Confronted with much-needed opposition, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is doubling down in healthcare. If this is where it goes to die, it won’t be quick.
Five days ago, I met the Texas whistle blowers. They were keynote speakers at the Sentinel Summit in Kennesaw, GA, under the rubric, Courage Under Fire: Exposing the Truth About Gender Ideology in Medicine.
This doctor and nurse independently witnessed Texas Children’s Hospital covering up illegal transgender treatments on children.
They spoke up.
Both were subsequently fired.
Both had FBI agents come knocking at their doors.
And amazingly, both continue to firmly defend truth and right in healthcare, while witnessing to God’s providence.
Dr. Eithan Haim’s story first broke anonymously, and he updates it here.
Vanessa Sivadge, RN tells her story here, and lists recent reports here.
Make no mistake: these appalling events were enabled by DEI ideology and policies.
Increasingly, people are getting fed up with the bullying.
Given the string of corporate DEI policy reversals (Tractor Supply, John Deere, Harley Davidson, Jack Daniels, Best Buy, and now Lowe’s) we may have gotten the impression that this ideology is on its way out.
Unfortunately, that’s not quite the case. These companies primarily serve the hands-on, rural, conservative-leaning grassroots of middle America. That’s who they respond to.
For proportion, institutional DEI is like the green in this field of soybeans I saw yesterday. Corporations distancing themselves from DEI are the occasional yellow leaf.
DEI finding refuge in healthcare
DEI is deeply entrenched and growning in healthcare, academia, and all levels of government.
To bring it home, this year I’ve had frequent reminders via the stream of mail and email, all of it happily reminding me that renewing my nursing license requires 25 hours of continuing education (CE).
CEs are basically a racket, and I promise the DEI part is coming. Here’s how it works.
- Academics and other experts in the 1990s convinced MI legislators to pass a law requiring healthcare professionals to take CE. This instantly created an artificial demand for continuing education in all the health professions.
- The new law empowered Michigan’s Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) to make CE rules.
- Governor Whitmer’s executive order required Implicit Bias Training for all health professions, and LARA wrote the rules. LARA also maintains lists of all licensees, with their emails, street addresses, and phone numbers.
- Dozens of organizations obtain LARA’s license lists to direct-sell CE to Michigan health professionals. We are now a government-created captive market.
- Finally, we come full circle to those lobbying academics. They must publish to establish their credentials and achieve tenure. So they write CE articles and publish them in professional journals and elsewhere, solidifying the DEI culture of Michigan healthcare.
If you are a health professional who objects to DEI,
you don’t have to just accept the IBT mandate.
I used these resources, and you can, too.
The license racket creates spin-off projects, too.
Search any Michigan institution with “DEI” and you’ll be amazed at what you find. Here are just a few examples:
MDHHS DEI
Regional Health Equity Councils
Unless there is drastic change, those fired from DEI elsewhere will be settling into healthcare, academia, and Michigan government bureaucracies for the foreseeable future.
Outstanding DEI questions:
- Last year the US Supreme Court struck down university affirmative action. How long should we wait to challenge Michigan institutions’ DEI practices?
- Ottawa County eliminated its DEI program and saved $160,000-$280,000. (Reports vary.)
Does your county have a DEI program? What is its budget? - Has MDHHS ever disclosed, or acted upon, public comments submitted about its DEI data collection on Michigan residents?
If you have answers, I look forward to reading them in the comments.
