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Trans ‘Medicine’ in Retreat

Transgender “medicine” has suffered tremendous setbacks in the last two years, but it remains entrenched in much of America’s medical establishment.

Although hundreds of health care facilities have distanced themselves from the transgender orthodoxy demanded by the LGBTQ+ activist group the Human Rights Campaign, hundreds of others remain committed to it.

HRC ranks health care facilities on a “Healthcare Equality Index” according to several criteria, including their promotion of transgender orthodoxy and their coverage of experimental transgender medical interventions euphemistically described as “gender-affirming care.”

“Declining participation in the HRC health care equality index proves our fight against identity politics in medicine is working and we must keep our foot on the gas,” Dr. Kurt Miceli, a psychiatrist and chief medical officer at Do No Harm, told the Daily Signal.

Read more at the Daily Signal.

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Are Democrats Dropping WPATH?

Last week, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) held a hearing titled “Protecting Our Children: Exposing the Dangers of Irreversible Gender Transition Procedures on Minors.”

The hearing proceeded in predictable ways. Republicans and their invited expert witnesses—Kurt Miceli, a psychiatrist and medical director of Do No Harm, and Chloe Cole, a detransitioner—spoke about the harms of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries; the lack of evidence for benefits; and how the international consensus has changed to a more cautious stance on “gender transition” procedures. Democrats and their witness—Shannon Minter, a lawyer at the National Center for LGBTQ Rights—stressed the benefits of “gender-affirming care,” insisted that it rested on a solid evidence base, and accused Republicans of launching politically motivated attacks on marginalized people.

Read more at City Journal.

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Ex-Trans Girl Testifies as Congress Considers Nationwide Ban on Transgender Procedures on Kids

Congress is considering a nationwide ban on transgender procedures on minors such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-change surgeries. Tens of thousands of American children have undergone such procedures. On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions heard testimony from both sides of the issue.

Chloe Cole, a 21-year-old woman who began trying to become a boy at the age of 12, said she is one of many “detransitioners” who regret the experience and attempted to reverse the procedures. She told the committee she believes trans procedures on minors should be outlawed in the U.S.

Read more at CBN.

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Democrats Put On Masterclass In Missing The Point During Child Sex Change Hearing

Senate Democrats repeatedly dismissed concerns about gender-transition procedures for minors during a Wednesday hearing, arguing that the issue affects too few children to warrant congressional scrutiny even as witnesses testified about the serious and sometimes irreversible consequences of such treatments.

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions held a June 3 hearing titled “Protecting Our Children: Exposing the Dangers of Irreversible Gender Transition Procedures on Minors.” The committee called three witnesses: Dr. Kurt Miceli, the medical director of Do No Harm, an organization that seeks to protect minors from harmful medical procedures which come out of identity politics, Chloe Cole, a detransitioner, and Shannon Minter, the legal director of the National Center for LGBTQ Rights.

Read more at The Daily Caller.

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Detransitioner Chloe Cole Testifies on Devastating Effects of Transition

Chloe Cole testified in front of the Senate HELP Committee today, in a hearing titled “Protecting Our Children: Exposing the Dangers of Irreversible Gender Transition Procedures on Minors.” Chloe and her family fell victim to the lies of the transgender movement for years before she de-transitioned. Today, she told the Senate about the permanent harm that “gender-affirming care” has caused her. She disclosed the lie that all parents are told when their child is exhibiting normal interests in hobbies of the opposite sex: “Transition your daughter, or bury her.”

Cole’s testimony advocated for a ban on puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and gender-transition surgeries for minors. “There is no such thing as a child being born in the wrong body,” Cole said.

Read more at Townhall.

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Senate hearing exposes dangers of gender transition procedures for minors

The U.S. Senate held a committee hearing Wednesday on the debate over transgender treatments for minors.

The hearing – titled “Protecting Our Children: Exposing the Dangers of Irreversible Gender Transition Procedures on Minors” – was held by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. It discussed federal policies, state-level bans and ethics of so-called “gender-affirming care.”

Read more at The Lion.

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Senators square off over who decides on matters of gender dysphoria, transition medical procedures

The ongoing debate about gender dysphoria and transition medical treatments devolved Wednesday on Capitol Hill under expected partisan division, with Republican senators calling for an end to such procedures and liberal ones arguing that the federal government shouldn’t get involved.

Those in the packed Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing room heard from 21-year-old detransitioner and advocate Chloe Cole, legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights Shannon Minter and Do No Harm chief medical officer Kurt Miceli, as well as the committee’s senators.

Read more on Just The News

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‘I have no breasts, only scars’: Detransitioner Chloe Cole delivers testimony at Senate hearing

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions held a hearing Wednesday about concerns over gender transition procedures for minors.

Several senators, including Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), and Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), attended the hearing.

Read more on The Washington Examiner.

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Senators clash over whether parents or politicians should decide on trans youth care

A Senate hearing on gender-affirming care for minors on Wednesday became a fight over who gets to make decisions for transgender children, whether politicians should override doctors and parents, and whether the Trump administration’s escalating campaign against gender-affirming care is rooted in concern for children or hostility toward transgender people.

The hearing, convened by Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, came as the administration has intensified efforts to restrict care, including Justice Department subpoenas seeking records from providers that treat transgender minors. The committee listed three witnesses, including Dr. Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer of anti-trans and anti-diversity activist group Do No Harm; Chloe Cole, an anti-trans advocate who received gender-affirming care as a minor and who regretted that care; and Shannon Minter, legal director of the National Center for LGBTQ Rights.

Read more on Advocate.

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UNC uses bridge funds for DEI-targeted research

Shortly after Donald Trump returned to the White House, his administration moved to restrict National Institutes of Health-funded research  that it views as related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). But at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, several of these research projects live on through support from state taxpayers.

A Jan. 27, 2025 memorandum from the Office of Management and Budget placed grants related to “foreign aid, nongovernmental organizations, DEI, woke gender ideology, and the green new deal” on the chopping block. NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya and NIH Principal Deputy Director Matthew Memoli later elaborated in a December Spectator article that the agency would not fund projects that support “ideologies that promote differential treatment” based on race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation.

Read more at The Carolina Journal.

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Company behind Black physician finder website accused of racial discrimination in a lawsuit

A race-based physician finder is facing a federal lawsuit, alleging that the company behind it and its founder are engaging in discrimination.

The lawsuit against Find a Black Doctor and its founder Dina Strachan, MD, was filed by Travis Morrell, MD—a dermatologist based in Colorado who takes issue with the services’ Black-only eligibility policy.

Read more at Health Exec.

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Medical watchdog demands removal of DEI standards in social work education

The sole accrediting agency for social work education in the U.S. is under fire for its diversity, equity, and inclusion mandates, with a watchdog group demanding the requirements removal.

The pro-meritocracy medical organization Do No Harm has sent a letter to the Council of Social Work Education demanding it remove all DEI mandates from its accreditation standards, including ones that require students understand “the pervasive impact of White supremacy” and  “demonstrate anti-racist and anti-oppressive social work practice.”

Read more at The College Fix.

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Watchdogs file civil rights complaint against Oregon over racial quotas in school funding policies

Two education watchdogs, Defending Education and Do No Harm, filed a joint complaint with the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights on Thursday, alleging that Oregon has illegally considered race in its education funding policies.

The Oregon Department of Education requires that 65% of a charter school’s student body be from a minority group or disabled to qualify for a Charter School Equity Grant. The state’s Higher Education Coordinating Commission also distributes funding to Oregon’s public universities according to the number of minority students who graduate.

Read more at the Washington Examiner. 

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Texas Creates a Clinic for Gender Detransitioners

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God bless Texas. On May 15, Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that Texas Children’s Hospital will create the nation’s first clinic for detransitioners. As someone who started down the sex-change path at age 12, I can’t overstate how much this new clinic is needed. Until now, people like me have been wandering in a medical wilderness—hurt by those we trusted, searching for a path back to health and happiness.

Here are the facts. Between 2019 and 2023 alone, according to a Do No Harm investigation, nearly 14,000 American children received medical interventions to change their genders. The real number is likely much higher, since we didn’t get every insurance company’s data and some patients self-pay. Regardless, thousands of vulnerable teenagers and preteens were told they could become something they’re not. Their bodies were pumped full of chemical cocktails—puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. At least 5,700 kids got sex-change surgeries, such as double mastectomies and even the removal of their sexual organs. All before turning 18.

Read more at the Wall Street Journal.

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‘Find A Black Doctor’ directory sued for discriminating against physicians based on race

A conservative legal group sued a physician directory on Tuesday, accusing the website “Find A Black Doctor” of illegally discriminating against physicians by limiting listings to black medical professionals.

The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court by Do No Harm and Colorado dermatologist Dr. Travis Morrell, targets the site and its founder, New York dermatologist Dr. Dina Strachan.

The complaint alleges the directory openly excludes non-black physicians by restricting eligibility to “black physicians and dentists in active clinical practice.”

Read more at the New York Post.

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Texas Children’s Hospital ends transition treatments, fires associated doctors, opens detransition clinic

Texas Children’s Hospital has made a sharp reversal since its days of providing sex-change procedures for children.

The hospital is no longer providing “gender-transition” services, has terminated five doctors who once performed gender-altering medical interventions on minors and is opening America’s first-ever Detransition Clinic, according to a press release from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

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Dr. Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer at Do No Harm, told The Lion the settlement is a “momentous victory for detransitioners and evidence-based medicine alike,” adding that the outcome defends the rights of children.

Read more at The Lion.

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What You Can Do to Hold the Southern Poverty Law Center Accountable

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The Southern Poverty Law Center faces charges of wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy for sending $3 million to members of white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups. This indictment led me to update the book I wrote in 2020, “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center.” At the end of the update, I give a list of concrete ways you can take action against the SPLC.

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[In 2024], the SPLC added groups led by medical professionals, such as Do No Harm and the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine, to the “hate map,” branding them “anti-LGBTQ hate groups” because they oppose experimental transgender “medicine” to make men appear female and vice versa. The SPLC even branded Gays Against Groomers—a group of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people who oppose the sexualization of children and transgender ideology—an “anti-LGBTQ hate group,” suggesting that their key target of hate is… themselves.

Read more at Daily Signal.

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CHOP, Planned Parenthood named in report on questionable gender care billing practices

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A new report details how local healthcare providers may exploit insurance rules to secure payment for child sex-change procedures.

Do No Harm, a national organization of healthcare professionals established in 2022, seeks to “highlight and counteract divisive trends in medicine, such as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and youth-focused gender ideology.”

Read more at Broad + Liberty.