St. Louis University is pushing a toolkit on “transgender health” for medical students.
The toolkit from the university’s Transgender Health Collaborative is meant to influence the students to embrace gender ideology.
“Please see the link for a toolkit for clinical education in gender diverse populations, developed by a wonderful group from our institution,” wrote assistant professor Elizabeth Keegan Garrett in an email to Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors.
The toolkit explains that it is “designed for educators in clinical education programs seeking to advance the inclusion of transgender and gender diverse identities in their curricula.”
According to the toolkit, medical professionals are to use “gender-affirming communication” and refrain from asking “invasive” questions about “medical interventions, sexuality, or body parts that are not relevant to the visit.”
The material also addresses those who may disagree with the gender ideology presented.
“Education alone will not change bias in many cases. Programs should take deliberate steps to expose students to the transgender community, while still protecting the transgender community from experiencing bias or discrimination by resistant students,” the toolkit explains. “Strategies could include use of videos, written narratives, or a guest speaker who is a family member of a transgender person.”
“Resistant students are simply reflecting society,” it adds. “The role of clinical educators is to openly question the need or purpose of the negativity. For example, in examining historical laws that criminalized certain sexualities and gender expressions, clinical educators can pose the question: Why was this needed and who does this protect? Clinical educators may employ deprogramming training in order to facilitate thinking, reflection, and conversation on gender identity and sexuality biases.”
Reporting from The Daily Signal:
Founded in 1818, the university boasts of that it is one of the “nation’s oldest and most prestigious Catholic universities,” guided and supposedly profoundly influenced by its “enduring Jesuit mission.” Even the “Transgender Health Collective” websites tout that Jesuit mission, outlining an allegedly “Catholic, Jesuit Approach” to “inclusive education.” ... The university’s practices are at odds with Catholic Church teaching on the topic. The Catholic Church holds that there are only two genders, male and female. In March, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops emphasized that Catholic health care institutions should not perform attempted gender transitions, “whether surgical or chemical, that aim to transform the sexual characteristics of a human body into those of the opposite sex or take part in the development of such procedures.”
