Executive director of Do No Harm—a nonprofit which is concerned about the harm “woke” medical practices can do to minors and others.
Independent Women’s Forum is pleased to announce that Kristina Rasmussen, executive director of Do No Harm, a nonprofit concerned with the harm “woke” medical practices can do to minor children and others, is the latest entry in our popular series of Champion Women profiles.
The name Do No Harm, of course, comes from the Hippocratic Oath, which physicians traditionally vowed to uphold. The organization was founded by Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, a former University of Pennsylvania Medical School professor.
“We’re first and foremost a group of doctors, nurses, medical students, and patients who are really concerned about where medicine is headed,” Rasmussen says. “The medical profession used to be focused on the idea of meritocracy, that the best and the brightest are trained and educated to look at patients as individuals, but the profession is moving into the world of identity politics—let’s lump people into categories and then start doing some questionable things.”
Do No Harm has been in the spotlight lately for its work on the issue of medical procedures performed on minors who say they are transgender. Chloe Cole, now eighteen, who regrets the puberty blockers and testosterone (begun at 13), and an irreversible double mastectomy she had when she was 15 years, is a senior fellow at Do No Harm.
An Associated Press report, which offered begrudging praise to Do No Harm, noticed that new legislation regarding minors and transgender medical practices in several states bore distinct resemblances the nonprofit’s model legislation.
Do No Harm’s groundbreaking study comparing how Europe and the U.S. approach “gender affirmation,” titled “Reassigned,” found that the U.S. “is the most permissive country when it comes to the legal and medical gender transition of children.”
After a career spent in liberty groups, what led Rasmussen to embrace Do No Harm? “First and foremost, I’m a mom,” she replies. “With kids, you see all the phases of their growing up. Part of growing up is entering adolescence, which can be a tough time for any kid. And if a kid is going through a difficult time and is bombarded with messages that maybe they were born in the wrong body and they should take dramatic, irreversible steps, that’s concerning to me. I have a policy background, but I want to make sure that we’re doing the right thing for not just my kids but for kids across the country.”
We know you’ll enjoy meeting this mother, talented quilter, and advocate for sound medical practices.
