<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/arnold-schwarzenegger">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a> said he recently underwent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/medical">surgery</a> to have a pacemaker implanted, then made a joke about it.
“Last Monday, I had surgery to become a little bit more of a machine: I got a pacemaker,” he said on a new episode of his “Arnold’s Pump Club” <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/132-arnolds-pacemaker/id1680075779?i=1000650347490">podcast</a>.
“First of all, I want you to know I’m doing great! I had my surgery on Monday, and by Friday, I was already at a big environmental event with my friend and fellow fitness crusader Jane Fonda,” Schwarzenegger continued. “Nobody would ever have thought I started the week with a surgery.”
“I want to thank my whole team at the Cleveland Clinic. All of the doctors and nurses took amazing care of me and made the surgery as painless as possible,” he added.
The A-list <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">actor</a> and former Republican governor of California had undergone three previous open heart surgeries. In 1997, Schwarzenegger had his pulmonic valve and aortic valve replaced, per <a href="https://people.com/arnold-schwarzenegger-76-underwent-surgery-for-a-pacemaker-8619970">People</a>. He had both of those new parts replaced with subsequent surgeries in 2018 and 2020. The scar tissue has caused him to have an irregular heartbeat, he said.
“I stayed in touch with my medical team and visited in person at least once a year to get a full check-up and see how my heart was doing,” the actor said. “That’s life with a genetic heart issue. But you won’t hear me complaining.”
Schwarzenegger said he’s especially concerned about keeping close communication with his medical team because his mother died in 1998 after not getting valve replacement surgery.
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“I went in for my normal checkup at the beginning of March on my way to the Arnold Sports Festival, and they did a full series of tests,” the “Terminator” star revealed. “I told them I’d stop in Cleveland on my way home from the UK, and we’d do it. Monday, I went under and got my new machine part installed,” he said. “Like I said, by Friday, I was out doing my normal environmental work, and nobody knew anything.” 
The actor also discussed how, in Austrian culture, people don&#8217;t always talk about personal details such as medical challenges. He hopes his candid conversations will inspire podcast listeners to take action themselves. 
“I could have kept it a secret. But I know that we have more than 750,000 subscribers now — the village is a city now — and a lot of you are probably dealing with your own health challenges,” he said. “I want you to know you aren’t alone. And if you’re putting something off out of fear, I hope I inspire you to listen to your doctors and take care of yourself.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger Reveals Major Health News: ‘Became A Little More Of A Machine’

Arnold Schwarzenegger Reveals Major Health News: 'Became A Little More Of A Machine'

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You may have seen this week that Oprah was back on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oprah-insists-obesity-is-a-disease-in-new-doc-touting-ozempic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">primetime</a> television. 
She hosted a special on Monday called &#8220;Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution.&#8221; Really, it was more of an infomercial for drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy, which millions of Americans are taking to lose weight.
Previously, I&#8217;ve <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshShow/status/1661507373851131909" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gone into</a> the various side-effects of these drugs. Ozempic, for example, can potentially <a href="https://www.ozempic.com/important-safety-information.html#:~:text=It%20is%20not%20known%20if%20Ozempic%C2%AE%20will%20cause%20thyroid,type%202%20(MEN%202)." target="_blank" rel="noopener">cause</a> thyroid tumors, cancer, and projectile vomiting. Maybe even more alarming is that we also don&#8217;t really understand how these drugs work. Ozempic essentially tricks the pancreas into releasing more insulin. In turn, Ozempic&#8217;s artificially created hormones, &#8220;appear to actually bind to receptors on neurons in several parts of the brain,&#8221; <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/05/ozempic-addictive-behavior-drinking-smoking/674098/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a biologists quoted last year by The Atlantic. What do these hormones do when they bind to receptors in the brain? Apparently, they reduce people&#8217;s urge not simply to eat, but also to shop, and to engage in a range of other compulsive behaviors. If that&#8217;s true, no scientist in the world has any idea why it&#8217;s happening, or what other modifications this drug might be making to the brain. 
As if to prove that point, as recently as this month, the Atlantic published a follow-up piece <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/03/ozempic-glp1-weight-loss-brain-gut/677645/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">entitled</a>, &#8220;The Science Behind Ozempic Was Wrong.&#8221;
It all sounds very much like an elixir, a wonder-drug that can magically solve all of your problems. But if you&#8217;re the cynical type — or if you just paid any attention at all to big pharma over the past few years — you might have some questions. These are the questions that Oprah&#8217;s infomercial on Monday was intended to address. And to be fair, some of the side effects did come up; one woman in the special said that she had to stop taking one of these weight-loss drugs due to the nausea symptoms, for example.
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But by and large, this was a puff-piece that centered on a lie. It&#8217;s a lie that Oprah repeated several times, and that every television medical expert in this country repeats as well. It&#8217;s the claim that obesity is a &#8220;disease,&#8221; rather than a symptom of poor life choices. Watch:
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Oprah uses this idea that obesity is a &#8220;disease&#8221; to justify &#8220;treating&#8221; it with drugs instead of diet and exercise. This is an idea that, if you listen to medical experts, is something you&#8217;re not supposed to question. As you just heard from that CBS doctor: &#8220;It&#8217;s a chronic disease! Go to the C.D.C. website! Everybody will tell you the same thing! It&#8217;s just like asthma or diabetes!&#8221; And then everyone nods around the desk.
Except, obesity is nothing like asthma or diabetes, actually. People with obesity can cure themselves. That&#8217;s true in literally every case of obesity. You can lock someone in a room and feed them 1,000 calories of fruit every day, and they will be cured with one-hundred percent certainty. All you have to do is eat a healthy diet, and you&#8217;re cured. You can&#8217;t say the same for everyone with asthma or diabetes (at least not Type 1 diabetes). And if obesity is a disease, you’d need to explain why almost nobody in the country had this “disease” in the 1930s. And why nobody in Ethiopia has it today.
There seems to be a very curious correlation here. The “disease” of obesity only takes hold in places where people eat a lot of food and don’t get a lot of exercise. 
They say correlation isn’t causation, but I think in this case the causation is pretty clear. This is such an obvious, self-evident point that it made me wonder: When exactly did medical experts suddenly decide that obesity is a &#8220;disease,&#8221; and why did they do it? What definition were they using, exactly?
It turns out that the esteemed medical journal The Lancet has already answered this question. Back in 2013, the American Medical Association simply decided to arbitrarily classify obesity as a disease, even though they admitted that it didn&#8217;t meet the scientific definition of a disease. 
As <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370%2823%2900139-6/fulltext" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Lancet</a> notes: 
<blockquote>A disease, by definition, needs to have characteristic symptoms and signs, and even though excess [body fat] is a characteristic sign, there are no symptoms that are unique to obesity. &#8230; The American Medical Association (AMA) applied a different approach to this conundrum in 2013. Instead of trying to determine whether obesity fits specific definitions of disease, the AMA used a utilitarian approach to determine whether the recognition of obesity as a disease would have a positive impact on the individual patient, the healthcare system, and the wider society.</blockquote>
In other words, they realized that obesity doesn&#8217;t meet the definition of a disease, because there are no unique symptoms that only obese people suffer from. But they just decided to call it a disease anyway, to raise awareness (otherwise known as, to sell more medications). That&#8217;s what one of the top medical journals in the world is admitting. And by the way, it wasn&#8217;t just the AMA that took this approach. The Lancet <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370%2823%2900139-6/fulltext" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continues</a>: 
<blockquote>In the U.K., the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) recognised obesity as a disease in 2019. The main argument of RCP and those in favour of this recognition is that, unless obesity is defined as a disease, the funding for effective treatment options will be inadequate to stop its increasing prevalence and the health and socioeconomic costs associated with it.</blockquote>
This is almost too absurd to be real. But it is real. Leading medical associations all over the world decided to lie about obesity being a &#8220;disease,&#8221; and they admitted it out loud, and everyone just went along with it. We&#8217;re still seeing this today, of course, with nonsense like &#8220;Long COVID.&#8221; But with obesity, they just came out and told us they were lying. And no one saw a problem with it.
Take for example this remarkable clip from 2013, which is the year the AMA decided to just invent the idea that obesity is a disease. Watch as Charlie Rose asks the medical expert about this. You can tell Rose is a little confused as to why the AMA has suddenly made this decision out of nowhere. What &#8220;science&#8221; changed all of a sudden, Rose wanted to know, that explains why the AMA abruptly decided to label obesity as a disease? 
Watch how the in-house medical expert responds:
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It&#8217;s just one non-answer and non-sequitur after another. &#8220;It&#8217;s a disease because it hurts your body!&#8221; exclaims the T.V. doctor. But that&#8217;s not what a disease is. Shooting yourself in the foot would hurt your body, too. That doesn&#8217;t mean that shooting yourself in the foot is a disease. 
Drowning yourself in the river will hurt your body. But when they pull your corpse out of the water they aren’t going to say, “Wow, it looks like he died from the drowning disease.” It doesn’t make sense. So when Charlie Rose puts some more mild pressure on this guy, he just says, well, the AMA overwhelmingly agrees with me. So shut up and accept the fact that obesity is a disease. Science commands it. You don&#8217;t get to ask questions.
It&#8217;s not hard to see what&#8217;s going on here. The point is to medicalize the human condition and remove human agency by turning all vice into an illness. And in the process, big pharma makes a lot of money. It&#8217;s less clear why exactly anyone should take Oprah seriously concerning this topic. Back in December, Oprah <a href="https://people.com/oprah-winfrey-reveals-weight-loss-medication-exclusive-8414552" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disclosed</a> that she has been taking a nonspecific weight-loss medication herself. More recently, just weeks before this primetime infomercial aired, Oprah <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/03/01/1235100405/after-nearly-a-decade-oprah-winfrey-is-set-to-depart-the-board-of-weightwatchers#:~:text=Oprah%20Winfrey%20plans%20on%20leaving,next%20shareholder%20meeting%20in%20May." target="_blank" rel="noopener">stepped aside</a> from her role on the board of Weight Watchers this month, claiming it could present a conflict of interest.
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In reality, the conflict is so obvious and so significant, that it completely undercuts the integrity of Oprah&#8217;s special, no matter what she does. Last year, Weight Watchers <a href="https://corporate.ww.com/news/news-details/2023/WW-International-Inc.-Completes-Acquisition-of-Sequence/default.aspx#:~:text=(NASDAQ%3A%20WW)%20(%E2%80%9C,specializing%20in%20chronic%20weight%20management." target="_blank" rel="noopener">purchased</a> a tele-health startup called Sequence that connects customers with doctors who are ready and willing to prescribe Ozempic. Weight Watchers realized that its model of preaching personal willpower and self-control was going out of style, so in a last-ditch effort to save the company, they started <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/14/business/weightwatchers-ozempic-weight-loss/index.html#:~:text=The%20support%20program%20is%20included,care%20physician%20if%20they%20prefer." target="_blank" rel="noopener">selling</a> $99-a-month subscriptions to connect their customers with these weight-loss drugs. Oprah was on the board of Weight Watchers during that period.
Given that background, it&#8217;s hard to be impressed with the fact that Oprah left Weight Watchers&#8217; board *right before* airing a special that stands to benefit both Weight Watchers and their new partners in big pharma. This would be a little like Hunter Biden suddenly leaving his extremely well-paying job on the board of a Ukrainian oil company, a few days before flying Joe Biden into Kiev on a private jet to fire the attorney general looking into the oil company. It doesn&#8217;t really look good, under any circumstances.
But the possibility that Oprah is a corrupt saleswoman isn&#8217;t really the story here. Everyone knew that already. The fact that virtually every medical expert in the country has been lying to you about obesity is the story. It&#8217;s not a disease. It&#8217;s not a chronic disorder that only some miracle drug can fix. That whole idea is a scam — one that the AMA deliberately started spreading more than a decade ago. And everything we&#8217;ve heard from the medical community since — including this transparent, cringeworthy Oprah infomercial this week — has been designed to perpetuate that scam. They want you to believe you don&#8217;t have any agency over your body or your life, so they can sell you a supply of drugs that cost $1,000 a month. Don&#8217;t fall for it.

Oprah Winfrey

Virtually Every Medical Expert Is Lying To You About Obesity. Here’s The Proof.

Virtually Every Medical Expert Is Lying To You About Obesity. Here's The Proof.

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Matt Walsh

Obesity

Opinion

Overweight

Readers Pass

Billionaire entrepreneur and X owner Elon Musk tried several times to explain the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dei-could-get-you-killed-in-the-operating-room" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inherent risks</a> of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in medicine to Don Lemon, but the former CNN anchor just didn&#8217;t get it.
Musk argued that forcing DEI could potentially lead to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dei-puts-the-lives-of-your-loved-ones-at-risk-elon-musk-other-prominent-voices-respond-to-ben-shapiro-investigation-into-dei-in-medicine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lowered standards</a> for medical school and board certification exams — and said that if standards were lowered, the end result was likely to be more people dying because the care they were receiving was substandard.
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Elon Musk tries to explain how lowering the standards for doctors could result in more deaths. 
Don Lemon is unable to grasp the concept.
This entire exchange is incredible. <a href="https://t.co/QJ3efuvVAb">pic.twitter.com/QJ3efuvVAb</a>
&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1769727932161728681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I believe that if we lower the standards for what it takes to become a doctor —&#8221; Musk began.
&#8220;If we lower the standards,&#8221; Lemon interrupted. &#8220;Do you believe people are dying because the standards are being lowered?&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think that it&#8217;s yet an issue, but it could become an issue,&#8221; Musk replied.
&#8220;Ok, but the actual evidence in history shows the exact opposite,&#8221; Lemon claimed, although he did not provide any such evidence. Instead he argued that DEI was needed because of the racism inherent the medical system.
&#8220;If you look at how minorities are treated by the medical system, most doctors — most doctors now are white, and there are lots of mistakes in medicine,&#8221; Lemon continued, saying that he did not understand Musk&#8217;s logic.
Musk replied with an example, saying that if standards were lowered, surgeons who were not qualified under the previous — higher — standards might be able to pass their board certification exams. That, he explained, was likely to result in a lower standard of care at best — and, at worst, patients dying.
&#8220;The probability that someone will die, I think at some point, is high,&#8221; he said.
Lemon said he understood that, but that it was simply a &#8220;hypothetical&#8221; situation. &#8220;That doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s happening.&#8221;
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t say it was happening,&#8221; Musk shot back.
&#8220;You didn&#8217;t say it was happening,&#8221; Lemon repeated.
Musk shrugged: &#8220;I said it will. I said if we lower standards, people will die.&#8221;
Lemon, visibly frustrated, asked why Musk would &#8220;put something out there&#8221; if it had not yet happened.
&#8220;Because I don&#8217;t want it to happen,&#8221; Musk pushed back.
Lemon pivoted back to his claims of racial discrimination in medicine, noting that the majority of American doctors are white and only 5% are black.
&#8220;If the majority of doctors are white, are you saying that — and there are still these inequities, right? And people still — there are still mistakes. Are you blaming DEI for that?&#8221; Lemon asked.
&#8220;No,&#8221; Musk said, repeating again that he was only predicting the logical outcome if standards were lowered to accommodate DEI initiatives. &#8220;More people will die than if we don&#8217;t lower the standards. Therefore we should not lower the standards.&#8221;
Lemon tried once more, asking Musk whether he believed that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-posts-shocking-thread-revealing-dei-at-work-in-medicine-even-if-doctors-injure-patients-they-might-still-be-protected" target="_blank" rel="noopener">standards would be lowered</a> for minority doctors or for women.
&#8220;That&#8217;s what that article suggested, yes,&#8221; Musk replied. &#8220;At Duke University.&#8221;
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Elon Musk of RPA attends the Conference European Jewish

Elon Musk Explains How DEI Hurts Medicine — Several Times: Don Lemon Still Doesn’t Get It

Elon Musk Explains How DEI Hurts Medicine — Several Times: Don Lemon Still Doesn't Get It

Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI)

Don Lemon

Elon Musk

medical school

Daily Wire host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1322-the-secret-history-of-the-evil-organization-that-pushed-gender-madness-into-the-mainstream-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Walsh</a> posted an in-depth exposé Wednesday on the troubling past of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), a medical organization that creates the widely accepted “Standards of Care” for so-called transgender medicine.
Walsh revealed WPATH’s “sordid” history after the research group Environmental Progress analyzed hundreds of pages of internal posts and videos obtained by its founder, journalist Michael Shellenberger. The group’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leaked-files-from-transgender-medical-org-show-medical-malpractice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">findings on WPATH</a>, which were unveiled in an <a href="https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1764799914918490287" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X thread</a> by Shellenberger earlier this week, show members of the trans medical organization discussing essentially experimenting on young people.
“WPATH — the organization that creates the widely accepted Standards of Care for ‘trans medicine’ — was a radical cult from the very beginning,” Walsh wrote.
“WPATH’s origin story traces back to a gender-confused, new-age, drug-addicted, lesbian rich kid named Rita Erickson, her prolific nudist friend, Zelda Suplee, and their Erickson Educational Foundation (EEF),” the Daily Wire host added.
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1/🧵WPATH — the organization that creates the widely accepted Standards of Care for “trans medicine” — was a radical cult from the very beginning. Watch my full exposé into their sordid &amp; untold history: <a href="https://t.co/59knoR0lYP">https://t.co/59knoR0lYP</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1765504191408042181?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Walsh dives into the troubling history of how EEF helped “fund the people &amp; organizations that became WPATH,” people such as Dr. Harry Benjamin, Dr. John Money, and Dr. Anne Lawrence. Later in his thread, Walsh reveals troubling details of each of these doctors and their practices.
Benjamin supported “vaginoplasties” to create fake vaginas on males, despite admitting that the procedure really creates “wounds” which could degrade and become “obliterated,” Walsh said. Money meanwhile encouraged twin boys, one of whom he was pushing to “transition,” to inspect each other’s genitals and engage in behavior resembling sexual intercourse, according to Walsh. One of the boys would later commit suicide and the other died of a drug overdose.
Lawrence, a man, “admits to having autogynephilia, a paraphilia where he is aroused by thinking of himself as a woman,” Walsh said. Lawrence also resigned from a hospital after he performed a genital exam on an unconscious woman, according to an incident report. Even after the incident, Lawrence remained active in WPATH’s “Standards of Care.”
“It’s time for the medical profession to do what it should have done long ago, and shut down these con artists before they hurt anyone else,” the Daily Wire host added.
WPATH — as recently as this year — acknowledged its beginning with the EEF and its connection to Benjamin. The Biden administration has also <a href="https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/biden-admin-supports-taxpayers-funding-gender-changes-for-minors-letter-reveals-secretary-of-health-and-human-services-xavier-becerra" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cited</a> WPATH’s “Standards of Care” in its defense of gender surgeries on children and its support of using taxpayer dollars to pay for the life-altering procedures on minors.

Matt Walsh Drops Exposé On ‘Sordid’ History Of WPATH, The Widely Accepted Trans Medical Org

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/madonna">Madonna</a> said she thinks she heard the voice of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/god">God</a> during a serious <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/medical">medical event</a> she had last summer.
The 65-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">recording artist</a> revealed the “first word” she said after experiencing a “near-death experience” and waking up from a four-day medically induced coma.
&#8220;This show every night is not really so hard on me physically. It&#8217;s hard on me emotionally because I&#8217;m really telling you the story of my life. My heart is on my sleeve,&#8221; she said from the stage of a Los Angeles stop on her Celebration Tour this week, per <a href="https://people.com/madonna-reveals-first-word-waking-up-coma-los-angeles-celebration-tour-8604667">People</a>. &#8220;I&#8217;ve fallen off a lot of horses and broken a lot of bones &#8230; but nothing can stop me.&#8221;
The singer also brought up her time in the hospital.
&#8220;I&#8217;m pretty sure that was God saying to me, &#8216;Do you want to come? Want to come up with me? [I said] no,'&#8221; Madonna added, which made the audience break into a round of laughter.
The “Material Girl” singer also related a conversation she had with her manager, Guy Oseary, about what would happen after she left the hospital.
&#8220;He said, &#8216;Well, when do you think you want to go back on tour?&#8217; I took the oxygen out of my nose. I looked at him, and I said, &#8216;In two f****ing months!&#8221; she said. &#8220;I just said it. Sometimes you just have to say sh** [and] put it out in the universe. And it happens.&#8221;
Madonna reportedly had to be revived with Narcan and spent several days in the ICU as the result of a serious bacterial infection in June 2023. The event forced her to postpone her concert tour, which she has since resumed. The Grammy Award-winner revealed more about her time in the hospital.
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&#8220;I would call in every other day and ask [my doctor] why I didn&#8217;t have any energy, when was my energy going to come back? When was I going to feel like myself again? When can I go on tour again?&#8221; she said. &#8220;All he would say is, &#8216;Go outside in the sun&#8217; &#8230; It was so hard for me to walk from my house to the backyard and sit in the sun. I know that sounds insane, but it was difficult.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s a strange thing to finally not feel like I was in control, and that was my lesson: to let go,&#8221; she added.

Madonna

Madonna ‘Pretty Sure’ God Spoke To Her During ‘Near-Death Experience’

Madonna 'Pretty Sure' God Spoke To Her During 'Near-Death Experience'

California

Los Angeles

Music

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kate-middleton">Kate Middleton</a>, wife of the heir apparent to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-k">British</a> throne, was spotted in public for the first time since having abdominal <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/medical">surgery</a> as the public continues to speculate on her condition.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/royal-family">Princess of Wales</a> was seen riding in a car with her mother, Carole Middleton, near Windsor Castle on Monday. The unauthorized photo started making the rounds online as wild rumors about the princess persist. Kate has not been seen in public since Christmas Day.
In mid-January, Kensington Palace released a statement saying Kate had underwent an unspecified abdominal surgery and would be taking a break from public duties to recover until after Easter. Reps for the British royal did not elaborate on the duchess’ condition other than to say it was not cancer-related. 
The palace announced Kate was released from the hospital on January 29, saying she would continue her recovery at home.
Despite the updates, many onlookers wondered if Kate was seriously injured or if she had undergone cosmetic surgery. These speculations persisted after Prince William did not attend the memorial service for his godfather, the late King Constantine of Greece, in February. The Prince of Wales blamed his absence on “a personal matter.”
“We were very clear from the outset that the Princess of Wales was out until after Easter and Kensington Palace would only be providing updates when something was significant,” a rep for the Princess of Wales said in a late February statement, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/palace-hits-back-at-rumors-and-conspiracy-theories-around-kate-middletons-absence">reported</a>. 
This was almost identical to a similar statement released in January. “The Princess of Wales appreciates the interest this statement will generate,” the previous statement said. “She hopes that the public will understand her desire to maintain as much normality for her children as possible; and her wish that her personal medical information remains private.”
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It continued, “Kensington Palace will, therefore, only provide updates on Her Royal Highness’ progress when there is significant new information to share.” 
The Princess of Wales’ medical procedure coincided with King Charles III undergoing prostate surgery, which led to him receiving a cancer diagnosis. He is also taking a break from public duties as he proceeds with cancer treatments. 
Katie Jerkovich contributed to this report.

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What exactly does diversity, equity, and inclusion mean?
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is essentially Critical Race Theory boiled down to a friendlier piece of corporate boilerplate. It argues that if one demographic group is underrepresented in any particular industry or job, that must be the result of some sort of systemic discrimination or racism. Either everyone is equal in every possible way — which means, therefore, everyone should be equally represented in every industry — or everyone is unequal, which means you are a racist.
There is a halfway point between those two positions, which happens to be the truth: People of all races and all individuality differ in their genetics. They differ in their environments. They differ in their cultures. All individuals are different.
That means when you take a look at group averages, there are very few examples across all of humanity in which group averages are completely identical.
But DEI advocates assert we have to ignore that in favor of their proposition. Why?
Because DEI is a gun pointed directly at the heart of the meritocracy. The meritocracy suggests there should be objective metrics by which we succeed or fail, and the good news about meritocracy is that if you succeed, you are doing something better than someone else, which means that whatever you are doing is better for everyone else.
The DEI idea innately means that people who are unqualified are going to advance in life by dint of the fact they are considered a part of the victimized group. Why does this matter?
It occurs at universities where Asian Americans are discriminated against because they are too high-achieving in favor of people from other groups who have lower test scores.
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It takes place in the government when people completely unqualified for particular offices are appointed to those offices so as to establish some form of social justice.
And now, it’s happening in medicine — and that should frighten the living hell out of everyone because all you care about when you go to the doctor is: Is my doctor good at medicine? Is my doctor good at taking care of me and making sure I am healthy?
This is an area where meritocracy should be the only thing that counts.
Is my doctor likely to fix me, or is my doctor bad at their job and got appointed because of extraneous merits? All you care about when you get onto that surgical gurney is if the person operating on you should be good at that job.
But surgery is now being impacted by DEI. Apparently, Wake Forest Medical School is about to graduate Kychelle Del Rosario, a med student who injured a conservative patient and then bragged about it.
In March 2022, she tweeted, “I had a patient I was doing a blood draw on see my pronoun pin and laugh loudly to the staff, ‘She/Her? Well, of course it is. What other pronouns even are there? It?’ I missed his vein so he had to get stuck twice,” with a snorting emoji.
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2/ Sources tell me Wake Forest Medical School is about to graduate Kychelle Del Rosario – the med student who injured a conservative patient and bragged about it. Wake Forest allowed Rosario to lay low and take a voluntary leave of absence when this scandal broke. <a href="https://t.co/baTT9YNP6o">pic.twitter.com/baTT9YNP6o</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1762195996258267441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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That is an insane tweet. If somebody disagrees with you politically, then you make them actually suffer because you are in the position of the doctor?
University of Pennsylvania Health has hired Ewen Liu, Del Rosario&#8217;s classmate who also <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1762195998510563436" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> that it seemed “karma-tic” when Del Rosario injured the patient who mocked her pronoun pin.
The basic idea that medical error is rooted in “karma,” that you deserve it if there is a medical error upon you because you have the wrong belief system (such as saying the actual scientific fact that there are men and there are women), is a serious, serious problem.
How about an award-winning Duke Surgical resident named Vignesh Raman? At an internal DEI lecture, Raman said that his heart sinks when he has patients who watch Fox News or wear MAGA hats. He also said:
<blockquote>I think the most important thing we&#8217;ve done is really systemic changes to our recruitment process to try to recruit diverse residents to our program and then to retain and support those diverse residents after they get to our program. So part of this has involved transitioning to [a] completely holistic review process that we spoke about earlier today, abandoning all sort of metrics and screens, looking at people&#8217;s life story and what brought them into surgery, and then the other part of it is increasing the diversity of the people who read the applications because that&#8217;s an important component of ensuring that we get diverse residents into our program.</blockquote>
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5/ This is the norm in medicine. Meet award-winning Duke surgical resident Vignesh Raman. At an internal DEI lecture, Raman says his &quot;heart sinks&quot; when he has patients who watch Fox News or wear MAGA hats. Then he celebrates having a majority &quot;non-white&quot; population to treat: <a href="https://t.co/Ti58CbxMgB">pic.twitter.com/Ti58CbxMgB</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1762196003082350623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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He’s saying they are ignoring metrics in order to look at the life story of the surgeon.
Here’s a question: When you have to go in for an open-heart surgery because you have a blockage in your artery, do you ask for the surgeon&#8217;s life story? Do you care about the surgeon&#8217;s life story? Should you care about the surgeon&#8217;s life story or do you care a lot more about whether this doctor has a good track record of making sure people who require a bypass actually get the bypass they need without dying on the table?
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It is insane for surgical residencies to take a look at people based on their life story as opposed to objective metrics of success. It&#8217;s totally crazy.
Raman also <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1762196008044290252/photo/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>, “I would say, even for academic publications… I don&#8217;t want to amplify the work of white men who only collaborate with other white men.”
There go most of the modern medical advances in human history.
And by the way, that&#8217;s racism.
So, barring white men from getting into top-level surgical residencies as a corrective mechanism is now somehow good; put that pressure all the way down the system and what you&#8217;re ending up with is fewer qualified people who are entering the system and more unqualified people going to top medical schools.

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Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro posted a <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1762195994123407577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1762195996258267441%7Ctwgr%5E7c2199eef6e6d3fe189eaa493e52d9266bdb2775%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.dailywire.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D701803action%3Dedit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thread</a> on X on Monday, revealing his troubling findings of how diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) principles are being implemented by doctors, potentially putting patients at risk.
“DEI in medicine means that even if doctors injure patients, they might still be protected (even promoted). It means that top hospitals are abandoning key metrics when hiring surgeons. And it means research by whites may be disregarded. Here’s what I&#8217;ve found…” Shapiro wrote.
Shapiro began his thread by discussing Kychelle Del Rosario, a Wake Forest medical student who is getting ready to graduate from the school and potentially start a career in the medical field. Del Rosario <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10727523/Woke-student-bragged-injuring-patient-mocked-pronoun-pin-extended-leave.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made headlines</a> in 2022 after she injured a patient who laughed at her “She/Her” pronoun pin. The Wake Forest medical student posted about her actions on social media, seemingly joking about missing the vein of the patient who made fun of her pin.
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2/ Sources tell me Wake Forest Medical School is about to graduate Kychelle Del Rosario – the med student who injured a conservative patient and bragged about it. Wake Forest allowed Rosario to lay low and take a voluntary leave of absence when this scandal broke. <a href="https://t.co/baTT9YNP6o">pic.twitter.com/baTT9YNP6o</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1762195996258267441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Del Rosario was defended by fellow Wake Forest medical student Ewen Liu who said the jab was an accident, but it “seemed ‘karma-tic.’” Shapiro said that he has learned Liu was recently hired by UPenn Health where she <a href="https://www.pennmedicine.org/departments-and-centers/family-medicine-and-community-health/education-and-training/residency/current-residents/pgy1/liu-ewen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">focuses</a> on “substance use disorder, LGBTQ+ health, community medicine.”
“Both UPenn and Liu’s medical school, Wake Forest, have attempted to hide Liu’s hiring,” Shapiro wrote. “Wake Forest didn’t list Liu’s hospital in graduation materials, and UPenn doesn’t list Liu’s medical school on its website.”
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4/ Both UPenn and Liu’s medical school, Wake Forest, have attempted to hide Liu’s hiring. Wake Forest didn’t list Liu’s hospital in graduation materials, and UPenn doesn’t list Liu’s medical school on its website. <a href="https://t.co/NfjbsaAavS">pic.twitter.com/NfjbsaAavS</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1762196000943268254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The troubling example of identity politics in medicine doesn’t end with Del Rosario and Liu at Wake Forest and UPenn.
“This is the norm in medicine,” Shapiro said. “Meet award-winning Duke surgical resident Vignesh Raman. At an internal DEI lecture, Raman says his ‘heart sinks’ when he has patients who watch Fox News or wear MAGA hats. Then he celebrates having a majority ‘non-white’ population to treat.”
In the video, Raman goes on to discuss how Duke has pushed to stop hiring so many “walls of white men” following the death of George Floyd in 2020. Raman says in the video that Floyd’s death and the events surrounding it “collectively galvanized the consciousness of Duke University and certainly our department to try to do something, and recognizing there’s like centuries-long history of racism and slavery in which Duke University essentially was founded [on].”
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6/ Raman adds that post-George Floyd, Duke made a concerted effort to stop hiring so many “walls of white men.” He says the team is now &quot;abandoning &#8230; all sort[s] of metrics&quot; and adopting a &quot;completely holistic&quot; application practice in order to recruit more women and non-white… <a href="https://t.co/Jxo93giLoQ">pic.twitter.com/Jxo93giLoQ</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1762196005234024632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Even more concerning, Raman goes on to say that he and his team are &#8220;abandoning &#8230; all sort[s] of metrics” and adopting “completely holistic” application practices so Duke can bring on more women and “non-white” surgeons, Shapiro said.
“Raman also tweeted that he won’t &#8216;amplify&#8217; medical literature involving only white men – because it’s not as if white men have ever advanced medicine or anything,” Shapiro added. “Vignesh Raman is just one example of a much larger trend. The American College of Surgeons, or ACS, recently gave its 88,000 members a definition of &#8216;racism&#8217; that implies it’s impossible to be racist against white people.”
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8/ Vignesh Raman is just one example of a much larger trend. The American College of Surgeons, or ACS, recently gave its 88,000 members a definition of “racism” that implies it’s impossible to be racist against white people. <a href="https://t.co/sKOM3UvNEV">pic.twitter.com/sKOM3UvNEV</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1762196010636390688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The conservative commentator pointed out how the ACS invited speaker Madeline B. Torres to a 2021 conference where she said, &#8220;[W]hen patients see physicians who look like them, they tend to do better.&#8221; Torres also said that surgeons are receiving grants and awards based on their minority status.
At another 2021 DEI conference, this one at UPenn, a surgeon said it is “off putting” to see so many white men as surgeons.
“The doctors also state that surgery needs something like the NFL’s Rooney Rule, which requires that teams interview minority candidates,” Shapiro wrote. “But the doctors say surgery needs an expanded version that goes further and ensures that minority candidates are selected.”
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10/ This is now the prevailing view in surgical medicine. At a recent conference on DEI at UPenn, where Ewen Liu now works, one surgeon says that it&#39;s &quot;off putting&quot; that so many surgeons are white men. <a href="https://t.co/S1wIdWLfmF">pic.twitter.com/S1wIdWLfmF</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1762196015330037965?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;It’s bad enough when teachers or government bureaucrats talk like this, but valuing intersectionality over merit can literally mean life or death in surgery,&#8221; Shapiro concluded.
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12/ It’s bad enough when teachers or government bureaucrats talk like this, but valuing intersectionality over merit can literally mean life or death in surgery.
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1762196020027437241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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U.S. Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/charles-grassley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chuck Grassley</a> (R-IA) has been released from the hospital and is expected to return to work in the near future, according to a statement he made on Thursday.
&#8220;Thx for ur well wishes &amp; prayers Happy to be home I look fwd to getting back to work,&#8221; Grassley wrote on X.
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Thx for ur well wishes &amp; prayers Happy to be home I look fwd to getting back to work
&mdash; Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1748136428578476296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Grassley was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senator-grassley-90-hospitalized-with-infection" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hospitalized</a> earlier this week due to an infection, according to his office.
“Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is receiving antibiotic infusions at an area hospital to treat an infection,” his office said on Tuesday. “He is in good spirits and will return to work as soon as possible following doctors’ orders.”
Grassley, 90, was elected to the Senate in 1980 and has been re-elected seven times, including most recently in 2022.
Following the passing last year of then-Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), who was just a couple of months older than Grassley, he is now the oldest member of the U.S. Senate.
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After Grassley, the oldest members of the Senate are Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), 82; Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), 81; Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID), 80; Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD), 80; Sen. Angus King (I-ME), 79; Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), 79; Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), 77; Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), 77; Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE), 76; Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), 76; Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), 76; Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT), 76; Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), 76; and Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI), 76.

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Rapper <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/snoop-dogg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Snoop Dogg’s</a> 24-year-old daughter, Cori Broadus, said this week that she was hospitalized after suffering a &#8220;severe stroke.&#8221;
Broadus made the announcement Thursday on social media, which included photos from her hospital bed.
“I had a severe stroke this a.m. I started breaking down crying when they told me,” she wrote. “Like I’m only 24, what did I do in my past to deserve all of this.”
No details were shared about what led to her stroke or if she had an ischemic stroke, which occurs when blood clots or other particles block the blood vessels to the brain; or if she had a hemorrhagic stroke, which happens when an artery in the brain leaks blood or ruptures, according to the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/stroke/about.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CDC</a>.
Cori Broadus was diagnosed with Lupus, an autoimmune disease that targets healthy tissue and organs throughout the body, when she was only six years old.
&#8220;No one could tell me what was wrong,&#8221; <a href="https://people.com/celebrity/snoop-dogg-details-daughters-tough-battle-with-lupus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Shanté Broadus, the rapper&#8217;s wife, in 2010. &#8220;They drew tons of blood and said she has old-person cells. They gave her all kinds of [medication]. But she went downhill.”
“She’s the toughest little thing I’ve ever met,” Snoop Dogg, whose real name is Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., also said at the time. “She’s on the honor roll, playing volleyball and softball, living life. She has all this joy. In the beginning lupus was winning. But now Cori is.”
In 2021, Cori Broadus revealed that she had experienced serious mental health struggles, including a suicide attempt, stemming from her illness.
Then 21 at the time, she said that she had become frustrated by comparing her life to others and feeling as though her struggles were not important to others, according to <a href="https://people.com/music/snoop-dogg-daughter-cori-broadus-mental-health-suicide-attempt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">People</a>.
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&#8220;Just because my dad is who he is doesn&#8217;t mean I don&#8217;t get sad, that doesn&#8217;t mean that I don&#8217;t want things or that I don&#8217;t feel a way. I don&#8217;t know how to explain it,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve always been sad. I&#8217;ve always been depressed. I feel like I&#8217;ve been through a lot.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;ve been sick, I am sick. It&#8217;s a lot. Body hurting, you&#8217;re just in pain, and you&#8217;re so young you&#8217;re like, &#8216;What is happening to me? What is going on?'&#8221; she continued. &#8220;And then you look at your brothers and your other family members like &#8216;Why me?&#8217; Not saying I wish they had it, but why me? Why am I going through this? Why did God choose me?&#8221;

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Top pediatricians who promote <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gender ideology</a> previously admitted that puberty blockers are not as reversible as many claim, newly surfaced videos show.
The videos come from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health&#8217;s (WPATH) educational sessions held back in September 2022, <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/01/16/child-sex-changes-pediatric-puberty-hormones/">according</a> to the Daily Caller News Foundation, which obtained the clips.
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On Puberty Blockers being more invasive than portrayed in media:
“Oh puberty blockers are just reversible and it’s a very noninvasive treatment,’ I would say it’s more invasive than often times the media makes it out to be or other people.” <a href="https://t.co/2yXXysSvzH">pic.twitter.com/2yXXysSvzH</a>
&mdash; Meg Brock (@MegEBrock) <a href="https://twitter.com/MegEBrock/status/1747283257626939485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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On calcium deficiency: 
&quot;The puberty blockers slow that calcium accrual back into the bones quite a bit, back to the prepubertal level.&quot; 
&quot;This is a concern that not everybody is getting their piggy bank completely filled up with calcium.” <a href="https://t.co/b8DBNHOet2">pic.twitter.com/b8DBNHOet2</a>
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WPATH issues Standards of Care that are seen as the gold standard for transgender medical treatment. The Standards recommend that children be put on puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and receive gender surgery. The filmed educational sessions <a href="https://www.wpath.org/gei/GEI-Certification" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were part</a> of an optional transgender medical certification program for WPATH-licensed clinicians.
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One doctor voiced concerns with how &#8220;reversible&#8221; puberty blockers really are — Dr. Scott Leibowitz, <a href="https://www.wpath.org/about/EC-BOD" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who is</a> a WPATH board member and <a href="https://www.wpath.org/media/cms/Documents/SOC%20v8/SOC8%20Full%20Contributor%20List%20-%20FINAL%20UPDATED%202222.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">helped lead</a> the development of the adolescent chapter of the WPATH Standards of Care.
“I think when we just say, ‘Oh puberty blockers are just reversible and it’s a very noninvasive treatment,’ I would say it’s more invasive than often times the media makes it out to be or other people,” Leibowitz said.
“There’s challenges with puberty suppression that we have to acknowledge and that’s why it’s ‘reversible asterisks,’” Leibowitz said. “One cannot be on puberty suppression endlessly. You get to a place where physiologically, we need hormones.”
Leibowitz added that evidence is only one consideration in treating trans-identifying people. Other concerns are &#8220;ethics&#8221; and &#8220;justice for trans people.&#8221;
&#8220;We don’t rely on evidence for every single treatment we do in medicine,” Leibowitz said.
In another one of the educational sessions, Dr. Daniel Metzger, a WPATH-certified pediatric endocrinologist, describes how puberty blockers can prevent children from building up the calcium they need in their bones, potentially putting them at risk for osteoporosis.
“Normally puberty is the time of putting the calcium into your piggy bank. This is how I explain it to families. You’ve got a piggy bank for your calcium and you better get it all in by 25 because at 25 you’re going to live off that piggy bank,” Metzger said.
He continued, “The puberty blockers slow that calcium accrual back into the bones quite a bit, back to the prepubertal level. We do know that even if you look at people now age 22, if you’ve done all of this and you’ve gone off and then you go back on the hormones that you want to have, you have not caught up by age 22. Which is about the time you need to fill up your piggy bank. This is a concern that not everybody is getting their piggy bank completely filled up with calcium.”
Metzger also said more research is needed on how puberty blockers affect children&#8217;s brains.
“Obviously teenagers, their brains are changing. They’re unwiring, they’re rewiring. And if we’ve started one kid unwiring and half rewiring, and then we changed their puberty the other way and we’re unwiring, people have been trying to figure out what this does for kids’ brains,” said Metzger.
“They seem to do reasonably the same as their friends, but we’re not looking at their IQ and their learning ability and lots of other things,” the physician said.
Metzger also said that for boys, puberty blockers can prevent enough genital tissue from growing and cause problems later when they want to get a vaginoplasty, but there is not enough tissue.
The effects of puberty blockers on fertility also need more research, Metzger admitted. Puberty blockers stop boys from developing sperm, and for girls, it is unknown whether girls in early puberty would have eggs mature enough to preserve for fertility before they are put on puberty blockers.
“Kids have zero idea about their fertility,” he said.
Both puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones come with serious health risks. Puberty blockers can <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gender-dysphoria/in-depth/pubertal-blockers/art-20459075">affect</a> bone growth and density and cause sexual dysfunction, voice damage, and infertility, among other issues. Cross-sex hormones can <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-young-people-in-u-s-have-nearly-doubled-recently-report-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cause</a> infertility, deadly blood clots, heart attacks, increased cancer risks of the breasts and ovaries, liver dysfunction, worsening psychological illness, and other serious conditions.
Meanwhile, it is more popular than ever for youth to adopt new gender identities. An estimated 300,000 minors aged 13 to 17 <a href="https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/transgender-estimate-press-release/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identified</a> as transgender as of last year, and that number has only continued to grow.

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The National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT) was hit with a <a href="https://donoharmmedicine.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024.01.10-Doc-1-Verified-Complaint.pdf">lawsuit</a> from Do No Harm, an organization that opposes the politicization of medicine, over a scholarship program that discriminates against white people.
The suit from <a href="https://donoharmmedicine.org/">Do No Harm</a>, filed this week, <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/no-harm-sues-national-association-210900136.html">alleges</a> that the association violated federal law by barring white applicants from a “diversity scholarship” set up to award $1,250 to four students studying to become emergency medical technicians. The scholarship has been <a href="https://www.naemt.org/initiatives/diversity-and-inclusion/diversity-scholarships">removed</a> from the organization’s website following the lawsuit’s filing.
&#8220;The National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians is given the important responsibility of training America&#8217;s first responders,&#8221; said Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, Chairman of Do No Harm.&#8221;Like all aspects of healthcare, training the best and brightest to provide the best care for patients should be the primary concern of all medical organizations, not the skin color of an EMT.”
The suit specifically <a href="https://donoharmmedicine.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024.01.10-Doc-1-Verified-Complaint.pdf">contends</a> that since the scholarship is legally designated as a contract, barring white students on the basis of their race violates the Civil Rights Act of 1866, with Do No Harm representing an anonymous white student who is about to start classes to become an EMT.
The suit from Do No Harm, which has grown to over 6,000 members since launching in April 2022, <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/no-harm-sues-national-association-210900136.html">seeks</a> a “permanent injunction barring NAEMT from continuing the program,” as well as a “a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction barring NAEMT from closing the application period, selecting scholarship recipients, or enforcing the racially discriminatory eligibility criteria.”
The association declined to comment on the lawsuit, telling The Daily Wire it can &#8220;not comment on legal matters.”
The lawsuit comes as institutions across America, ranging from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/apple-entrepreneur-camp-program-bars-applicants-based-on-race">multi-billion dollar corporations</a> to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvards-diversity-hire-president-finally-resigns-is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-dei">Ivy League universities</a>, embrace the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda, often attempting to justify acts of racial discrimination.
The DEI agenda has gained currency in the health field under the banner of “health equity,” which applies the doctrines of Critical Race Theory to the medical field.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/national-institutes-of-health-to-spend-1-4-million-for-anti-racist-healing-in-nature-study">revealed</a> that the National Institutes of Health even allocated more than a million taxpayer dollars to a study on “anti-racist healing in nature,” which offered free trips to the California redwoods as part of a “health equity” initiative. The study alleged that nature can be “unwelcoming, unsafe, or triggering for people of color,” and only allowed those who identify as “a person from the latine/x/o, Black, Pacific Islander, and/or Filipinx community” to participate in the government-funded study.
Meanwhile, a major journal on health policy and research held a “<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/health/2022/11/01/healthy-equity-fellowship-health-journal-discriminates-against-white-applicants/">health equity</a>” fellowship that barred white applicants on the basis of their race, and major universities hold “anti-racism” trainings that embrace the doctrines of Critical Race Theorists like Robin DiAngelo.
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Dr. Stanley Goldfarb <a href="https://twitter.com/one1iron?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@one1iron</a> of <a href="https://twitter.com/donoharm?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@donoharm</a> warned against the approach:
“Health equity means the way to overcome the oppression in the health arena is to guarantee equal outcomes between the oppressor class, primarily white males, and the oppressed class, primarily blacks.”
&mdash; Spencer Lindquist 🇺🇸 (@SpencerLndqst) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1732104736545833028?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Do No Harm has taken a stand against efforts to embed Critical Race Theory into the health field, seeking to “protect healthcare from the disastrous consequences of identity politics.”
Goldfarb reaffirmed the importance of the organization’s suit against NAEMT, contending that “First responders and all medical professionals should be given opportunities, training, and scholarships on the basis of merit.&#8221;

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