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Federal lawsuit alleges UCLA medical school uses a race-based admissions process

A federal class-action lawsuit accuses UCLA’s medical school and various university officials of using race as a factor in admissions, despite a state law and Supreme Court ruling striking down affirmative action.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in California’s Central District federal court, was brought by the activist group Do No Harm, founded in 2022 to fight affirmative action in medicine; Students for Fair Admissions, the nonprofit that won its suit at the Supreme Court against Harvard’s affirmative action program; and Kelly Mahoney, a college graduate who was rejected from UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine.

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

According to the lawsuit, Do No Harm has at least one member who applied to Geffen, was rejected and “is able and ready to reapply if a court orders Defendants to stop discriminating and to undo the effects of its past discrimination.” Students for Fair Admissions has at least one member who will apply to the medical school.

UCLA Medical School Sued for Race Discrimination by Group Behind Harvard Affirmative Action Case

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UCLA medical school was sued for race discrimination on Thursday after whistleblowers alleged that the school holds black and Latino applicants to a lower standard than their white and Asian counterparts, the latest challenge for a beleaguered university already in the crosshairs of the Trump administration.

The complaint is based on multiple Washington Free Beacon reports about the extent of racial preferences at the medical school. It was filed by Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), the group whose lawsuit against Harvard University resulted in the Supreme Court decision, in 2023, that outlawed affirmative action in higher education.

The complaint, which was filed jointly with Do No Harm, a group that opposes identity politics in medicine, comes as the Department of Health and Human Services investigates UCLA medical school’s admissions practices as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on race-based programs. That probe was launched almost a year after whistleblowers described a pervasive pattern of race discrimination at the top medical school, where the share of Asian matriculants fell by almost a third in just three years.

Read more in the Washington Free Beacon.

UCLA medical school hit with class-action lawsuit for allegedly still using race-based admissions process

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The University of California, Los Angeles, medical school was hit with a class-action lawsuit on Thursday for reportedly still employing a race-based admissions process despite a 2023 Supreme Court ruling that race-based programs for college admissions are unconstitutional, Fox News Digital has learned.

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

Do No Harm, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting against “radical progressive ideology” in the health industry, and nonprofit legal advocacy organization Students for Fair Admissions filed the class-action lawsuit Thursday afternoon on behalf of applicants who allegedly faced “intentional discrimination on the basis of race and ethnicity in the admissions process” at UCLA’s medical school, according to the lawsuit.

Top DC chemistry group replaces race-excluding scholarship after lawsuit

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The American Chemical Society has agreed to replace its racially exclusive ACS Scholars Program following a legal challenge that accused the country’s largest chemistry network of violating federal civil rights laws by excluding white and Asian applicants.

The Washington Examiner first reported in March that the nonprofit organization Do No Harm filed a lawsuit on behalf of a high-achieving high school senior, identified as “Member A,” who was barred from applying solely because of her race. Despite a 4.34 GPA, a perfect ACT science score, and top AP Chemistry exam results, the student was ineligible under the program’s criteria, which reserved eligibility for Black, Hispanic, and Native American applicants.

“We are pleased that the American Chemical Society will stop discriminating based on race in its scholarships,” said Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of DNH, in a statement. “Allowing identity politics to interfere with merit in medical education is not only a disservice to these future medical professionals, but also the patients they will serve.”

Do No Harm contended the original scholarship initiative amounted to illegal “racial gatekeeping,” citing the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which struck down race-based college admissions.

Goldfarb emphasized that the resolution sends “a clear message” that racial bias has no place in medicine or education.

MCAT developers still promote DEI despite public scrutiny: REPORT

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The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), which develops and administers the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT), was believed to have left DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) behind until The Daily Wire published an article stating otherwise.

The AAMC was exposed for continued DEI efforts after a scrutinizing report from the nonprofit Do No Harm, which stated that the group works “to create, promote, and ingrain philosophies that are rooted in controversial belief systems instead of established science.”

However, The Daily Wire received information from an “AAMC insider” who says that the organization is using unorthodox measures to further its DEI agenda, despite recent changes.

U. Wisconsin system spent tens of millions of dollars on 1,200+ DEI activities: audit

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The University of Wisconsin system spent tens of millions of dollars on over 1,200 “diversity, equity, and inclusion” activities in recent years, a new legislative audit revealed.

Medical advocacy group Do No Harm and a Wisconsin state representative told The College Fix this ideology is diminishing the value of education and wasting taxpayer money.

Meanwhile, Do No Harm Senior Fellow Tabia Lee told The Fix via email DEI is “watering down the knowledge, skills, and abilities of students across disciplines on college campuses.”

“It is unfortunate that content knowledge is being replaced with ideological knowledge that requires students to demonstrate an allegiance to discrimination, division, and unproven sociological constructs,” she said.

Lee encouraged Wisconsin residents who are concerned about their taxpayer dollars funding DEI initiatives to contact their legislators and demand that public universities return to “educating instead of indoctrinating.”

Do No Harm: Rising awareness about puberty blockers for minors drives public opinion

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A plurality of registered voters – 47% – think doctors should never be able to prescribe puberty blockers to children. An additional 29% of voters say puberty blockers can be prescribed to minors but only with parental consent.

A nonprofit that represents health care professionals and policy makers opposed to the practice say the polling results reflect a greater understanding of the dangers such care present to children.

“It is not surprising that the more the public learns about the irreversible impact of giving puberty blockers to kids, the more opposition grows to this experimental and risky treatment,” Do No Harm Executive Director Kristina Rasmussen told The Center Square.

Sanity returns as feds condemn transgender treatments for kids

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The United States has finally acknowledged the truth: Sex-change treatments endanger children.

On Thursday, the federal Department of Health and Human Services issued the world’s most comprehensive report on the topic to date — a definitive 400-page evidentiary and ethical takedown.

Transgender activists have long relied on the support of the US government — or at least its silence — to protect their claimed medical and moral legitimacy and continue treatment on children as young as age 8.

Now they have nowhere to turn but the fringe, which is where their ideology arose and ought to return.

The most remarkable thing about this report is that it took so long.

St. Louis University medical school renames DEI office to ‘Office of Ignatian Mission in Medicine’

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A Catholic university’s medical school appears to have deleted a web page dedicated to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).

St. Louis University School of Medicine previously maintained a web page called the “Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion,” as shown on the Wayback Machine.

Do No Harm, an advocacy group opposed to DEI and gender ideology in medicine, first reported the school’s web page change on April 14.

As noted by Do No Harm, the move to alter the medical school’s DEI website comes two years after the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights launched an investigation into allegedly discriminatory scholarships.

Gender dysphoria should be treated with therapy instead of transition treatments, massive Trump-ordered HHS report urges

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A sweeping review of transgender treatments on minors found “deep uncertainty about the purported benefits” of many of those interventions — and urged doctors to put more of an emphasis on behavioral therapy when addressing gender dysphoria.

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of Do No Harm, an organization that opposes so-called gender transition surgeries, hailed the HHS review for exposing “a number of serious risks in the medical transition of young people.”

“The report cites a ‘lack of robust evidence’ for these medical procedures,” Goldfarb said in a statement. “It is clearer now, more than ever, that we must end this misguided practice and replace it with evidence-based treatment for gender confused kids.”

Unearthed footage exposes medical school administrators pledging to resist Trump executive orders

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Leaked video obtained by Fox News Digital shows school administrators at an Illinois school of medicine rejecting multiple Trump executive orders, including on combatting DEI, and outlining how the school plans to fight back against them.

“By putting itself directly at odds with President Trump, the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine is begging to be investigated by the federal government,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, Chairman at Do No Harm, told Fox News Digital in a statement. “In this unearthed video, the School of Medicine’s Dean, Senior Counsel, and other officials openly and repeatedly flaunt their contempt for the Administration’s orders to promote meritocracy and protect children from sex-change procedures.

“While defying executive orders and obsessing over DEI and gender ideology, SIUSOM somehow continues to receive millions of taxpayer dollars from the National Institutes of Health. The school’s officials made their playbook clear: ignore executive orders until forced to obey; this strategy must be exposed and nipped in the bud. SIUSOM must stop prioritizing identity politics over patients.”

HHS Report Confirms No Evidence To Support Castrating And Mutilating Gender Confused Kids

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A comprehensive Department of Health and Human Services review published on Thursday found that there was never any evidence to support the radical gender ideology that was welcomed by healthcare institutions across the nation.

Do No Harm Chairman Dr. Stanley Goldfarb celebrated the HHS’ quest to bring “needed scrutiny to the gender industry.”

“American children, especially those suffering from gender confusion, deserve better than to be used as a political pawn by gender activists,” he said in a statement, noting that the report “rightfully exposes a number of serious risks in the medical transition of young people.”

“It is clearer now more than ever that we must end this misguided practice and replace it with evidence-based treatment for gender confused kids,” he concluded.

RFK Jr.’s HHS releases controversial report on gender-affirming care. Here’s what it says.

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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 said in a statement they were “grateful and encouraged” by the agency’s scrutiny of gender-affirming care.

Trump HHS Says ‘Vulnerable’ Children Are Being Failed In Blistering Report On Child Sex-Change Procedures

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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.

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman at Do No Harm, a medical watchdog organization, praised the review in a statement provided to the the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“American children, especially those suffering from gender confusion, deserve better than to be used as a political pawn by gender activists. The Health and Human Services review of the scientific evidence and best practices in the treatment for pediatric gender dysphoria rightfully exposes a number of serious risks in the medical transition of young people,” Goldfarb told the DCNF. “The report cites a ‘lack of robust evidence’ for these medical procedures and most alarmingly finds that ‘WPATH suppressed systematic reviews its leaders believed would undermine its favored treatment approach.’”

“Do No Harm, its fellows, researchers, and members have been warning about the experimental and irreversible sex change interventions on children, and we are grateful and encouraged HHS is bringing needed scrutiny to the gender industry,” Goldfarb added. “It is clearer now more than ever that we must end this misguided practice and replace it with evidence-based treatment for gender confused kids.”

HHS review says US medical boards failed children with gender dysphoria

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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 released Thursday.

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of the medical advocacy group Do No Harm that advocates against medical transition for minors, praised the report on social media Thursday morning.

“It is clearer now more than ever that we must end this misguided practice and replace it with evidence-based treatment for gender confused kids,” Goldfarb said.

According to Do No Harm’s database, which uses insurance information to identify the number of children receiving medical interventions for gender transition, nearly 14,000 minors in the United States underwent medical sex change treatments between 2019 and 2023.

The Group Behind The MCAT Said It Was Ditching DEI. Insiders Say It Lied.

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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 report from the nonprofit Do No Harm called the AAMC “the organization ruining medical education.”

In its report, Do No Harm revealed how the AAMC leveraged millions of dollars and its stature in the medical field to push DEI — embedding DEI in the medical school accreditation process, adding ideological questions to the MCAT, and approving race-based scholarships for medical schools.

More than 70 medical schools still have DEI offices, watchdog says

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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 found.

Do No Harm’s DEI tracker includes schools such as Albany Medical College, Duke University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Ohio State University College of Medicine, and Stanford University School of Medicine, among several others.

Here’s How Much The Federal Government Is Spending To Make Nurses Less White

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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 administration has sought to crack down on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The purpose of the initiative, known as the Nursing Workforce Diversity (NWP) Program, is to “increase nursing education opportunities for individuals who are from disadvantaged backgrounds (including racial and ethnic minorities underrepresented among registered nurses).” It is administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency of HHS, and has distributed nearly $200 million in grants since 2008.