Harvard study on infant lgbtq
Harvard Medical School suggestions course about healthcare for LGBTQIA+ 'infants' with curriculum offering lessons in areas including OBGYN, pediatrics and plastic surgery
Medical students at Harvard are being taught how to protect for infant patients who identify as LGBTQIA+, according to a publicly obtainable course description.
Students at the school, considered one of the foremost medical schools in the earth, will be given: 'Clinical exposure and education will emphasis on serving gender and sexual minority people across the lifespan, from infants to older adults.' In Western medicine, an infant is considered from birth to 12 months old.
According to the description for Caring for Patients with Diverse Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities, and Sex Development, students will work in both hospitals and communities with LGBTQIA+ youth.
Among the hospitals deeply interested in the program is Boston Children's Hospital, home to the first pediatric and adolescent transgender health program in the United States. The directors of the program are Dr. Alex Keuroghlian and Dr. Alberto Puig.
Students will work in the areas of Adolescent Medicine, Endocrinology, Family Practice, Infectious Disea
Fact check: Harvard course teaches infant sex development, not gender identity
The claim: Harvard is teaching medical students to manage transgender infants
A Jan. 12 Facebook publish (direct link, archived link) by conservative commentator Charlie Kirk shows screenshots of an article posted on his website.
“Harvard Training Medical Students To Cure ‘Trans Infants,’” reads the headline of a blog post.
“In case no one told you, they’re after your kids,” the caption, written by Kirk, reads.
The post was joint more than 180 times within two weeks. Another version of the claim, citing a diverse conservative blog, was shared more than 30,000 times on TikTok.
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The claim is wrong. Harvard Medical University said its course does not discuss about gender culture or sexual orientation regarding infants. Instead, it teaches students about variations in sex development among infants.
Course in question teaches about sex growth in infants, not gender identity
Kirk’s blog post, which has since been updated to include a correction, refers to a Harvard Medical School course
‘Absurd’: Harvard med course teaches students about LGBTQ+ infants
A course being offered at Harvard Medical University claims that there are infants within the Homosexual community.
“Caring for Patients with Diverse Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities, and Sex Development,” the course in question, is a four-week class that aims to teach students how to “provide high-quality, culturally responsive care for patients with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, and sex development.”
“Many of these patients identify as lesbian, lgbtq+, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex or asexual (LGBTQIA+). Clinical exposure and education will focus on serving gender and sexual minority people across the lifespan, from infants to older adults,” the course description reads.
[RELATED: Yale Medicine continues to prioritize DEI]
In response to the course’s claim that infants can somehow be LGBTQ+, Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, the Board Chair of Do No Harm, told Campus Reform, “I have no idea what they are referring to. It is absurd to believe that infants are even aware of their sexual orientation.”
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Response to reports about HMS medical education course
Harvard Medical School created the Sexual and Gender Minority Health Initiative to inform and train medical students in caring for LGBTQIA+ individuals and to speak to the needs of this population.
Recent reports referencing one of our medical education courses have neglected to note that some infants are born with variations in sex development. HMS is sharing the statement below to clarify and flawless these misunderstandings and inaccuracies related to training students to care for infants who have variations in sex development.
Raising awareness of and caring for diverse populations in order to get together their clinical, medical, and health care needs are central tenets of general health, and of HMS’ mission and values.
HMS Statement:
As part of our MD curriculum, HMS offers a four-week elective course that educates and trains medical students to provide high-quality, culturally responsive care for patients with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, and sex growth across the age spectrum.
In this context, care for infants refers specifically to physical variations in sex devel
EXCLUSIVE: 'No basis in science or data... just ideology': Critics slam Harvard children's hospital for claiming babies know in the WOMB if they're transgender
A Harvard-affiliated children's hospital has sparked outrage after claiming some babies know they are transgender 'from the womb'.
In a now-deleted video, the Boston Children's Hospital suggested an even larger number of minors know 'as soon as they can talk'.
Critics told DailyMail.com the claim was was not based on science and suggested medics at the clinic are unwilling to ask children who are often vulnerable.
The hospital, part of the Harvard University medical system, also faces claims it rushed under-18s into life-altering sex change surgery.
In the clip posted to the Boston hospital's official YouTube page in August, psychologist Dr Kerry McGregor explains the type of patients she sees.
She says: 'So most of the patients we have in the clinic actually realize their gender, usually around the age of puberty.
'But a good portion of children do know as early as - seemingly - from the womb.
'And they will usually show their gender identity as very young children, some as soon as they can talk... kids kno