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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.

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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.

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DOJ subpoenas doctors involved in child transgender procedures

The Department of Justice on Wednesday announced it issued more than 20 subpoenas to doctors and clinics suspected of performing transgender “medical procedures” on minors, part of a sweeping investigation into what the department described as deceptive and potentially criminal practices in the medical industry.

The announcement came the same day the Federal Trade Commission held a Washington, D.C. workshop focused on the “Dangers of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ For Minors”. DOJ chief of staff Chad Mizelle also confirmed the Trump administration is preparing draft legislation and “working with Congress” on existing criminal laws related to “female genital mutilation to more robustly protect children from chemical and surgical mutilation.”

Read more on the Washington Examiner.

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U.S Opposed Oklahoma Ban on Child Gender ‘Transitions’

In 2023, Oklahoma policymakers enacted Senate Bill 613, which states, “A health care provider shall not knowingly provide gender transition procedures to any child.”

When a lawsuit was filed seeking to have the law overturned, Oklahoma officials found themselves faced against not only run-of-the-mill liberal activists, but also against the United States government.

On June 9, 2023, Clinton J. Johnson, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma, along with lawyers from the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, submitted a “Statement of Interest of the United States” urging the court to strike down Oklahoma’s law that prohibits providing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or sex-change surgeries to youth younger than 18, calling those acts “medically necessary health care.”

Read more at OCPA.

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Trump Admin Puts Kibosh On Schools Using Taxpayer Dollars To Indoctrinate Kids

The Trump administration took another bold step to protect parental rights and the innocence of children by issuing a policy affirming that funds from a multi-million dollar federal sexual education program cannot be used to promote radical gender ideology.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a statement Wednesday clarifying that the mission of the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPPP) is to provide “medically accurate and age-appropriate programming” aimed at reducing teen pregnancy, adding that program funds “may not be used to indoctrinate America’s children with radical ideologies or other inappropriate material.” Grant recipients who do not comply with the outlined use of TPPP funds and create off-topic program materials, such as content that encourages anal and oral sex, masturbation, sexually themed roleplay, foreplay techniques and gender ideology, will not be funded, according to an HHS document.

Read more on the Daily Caller.

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Another white flag! Child sex-change regime continues to collapse under weight of Trump enforcement

President Donald Trump declared war on gender ideology and the corresponding child sex-change regime upon retaking office. Despite the best efforts of non-straight activists and overreaching federal judges, the campaign is off to an excellent start — as recently evidenced by Stanford Medicine’s partial surrender.

Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 28 directing all federal agencies to ensure that medical institutions receiving federal funding “end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children” — an initiative that accords with popular opinion, which is majoritively against sex-change drugs and surgeries for children.

Read more on Blaze Media.

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Medical group pleased with new accreditor focused on academic excellence

Six university systems across the nation established a new accreditor focused on academic excellence, with a medical group seeing it as a sign that accreditors’ “stranglehold” on public education may be nearing its end.

Do No Harm medical director Dr. Kurt Miceli told The Center Square that “the creation of the Commission for Public Higher Education marks a promising step forward for public postsecondary education.”

The new accreditor – the Commission for Public Higher Education – “will create a first-of-its-kind accreditation model for public higher education institutions that will offer high-quality, efficient services prioritizing academic excellence, student outcomes and achievement,” according to a news release.

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Inside The American Medical Establishment’s Bitter Refusal To Rethink Trans Procedures For Kids

It seems the whole world is rethinking the transgender procedures for kids.

Peer-reviewed studies show their long-term harm. European countries are moving to ban the practice. And just last week, the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Skrmetti that Tennessee’s law banning trans procedures for minors could stand. That landmark decision opens the door for future bans, and even caused The New York Times to warn that the case may have “set the movement back a generation.”

But one group simply refuses to back down: the American medical establishment.

Read more on the Daily Wire.

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DOJ investigates CA for discriminatory diversity targets

(The Center Square) — The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has opened an investigation into the University of California system for potential race- and gender-based discrimination in employment.

“The University of California’s ‘UC 2030 Capacity Plan’ directs its campuses to hire ‘diverse’ faculty members to meet race- and sex-based employment quotas,” wrote the DOJ. “These initiatives openly measure new hires by their race and sex, which potentially runs afoul of federal law. “

The UC 2030 Capacity Plan emphasizes expanding faculty diversity as a core goal of the 10-campus UC system as it endeavors to “become a Hispanic-serving and minority-serving system.”

Read more on the Center Square California.

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University of California pushed DEI training that taught ‘equality isn’t fair’ before Trump discrimination probe

WASHINGTON — The University of California system forced students to undergo diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) training that taught “equality isn’t actually fair” and implied it may be “racist” to oppose the Black Lives Matter movement, according to internal records exclusively obtained by The Post.

The training module, contracted from a vendor used by the UC system as recently as the 2024-25 school year, largely consists of interactive role-playing scenarios in which students are forced to imagine situations involving perceived “microaggressions” against certain identities.

The training module was obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the advocacy group Do No Harm, which is focused on “keeping identity politics out of medical education, research, and clinical practice.”

Read more on the New York Post.

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FBI launches criminal probes into 3 children’s hospitals over child sex changes: Report

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The medical advocacy group Do No Harm has in recent years worked with health care professionals, hospital administrators, patients, and policymakers to combat DEI-branded racism and gender ideology in the field of medicine.

In order to better tackle the second of these two scourges, the organization launched the Stop the Harm Database in October, identifying hospitals and medical facilities around the country that were subjecting vulnerable children to sex-change mutilations and sterilizing chemical treatments.

The FBI has launched criminal probes into three of the apparent worst offenders in the database — Boston Children’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital Colorado, and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles — a source familiar with the investigations told Fox News Digital this week.

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FBI Reportedly Probing 3 Hospitals For Allegedly Mutilating Kids In Trans Medical Procedures

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The FBI is investigating a trio of children’s hospitals for allegedly and potentially violating a federal law against genital mutilation through the provision of pediatric sex change surgeries, according to a Fox News report.

The hospitals reportedly under FBI scrutiny for providing sex change surgeries and hormone replacement therapy include Boston Children’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital Colorado and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

Read more on the Daily Caller.

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Trump Admin Tells California to Remove Gender Ideology from Sex Education Program

A California sex education program has fewer than 60 days to remove gender ideology from its curricula and materials, or it risks losing federal funding.

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the Department of Health and Human Services sent a letter to California requiring the removal of “all gender ideology references” in its Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP).

PREP funds local agencies and provides sex education services in foster homes, homeless shelters, juvenile detention centers, and some schools. It reaches about 13,000 youth annually, primarily those at the highest risk of STI or teen pregnancy.

The letter from ACF cited various instances of content “outside of the scope of PREP’s authorizing statute.” Some examples included a middle school lesson that teaches about transgenderism and a teacher’s guide that says gender identity is distinct from biological sex.

Read more on National Review.

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RFK Jr.’s HHS tells Calif. it must remove gender ideology from middle school lessons: ‘Some men are born with female anatomy’

The Department of Health and Human Services, currently led by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., wants California to stop teaching children that some men are “born with female anatomy” and some women are “born with male anatomy.”

The Administration for Children and Families under HHS sent a letter to the state of California requiring the state to remove gender ideology references from curricula, program material, and teacher advisories under the Personal Responsibility Education Program.

Read more on Blaze Media.

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UCSF scholarship for med students demands ‘commitment’ to DEI, ‘anti-racism’

The University of California San Francisco mandates that medical students applying for a specific scholarship showcase their dedication to the school’s “diversity, equity, and inclusion” principles or their engagement with “marginalized” communities.

A legal expert with a conservative think tank told The College Fix the scholarship seems to discriminate based on race, “almost certainly” violating the “Fourteenth Amendment.”

The Visiting Elective Scholarship Program is reserved for fourth-year medical students who are either “disadvantaged, have demonstrated a commitment to working with marginalized and traditionally disenfranchised populations, or have demonstrated a commitment to UCSF’s PRIDE value.”

Read more on the College Fix.

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Justice Thomas Echos OCPA Brief in Supreme Court Opinion

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In 2023, the Oklahoma Legislature passed SB 613 and Gov. Kevin Stitt signed it into law. The bill prohibited the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones on minors as well as sex-change surgeries for minors. 

Soon after the law was passed, the ACLU sued to enjoin the law in federal court. OCPA, along with Do No Harm, filed an amicus brief in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. After the district judge denied the ACLU’s motion for a preliminary injunction, the ACLU appealed to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, where OCPA and Do No Harm, again, filed an amicus brief with the Court. 

Read more on OCPA.

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Trump saved my medical practice from a racist mandate

Of all the things President Donald Trump is doing right, the best is his rollback of racist woke mandates. Case in point: The Trump administration just announced that it’s ditching a discriminatory rule that former President Joe Biden slapped on my private medical practice. The administration announced this in a lawsuit I filed to stop the mandate. Now, my patients and I can breathe a sigh of relief.

I sued the Biden administration in 2023 with the help of the medical advocacy group Do No Harm. The Department of Health and Human Services had just introduced a regulation that pressured doctors like me to develop a so-called “anti-racism plan.” From the moment I heard about it, I knew it was wrong. Anti-racism is just racism in disguise. It’s part of the woke demand that we treat people differently based on the color of their skin. Last I checked, that’s called racial discrimination, and it’s both wrong and illegal under federal law.

Read more at the Washington Examiner.

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EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Levine Let Notorious Gender Clinic Meet With Child In Gov’t Office

Dr. Rachel Levine let a notorious child sex-change clinic use Pennsylvania’s government office space to meet with a minor patient, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.

Linda Hawkins, co-director of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Gender and Sexuality Program and counselor, was granted permission by Levine’s deputy secretary, Sarah Boateng, in 2017 to use the space for a private visit, emails obtained through a public records request show.

Read more on the Daily Caller.