Medical Schools Quietly Maintain Affirmative Action

In Lionel Shriver’s most recent novel, “Mania,” the U.S. has been overtaken by an ideology known as mental parity. Adherents refuse to acknowledge any differences in intelligence or ability. Testing becomes pointless because no one is allowed to fail. Medical degrees are issued regardless of competence, and people lose trust in doctors. Those who can afford it travel abroad for healthcare.

The book is a shrewd and funny send-up of diversity, equity and inclusion hysteria. What’s not so funny is how far down this path we’ve traveled already. The Supreme Court’s 2023 decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard made it illegal for colleges and universities to use race as a factor in admissions, yet a new study accuses medical schools of evading the ban.

Do No Harm, a watchdog group that opposes racial preferences, analyzed 2024 admissions data from 23 public medical schools. It found that at 22 of the schools Asian and white applicants who were accepted had higher Medical College Admission Test scores than their black peers.

Read more on the Wall Street Journal (paywall).

Medical School Accreditors Scale Back DEI Requirements After Trump Executive Order

Medical school accreditors are scaling back diversity, equity, and inclusion requirements in accreditation standards in response to political pressure, marking a dramatic shift in the higher education landscape.

Eight major accreditation organizations have changed their DEI policies since President Donald Trump’s April executive order empowering the Department of Education to scrutinize accreditors for promoting DEI, according to a new report from watchdog Do No Harm obtained by National Review.

“We are pleased that many of the accreditors responsible for injecting identity politics into medical education are backing off their DEI requirements,” said Do No Harm chairman Dr. Stanley Goldfarb.

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EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Cassidy Wants To Make Sure Medical Orgs Comply With Trump’s Child Sex-Change Ban

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy has given major healthcare associations weeks to provide evidence they are complying with President Donald Trump’s executive order  banning the promotion and performance of child sex-changes.

Cassidy, chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), sent letters Tuesday to several hospital associations and a major health insurer asking the groups to provide evidence they are complying with President Trump’s order “Protecting Children From Chemical And Surgical Mutilation,” to the HELP committee by Aug. 7, 2025. In the letters which were exclusively provided the Daily Caller News Foundation, Dr. Cassidy states he is working “hand in glove” with the Trump administration to protect children from the harms of child sex-change interventions, which include loss of fertility, loss of sexual function, decreased bone density and the removal of healthy body parts. 

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L.A. Children’s Closes Trans Youth Center Under Pressure from Trump Admin, Joins Growing List of Closures

The Children’s Hospital Los Angeles closed its child-focused Center for Transyouth Health and Development, a public provider of gender-related treatments for children that has been running for more than three decades, due to “severe impacts” of the Trump administration’s policies.

“Center team members were heartbroken to learn of the decision from hospital leaders, who emphasized that it was not made lightly, but followed a thorough legal and financial assessment of the increasingly severe impacts of recent administrative actions and proposed policies,” reads a statement by the Children’s Hospital. The closure is effective Tuesday, July 22.

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What on Earth Is Going on at the University of Wisconsin’s Medical School?

The extent of its racial discrimination is eye-popping.

Medical schools hold the weighty responsibility of deciding who can become a doctor. So one would hope that they would approach this task with the goal of selecting those persons who have the greatest potential to become good doctors. Yet medical schools have long been riddled with leftist admissions officers who prioritize their racial preferences over improving the health care system — and saving people’s lives.

There has been some limited movement away from racist admissions decision-making since the Supreme Court ruled two years ago that “affirmative action” is an illegal violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Alas, many medical schools are dodging the law in pursuit of their racist agendas.

One of the worst offenders — and shockingly so — is the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. They are not even trying to hide the extent to which they are racially discriminating.

Read more on the American Spectator.

Leading Medical Journals Care More About DEI Than Major Diseases

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In his novel The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann describes wealthy European consumptives who retreat to a sanitorium high in the Swiss Alps, convinced that thin air aids in treating pulmonary tuberculosis. In their self-contained community, they affirm their faith in contemporary medical practices while delaying the demands of life in the “flatlands.”

Medical researchers, it seems, are retreating to a sanatorium of their own. Based on our analysis, leading medical journals increasingly lean left and are abandoning scientific principles in service of progressive ideology.

We began by conducting a keyword search of every article published in the JAMA Network—a group of 13 medical journals affiliated with the American Medical Association—between April 1 and May 31. The phrase “diversity, equity, and inclusion” appeared 56 times, more often than atherosclerosis (45) and osteoporosis (16). Another progressive-coded term, “inequity,” showed up 99 times—more than asthma (75) or opioid use disorder (65).

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USC professor’s gender transitioning clinic shuts down amid Trump administration pressure

The controversial Los Angeles-based Center for Transyouth Health and Development — one of the largest medical gender transitioning programs in the country — is shuttering its youth-focused treatment program this week.

The center’s youth-focused gender services will cease July 22 after spending its last existing weeks “actively assisting with patient navigation and seeking to identify potential alternative providers for our patients and their families,” officials stated in a news release.

Read more on the College Fix.

Another Major Hospital Drops Trans Treatments For Kids

The Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., announced on Friday that it would no longer prescribe transgender-related medication to its patients under growing pressure from the Trump administration. 

Effective Aug. 30, Children’s National will no longer prescribe its patients so-called “gender-affirming” medications — such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy — citing “escalating legal and regulatory risks.” Children’s National is the latest major hospital system to discontinue its transgender-related services offered to minors after the Trump administration vowed to fight what it describes as the “barbaric practice of surgically and chemically maiming and sterilizing children.”

Read more on the Daily Caller.

These Medical Schools Can’t Stop Racially Gerrymandering Their Student Bodies

Some medical schools may still be using affirmative action policies to admit more black students over whites and Asians, a new report released Thursday found.

Some of these schools appeared much more likely to admit black students with lower Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) scores compared to those of white and Asian students, according to medical school admissions data acquired by Do No Harm. On average, black students admitted in 2024 had a mean MCAT score of 508.3, while Asian and white students had mean MCAT scores of 514.0 and 512.1, respectively.

While the average student scores around 506 on the MCAT, according to The Princeton Review, medical schools remain highly selective, often admitting less than 5% of applicants and requiring at least a 510 MCAT score to be considered competitive.

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College medical group’s cuts to DEI largely ‘cosmetic’: report

The Association of American Medical Colleges continues to infuse “diversity, equity, and inclusion” ideology into medical education despite scrubbing DEI programs and commitments from its website, a medical advocacy group found.

Two experts told The College Fix that DEI in medical schools jeopardizes funding, lowers standards for students, and damages trust in doctors.

A recent report from Do No Harm states the Association of American Medical Colleges has recently “taken steps to remove dozens of the more explicit and overt endorsements of DEI from its website” following President Donald Trump’s executive order tackling this ideology.

Read more on the College Fix.

Colorado law mandating preferred pronouns faces lawsuit from Christian bookstore

Colorado’s newly passed ban on misgendering has drawn another free-speech lawsuit, this time from a Christian bookstore whose owners object to using opposite-sex pronouns.

Born Again Used Books, a family-owned shop in Colorado Springs, filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging the law known as House Bill 1312 or the Kelly Loving Act, which adds misgendering and deadnaming to the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act.

Read more on the Washington Times.

Taxpayer-Funded Medical School Promotes ‘Reversible’ Puberty Blockers For Kids

An Illinois medical school that rakes in millions of taxpayer dollars operates a gender clinic that peddles suspect treatments to minors.

The Southern Illinois University School of Medicine has been issued nearly $3 million in federal funds this year and received another $6.4 million in 2024. The school owns and operates the Gender Equity and Transgender Clinic, which offers “gender affirming hormone therapy” and provides referrals for the surgical removal of breasts and other genital surgeries.

Read more on the Daily Wire.

Dividing Doctors by Race

A new report shows racial preferences continue at medical schools.

The Supreme Court banned racial preferences in university admissions, but finding ways to maintain them has become a cottage industry in higher education. Medical schools are among the frequent offenders, and a new report shows how schools have maintained different standards for applicants depending on their race.

Do No Harm, a group that studies preferences in medicine, submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to 93 public medical schools for 2024 admissions data on race, undergraduate GPA, Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) scores, and whether or not the applicant was admitted. Twenty-three schools have responded so far, and the data suggests racial preferences are still going strong.

Read more on the Wall Street Journal (paywall).

The chemical castration agent for sex offenders being used on children

Detransitioner Chloe Cole was just a child when she first stumbled on transgender individuals on social media — and it completely altered the course of her life.

“I was about 12 years old when I first started encountering the transgender community, just like in the wild on social media,” Cole tells BlazeTV host Nicole Shanahan on “Back to the People.” “They reminded me so much of myself in so many different ways.”

These individuals, Cole says, were artistic, creative, and were often called tomboys or effeminate boys growing up.

Read more on Blaze Media.

Trump administration intensifies crackdown on ‘gender-affirming care’

The Trump administration has ramped up its battle against “gender-affirming care” for minors, sending subpoenas to providers and opening an investigation into whether the industry is engaged in deceptive trade practices.

The Justice Department announced that it has issued more than 20 subpoenas to doctors and clinics providing services such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and gender-change surgeries to patients under 18.

“We’re investigating violations such as health-care fraud, false statements, all of which could result in either civil or criminal liability for these clinics,” Chad Mizelle, Justice Department chief of staff, said at a workshop on “gender-affirming care” held by the Federal Trade Commission.

Read more on the Washington Times.

This SCOTUS Session Confirmed The Vibe Shift On Transing Kids

For the past decade, the United States has witnessed an enormous spike in transgender identification among youth that, for some, entailed strange and dangerous experiments with their bodies. This term, the Supreme Court, thankfully, intervened. In three key cases, U.S. v. Skrmetti, Mahmoud v. Taylor, and Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, SCOTUS protected children from the fantasies of gender ideology and its biological consequences. 

These decisions reject the manipulation of the law in the service of gender ideology and hold ideologues in government accountable. In so doing, the court also safeguarded childhood.

Read more on The Federalist.

FTC holds workshop on deceptive practices in gender-affirming care for minors

Medical professionals and officials attending a Federal Trade Commission workshop that concerns the dangers and deceptive practices of gender-affirming care for minors say that such practices are misleading to consumers and are “one of the greatest frauds” committed against the American people.

The July 9 workshop was focused “on unfair or deceptive trade practices in ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors,” according to an event schedule on the FTC’s website.

The workshop was intended to “help the FTC to understand whether consumers are being or have been exposed to false or unsupported claims about ‘gender-affirming care’ and to gauge the harms consumers may be experiencing,” the FTC said.

Read more on the Center Square.

Federal Trade Commission to Investigate Deception, Fraud in Transgender Industry

Doctors who pitched irreversible surgeries and sterilizing hormone regimens to minors struggling with gender dysphoria may have illegally deceived patients and their parents, according to Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson.

The statute that created the Federal Trade Commission authorizes it to prevent “unfair or deceptive” practices affecting consumers. The FTC hosted a daylong workshop called “The Dangers of Gender-Affirming Care for Minors” to hear from stakeholders and determine if the transgender industry has deceived families.

Informed by the findings of the workshop, the FTC will issue a public request for information on transgender medical interventions next week.

Read more on the Daily Signal.