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Medical student sues Minnesota for racial quotas on ‘health equity’ council
Three days short of 45 years before the Supreme Court largely invalidated race-based affirmative action in college admissions as a violation of equal protection under the 14th Amendment, it struck…
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Trump issues executive order to ban gender-affirming care for minors
President Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive order meant to broadly restrict access to gender-affirming care for transgender children and teenagers younger than 19, inching closer to fulfilling a…
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Affirmative Action Is Still Alive and Well. Trump Can Kill It
Many institutions continue to discriminate on the basis of race. Here’s what the president can do to stop the practice once and for all. The death of affirmative action has been…
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Trump DEI crackdowns lauded for bringing merit back to medicine: ‘Make healthcare great again’
President Trump is waging war on the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) philosophy entrenched in various U.S. entities, signing an executive order scaling back the practice…
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Biden embraced diversity efforts. Trump has moved to demolish them.
Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden couldn’t be further apart on values that once were considered foundational American ideals — but no longer are. While the country never…
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Lawsuit challenges DEI-driven racial quotas for Minnesota state board
A new federal lawsuit in Minnesota is challenging the racial quotas for membership on the state’s Health Equity Advisory and Leadership, or HEAL, Council, an advisory board tasked…
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Trump orders federal DEI staff be put on leave immediately
(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump ordered that starting Wednesday, all federal staff working on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion activities will immediately be put on paid leave. That announcement…
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Trump Admin To Put All Federal DEI Officials On Leave By End Of Day
The Trump administration will be placing all federal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) officials on paid leave by the end of the business day Wednesday, a document from…
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Medical schools ‘skirting’ SCOTUS ruling rejecting race in admissions: report
A new report conducted by nonprofit organization Do No Harm (DNH) is sounding the alarm on medical schools allegedly “skirting” a 2023 Supreme Court ruling rejecting the use of…
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University of Washington medical school renames directory and opens program to all races after anti-DEI lawsuit
The University of Washington’s medical school recently decided to rename its “BIPOC Physicians Directory” into the “MD Connections Directory,” thus removing the reference to a left-wing racial buzzword in the…
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What Trump Can Do ‘On Day One’ To Reverse The Spread Of Transgender Ideology
President-elect Donald Trump promised throughout his campaign to dismantle the transgender agenda by taking actions to protect women’s sports, remove gender ideology from schools and limit access to dangerous sex…
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Missouri State University defies trend, continues DEI spending
Missouri State University is continuing its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) spending, even as public sentiment and many state lawmakers have turned against it. A survey of the DEI programs…
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Group commits to DEI legal challenges, says DEI policies account for $124B
The Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty is vowing to take on diversity, equity and inclusion practices in government with a series of lawsuits and legal actions, including a federal…
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The Gender-Affirming Care Double Standard
In medical terms, is one in 1,000 a rare event? The answer, it turns out, is political. When it comes to Type-2 diabetes, the health-care establishment appears to agree that…
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Study ties ‘gendered racial microaggressions’ to high blood pressure in mothers of color
Pregnant women of color who complain about medical professionals committing “gendered racial microaggressions” during OB/GYN visits are more likely to experience elevated blood pressure after giving birth, a study shows.
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Top Medical Association Academic Blames Health Care Problems On ‘Cisgenderism’
A top employee for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) said that he had dedicated his career to unpacking people’s “invisible knapsacks” of white privilege, and blamed…
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Second Circuit Revives DEI Challenge to Pfizer Fellowship
A federal appeals court revived a lawsuit challenging Pfizer Inc.‘s fellowship program aimed at building a diverse workforce, saying that a trial judge applied the wrong standard in assessing whether…
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Pfizer must face lawsuit over diversity fellowship program, US court rules
A U.S. appeals court on Friday revived a lawsuit by a conservative group opposed to diversity initiatives in medicine that challenged a Pfizer (PFE.N) fellowship program designed to…
