First in Fox: Tennessee Republican Party Senator Marsha Blackburn He sent a letter on Tuesday to the Medical Center of the University of Vanderbilt (VUMC) that asked the School of Medicine to comply with the executive order of President Donald Trump about the completion of diversity, equity and inclusion programs in educational institutions.
The letter occurs after VUMC took measures to hide many of his resources from Dei instead of getting rid of them, after the president’s executive orders.
The consumer research, a conservative non -profit organization that was following the responses of the Medicine Schools under Trump’s orders on the completion of Dei discovered that VUMC was taking measures to hide some of theirs behind the web pages protected by password. In response to criticism, a VUMC spokesman told Fox News Digital at that time that he was experiencing an “thorough review” of his programs to determine “when they will require that the reviews remain compliance, including the update of information on websites and other public platforms.”
Vanderbilt Med Center ‘Hide’ the resources ofi behind the web pages protected by password: report
According to an updated review, the website of the VUMC Diversity and Inclusion Office remains behind a password protected website. The same with the Dei website on the website of the VUMC Medicine Department, resources promote “climate care is medical care” and a web page for the “Summit of Action and Sustainability of the opening climate change of the school.” Other resources that previously seemed to be hidden behind the web pages protected with password, instead of eliminating, such as a YouTube video about “The War against Dei”, seem to have been eliminated since the criticisms on the matter unleashed against the school.
The conservative research of nonprofit consumers has presented a new campaign against the Medical Center of the University of Vanderbilt, accusing it of hiding its resources of DEI and climate activism behind websites protected with online password. (Istock)
“Offices such as the Office of Health Equity, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, and the Office of Diversity Affairs are still active,” Blackburn said in his letter. “These offices have advocated ‘collectively addressing systemic inequalities’ and ‘confront structural racism’.” Among the priorities of this program, it was to hire “diverse biomedical researchers,” said Black Burn.
Blackburn also said that VUMC was the receiver of more than $ 66 million this fiscal year of the National Health Institutes – only. Meanwhile, Vumc has invested more than $ 17 million to support its “Program and belonging,” he said.
“This is just one of the many examples of Vumc that invests in initiatives ofi instead of a medical investigation that saves lives,” the Blackburn letter continued. “In addition, Vumc’s history about the adoption of harmful initiatives of the alarm is bleak,” Blackburn added. “VUMC has previously performed sex change surgeries in minors before suspending the program after public outrage.”
“This is only one of the many examples of Vumc that invest in initiatives from the initiatives instead of a medical investigation that saves lives,” said the letter from Senator Blackburn to the Medical Center of the University of Vanderbilt. (Getty Images/Fox News)
VUMC was investigated by the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office in 2023 amid accusations that a VUMC doctor was handling medical billing codes to evade insurance coverage limitations for Transgender treatments. The investigation followed a video posted in 2022, which allegedly showed a VUMC doctor promoting transgender surgeries for minors such as “great money creators” and telling anyone with a religious objection to provide them should give up.
“President Trump has been clear on this issue. His recent executive orders prohibited Dei programs correctly in the research institutions financed by the federal government and ended the recognition of gender identity apart from biological sex,” Blackburn concluded in his letter.
“As a beneficiary of federal funds, VUMC has the responsibility of aligning with the president’s executive orders and re -focusing on the investigation that saves lives instead of arouseing Dei initiatives. Instead of covering Vumc’s initiatives, he urges him to comply with the effort of the president of the responsibility to assign dollars of the taxpayers and immediately cease all the initiatives of Dei.”
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The senator told Fox News that the “discriminatory” programs, like those of VUMC, actually serve to “do more damage than well.” He also urged Vumc to “put the Tennesseanos first” by fully complying with the president’s executive orders.
In a statement to Fox News Digital on Tuesday, VUMC said: “The Medical Center of the University of Vanderbilt is eliminating all Dei programs and is fully complying with the executive actions in Dei. Shortly after the executive orders were issued, VUMC began to eliminate content related to internal and external websites to reflect the completion of these programs. VUMC will continue with federal mandals and directives “.
