Harvard Medical School is training students to care for “patients with diverse sexual orientations” including “infants.”
QUICK FACTS:
- The medical school at Harvard University is now offering a class that trains students to care for patients with “diverse” sexual orientations, mentioning “infants” as an affected age group.
- The course, titled “Caring for Patients with Diverse Sexual Orientations,” will regularly meet to participate in clinicals at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital.
- “This elective is a four-week multidisciplinary clinical-and-scholarly experience that trains students to provide high-quality, culturally responsive care for patients with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, and sex developments,” a description of the course reads.
- The university also describes that the medical students must “ground” themselves in “science,” claiming it is important for them to “acquire the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to provide sensitive and affirming care” for men and women transitioning.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COURSE ON CARING FOR “INFANTS” WITH GENDER CONFUSION:
“Clinical exposure and education will focus on serving gender and sexual minority people across the lifespan, from infants to older adults,” the course reads.
BACKGROUND:
- In September 2022, training at Harvard reportedly told students that failing to use a student’s preferred pronouns could be considered a violation of university policy.
- The training said refusing to use correct terms can lead to a “climate of disrespect and may also violate Harvard’s policies.” Violations of the policy can be punished by “admonition” or even “termination, dismissal, [or] expulsion.”
- In July 2022, a study revealed merely 1% of faculty at Harvard University identify as ‘conservative’.
- “When asked whether they would support increasing ideological diversity among faculty by hiring more conservative-leaning professors, only a quarter of respondents were in support. In contrast, 31% opposed hiring conservative professors to increase ideological diversity, while 44% of respondents said that they neither supported or opposed it,” the analysis said at the time.
- A majority of faculty members were also uncomfortable with the idea that anyone who worked in former President Donald Trump’s administration would teach at Harvard.
- The survey found that 56% of the faculty would support “extra vetting” for any officials from Trump’s team, while 30% would ban former Trump administration officials from teaching at the university altogether.
