❓WHAT HAPPENED: A medical watchdog group, Do No Harm, released a report criticizing the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) for pressuring hospitals to submit to gender ideology and promote child sex-change interventions.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Do No Harm, the Human Rights Campaign, and participating pediatric hospitals across the U.S.
📍WHEN & WHERE: The report was released on August 14, 2025, with findings applicable to pediatric hospitals nationwide.
💬KEY QUOTE: “Our report sheds light on how the HRC weaponized its so-called ‘Healthcare Equality Index’ to pressure pediatric hospitals into chemically and surgically castrating children.” – Dr. Kurt Miceli, Medical Director at Do No Harm.
🎯IMPACT: The report calls on healthcare workers to reject HRC’s policies, warning of the dangers of gender ideology in pediatric care.
Do No Harm, a medical watchdog group, published a report titled “How The Human Rights Campaign’s Healthcare Equality Index Infects Pediatric Hospitals With Gender Ideology,” exposing Human Rights Campaign (HRC) influence on pediatric hospitals. The report details how HRC’s Healthcare Equality Index (HEI) pushes hospitals to adopt policies that promote gender ideology and child sex-change interventions.
According to the report, HEI-participating hospitals are assessed on compliance with HRC’s gender ideology criteria, such as providing transgender-specific clinical services, establishing multidisciplinary gender clinics, and mandating HRC-approved gender training for staff. One such training advises hospital staff to ask children as young as three about their “gender identity” without their parents being present.
Dr. Kurt Miceli, Medical Director at Do No Harm and co-author, stated, “By capitulating to the HRC’s political scheme, hospitals have utterly betrayed patients, especially children struggling with gender dysphoria. If health systems care about providing high-quality pediatric care, then they should distance themselves from the HRC and its Index.”
The report notes that from 2019 to 2023, hospitals submitted over $100 million in claims for experimental treatments on children, including puberty blockers and breast and genital mutilation surgeries. In 2024, 41 pediatric hospitals participated in the HEI, with 20 earning a “perfect” score of 100, signaling full commitment to pediatric medical transition interventions and suppression of dissenting opinions.
Do No Harm urged healthcare workers to resist HRC’s policies and oppose the spread of gender ideology in pediatric care, stating, “It is time for courage. Employees of all levels employed at HEI institutions caring for children need to speak out against the trainings and policies that HRC brought in to promote gender ideology. Now is not the time to ‘go along to get along.’ The quiet majority must raise its voice.”
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