One of the most historically prestigious universities in the country offers a course that instructs students on how to provide health care services to “infants” who “identify” as LGBT.
The Harvard Medical School course, titled “Caring for Patients with Diverse Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities, and Sexual Development,” includes a course description outlining how students will learn to provide “high-quality, culturally sensitive care.” for “patients” [que ] identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, or asexual.
“Clinical exposure and education will focus on serving people of sexual and gender minorities throughout life, from infants to older adults,” according to the description on the Harvard.edu site.
Harvard Medical School Course Description
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The four-week elective course is designed to mirror Harvard Medical School’s Gender and Sexual Minority Health Equity Initiative, which aims to “foster excellence in the care of patients of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and sexual development. The initiative’s stated goal is to provide “high-quality, holistic healthcare for sexual and gender minority patients of all ages.”
It’s unclear what criteria Harvard uses to determine whether a baby is considered a “gender or sexual minority.”
The university did not immediately respond to a request for clarification Friday from The Christian Post.
As part of its Medical Competency Reference Set (PCRS), the Harvard course also offers learning objectives for students to “acquire the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to provide responsive and affirmative care” to patients of all ages. origins.
The course description lists Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston as the primary meeting location for the 2022-23 academic year. Both course directors, Alex Keuroghlian and Alberto Puig, also work for the hospital.
Massachusetts General is among several in the nation that offer surgical services for transgender people. In 2020, doctors at the hospital sought approval to perform a one-of-a-kind surgery to attach a dead man’s penis to a woman who identifies as transgender.
The operation, which has not yet been approved, would involve attaching an organ donor’s penis to the groin of a biological female.
Another course partner, Boston Children’s Hospital, came under fire last year after an activist shared videos of the hospital allegedly offering “gender-affirming hysterectomies” and other services to minors. A March 2022 article revealed that 65 double mastectomies were performed on minor girls at Boston Children’s Hospital Center for Gender Surgery between 2017 and 2020.
Despite nearly two centuries of a strong Christian heritage, Harvard has, in recent years, moved further from its theological roots and even hired an atheist as its senior chaplain in August 2021.
Harvard Medical School made waves in a 2020 tweet promoting one of its panel discussions when the school referred to women as “birthers.”
As part of a discussion on “maternal justice,” the Harvard Medical School Graduate and Continuing Education Program proclaimed: “Globally, ethnic minorities pregnant and giving birth suffer worse outcomes and experiences during and after pregnancy. and childbirth.”
