Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives—and the youth gender transitions they promote—are increasingly influencing medical education and practice in ways that harm patients. This aggressive push to embrace identity politics in medical schools, patient care, and academic scholarship is part of a sustained campaign to undermine free thought and expression, merit-based achievement, and our nation’s core principles.
Since 2022, Do No Harm (DNH) has represented physicians, nurses, medical students, patients, and policymakers focused on keeping identity politics out of medical education, research, and clinical practice and ending dangerous youth gender procedures. Today, Do No Harm is the only organization dedicated to restoring merit-based, patient-first American medical education, care, and scholarship.
Do No Harm is leading the charge to restore sanity and merit in American medicine. Since their founding, strategic litigation and targeted federal interventions have challenged those pushing identity politics in medicine. Examples include:
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21 lawsuits including against Pfizer, the Biden administration, the medical journal Health Affairs, and the States of Arkansas, Montana, Tennessee, and California.
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10 amicus briefs including briefs cited in Supreme Court decisions.
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718 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Requests
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186 complaints to federal civil rights offices under the U.S. Department of Education.
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To date, 52 Office for Civil Rights Complaints have resulted in federal investigations.
One reason Do No Harm has seen so much impact in so short a time is that the American people are fed up with radical politics in every corner of our society. We want to be able to trust our institutions again, especially those charged with saving lives. This is a unique moment to lock in lasting wins against radical identity politics in medicine—and beyond. Do No Harm’s goal for 2026 is to answer every call for help to defeat DEI and the youth gender industry with smart, strategic, legally defendable solutions. Through legal action, policy advocacy, public awareness building, and research, DNH’s goals are to:
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Put an end to policies and practices that force medical professionals and students to view patients through the lens of race and oppression rather than treating them as individuals.
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Apply pressure to medical schools that champion diminishing training standards in the name of equity.
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Prevent medical schools from using race-based admissions practices or requiring students to signal their agreement with discriminatory concepts from the beginning of the admissions process through the end of their formal education.
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Prevent medical schools and hospitals (and their contractors and grant recipients) from requiring employees to practice discrimination or signal their agreement with discriminatory concepts in training, hiring, and promoting.
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Applying pressure to medical institutions that reject an objective understanding of human biology.
With a membership of more than 50,000 physicians, nurses, policy makers, medical students, and other healthcare professionals, Do No Harm is in a very strong position to accelerate the pace of wins in 2026 through strategic litigation and its other key initiatives:
FEDERAL POLICY EFFORTS:
Do No Harm has built a strategically effective federal affairs team in record time, establishing relationships with key decision makers and distributing its original research and data to agency heads and staff and members of Congress.
CENTER FOR ACCOUNTABILITY IN MEDICINE:
Launched in 2025, the Center has consolidated Do No Harm’s investigative research and accountability efforts. Its investigations expose DEI and youth transgender ideas and policies and hold accountable the bad actors implementing them—and often trying to hide them.
STOP THE HARM DATABASE:
This first-of-its-kind resource is exposing hospitals and health systems performing dangerous sex change procedures on minors. In the last year alone, more than two dozen hospitals and clinics have stopped these unjust interventions.
The key to Do No Harm’s strategy in the coming year is capitalizing on its rapidly growing network of members and building on momentum from its legal and policy wins before the political and social winds shift.
As Fox News host Dana Perino said not long ago, “Groups like Do No Harm are starting to win these lawsuits. Even before they bring a lawsuit, if Do No Harm calls you, you tend to back off.”