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Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee Ban on Transgender Medical Procedures for Minors

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

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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

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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.

Leading medical programs accreditor pauses DEI rules following Trump executive order

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A leading accreditor of graduate medical education programs announced on Friday the suspension of two “diversity” requirements, following a recent federal executive order targeting “diversity, equity, and inclusion” mandates among accreditors.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education pointed to external pressures in a news release announcing the decision.

The accreditor cited its hiring mandates, which demand that residency programs and their sponsoring institutions, such as medical schools, implement recruitment and retention strategies to “boost diversity,” medical advocacy group Do No Harm reported.

“As we’ve seen, medical schools subject to accreditation requirements that they pursue diversity objectives are keen to pass the buck and blame their DEI initiatives on accreditors,” Do No Harm staff wrote.

“For residency programs specifically, the ACGME’s decision removes all plausible deniability,” they wrote.

Additionally, Do No Harm Senior Fellow Travis Morrell stated the ACGME “has a monopoly on physicians’ postgraduate education, and was making programs choose trainees, supervising teachers (attendings), and even non-clinician staff based on race,” in a post on X Monday.

He called the accreditor’s decision to suspend its requirements an “encouraging first step.” However, “now it must permanently eliminate these requirements – along with the equity in education rule it still enforces,” Morrell stated.

Supreme Court tackles gender conversion therapy

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The Wall Street Journal’s lead letter on Tuesday, from a Canadian endocrinologist called Roy Eappen, praises the Trump administration’s humane acknowledgement in its report on gender medicine that transgender ideology harms “a particular kind of victim: children who are gay and lesbian.”

Four in five gender-confused children grow up and out of their dysphoria naturally, and the majority turn out simply to be gay. This is surely one reason why the multibillion-dollar “gender-affirming care” industry rushes to surgical or chemical intervention. That way, it can collect its lucre before children and parents have time to change their minds.

Eappen, a member of Do No Harm, an organization established to “protect healthcare from the disastrous consequences of identity politics,” notes that “transgender treatments [force children] to be something they aren’t,” adding with incisive and crystal clarity, “the better name for this is gay conversion therapy.”

Top Medical School Accreditor Suspends Diversity Requirements After Trump Executive Order

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A leading medical school accreditor recently announced it is suspending its diversity requirements because of changes to state and federal laws, a decision it made only weeks after President Donald Trump signed an executive order increasing accountability for accreditors.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) is pausing the enforcement of diversity requirements following President Trump’s order, “Reforming Accreditation to Strengthen Higher Education,” which empowers the Education Department to assess whether to suspend accreditors that push diversity, equity, and inclusion mandates.

Medical school accreditors have used their standards to pressure institutions into adopting DEI at the expense of rigorous education and training for the next generation of professionals, watchdog group Do No Harm found in a study first reported by NR in March. The group identified ten accrediting organizations that promote DEI through references to “diversity” in their standards or outright DEI requirements for the programs they oversee.

“ACGME has finally cracked after three months of doubling-down on its commitment to radical identity politics. ACGME’s suspension of absurd diversity rules is an encouraging first step but now it must permanently eliminate these requirements – along with the equity in education rule it still enforces,” Do No Harm senior fellow Dr. Travis Morrell said, reacting to the ACGME’s decision to suspend its diversity requirements.

“The sudden change of tune is a direct result of President Trump’s historic executive order dismantling accreditors’ ability to impose DEI requirements on schools. By prioritizing expertise over politics, we will slowly but surely restore a culture of meritocracy to American medical institutions.”

Do No Harm has filed numerous legal challenges against medical schools and affiliated organizations over alleged violations of federal civil rights law in connection with DEI programs and requirements.

Major Medical Org Changes Tune On DEI After Trump Executive Order

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A major medical organization that accredits all graduate medical education programs, like internships and residency programs, announced Friday that it was suspending some of its “diversity” requirements.

The board of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education released a statement announcing it was pausing certain “diversity” requirements due to concerns about compliance with federal law. The announcement comes after President Donald Trump called out the accreditation organization in an executive order asking the Education Department to crack down on accreditation bodies mandating universities adopt DEI programs.

The announcement from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education earned praised from Dr. Travis Morrell, a senior fellow at Do No Harm, an organization devoted to getting politics out of medicine.

“ACGME has finally cracked after three months of doubling-down on its commitment to radical identity politics. ACGME’s suspension of absurd diversity rules is an encouraging first step but now it must permanently eliminate these requirements – along with the equity in education rule it still enforces,” Morrell told The Daily Wire. “The sudden change of tune is a direct result of President Trump’s historic executive order dismantling accreditors’ ability to impose DEI requirements on schools. By prioritizing expertise over politics, we will slowly but surely restore a culture of meritocracy to American medical institutions.”

Medical School Accreditor Suspends ‘Diversity’ Requirements After Trump Executive Order

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A major medical school accreditor responsible for all graduate-level medical programs announced it would suspend some of its “diversity” requirements, roughly two weeks after President Donald Trump signed an executive order cracking down on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) requirements among accreditors.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) explained that it would be pausing some “diversity” requirements over “concerns” from “multiple constituents in several states” that they might violate state or federal law.

As Dr. Travis Morrell, a senior fellow at Do No Harm, pointed out, “This nationwide accreditor has a monopoly on physicians’ postgraduate education, and was making programs choose trainees, supervising teachers (attendings), and even non-clinician staff based on race (and other non-character, non-expertise markers).”

“ACGME has finally cracked after three months of doubling-down on its commitment to radical identity politics. ACGME’s suspension of absurd diversity rules is an encouraging first step but now it must permanently eliminate these requirements — along with the equity in education rule it still enforces,” Morrell said. “The sudden change of tune is a direct result of President Trump’s historic executive order dismantling accreditors’ ability to impose DEI requirements on schools. By prioritizing expertise over politics, we will slowly but surely restore a culture of meritocracy to American medical institutions.”

UCLA medical school continues to use racial preferences: REPORT

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The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) David Geffen School of Medicine appears to use racial preferences when selecting students to serve on the admissions committee, according to recently published documents. The internal policy was shared despite the federal government opening an investigation into the medical school for race-based discrimination less than two weeks prior.

Following the Free Beacon report, the nonprofit organization, Do No Harm, filed a class-action lawsuit against UCLA’s medical school for allegedly ignoring the Supreme Court’s decision against race-based affirmative action in the 2022 case, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.

“UCLA’s Geffen School of Medicine has continually treated the Students for Fair Admissions ruling as a recommendation, rather than a binding law handed down by the highest court in the land,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chair of Do No Harm, told Fox News.

“Do No Harm is fighting for all the students who have been racially discriminated against by UCLA under the guise of political progress,” Goldfarb continued. “All medical schools must abide by the law of the land and prioritize merit, not immutable characteristics, in admissions.”