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Utah considers ban on procedures to change minors’ gender

The Utah House Health and Human Services Committee heard comments Tuesday for and against a ban on gender-changing procedures for minors.

Introduced by state Rep. Rex P. Shipp, R-Iron County, House Bill 174 prohibits giving cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers to minors unless specific circumstances are met. HB 174 would also require health care professionals to initiate treatment plans for minors that want to end cross-sex hormones or puberty blockers.

Those testifying before the committee included patient advocate Chloe Cole. A native of California, Cole began to transition to a male at the age of 12 and later changed her mind. Now a young adult working for Do No Harm, Cole has been traveling the country to speak against surgeries and medications for people with gender dysphoria.

Read the full story in The Center Square.

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Medical watchdog challenges key study used to justify DEI health policies: ‘Scientifically unsound’

A prominent medical watchdog group is pushing back against a widely cited study claiming racially diverse medical facilities improve outcomes for Black patients, arguing the research is being used to justify race-based diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies despite failing to prove its central claim.

Do No Harm, a nonprofit organization focused on opposing ideological influence in medicine, released a report Tuesday disputing a recent study by economists Michael Frakes and Jonathan Gruber that suggests increasing the share of Black physicians in military medical facilities leads to better outcomes for Black patients.

Read the full story at Fox News.

 

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The left’s latest DEI deception

Why do the left’s biggest priorities need to be cloaked in manipulation and even outright lies?

That was the question 15 years ago as Democrats desperately tried to pass Obamacare. They succeeded, and in 2013, the law’s primary architect acknowledged that deceiving the American public was key.

Jonathan Gruber, speaking on a panel he surely thought would never be made public, declared that Obamacare “was written in a tortured way” to ensure “a lack of transparency.” That way, he said, Democrats could take advantage of the “stupidity of the American voter.”

Read the full op-ed in The Washington Times.

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U.S. withdrawal from WHO completed over COVID-19 mishandling

The United States completed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization due to the group’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a medical group praising the move and officials stating the withdrawal is for those who died alone in nursing homes and whose businesses were destroyed due to COVID responses induced by WHO.

Medical director for Do No Harm Dr. Kurt Miceli told The Center Square that “the Trump administration is right to stop the flow of taxpayer dollars to an organization that has allowed politics to supersede science.”

“From its deference to China during the COVID 19 pandemic to its broader tendencies toward centralized control and bureaucratic overreach, the WHO has undermined its own credibility – leaving little reason for continued American participation or financial support,” Miceli said.

Read the full story at The Center Square.

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Medicine’s Descent Into Madness

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Instead of slinking off to retirement or apologizing and hoping for rehabilitation, Goldfarb fought back. In 2022 he founded Do No Harm, a research and advocacy group. Do No Harm has since attracted more than 15,000 members. It uses litigation, legislation, and the press to push for a medical education system that produces doctors who are “supremely confident,” not “sanctimoniously woke.”

Doing Great Harm? is the second book to emerge from Goldfarb’s efforts on this front; the first was Take Two Aspirin and Call Me By My Pronouns: Why Turning Doctors into Social Justice Warriors is Destroying American Medicine, which came out in 2022.

Read the full review of Dr. Goldfarb’s book at the Washington Free Beacon.

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Medical school criticized for ‘woke’ course where students are asked to critique the ‘white body’

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However, Dr. Kurt Miceli, medical director at Do No Harm, explained to Fox News that these courses shift attention away from logic: ‘These courses focused on identity politics unfortunately shift attention from evidence-based reasoning to ideological framing, which risks confusing political analysis with clinical judgment.

‘Over time, trust in the profession gets undermined, particularly if patients feel their care is being filtered through a political lens rather than grounded in biology, data, and individualized medical need.’

Read the full story at the Daily Mail.

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Blue-state university sparks outrage with ‘decolonizing medicine’ course challenging the ‘White body’ standard

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Dr. Kurt Miceli, medical director at Do No Harm, told Fox News Digital, “These courses focused on identity politics unfortunately shift attention from evidence-based reasoning to ideological framing, which risks confusing political analysis with clinical judgment.”

“Over time, trust in the profession gets undermined, particularly if patients feel their care is being filtered through a political lens rather than grounded in biology, data, and individualized medical need,” Miceli said. 

Read the full story at Fox News.

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Ohio AG Explains How Major Women’s Sports SCOTUS Case Could Impact Ohio

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Do No Harm, a group which describes itself as “a national association of medical professionals combating the attack on our healthcare system from woke activists,” also spoke to the potential ramifications of such a case as well as what’s at stake.

Dr. Kurt Miceli, the chief medical director of Do No Harm told The Daily Signal that, “a win for Idaho and West Virginia at the Supreme Court will pave the way for other states across the country to pass and enforce protections for girls and force lower courts to acknowledge the binary nature of sex.”

“Contrary to activists’ misinformation, blood testosterone levels alone do not fully capture the male physical advantage. Scientific evidence proves that, even before puberty, boys have a physical advantage in strength and speed over girls of the same age,” said Miceli. “We are optimistic the court will ensure biological reality is upheld and common-sense protections are reinstated.”

Read the full article at the Daily Signal.

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EXCLUSIVE: Unearthed Data Makes Pennsylvania’s Puberty Blocker Payouts Look Even Sketchier

Pennsylvania saw a meteoric rise in the number of adolescents receiving puberty blockers through an insurance billing code currently being investigated under the Trump administration on fraud suspicions.

More than 220 claims for puberty blocking drugs were reimbursed for minors aged 10-13 with the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) billing code, E30.1, for precocious puberty between Jan. 1, 2013 and Dec. 31, 2024, costing taxpayers more than $1.8 million, according to the data. The number of claims in the 10-13 age group went from zero in 2012 and ballooned to 47 by 2016. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has raised concerns that this billing code may have been fraudulently used by gender doctors to obtain insurance coverage for sex-rejecting interventions.

“A spike of this magnitude in the diagnosis of precocious puberty — especially among children past the usual age — is highly atypical and raises the very real possibility that the diagnosis has been used as a billing workaround,” Dr. Kurt Miceli, medical director at Do No Harm, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Read the full story at the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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Experts Weigh in on SCOTUS Cases Involving Boys in Girls’ Sports

“The lower courts embraced debunked theories, ignored biological reality, and undermined safety and fairness in women’s sports. Even before puberty, boys have physical advantages over girls, distinctions that hormone interventions cannot erase and become even more pronounced post-puberty. The Supreme Court now has the opportunity to affirm the biological truth of the sex binary—a scientific fact that no amount of political pressure or ideological bias can change,” said Dr. Stanley Goldfarb of Do No Harm, which hosted a rally outside the Supreme Court during oral arguments.

Read the full article at Townhall.

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Medical group ‘optimistic’ Supreme Court will affirm biological sex in sports

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Following oral arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday on whether males should participate in female sports, a medical group is “optimistic” that biological sex will be affirmed by the court in upcoming days.

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of Do No Harm, told The Center Square that Tuesday’s “oral arguments were about protecting girls’ safety in women’s sports and confronting the biological truth: sex is binary.”

Do No Harm is a group of “physicians, nurses, medical students, patients, and policymakers focused on keeping identity politics out of medical education, research, and clinical practice,” as stated on its website.

Read the full article at The Center Square.

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Supreme Court reviews transgender athlete bans

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Steve Ward, a board-certified internal medicine physician with Do No Harm, said: “I think this issue is representative of a much deeper concern that I have about the medical profession,” he said. “We’re here to support women’s sports, and that’s certainly important, but to my mind, we really have to think more carefully about what this means for the future of science and scientific research.”

Ward emphasized the importance of scientific research based on “objective and fixed” reality. “All of these great great scientists of the past understood that, that the world could be studied because they had a Judeo-Christian worldview understanding that we live in a world that you can approach and you can make objective observations, perform the scientific method and so forth and reach some type of a conclusion that you can repeat and move forward with, develop technologies and all sorts of things,” he said, adding: “If we discard all of that history in favor of psychological categories, then you really can no longer do science at all, and you have to throw that away.”

Read the full article at Catholic News Agency.

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I was told I was a boy. Supreme Court must destroy lies that harm women like me

Normally, the Supreme Court hears cases that deal with matters of law. 

But on Tuesday, Jan. 13, the justices will also be dealing with basic science. Not only that, they’ll be debating fundamental truth, as I can personally testify. 

The stakes couldn’t be higher in the case, West Virginia v. B.P.J. The specific question facing the court is simple: Should transgender boys be allowed to compete on girls’ sports teams? But you can’t really answer this question without asking a more important one: Can a young boy or a girl actually change genders?

Read the full op-ed in Fox News.

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My doctor gave me a shot of socialism with my annual exam — and yours might, too

Why is my doctor worried about my mortgage payments?

So I found myself wondering as I filled out a questionnaire before a recent primary-care visit.

Along with the usual prompts about my health, I encountered a series of questions related to my financial situation.

The form asked whether in the last 12 months I was unable to pay my mortgage or rent on time, and if I was “worried that my food would run out before I got the money to buy more.”

These questions weren’t an attempt to gauge whether I would pay my medical bill; they were part of a campaign driven by political activists out to justify socialist policies in the name of improving health care. 

Read the full op-ed at The New York Post.

 

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EXCLUSIVE: Suicide Hotline Operator Pushes ‘Radical’ Trans Ideology In Open Revolt Against Trump Admin

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“It is deeply troubling that the organization operating our nation’s suicide hotline is pushing a radical, disproven ideology onto vulnerable adolescents in crisis,” Do No Harm Executive Director Kristina Rasmussen told the DCNF. “This taxpayer-subsidized program should provide compassionate, life-saving care to confused children, not send them further down a path that can lead to lasting mental and physical harm.”

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“The fact that the training documents suggest hiding information from parents is both alarming and part and parcel of the gender activist playbook,” Rasmussen told the DCNF. “That the CEO of Protocall has doubled down on DEI, the twin pillar of the crumbling identity politics movement, is further proof that there must be additional scrutiny on the training provided to the people tasked with the critical job of interceding in young people’s times of crisis. It also calls into question why groups like this continue to hold key public service contracts at all.”

Read the full story at The Daily Caller News Foundation.

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Utah lawmakers to push for permanent ban on youth transgender treatments amid criticism of state report

In 2023, the Legislature passed SB16, which prohibited sex reassignment surgeries for minors, put an indefinite pause on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for new child patients, and ordered a review of medical evidence to inform future policies.

The review, conducted by the University of Utah’s Drug Regimen Center for the Utah Department of Health and Human Services, was presented to the Legislature in May. It purported to find positive health outcomes for “gender affirming treatments.”

A report published in December by Do No Harm — a group of doctors who say they are focused on “keeping identity politics out” of medical research — identified significant flaws with Utah’s review, including a failure to scrutinize low quality data and “life-altering adverse effects.”

Read the full story at Deseret News.

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Florida AG Sues Medical Activist Groups for Pushing Transgender Care on Minors

“The years-long coordinated campaign by WPATH and other medical organizations to disregard the serious health risks of sex change interventions on minors will go down as the most egregious medical scandal in modern history,” said Dr. Kurt Miceli, medical director at Do No Harm, a medical watchdog opposed to giving transgender operations to minors.

“These groups have obfuscated risk and misrepresented the low quality of evidence to support puberty blockers, cross sex hormones, and surgeries for children—interventions that can cause lasting harm. It is encouraging to see our elected officials hold these organizations accountable for spreading misinformation. This is a critical step to restoring public trust in medicine.”

Read the full story at National Review.

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Temple Shows DEI’s Ongoing Hold on Medical Schools

Temple University’s medical school sent an email this month to faculty and staff announcing that its DEI office, the Office of Health Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, will become the more vaguely named “Office of Strategic Partnership in Healthcare Education and Resources,” or “SPHERE.”

Here’s the issue: The medical school made clear that this is just a rebrand for an office that will continue its equity-focused mission.

Read more on The American Spectator.