Indiana Medical School Teaches ‘Inclusive’ Language, Says Gender Is a ‘Social Construct’- ‘People With Cervixes’
Indiana medical students are receiving lessons on how to avoid gendered language to prevent offending patients. The Indiana University School of Medicine’s “Human Structure” course reportedly includes a “sex and gender primer,” which teaches about using more inclusive language instead of words like male and female. In one example, students are taught to perform cervical cancer screenings on “people” instead of women.
The new diversity, equity, and inclusion curriculum teaches medical students that gender is a social construct, according to a PowerPoint presentation from the class published by Fox News. The presentation teaches future doctors that “not everyone fits” into the “established binarized sex as male/female” and claims there is “a biological basis” for one’s gender identity being different from sex.
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The infamous “Genderbread Person” is also referenced in the presentation–a teaching tool explaining that biological sex, expression, and gender identity can be changed at will. The diagram has found its way into the classrooms and lesson plans of children as young as five.
The presentation also instructs that while “man and woman are common gender types,” “these are oversimplification, and BOTH exist on a continuum.” Students are instructed on the differences between cisgender and transgender patients and how to use patients’ pronouns.
Instead of saying, “women need to undergo yearly cervical cancer screening,” the Indiana course recommends that a doctor say, “people with cervixes need to undergo yearly cervical cancer screening.”
“Language is foundational to transgender and non-binary inclusiveness… Inclusive language affirms and validates trans and non-binary identities.”
Indiana University is the latest medical school to have ideology injected into its curriculum. Last month, the University of North Carolina made headlines by announcing that it would implement new “social justice initiatives” in its medical training.
UNC says it plans to study new issues in its curriculum, including “Unconscious Bias Awareness,” “Understanding and Responding to Microaggressions,” and “Understanding that America’s medical system is structurally racist.”
“They want to subject professors to implicit bias training, actively discriminating against whites and Asians,” said Christian Watson, a spokesperson of anti-woke activist group Color Us United. “Teach anti-racism ideology. They’re teaching them how to be anti-racist as opposed to how to be good doctors.” Watson told the Daily Mail that UNC plans to train its medical students to be social activists rather than doctors.
Columbia University’s medical school also received backlash last month after a 2021 video surfaced of its medical students reciting a “New Hippocratic Oath.”
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“We enter the profession of medicine with appreciation for the opportunity to build on the scientific and humanistic achievements of the past. We also recognize the acts and systems of oppression affected in the name of medicine. We take this Oath of service to begin building a future grounded in truth, restoration, and equity to fulfill medicine’s capacity to liberate,” the oath began.
“I promise to self-reflect diligently, to confront unconscious prejudices, and to develop the skills, knowledge, and character necessary to engender an inclusive, equitable field of medicine.”
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