A prestigious US medical school reportedly offered a course over the summer that promoted ‘alarming’ progressive ideals – including several relating to gender, and Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
The course, titled ‘Health Equity and Justice,’ was held at Missouri’s Washington University School of Medicine this past summer – and some of its alleged lessons were laid bare Sunday by Fox News.
The outlet shared a series of PowerPoint slides that seemed to show the class’s irregular content – including one that insisted that BMI should stand for ‘badly mistaken idea’ because it does not take into account ‘a person’s gender or ethnicity.’
Another that centers around ‘health equity’ argues that nutrition is inherently racist – due to the fact the white doctor who invented the concept of calorie counting carried out nutrition experiments on aboriginal children to do so in the 1940s.
The lesson then concludes with a series of points marking the ‘structural differences between cis and trans individuals’, with one insisting that the ‘contribution of these structural differences to gender identity [remains] not clear.’
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The course, titled ‘Health Equity and Justice,’ was held at Missouri ‘s Washington University School of Medicine this past summer – and some of its alleged lessons were laid bare Sunday by Fox News. The St Louis school’s Brookings Hall building is seen here
The slide – unlike the others – seems to promote the recent use of cross-sex hormones like estrogen and testosterone blockers, even while conceding that the effect of such hormones on a human’s biological neural network remains ‘unknown.’
In the leaked page pertaining to BMI – which stands for ‘Body Mass Index’ – instructors note how ‘current BMIs are based on the imagined “ideal” Caucasian,’ and thus should be taken with a grain of salt.
Titled ‘Why BMI should stand for “Badly Mistaken Idea”‘, the slide in question notes: ‘Current BMI cutoffs are based on the imagined “ideal” Caucasian and do not consider a person’s gender ethnicity.
‘Higher and lower BMI’s [sic] might be healthier for different groups of people.’
Another bullet argues: ‘Since many people with higher BMIs are healthy, the BMI can perpetuate weight bias.
‘People in larger bodies,’ it adds, ‘ tend to get less quality of care.’
It further states that ‘too much focus on weight can encourage harmful eating habits’, and the ‘BMI and weight bias’ created by the scientific system – which is derived mathematically from the height and weight of a given person – ‘can discourage people from seeking care, leading to worse health outcomes.’
The slide then warn that stigmas surrounding weight could ‘[cause] chronic stress’. while insisting that there are better predictors of [one’s] health status.’
The slides obtained by Fox make no mention of any such alternative – though another looks to impart an entirely different message involving health when it comes to race.
Labeled ‘Racism and Nutrition’, the slide argues that nutrition, by nature is steeped in racisim,
To get this argument across, the slide offers a TikTok video in which a black man explains that the first person who determined how many calories a day are needed in order to survive, Canada’s Dr. Lionel Bradley Pett, ‘found out exactly what it took to keep the human body alive by starving native children to death.’
The assertion, while true, seems to insinuate that calorie counting is an unavoidably racist construct as a result – with the smiling TikToker eventually concluding of the government sanctioned experiments: ‘And that’s how the deaths of indigenous children became today’s moment in White History.
‘Happy Indigenous Heritage Month,’ he adds.
Then, in a slide that appears to mark the alleged lesson’s conclusion, instructors write that ‘several modalities demonstrate structural differences between’ straight and LGBTQ subjects – before noting that the ‘contribution of these structural differences to gender identity [is] not clear.’
In a final line, instructors write that the ‘effect of gender-affirming hormone therapy or type of regimen on neural circuity of gender identity is unknown’ – while still promoting puberty blockers.
Speaking to Fox Sunday, Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, the chairman of a national association of medical professionals against polarizing, progressive ideas being placed in the US healthcare system, said that slide, to him appeared most dangerous.
“Most concerning is their persistent advocacy for the use of puberty blockers in children,’ the Do Not Harm doctor said, citing how it goes against laws currently in place in the state where the school, headed by Dean David H. Perlmutter, is set.
‘This law aligns with the best scientific evidence, as determined by five European nations whose healthcare systems have conducted thorough and systematic research,’ said Goldfarb, while also slamming the other slides obtained by the outlet.
He said they ‘appear to actively promote highly political and divisive ideologies to its students.’
Washington University – which was recently forced to do away with its doling out of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones on campus because of the newly passed state law – did not immediately respond to a DailyMail.com request for comment.
According to the school’s website, Perlmutter ‘leads a $3.2 billion academic medical center.’
The school is the third largest research-intensive medical school in the US, and boasts a $1.2 billion annual investment in basic and medical science research.