity and inclusion by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), according to survey results obtained by medical watchdog group Do No Harm and provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Read more at The Daily Caller.

Woke Ideology Is Infiltrating America’s Medical Schools

In November, the Association of American Medical Colleges released its first-ever analysis detailing how medical schools across the country have implemented “diversity, equity and inclusion” policies.

According to Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, board chair of Do No Harm, an organization aimed at protecting healthcare from divisive ideology, the AAMC surveyed 101 medical institutions asking for audits of their DEI programs. The AAMC asked the schools to answer 89 yes-or-no questions on their DEI activities and presented the results like a report card, Goldfarb explained in a piece for the New York Post. The schools that scored above 80 percent were colored green, and those that scored between 61 percent and 80 percent were yellow. Institutions below the 60 percent threshold were red, meaning they “failed.” 

Read more at Townhall.

Biden Admin Investigating California University For Race-Based ‘Affinity’ Groups: REPORT

The Department of Education’s (DOE) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) launched an investigation into race-based groups at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), according to medical watchdog group Do No Harm.

The OCR reportedly opened the investigation after University of Michigan professor emeritus and Do No Harm senior fellow Mark Perry claimed that the medical school’s “Racial Affinity Caucusing Groups” violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits race-based discrimination. The groups “are a space for UCSF residents and fellows to deepen anti-racist work and process the impact of racism on ourselves and our community,” according to the university’s website.

Read more at The Daily Caller.

California Medical School Under Federal Investigation For Operating Race-Based Clerkship

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opened an investigation into the University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine after a professor alleged its “Diversity Visiting Clerkship Award” discriminates against candidates based on race, the Department of Education (DOE) confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation on Friday.

The OCR opened the investigation into the program on Dec. 29 after a complaint, filed by University of Michigan professor and watchdog group Do No Harm senior fellow Mark Perry in August, claimed that the program violated Title Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which prohibits race-based discrimination, according to a letter obtained by the DCNF. The program is open to fourth-year “black/African-American, Hispanic/Latino, Native American/Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander” students,” its website reads.

Read more at The Daily Caller.

Major Med School Pushes ‘Diversity, Equity And Inclusion’ Requirements For Faculty To Earn Promotion Or Tenure

Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) requires professors show a commitment to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in order to be considered for promotions or tenure, according to a document titled “Example Faculty Activities Toward Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.”

The document was obtained through a Freedom of Information Request (FOIA) by the medical watchdog group Do No Harm. It included a list of activities faculty can demonstrate during performance reviews to showcase their commitment toward advancing DEI at the school.

Read more at The Daily Caller.

Medical school lecturer at Washington University in St. Louis profanely warns students not to debate her progressive teachings on race

Students at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis had better not question the institution’s uncompromising approach to race, which many find radical.

That was the message this fall from Kaytlin Reedy-Rogier, a lecturer from the university’s Understanding Systemic Racism Team, as reported by Fox News.

“I have a really hard time being neutral around issues of systemic oppression,” Reedy-Rogier allegedly told a class in a video obtained by Fox News Digital. “So, oftentimes you will know how I feel. This does not mean that I am opposed to hearing other perspectives. I would like to be very clear about that. I am always willing to engage in dialogue with folks that may disagree with me. Always.

Read more at Heartlander News.

University of Minnesota Med School Gives Leg Up in Promotions to Pro-DEI Faculty

In the wake of reports that the University of Minnesota Medical School had incoming students pledge to promote anti-racism and uproot white supremacy, the medical school has now acknowledged that it rewards faculty for promoting its left-wing diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda, and that it actively advocates for legal changes around that agenda.

According to a survey that University of Minnesota Medical School leaders completed earlier this year, the school’s tenure and promotion policies “specifically reward faculty scholarship and service on diversity, inclusion, and equity topics.” The school also reported that it advocates “policies and/or legislation at a local, state, or federal level” related to its DEI mission, and that its institutional leaders are “active within local, regional, and national forums” to promote DEI, according to the survey, obtained by National Review.

Read more at the National Review.

University Of North Carolina Quietly Scrubs Race-Based Criteria From Fellowship Program

A University of North Carolina (UNC) nutrition fellowship program scrubbed criteria that made the fellowship exclusive to black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) students after a civil rights complaint was filed alleging the program violated federal anti-discrimination laws, the program’s website reveals.

UNC’s Fellowship for Exploring Research in Nutrition originally claimed students must have a “Racial/ethnic background of [BIPOC] that is historically marginalized in academia and the field of nutrition in the United States” to be considered, according to a Dec. 19 snapshot of the website. However, the current website appears to have removed the criteria from the list.

Read more at The Daily Caller.

EXCLUSIVE: University of Iowa Trains Committee To Hire Faculty Based On Diversity, Equity And Inclusion Standards

The University of Iowa Office of the Provost trained its Faculty Search Committees to interview candidates through diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) lenses, documents obtained by Do No Harm through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation revealed.

A training given to the Department of Pediatrics at UI’s medical school broke down different types of implicit biases and provided a list of practices committee members could follow to limit bias in hiring decisions, which included having a diverse committee that is trained and use “accountability strategies,” spending 15-20 minutes on each candidate and evaluating through standard criteria, the documents show. Committee members were also taught to “grade” prospective candidates after an interview rather than use a ranking system and to evaluate whether they made biased decisions if “women and people of color” were not advancing.

Read more at The Daily Caller.