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RFK Jr.’s HHS releases controversial report on gender-affirming care. Here’s what it says.
The U.S. Health and Human Services released a report reviewing medical interventions for minors seeking gender-affirming care. Conservative organizations like Do No Harm applauded the report and…
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Trump HHS Says ‘Vulnerable’ Children Are Being Failed In Blistering Report On Child Sex-Change Procedures
The chemical and surgical mutilation of minors, known as child sex-changes, is built on junk science that lacks ethical justification, according to a new review published by the Trump administration.
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HHS review says US medical boards failed children with gender dysphoria
U.S. medical professionals and associations have failed children and adolescents struggling with gender dysphoria, the Department of Health and Human Services said in a report…
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The Group Behind The MCAT Said It Was Ditching DEI. Insiders Say It Lied.
The Association of American Medical Colleges, which administers the medical school entrance exam and helps accredit medical schools, purged most DEI content from its website after a damning …
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More than 70 medical schools still have DEI offices, watchdog says
DEI programs dilute medical education, expert says Over 70 medical schools maintain offices dedicated to “diversity, equity and inclusion” despite federal orders to end such programs, a medical advocacy group…
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Here’s How Much The Federal Government Is Spending To Make Nurses Less White
The Department of Health and Human Services will hand out over $20 million in “diversity” grants this year aimed at increasing the number of minority nurses, even as the Trump…
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UMinn offers course on ‘decolonizing approaches to transgender health’
Course ‘sounds like the result of a prank,’ medical reform group says The University of Minnesota regularly offers a course titled “Intersectional and Decolonizing Approaches to Transgender Health,” as part of several…
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Gretchen Whitmer’s bureaucrats sued for requiring ‘implicit bias’ training to keep medical license
The scientific rigor behind “implicit bias” has been questioned since at least 2009, when the Journal of Applied Psychology deemed the evidence “surprisingly weak” that the Harvard-designed implicit association test “predicts discriminatory…
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Woke hospital’s outrageous N-word training video offers a flow chart on when it’s acceptable to use slur
A Minnesota hospital ordered thousands of employees to watch a training video featuring a flowchart detailing when they apparently say it is OK to use the N-word. Hennepin County Medical Center,…
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Hospital where George Floyd was declared dead makes staff watch ‘N-word’ training video: ‘Highly unorthodox’
The Minneapolis healthcare network that includes the hospital where George Floyd was declared dead is mandating thousands of employees sit through a woke training video that includes a flowchart explaining who can and…
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Wokeness in Medicine Hasn’t Been Cured Yet
The same people and institutions who have spent years degrading the practice of medicine in service of their ideological goals are still at it. If America is a patient and wokeness…
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Medical Association Removes Race Requirements from Scholarship Program After Watchdog Lawsuit
A medical association is removing race requirements from its diversity scholarship program after a watchdog group took legal action over the association’s alleged violations of federal law.The National Association of…
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Federal Crackdown on Illegal Discrimination Targets OU–Tulsa School of Community Medicine
At least one Oklahoma university may be in the crosshairs of federal investigators seeking to weed out illegal racial discrimination. In March, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil…
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I’m a Plastic Surgeon. This “Gender-Affirming” Procedure Is a Scam
I am a plastic surgeon. Over the past 35 years, I’ve seen many of my colleagues abandon the most basic premise in human biology: that there are two, immutable sexes.
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IU professor studies LGBT caregivers of dementia patients with $262,000 in NIH funds
Professor will ‘co-design and test a culturally relevant intervention to meet these unique needs’ of LGBT caregivers The “unique needs of sexual and gender minorities” who care for individuals with…
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Trump Appointee Saves Tens of Millions by Cutting Funding for Child Sex Changes
The Trump administration’s decision to prohibit Medicaid coverage of child sex-change procedures will save taxpayers at least $18.5 million. Between 2019 and 2023, the total submitted charges for…
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Bill planned to ban gender transitions for minors
(The Center Square) – The debate over whether children should undergo gender transition treatments has grown in fervor since Election Day, though a pending bill to ban the procedures in…
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Organizer cites bias after losing CME credit for class on harms of ‘gender-affirming care’
DENVER — Health care professionals may earn Continuing Medical Education credit for any number of classes promoting “gender-affirming care,” but courses on its drawbacks are apparently a different story. A…