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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 Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT) is revising its diversity scholarship program to clarify that it does not give preference to applicants from certain racial backgrounds, […]

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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 Rights (OCR) opened investigations into 45 universities for alleged violations of anti-discrimination law, backing with action the words of warning provided to colleges and universities nationwide in […]

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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. Their capitulation to “queer theory” has resulted in children receiving needless, dangerous, and life-altering surgeries—all based on the lie that people can change their sex. […]

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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 Alzheimer’s and dementia is the subject of an ongoing, $262,000 project funded by the National Institutes of Health. Development of a Physical Activity Intervention to Meet the […]

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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 child sex-change surgeries in the U.S. amounted to $108,516,134, of which $18,476,978 were submitted to Medicaid, including traditional Medicaid and managed Medicaid, according to data from medical watchdog Do […]

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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 Pennsylvania has not. The Senate Majority Policy Committee, filled entirely with Republicans from the upper chamber, will center the issue at a hearing in Altoona […]

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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 class titled “Clinicians’ Perspectives on Mitigating Harms of Gender Affirming Care” had its CME credit withdrawn this week after the Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education raised […]

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Campus activists push for anti-Trump ‘mutual defense compact’ of major universities

A group of universities, many of which receive significant federal funding, could soon rebel against President Donald Trump’s executive orders clamping down on progressive initiatives in public education, if campus activists have their way. Members of a Rutgers University advisory board recently passed a resolution for establishing a “Mutual Defense Compact” to pool legal and policy resources of the […]