CriticalRace.org Report Reveals Top Med Schools Instruct Students on Gender Transition Surgeries
The investigation found that among U.S. News’ Top 25-ranked Medical Schools in primary care, 10 directly provide some form of programming that promotes gender-affirming care.
CriticalRace.org, launched in February 2021, is a research group focused on Critical Race Theory (CRT) and its variants, such as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), with unparalleled and authoritative interactive databases documenting the racialization of education, covering over 700 institutions, and cited over 185 times by other media. We are expanding beyond the databases, including using our data to track how schools are rebranding and masking DEI efforts to evade recent court rulings and administrative restrictions.
Recently, with the federal government crackdown on gender transition programs at medical schools, CriticalRace.org initiated an investigation into some of the nation’s top-ranked universities to determine the extent to which they promote the destructive “gender-affirming care” ideology.
The investigation found that among U.S. News’ Top 25-ranked Medical Schools in primary care, 10 directly provide some form of programming that promotes gender-affirming care.
These programs may include surgeries, hormone therapy, curriculum offerings, or other initiatives aimed at advancing gender-affirming care within the medical community.
Many of these universities provide this care based on the view that an individual’s “internal gender identity” may differ from the gender they were “assigned” at birth.
Among the 10 medical schools offering gender-affirming programming, 6 of them directly offer gender-altering treatment to patients, in the form of transition surgery or hormone replacement medication.
The University of Kansas Health System particularly stood out in this regard, as it publicly advertises its provision of gender transition treatments and instructs medical students in providing similar treatments.
“The University of Kansas Health System is the region’s leading center for gender-affirmation surgery for adults age 19 and older,” states the medical school.
Kansas also hosts the “Adult Comprehensive Gender Care and Surgery Fellowship,” which states that its fellows will be “instructed in the full range of adult gender surgical care,” including genital reconstruction procedures. This training encompasses “feminizing surgery including vaginoplasty/vulvoplasty,” and “masculinizing surgery including metoidioplasty and phalloplasty.”
Similar gender-affirming care programs were found to be offered at the medical schools of UC Davis, New Mexico, North Carolina, Drexel, and Ohio State.
Other schools on U.S. News’ Top 25 list provide insurance coverage for gender-affirming care through their parent university’s student health plans. Rowan University and the University of Arizona both cover “gender-affirming” surgery under their student healthcare plans.
The Daily Wire covered the report:
One of the nation’s top medical schools runs a program for future doctors to learn how to remove healthy body parts and construct fake genitals for gender confused adults.
The University of Kansas Medical Center offers an “Adult Comprehensive Gender Care and Surgery” fellowship for medical professionals to obtain a “comprehensive experience in all clinical and academic aspects of adult gender care.” Through the program, fellows become members of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), a radical organization that has faced accusations of manipulating science for political purposes.
The fellowship was flagged in a report shared with The Daily Wire by CriticalRace.org, an organization that monitors activist ideology in higher education. The report looked at how top medical schools and their medical wings promote transgender ideology through programs, initiatives, and medical care.
“I think this report is a warning alarm being sounded that both the federal government and state governments need to pay attention to what’s actually happening,” William Jacobson, a professor at Cornell University and the founder of CriticalRace.org, told The Daily Wire. “While adults have broad power to consent to things, you cannot consent to unsound medical practices, or at least, that is not an excuse for the unsound practices.”
Fellows at the University of Kansas Medical Center, which receives millions in federal and state level funding, will be taught how to perform a vaginoplasty, a procedure where a pseudo-vagina is created on a male, oftentimes using skin from the penis. Another procedure is phalloplasty, when a fake penis is created using skin removed from other parts of the body.
Additionally, the medical center will sponsor fellowship participants to become members of WPATH, an organization accused of twisting science to hide uncomfortable details about transgender procedures. Fellows will attend WPATH’s annual symposium. WPATH is one of the largest advocates of transgender procedures for kids.
The fellowship at the University of Kansas Medical Center will also cover training in performing transgender chest and face surgeries, genital reconstruction surgery, “body contouring,” and other procedures like surgeries to remove a woman’s uterus. Non-surgical aspects of the fellowship involve learning about “voice/speech training,” and “social work/fertility preservation.”
In 2023, the University of Kansas Health System reported it had over 190 cases related to gender surgery.
The University of Kansas Medical Center declined to comment.
Republicans in Kansas have moved to protect kids from transgender procedures, overriding a veto from Democratic Governor Laura Kelly. That cut off funding for any gender procedures on minors and banned doctors from doing the procedures on kids.
The University of Kansas Medical Center was not the lone school scrutinized in CriticalRace.org’s report. Kemberlee Kaye, the managing editor of CriticalRace.org said that researchers found “a surprising number” of educational institutions that “were engaging in the sexual mutilation surgery.”
“I think the entire issue is egregious and troubling, quite frankly, and the fact that our medical schools are willingly engaging in this and promoting it,” Kaye told The Daily Wire. “These kinds of reports illuminate how deeply this pernicious ideology is entrenched in our institutions, whether it’s just the higher education programs or medical schools.”
The report found links to transgender ideology at other top institutions like the University of New Mexico and the Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center.
The Wexner Medical Center says that it is “one of only a few academic health centers in the country to offer bottom gender-affirming surgery.”
It details procedures such as carving up a person’s forehead or jaw to appear more masculine or feminine.
“The forehead has been regarded as the most gender-defining region of the face. Cis-females tend to have lower hairlines, flat to smooth forehead contour with eyebrows that sit above the orbital rims, while cis-males are recognized by longer foreheads commonly combined with frequent hair-loss patterns,” the medical center says on its website.
The University of New Mexico is another taxpayer-funded university that offers “gender affirming care” through its Student Health and Counseling office. The office boasts that it “offers gender affirming hormone therapy, referrals for gender affirming surgery and voice therapy, non-estrogen contraception (including LARC) for transmen/nonbinary people for pregnancy prevention if appropriate” and “routine screenings for cervical/breast/prostate cancer for people with these parts.”
The University of Arizona’s Campus Health department has a “LGBTQ+ Clinic” that helps gender-confused students obtain cross-sex hormones, makes transgender surgery referrals, and provides other “trans support.”
Additionally, the university takes credit for ensuring that the student health insurance plan covers “access to medically necessary, gender-affirming health care.”
“This access to care is a crucial element to the health, academic success, and retention of transgender-identified students,” the university says.
While many red states have advanced protections for kids from transgender procedures, some lawmakers at the state and national level have started to push for all funding and support for transgender procedures on adults to be cut off. Republicans in South Carolina recently moved to ban all public funding for transgender procedures. Shortly after, the Medical University of South Carolina ended its transgender program at all levels.
In other states, entities like Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee have shuttered transgender programs.
Kaye told The Daily Wire that federal and state lawmakers across the country need to take a closer look at what kinds of programs state funded medical institutions support and promote.
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“…rampant wokeness destroyed trust.”
There’s not much that is as ghoulish as gender surgery. Josef Mengele was born too early. He’d fit right in with these ‘doctors.’
Sinful behavior.
“We’re professionals — it’s not FGM when WE do it.”
They’re not going to stop teaching genital reconstruction surgery.
Because it has more than one purpose.
Likewise with the various ‘plastic’ surgeries. They, too have multiple purposes.
It it’s not as ghoulish as what these schools are promoting
They are promoting it for the specific purpose of gender reassignment, not for injury reconstruction.
gender-affirming care
I support gender affirming care—providing it’s the gender you were born with. But if you’re a man and think you’re a woman you need to see a shrink, not a surgeon.
If an adult, after consulting multiple shrinks, concludes that they need this surgery, then they are entitled to have it. This is a very different situation than the one with children. A child is not in a position to know what they are going to be like as an adult. An adult is already there, and suffering from gender dysphoria is not right. If it can be fixed, and the person wants it fixed, then fix it.
Point made but, if it’s not medically necessary for, say, injury repair, then don’t expect medical insurance to pick up the tab. If somebody doesn’t need it but merely wants it then they can foot the bill by themselves.
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Apply that to all elective surgery. Your choice, your check.
None of these schools should get any tax dollars state or federal support
” … among U.S. News’ Top 25-ranked Medical Schools in primary care, 10 directly provide …”
Why aren’t these 10 programs identified by name … listed for public scrutiny?It seems like a gross oversight in writing.
This is not going to stop until the Deans and Department Chiefs are replaced. They really do consider themselves morally superior, so they simply dismiss the burgeoning consequences, believing that no one can gainsay them. It will catch up with them eventually once the flood of lawsuits makes these doctors and their facilities uninsurable. Even then we can expect that some of them will just export this quackery to neighboring countries who offer liability shielding for a suitable fee. There are quite a few debunked therapies still available out there, often headed by “US trained specialists” with academic affiliations. Bottom line is that there is now enough progressive induced gender confusion and hucksterism to create demand for genital and hormonal mutilation, so these Universities will go right on supporting them until their top leadership dies or retires.