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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.”

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.

Trump saved my medical practice from a racist mandate

United States DEI Federal government Media Mention Amber Colville

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.

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

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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.

Democrats, major medical groups denounce Supreme Court’s gender-affirming care ruling

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Democratic leaders and professional medical organizations on Wednesday denounced the Supreme Court’s ruling that upheld a 2023 Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors, a decision the high court delivered along ideological lines and one that stands to impact similar laws passed in roughly half the country.

The high court’s three Democratic-appointed justices dissented from the conservative majority. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, said Wednesday’s decision “abandons transgender children and their families to political whims.”

Author of New Book Says DEI Isn’t Going Anywhere at America’s Med Schools

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Most Americans don’t care who you are or what you look like; they care whether or not you can do the job. Their first questions are, do you know what you’re doing? Are you competent? Not really too much to ask. Since President Donald Trump was elected, he has made it a top priority to rid America of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). There have been great strides made in some areas. But in others, the practice of discriminating against people based on what they look like, to rid the practice of discriminating against people based on what they look like, is firmly entrenched, and it could potentially be very dangerous.

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb is the Chairman of Do No Harm. It is made up of a group of medical professionals whose goal is to keep identity politics out of the medical profession. He has written a new book called “Doing Great Harm? How DEI and Identity Politics Are Infecting American Healthcare – and How We Are Fighting Back.” It details how the medical profession, including medical schools in the U.S., continues to be overrun with woke DEI ideology. Goldfarb says that this is happening “at the expense of Americans’ health,” and he wrote the book because “the public deserves to hear these things.”

Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee Ban on Transgender Medical Procedures for Minors

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The Supreme Court upheld the state of Tennessee’s ban on irreversible transgender procedures for minors, a major victory for parental rights advocates and those seeking to protect distressed children from harmful operations.

The justices ruled 6-3 in United States v. Skrmetti, with all of the conservative justices opting to allow Tennessee’s ban to remain in place and the liberal justices dissenting. The ruling will likely allow similar bans in more than 20 other red states to be upheld in the face of legal challenges.

As a girl misled by trans activists, I cheer the Supreme Court — and demand a national ban

Tennessee Gender Ideology Op-Ed Judicial Chloe Cole

America’s kids are safer today, thanks to the Supreme Court.

Specifically, they’re safer from the radical transgender ideology that endangers their developing minds and bodies.

As someone who was seduced by activist lies when I was just 12 years old, I’m glad the Court is putting kids first.

Thousands of kids will now be protected from disturbing treatments that ruin young lives.

On Wednesday, the Court upheld a Tennessee law that effectively banned so-called “gender-affirming care” for kids.

Trump administration turns up heat on hospitals with financial oversight of gender-affirming care

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The Trump administration hit the “gender-affirming care” industry Wednesday with a one-two punch, launching financial oversight into pediatric gender clinics and pressuring them to stop treating minors with drugs and surgeries.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directed clinics to review the department’s lengthy May 1 report, “Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices,” which found “weak evidence” to support the use of medical intervention for minors.

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On the other side was Dr. Kurt Miceli, medical director of the advocacy group Do No Harm, which opposes gender-transition medical procedures for children.

“Health care providers should not rely on an organization that suppresses evidence and has pushed a political agenda when it comes to caring for children with gender dysphoria,” Dr. Miceli said in a Wednesday statement.

“For too long, vocal, activist doctors and medical associations have relied on WPATH guidance to inform treatment guidelines,” he said.

He said the HHS review “thoroughly highlighted the weak evidence WPATH used to justify so-called ‘gender-affirming care.’”

“In reality, sex-change procedures can cause devastating and often irreversible harms for the long-term development of minors – including infertility, surgical complications, cardiovascular disease, diminished bone density, and regret, to name a few,” Dr. Miceli said. “Children with gender dysphoria deserve evidence-based, high-quality care, not irreversible experimental interventions grounded in a political ideology.”

EXCLUSIVE: University of Kansas Might Be Circumventing Anti-DEI Law

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A medical watchdog thinks the University of Kansas’ medical school is engaging in “zombie DEI” initiatives, even though diversity, equity, and inclusion projects are banned by state and federal law.

“Rebranding DEI as ‘health equity’ or other such terms is a clear effort to skirt state law in the name of woke ideology. Medical schools should drop their DEI agenda,” Do No Harm Chairman Dr. Stanley Goldfarb told The Daily Signal. “Instead, they should focus on merit as the basis for recruitment and admission decisions, and lawmakers should target schools that fail to comply with state laws.”

President Donald Trump has signed a number of executive orders banning diversity, equity, and inclusion discrimination in the federal workforce, in higher education accreditation, and in government-funded education.

The Spectator P.M. Ep. 141: Illinois Medical School Caught Using Affirmative Action

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A Do No Harm analysis into the Southern Illinois School of Medicine admissions revealed that black and Hispanic students with lower average GPA and MCAT scores than white and Asian students are being accepted. These findings spark concern into the school’s admissions process, as the Supreme Court ruled against affirmative action in higher education two years ago.

In this episode of The Spectator P.M. Podcast, host Ellie Gardey Holmes and Lyrah Margo analyze the report and discuss the staggering difference in scores between the racial groups. Ellie and Lyrah criticize the continued presence of affirmative action in schools, noting how it does not provide any benefits for students and their education.

Tune in here.

Doctor: DEI is an infection to medical education, standards must be merit-based

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The director of an organization of medical professionals testified before Congress that DEI is infecting medical education and called for standards to be based on merit alone.

Do No Harm Medical director Dr. Kurt Miceli “testified before the House Subcommittee on Education and Workforce Development at a hearing titled ‘Restoring Excellence: The Case Against DEI,’” a Do No Harm Medical news release said.

Do No Harm is an organization of medical professionals focused on “keeping identity politics out of medical education, research, and clinical practice,” according to its website.

FTC may take legal action against doctors behind gender transitions for kids

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Medical providers who encouraged gender transition drugs and procedures for minors may now face federal investigation.

The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly considering legal action against the doctors and medical providers behind the spike in gender transitions in recent years, according to a memo reported on by The Daily Wire.

“Every available and legal means to protect children from harmful transgender procedures should be taken,” said Stanley Goldfarb, a medical doctor and Chairman of the medical advocacy group, Do No Harm. “The FTC is right to recognize that medical institutions captured by gender ideology are deceiving concerned parents into allowing their children to undergo these dangerous interventions. We applaud the FTC and the Trump Administration for taking this important step towards protecting children.”

Democrats Compared Parental Rights Groups to the KKK While Passing a Transgender Law. Now, Those Groups Are Suing.

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While the Colorado Legislature passed a new transgender bill, sponsors compared parental rights groups to the Ku Klux Klan. Now, those groups are suing to block the legislation, mere days after Gov. Jared Polis signed it.

“The State of Colorado cannot stifle viewpoints it doesn’t like simply because it finds those views offensive or disagreeable,” Sarah Parshall Perry, vice president and legal fellow at the parental rights group Defending Education, told The Daily Signal in a statement Tuesday.

The parental rights groups Defending Education, the Colorado Parent Advocacy Network, and Protect Kids Colorado teamed up with the medical watchdog group Do No Harm and a medical doctor, Dr. Travis Morrell, to file the lawsuit Monday, challenging HB 25-1312, which Polis, a Democrat, signed Friday. The law amends the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, which bars discrimination on the basis of “gender expression,” specifically stating that refusing to use a person’s “chosen name” will constitute discrimination.

Parental Rights Groups Sue Blue State Over Mandating Trans Pronouns

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Parental rights groups filed a lawsuit against the state of Colorado on Monday over a newly-signed law forcing people to use transgender individuals’ preferred name and pronouns or risk investigations, lawsuits and fines.

Democrat Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed the law on Friday which declares “deadnaming and misgendering” as “discriminatory acts” prohibited by the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act. Defending Education, Do No Harm and others allege the law violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments and “cannot stifle viewpoints it doesn’t like simply because it finds those views offensive or disagreeable.”

“Abridging American’s constitutional right to freedom of expression in the name of radical gender ideology is wrong,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of Do No Harm, said in a statement. “We expect the court to reaffirm that the Constitution trumps progressive dogma.”

New Documentary Proves Trump Is Right to Defund PBS

DEI Op-Ed Ian Kingsbury, PhD

Paula Kerger, CEO of PBS, wasted no time in condemning President Trump’s May 2 executive order cutting federal funding for the public broadcaster. Defunding her organization, she declared, “threatens our ability to serve the American public with educational programming.” Only days earlier, however, PBS had aired just the kind of ideologically biased documentary that demonstrates why Trump is right to defund the network.

The documentary, Critical Condition: Health in Black America, focuses on a real and important problem: on average, health outcomes for black Americans are worse than those for people of other races. But instead of addressing the real causes of this crisis—namely group differences in diet, exercise, and health literacy—the documentary settles on the false, simplistic narrative peddled by activists that all differences in health outcomes must be caused by racism.

UCLA Medical School and Racial Bias

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Racial preferences in university admissions ended in 2023, or did they? A lawsuit in federal court against the University of California Geffen Medical School is worth watching as an example of how schools are complying with the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.

Late last week the groups Students for Fair Admissions and Do No Harm sued UCLA Geffen for bias in admissions. The class-action lawsuit, which is brought on behalf of students denied admission since 2020, says UCLA used different academic standards for applicants of different races to achieve racially balanced student classes.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent in Students for Fair Admissions cited a study that found black newborns were more likely to survive if they were cared for by a black doctor. But once the newborns were grouped by birth weight, a key indicator of neo-natal risk, the discrepancy disappeared, according to Do No Harm and a Manhattan Institute analysis of the study.

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Debunked’ Study Served As Key Pillar In Academia’s DEI Temple

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Now, the new report by Do No Harm shows the lasting impact of the study in the scientific literature despite its serious flaws. The flagship journals of prestigious medical associations often cited the paper in articles that advocate for affirmative action in medical school admissions and DEI programs for physicians, according to Do No Harm, which opposes identity politics in medical research and clinical practice.

In all, the study has received 786 citations in the scientific literature, Google Scholar shows. Sixty-six citations occurred this year.

The study provides a case study in how unsound science that serves a predetermined policy goal can permeate the scientific literature, the halls of academia and the media, the report argues. Its centrality to the scientific literature justifying DEI in academic medicine should provoke a second look at that scientific literature, according to Ian Kingsbury, director of Research at Do No Harm.

“This was holding up much of the DEI enterprise. It’s the foundational study in racial concordance mythology,” Kingsbury said.

The enduring impact of the study also raises questions about the rigor of scientific journals and exposes the fallibility of peer review, according to Do No Harm. PNAS has not retracted the study.

When it comes to allegations of liberal bias in scientific journals, the racial concordance field may be “ground zero,” Kinsgbury said.