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EXCLUSIVE: Trans-Industrial Complex Trains New Wave Of Radical Doctors Right Under Trump Admin’s Nose

September 19, 2025/in Culture War, Elections, Healthcare, Marxism, Must Read, News, Policy, Politics, Queers and pedophiles, Regulation, Social Issues, Socialism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Daily Caller

President Trump’s crackdown on gender ideology hasn’t stopped a major medical organization from continuing to promote child sex changes through a multi-million dollar transgender affirming training program offered by its philanthropic arm, public records show.

The American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation launched an LGBTQ medical fellowship in 2021 that offers up to $750,000 grants to academic medical centers to provide “affirming” medical education that trains young doctors to become child sex-change advocates, initiate cross-sex hormones and care for sex-change surgical patients, records show. Top academic medical centers across the country, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Harvard Medical School, Vanderbilt University and Mount Sinai, have partnered with the AMA Foundation to develop LGBTQ fellowships and provide doctors with “experiential learning” opportunities such as following a transgender patient through the sex-change surgery process, providing medical interventions at a child sex-change clinic and learning to provide cross-sex hormones to gender-confused teenagers.

“Knowing this fellowship exists gave me hope.”

The Harvard Medical School–Fenway Health LGBTQIA+ Health Fellowship Program —supported by the AMA Foundation—is shaping the future of LGBTQIA+ care. pic.twitter.com/ysgEIL3rWP

— AMA Foundation (@AMAFound) June 20, 2025

On Sept. 10, 2025, Harvard Medical School listed on its LGBTQ+ fellowship program website that participating doctors had a rotation in “pediatric and adolescent transgender health care” at Boston Children’s Gender Multispecialty Service. However, this description was removed after the DCNF reached out to the LGBTQ fellowship program leadership for comment and did not receive a response.

“The idea that this is normal treatment — that any child that feels confused about their gender ought to get put on these pathways and ought to get affirmed, and ought to get hormones and puberty blockers, and ultimately, surgical procedures — it’s really incredibly dangerous,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, board chairman of Do No Harm told the DCNF.

In June 2025 the AMA Foundation awarded Dr. Elle Lett, a man who identifies as a “transgender woman,” the 2025 Excellence in LGBTQ Health Award for his work on “health equity for queer and trans people of color.”

“This award demonstrates that a career focused on supporting the excluding and marginalized populations in our society through advocacy, research, and organizing is a viable and lauded path for the next generation of physicians,” the AMA foundation said in a Sept. 9 X post.

Additionally, the AMA Foundation awarded a grant to Galaei, a Philadelphia based organization that provides “services, support and advocacy for all Queer, Trans, Indigenous and People of Color (QTBIPOC) communities,” in honor of Dr. Lett, according to its website.

The AMA did not provide the DCNF with a comment. The AMA Foundation did not respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment.

Excellence in Medicine Feature: Elle Lett, MD, PhD, MA, received the 2025 Excellence in LGBTQ Health Award.

Dr. Lett is a physician and statistician-epidemiologist whose work focuses on advancing health equity for queer and trans people of color in the United States. pic.twitter.com/xm884UXrPq

— AMA Foundation (@AMAFound) September 9, 2025

Promoting ‘Junk Science’

The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Harvard Medical School and Vanderbilt University, were listed as being actively funded through the AMA Foundation LGBTQ Fellowship program in July 2025 on an archived webpage that has been removed from the AMA Foundation website. The Harvard Medical School, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vanderbilt University LGBTQ programs are recruiting doctors for a fellowship program beginning in July 1, 2026, according to their websites.

The inaugural four-year fellowship grant was awarded to the University of Wisconsin-Madison and as part of their clinical rotation fellows provided medical services at the UW Health‘s pediatric sex-change clinic. The currently clinic uses standards created by the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH), which have been called “junk science” by the Trump administration, to provide puberty blockers and cross sex hormones’ to children, according to its website.

“Our team offers a full range of care and support based on the needs of the child and family. This ranges from observation, advocacy, and guidance to puberty suppression and gender-affirming hormone therapy,” states the UW Health website.

UW LGBTQ+ Health Fellowship Program Learning Objectives infographic

Dr. Brittany Allen, co-medical director of the UW Health’s pediatric gender clinic, described herself as the “pediatrics champion” of the inaugural 2021 LGBTQ+ fellowship and helped develop its curriculum. Allen’s emails revealed the learning objectives for LGBTQ fellowship participants had a significant focus on child sex-changes.

Doctors were expected to identify when gender-confused children were candidates for puberty blockers, be aware of the fertility implications of puberty blockers and understand “best practices and advocacy within school settings.” Allen is an influential child sex change activist and of one of four American Academy of Pediatrics doctors that helped pressure WPATH to remove sex-change surgery age limits from clinical guidance. The Vanderbilt University Medical Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW Health and Allen did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s requests for comment.

Health inequities/Intersectionality infographic

Learning objectives from the University of Wisconsin-Madison LGBTQ+ Fellowship program.

Dismantling White Supremacy

In addition to promoting child sex changes, the LGBTQ Fellowship focuses on combatting “structural racism” in health care, according to the learning objectives obtained by the DCNF from the University of Wisconsin-Madison program. The objectives stated fellows would learn to understand how structural racism is inherent in health care, identify where they were in their “journey of becoming an anti-racist” and apply an equity lens when caring for patients.

In 2021, the AMA articulated its vision of equipping doctors to “dismantle white supremacy” and create equitable health care systems in its first strategic health equity plan which outlined how it could embed racial justice and health equity into the organization.

Diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, which have been determined to be illegal by the Supreme Court, undermine the trust between Americans and their doctors Goldfarb told the DCNF.

“The Supreme Court has decided, basically, that DEI is unfair in admissions,” Goldfarb told the DCNF.

“I think this whole agenda undermines the trust of the American people in their physicians. It also gives physicians a very false idea of what what their role should be. Their role should be to take care of the person in front of them in the best way possible, and not factor in race or anything else. But factor in what’s in the patient’s best clinical interest and look at them as an individual and not look at them as some identity that is part of an identity group,” Goldfarb stated.

The AMA has received $15,815,180 in federal funding since 2020, according to the federal Department of Health and Human Services. The AMA told the DCNF these funds have gone towards initiatives meant to improve the U.S. public health infrastructure and workforce.

President Trump signed executive orders on January 20, 2025, prohibiting the use of federal funds to promote gender ideology, the false idea that men and women can change their sex, and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives (DEI).

“We are witnessing hospitals that should be committed only to serving the sick diverting their attention to political activism.

They are spending millions on DEI bureaucracies and radical ideology interventions when these resources could be put to far better use.

They are… pic.twitter.com/JIR7JjgHvi

— Do No Harm (@donoharm) September 16, 2025

‘Multiplier Effect’

An AMA Foundation webinar discussing the fellowship program revealed its goals included training hundreds of doctors through the LGBTQ fellowship program, expanding LGBTQ medical education and cultivating LGBTQ institutional leaders. Dr. Jacqueline Bellow, a member of the AMA Foundation Fellowship Commission on LGBTQ Health, said the organization hoped developing institutional LGBTQ leaders that would have a “multiplier effect” on health care systems.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s 2021 LGBTQ Fellowship grant application, obtained by the DCNF, showed the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and UW Health planned to collectively invest more than $7 million in the LGBTQ Fellowship program, with the hope of recruiting fellows to fill positions in their programs, according to the grant application. UW Health’s Gender Services Program experienced a 60% increase in gender care medical visits from 2018 to 2020, seeing 1,732 unique sex-change patients, performing 209 surgeries and 2,162 “medical gender-affirming care encounters” in 2020, according to the grant application.

Goldfarb testified before the House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee on Sept. 16 on how throughout the country identity politics have infiltrated the practice of medicine.

“The problem could not be clearer. We are witnessing hospitals that should be committed to serving the sick diverting their attention to political activism,” stated Goldfarb. “They are spending millions on DEI bureaucracies and on so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ for children when these resources could be put to far better use expanding cancer treatment, building trauma centers, or making primary care more affordable. This is a profound betrayal of their public mission,” stated Goldfarb.

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Megan Brock

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Transgender doctors want the FBI to protect their dodgy ideology

October 5, 2022/in Culture War, Elections, Featured, Healthcare, Hot Topics, News, Policy, Politics, Science, Social Issues, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by MercatorNet - A Compass for Common Sense

Three of America’s most powerful medical groups have teamed up to demand government protection for doctors and hospitals which provide transgender medicine and surgery for children.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, and the Children’s Hospital Association have sent an open letter to US Attorney-General Merrick Garland urging him to “investigate the organizations, individuals, and entities coordinating, provoking, and carrying out bomb threats and threats of personal violence against children’s hospitals and physicians across the US.”

But that’s not all. The troika also want the government and social media companies to gag critics who spread “disinformation”.

“The attacks,” they write, “are rooted in an intentional campaign of disinformation, where a few high-profile users on social media share false and misleading information targeting individual physicians and hospitals, resulting in a rapid escalation of threats, harassment, and disruption of care across multiple jurisdictions.”

One of these “high-profile users”, investigative journalist Christopher Rufo, responded immediately. “I have a message for Attorney General Merrick Garland: you can threaten us; you can mobilize the FBI against us; you can drag us out of our homes in a pre-dawn raid. But we are not going to stop reporting on radical gender surgeries on minors.”

“Mobilizing the FBI” sounds absurd — but it’s not. The FBI, which reports to the Department of Justice and the Attorney-General, recently arrested a pro-life activist, Mark Houck, over an alleged altercation in front of a Philadelphia abortion clinic in October last year. It was an event so petty that the District Court of Philadelphia threw the case out.

The complainant went to the FBI. Houck’s wife claims that about 25 agents raided their home with guns drawn, handcuffed her husband in front of their seven children, and hauled him away. The FBI disputes her version of events and Houck has pleaded not guilty and has been freed on bail.

But the incident shows what could happen if the Attorney-General decides to take the troika’s letter seriously.

What he hasn’t taken seriously is violence against pro-lifers. That’s a real issue. An elderly pro-life volunteer was shot in Michigan last month, although she was not seriously hurt.

The activist group Catholic Vote has documented 73 incidents in which pregnancy support centers and offices of pro-life groups have been attacked and vandalized since early May.

The militant abortion rights group Jane’s Revenge’s signature message is: “If abortions aren’t safe then you aren’t either.” It has claimed responsibility for at least 18 attacks but not a single arrest has been made.

Admittedly, there have been hostile posts on social media about Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s transgender clinic after The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh exposed its activities and business practices. Staff at the Boston Children’s Hospital’s Center for Gender Surgery have been barraged with hostile messages on social media and there was one bomb threat. Perhaps these prompted the troika’s letter.

Violence must always be condemned. Anyone who threatens or attacks doctors and hospitals providing transgender medicine should be punished. But even the letter from the troika did not mention a single act of violence. No fire-bombing, no graffiti, no vandalism. Certainly no one has been shot.

What must be condemned is the violence that the billion-dollar transgender industry imposes upon American children as it pockets their cash. Mastectomies and castrations are the handiwork of deranged ideologues, not real scientists.

In science and medicine, the way to silence critics is to present clear and irrefutable evidence, not to threaten them with deplatforming, cancellation, and FBI handcuffs. But that’s essentially what three of America’s leading medical organisations are doing. It’s the kind of tactic that the Soviets used to enforce the Marxist-Leninist bogus biology of Lysenkoism.

The troika asserts that transgender clinics are providing “evidence-based health care”. But that evidence is being challenged by leading medical authorities inside and outside the United States, by the lived experience of transitioners, and by numerous highly competent journalists. The most toxic disinformation of all is oozing out from the transgender industry itself.

The open letter doesn’t mention any of the following developments in the world of transgender medicine:

In the United Kingdom, the Tavistock clinic – which has been “the model for treating trans people around the world” — was forced to close its doors. It is not, according to an interim report by a professor of paediatrics, Hilary Cass, “a safe or viable long-term option in view of concerns about lack of peer review and the ability to respond to the increasing demand.” In fact, she went on to say that there are “gaps in the evidence base regarding all aspects of gender care for children and young people, from epidemiology through to assessment, diagnosis, support, counselling and treatment.”
In France, the National Academy of Medicine declared earlier this year: “great medical caution must be taken in children and adolescents, given the vulnerability, particularly psychological, of this population and the many undesirable effects and even serious complications that can be caused by some of the therapies available”.
In Sweden, the National Board of Health and Welfare issued new guidelines for gender-affirming care in February. It said, based on current knowledge: “the risks of puberty suppressing treatment with GnRH-analogues and gender-affirming hormonal treatment currently outweigh the possible benefits, and that the treatments should be offered only in exceptional cases.”
In Finland, the Finnish Health Authority (PALKO/COHERE) reversed course in 2020. Its new guidance stated that “psychotherapy, rather than puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, should be the first-line treatment for gender-dysphoric youth”.

The real explanation for this letter must be that doctors providing transgender medicine are running scared. They’re afraid that their house of cards will be blown away by the facts. But if they can’t persuade, they can still bloviate, bluster, and bully. And that’s what they’re doing.

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