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Around 3,0000 <keyword id="7803810" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="non-medical-teachers" source="Orion">non-medical teachers</keyword> are on the 'verge of losing their jobs' after the new guidelines of the <keyword id="3514079" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="national-medical-commission" source="Orion">National Medical Commission</keyword> (NMC) that has drastically reduced the post of non-medical MSc teachers in the medical colleges across the country. The National MSc Medical Teachers Association (NMMTA), the body representing non-medical teachers, has approached the Health Ministry seeking a rollback of the decision as nearly 3,000 non-medical teachers are feared to face a <keyword id="183112" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="job-crisis" source="Orion">job crisis</keyword> with the National Medical Commission reducing the posts for their recruitment. Seeking to revoke the guidelines, NMMTA said, in a letter submitted to the ministry, that the rollback will address the faculty crisis in the institutions and help the teachers. In the guidelines issued by the medical education regulator in October 2020, the permissible intake of non-medical faculty had come down from 30 per cent to 15 per cent in anatomy and physiology, from 50 per cent to 15 per cent in biochemistry, and from 30 per cent to 0 per cent in microbiology and pharmacology. The NMC has claimed that these guidelines would not affect the current faculties already in employment and would be applicable to new medical colleges, new appointments and colleges seeking MBBS seat enhancements. "The practice of involving non-doctors in medical education in non-clinical subjects is a global phenomenon. The erstwhile <keyword id="49468" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="medical-council-of-india" source="Orion">Medical Council of India</keyword> (MCI) had stated that the 'intellectual cross-fertilisation with diverse intellectual streams is vital for medical education' with respect to the participation of non-medical M.Sc/Ph.D teachers in medical education. There is no need to divert away from this wisdom," NAMMTA told IANS. The practice of appointing teachers in the non-clinical subjects of the MBBS education started back in 1960, when the MCI allowed these teachers in the medical colleges to bridge the gap of shortage of doctors. As per the Teachers' Eligibility and Qualifications guidelines of the MCI, up to 30 per cent (50 per cent in Biochemistry) of teachers in the non-clinical subjects of Anatomy, Physiology, Pharmacology &amp; Microbiology could be 'non-medical' subjected to unavailability of medical (MBBS/MD) qualified teachers. Sridhar Rao, president of the NMMTA, said while there has been an increase in MD seats in the non-clinical subjects, 40-50 per cent of them remain vacant each year, which would only mean that the faculty shortage is likely to continue. "The shortage are more pronounced in the colleges located in rural, remote or hilly areas, where the availability of medical teachers is generally poor. Introduction of the new MBBS curriculum isn't a concern as all teachers are being trained to implement it," Rao asserted. He also said that while rejecting a prior proposal to do away with the provision of appointing M.Sc./Ph.D. teachers, the Board of Governors in supersession of the MCI in January, 2020 had cited the shortage of faculty in the institutions. While talking to IANS, Rao said that as per the NMC Act, NMMTA had filed first appeal with the NMC, which was rejected without any consideration. A second appeal has been filed with the health ministry, which is under consideration. "We are not seeking a new policy direction that might warrant the constitution of a new committee. We seek the restoration of the erstwhile MCI rules. We are not even seeking reservation. We are asking for the restoration of what was snatched away from us," said NMMTA president, adding that, "it will create an artificial crisis of teachers and resultantly the medical education would become costlier in India." SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/go-fashion-ipo-grey-market-premium-is-at-600/articleshow/87824720.cms">Grey market is paying nearly twice the IPO price for Go Fashion shares</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/telecom/news/centre-begins-auction-of-bsnl-mtnl-assets/articleshow/87820035.cms">Centre begins auction of BSNL, MTNL assets</a>

Around 3,000 non-medical teachers fear 'job crisis' after NMC guidelines

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Gregory Shamus / Getty ImagesThe University of Michigan has an average professor salary of&#xa0;$103,605.</div></div></div><ul><li>We took a look how much professors at the 50 best public colleges in the US earn for their work.</li><li>Using rankings from US News and data from the Department of <keyword id="6355445" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="education">Education</keyword>, we found the average salary for non-medical instructional staff.</li><li>No. 1-ranked UCLA has the highest average professor salary at just over $155,000.</li></ul>College professors at the top public universities in the United States tend to do pretty well for themselves. That is to say, most of them are earning more money than the average <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/teacher-salary-in-every-state-2018-4">K-12 public school teacher</a>.We took a look at the <a href="https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/top-public?_mode=table">50 best public colleges and universities</a> in 2018 as ranked by US News and World Report and gathered data on the average salary for non-medical instructional staff normalized to a standard nine-month contract for the 2016-2017 school year from the <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/use-the-data">Department of Education's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System</a> survey results. Many school rankings are tied. We found that average salaries for professors tended to be higher at schools closer to the top of the rankings, with No. 1-ranked UCLA (tied with UC Berkeley) also having the highest average professor salary at $155,059. Here are the average salaries for instructional staff at the top 50 public universities and colleges in the US, ranked in ascending order:

Here's what college professors get paid at the 50 best public universities in America

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Five bigwig institutional shareholders want to force Oracle to make radical changes to the way it pays it top three executives: executive chairman and CTO Larry Ellison and co-CEOs Safra Catz and Mark Hurd.
They are concerned that Oracle's board of directors isn't independent enough from management and "insufficient board accountability and poorly designed compensation programs create significant risks for shareholders."
Of Oracle's 11 directors, three of them still earn their living at Oracle (Ellison, Catz, and Hurd), and one of them is the company's former CFO and chairman.
"We equate the recent announcement on changes to Oracle's leadership structure as simply a rearrangement of the deck chairs which serves to further empower executive management," according to a letter sent to shareholders. "The CEO has stepped down - in title only - to become an Executive Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer. ... It is clear who remains in charge of the Board and why independent director representation is needed more than ever at Oracle."
The shareholders behind this proposal are California State Teachers' Retirement System; The Nathan Cummings Foundation (the charitable foundation formed by Sara Lee founder Nathan Cummings); PGGM Investments, a Dutch pension fund service provider that manages EUR 178 billion; the RPMI Railpen Investments, a UK pension fund service provider; and the retirement fund for U.S. autoworkers, UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust.
They want to be able to elect independent board members from the shareholders at large.
This is not an attempt for activist shareholders to take over the board and the company, they say, because their proposal requires the new board member to have owned 3% of the company for at least three years.
These types of shareholder proposals almost never pass if the standing board of directors don't get behind them. And in Oracle's case, a shareholder uprising is next to impossible, since Larry Ellison holds a 26% stake of the company.
But given the names involved, this proposal and letter will almost certainly get Oracle's attention, and maybe get the board to agree to these terms without an uprising. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-pay-cut-shares-reduced-2014-7">Oracle did actually agree to changes</a> in how it pays these execs the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/is-larry-ellison-worth-over-78-million-a-year-investor-demands-a-pay-cut-2013-9">last time shareholders rattled their sabres</a> about it. It <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/how-oracle-will-pay-its-new-ceos-2014-9">reduced the number of shares granted as stock options</a> and made some of them into "performance stock units" earned as bonuses.
Even so, these three executives remains some of the highest paid in the land.
We've reached out to two of the organizations that signed the letter and to Oracle for comment and will update when we hear back.
<a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1081019/000095015914000441/px14a6g.htm">Here's the full letter:</a>
Dear Oracle Shareholder:
We write to you as long-term shareholders in Oracle Corporation and as co-sponsors of the proxy access proposal that your fund will be asked to vote on at the upcoming annual meeting of Oracle Corporation on November 5, 2014.
We urge you to vote FOR Proposal No. 7.
We believe the case for proxy access is particularly compelling at Oracle Corporation, where insufficient board accountability and poorly designed compensation programs create significant risks for shareholders.
We equate the recent announcement on changes to Oracle's leadership structure as simply a rearrangement of the deck chairs which serves to further empower executive management. The CEO has stepped down - in title only - to become an Executive Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer. In his place the Company appointed two CEOs from the executive suite to serve coextensively - an unsustainable model that further consolidates the former CEO's control. It is clear who remains in charge of the Board and why independent director representation is needed more than ever at Oracle.
BOARD GOVERNANCE CONCERNS
Independent Directors Needed. We have long held concerns as to whose interests the Board of Oracle is serving and proxy access will allow long-term shareholders a mechanism to nominate independent candidates who can better represent broader shareholder interests and instil a culture of accountability.
Captive Board of Directors. All three Compensation Committee members received withhold votes of 60% or more from non-insider shareholders at Oracle's 2013 annual meeting. Given the number of shares held by Mr. Ellison, the Compensation Committee has, in effect, been elected only because Mr. Ellison presumably cast his vote in support of their re-elections. We believe Board members are being insulated from the preferences of non-insider shareholders.
Unresponsive Board. The failed say-on-pay votes at two consecutive meetings should have resulted in measurable changes to Oracle's compensation quantum and structure, but in our view, the structure remains largely the same. The lack of response from the Board to these votes raises broader concerns around board governance and accountability to non-insider shareholders.
PROXY ACCESS
Our proposal provides a reasonable mechanism to nominate director candidates, including an ownership requirement of 3% for 3 years. Director candidates would be elected upon approval from a majority of all shareholders, thus access could not be used by a shareholder seeking to obtain control of the Board. We believe that the need for proxy access is clearly evident at Oracle Corporation given the significant risks to shareholders from insufficient board accountability and poorly designed compensation programs.
We therefore urge you to vote FOR our resolution to give shareholders access to the proxy and the ability to improve board accountability at Oracle Corporation.
This is NOT a solicitation of authority to vote your proxy. Please DO NOT SEND us your proxy card but return it to the proxy-voting agent in the envelope that was or will be provided to you by the Company. The Nathan Cummings Foundation, CalSTRS, PGGM, RPMI Railpen, and UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust are not able to vote your proxies, and this communication does not contemplate such an event. This communication is meant to inform you about The Nathan Cummings Foundation's, CalSTRS', PGGM's, RPMI Railpen's, and UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust's opinion and to give you valuable decision-making information when you review your shareholder proxy for the 2014 annual shareholders' meeting of Oracle Corporation.
Sincerely,
Anne Sheehan Director of Corporate Governance California State Teachers' Retirement System
William Dempsey Chief Financial Officer The Nathan Cummings Foundation
Catherine Jackson Senior Advisor, Responsible Investment PGGM Investments
Deborah Gilshan Corporate Governance Counsel RPMI Railpen Investments
Meredith Miller Chief Corporate Governance Officer UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust

A Bunch Of High-Powered Shareholders Are Not Happy With Oracle's New Co-CEO Pay

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Israeli airstrikes on Gaza have killed a dozen UN aid workers, a spokesperson told Insider.</li><li>The dead include five teachers, a gynecologist, and a psychologist.</li></ul>At least a dozen UN aid workers have been killed in the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, a spokesperson told Insider on Thursday, demonstrating the dire risks being faced by non-combatants in the Palestinian territory."Many of them were killed while with their families," Juliette Touma, director of communications for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, said in an interview. The dead, who were all Palestinians, included five teachers, a gynecologist, a psychologist, and support staff, she said.It is not known how many of their family members were also killed."I want people to know that there are civilians — really civilians — who are being killed in Gaza," Touma said.UNRWA was created to support the hundreds of thousands of people displaced around the time of Israel's founding in 1948. It runs a network of medical facilities in Gaza, as well as schools that are now serving as shelters for nearly 220,000 Palestinian civilians.Initially, UNWRA said 11 of its employees had been killed in the Israeli attacks, but a 12th fatality was confirmed overnight, Touma said. The agency employs more than 5,300 people in Gaza.Israel launched an aggressive counterattack on Gaza following a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-declares-state-of-war-hamas-launches-massive-surprise-attack-2023-10">devastating terrorist attack</a> last Saturday in which militants from Hamas and other Palestinian factions slaughtered hundreds of civilians, including women and babies.As of Thursday afternoon, Israeli authorities said that at least 1,300 had been killed in the terrorist, the vast majority of them civilians. Another 2,800 people were wounded, and at least 97 are being held hostage.Israel has cut off all water and electricity to Gaza. Israeli officials said they would restore the vital resources only if Hamas handed over those it kidnapped, which includes children and elderly women, as well as some IDF soldiers. It has urged civilians to avoid areas frequented by Hamas, but the vast majority of the Gaza Strip's 2.3 million residents have <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gaza-israel-airstrikes-trapped-in-a-humanitarian-disaster-2023-10">nowhere else to go</a>; Egypt, which maintains a border with the territory, has only allowed a few Palestinians to leave.The death toll has quickly climbed in Gaza as Israel pounds the territory with airstrikes ahead of a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/hamas-laying-trap-wants-israel-invade-gaza-ex-mi6-2023-10">possible ground offensive</a>. Local authorities say 1,417 people have been killed in the Israeli response, with another 6,200 wounded.The Israel Defense Forces did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

UN says 12 of its staff have been killed in Gaza, including 5 teachers and a doctor

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Advocates blasted the <keyword id="11910362" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="florida" source="Orion">Florida</keyword> Department of Health's new guidelines for treating <keyword id="11918053" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="transgender" source="Orion">transgender</keyword> children.</li><li>The guidelines advise doctors against providing transgender people under 18 with puberty blockers or hormone therapy.</li></ul>The Florida Department of Health broke with the US Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday, issuing guidance that seeks to limit the treatment options for transgender children in Florida.The <a href="https://www.floridahealth.gov/_documents/newsroom/press-releases/2022/04/20220420-gender-dysphoria-guidance.pdf?utm_source=floridahealth.gov&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=newsroom&amp;utm_content=article&amp;url_trace_7f2r5y6=https://www.floridahealth.gov/newsroom/2022/04/20220420-gender-dysphoria-press-release.pr.html">recent report,</a> which is non-binding, suggests that anyone under the age of 18 "should not be prescribed puberty blockers or hormone therapy," breaking with the <a href="https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-states-stop-interfering-health-care-transgender-children">American Medical Association</a> and other leading experts' guidance in treating transgender children.The Florida Department of Health's report also says that children or adolescents should not be eligible to receive gender reassignment surgery, which medical experts have historically not recommended for transgender people under 18.In addition to the new medical guidelines, the Florida Department of Health also said that "social gender transition should not be a treatment option for children or adolescents." The Department of Health and Human Services classifies a social affirmation/transition as simply "adopting gender-affirming hairstyles, clothing, name, gender pronouns, and restrooms and other facilities." Experts and advocates told Insider that Florida's new guidance could be the first of many restrictions that the state could roll out handicapping the transgender community and stressed that affirming a transgender child's gender identity can directly lead to lower suicide rates among the group.Some trans children experience gender dysphoria or "the feeling of discomfort or distress that might occur in people whose gender identity differs from their sex assigned at birth or sex-related physical characteristics," according to the <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gender-dysphoria/symptoms-causes/syc-20475255">Mayo Clinic</a>, and this can strain mental health.According to a recent <a href="https://opa.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/2022-03/gender-affirming-care-young-people-march-2022.pdf">report</a> from the Department of Health and Human Services, "Research demonstrates that gender-affirming care improves the mental health and overall well-being of gender diverse children and adolescents."Sam Ames, the director of advocacy and government affairs for The Trevor Project, an LGBT suicide-prevention nonprofit, told Insider in a statement that simply supporting transgender children's identities can greatly reduce the risk of suicide."Decades of evidence demonstrates that affirming transgender and nonbinary youth in their identities contributes to positive mental health outcomes and can reduce the risk for suicide," Ames said. "That's why gender-affirming care is considered best practice by every major medical and mental health association and embraced by providers across the country."Erin Reed, a transgender advocate who tracks bills and government directives for the transgender community, told Insider that Florida's directive is particularly heinous due to its inclusion that directs children not to socially transition."I can say that this particular directive in Florida, with the inclusion of the social transition restriction that they wish to place, if actually acted upon by other agencies within Florida, would be the worst that I've seen in any of the states," Reed said. "This actually says that even if you make the decision not to medically transition as a teenager or as a child, you would also be restricted from expressing your gender identity."Reed said that the Florida guidance is part of a growing wave of directives and legislation from the Republican Party restricting transgender people in the public sphere, citing other legislation including a <a href="https://www.them.us/story/massachusetts-school-lawsuit-trans-student-ludlow-schools">lawsuit in Massachusetts</a> in part debating whether a teacher should be allowed to affirm transgender children in their classroom."A lot of people think that this stuff is happening far away, but this is part of a building movement on the right to eliminate transgender people from public participation in public life, especially focused on transgender youth," she said.Ari Drennen, the LGBTQ program director for the left-leaning Media Matters For America, spoke with Insider and said that conservative media has increasingly set its focus on the transgender community in recent years."I think anti-trans legislation has been a really major focus of the right-wing media in the last couple of years," Drennen said. "And we're seeing a pretty straight line between those attacks and anti-trans legislation in the states."Alejandra Caraballo, a clinical instructor at Harvard Law School's Cyber Law Clinic and a transgender activist, told Insider that the guidance, while not binding, could hold "tremendous ramifications" for transgender people in the state and across the country. "Having the state come out and say that the existence of trans kids isn't recommended by the state of Florida can increase substantial amounts of harassment and threats to kids in schools by other students, teachers, and administrators," Caraballo said.Both Caraballo and Reed told Insider that the guidance will likely also lead to an influx of transgender children and their families leaving the state. Caraballo said she thinks the state of Florida will likely issue even stricter guidance and legislation against gender-affirming care for transgender children."I honestly think a lot of people will see what's happened in Alabama and Texas and realize that this is probably just the first salvo," Caraballo said, "we haven't seen another move by DeSantis, but I think the working assumption for most people should be is that he will likely weaponize this even further." When asked for comment on the dissonance between the department's new guidance and that of major medical associations, a spokesman for the Florida Department of Health told Insider the "department's <a href="https://www.floridahealth.gov/_documents/newsroom/press-releases/2022/04/20220420-gender-dysphoria-guidance.pdf?utm_source=floridahealth.gov&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=newsroom&amp;utm_content=article&amp;url_trace_7f2r5y6=https://www.floridahealth.gov/newsroom/2022/04/20220420-gender-dysphoria-press-release.pr.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">guidance</a> and <a href="https://www.floridahealth.gov/_documents/newsroom/press-releases/2022/04/20220420-gender-dysphoria-fact-sheet.pdf?utm_source=floridahealth.gov&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=newsroom&amp;utm_content=article&amp;url_trace_7f2r5y6=https://www.floridahealth.gov/newsroom/2022/04/20220420-gender-dysphoria-press-release.pr.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fact check</a> both rely on a <a href="https://s4be.cochrane.org/blog/2014/04/29/the-evidence-based-medicine-pyramid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">high standard of evidence</a>, and we believe that it speaks for itself."

Advocates slam the Florida Department of Health's guidance to discourage children from socially transitioning

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A woman in her seventies with terminal cancer took "magic" mushrooms, and says it eased her depression.</li><li>Kathleen Kral also processed a miscarriage she had in her thirties during her trip.</li></ul>A woman in her seventies with terminal cancer said a "magic" mushroom trip helped alleviate her depression and process a miscarriage from her thirties. Kathleen Kral, a retired English teacher, was diagnosed with cancer three years ago, which worsened her depression."I'm grounded in my Catholic faith, but I think that I tended to look at the negative side of life. Cancer diagnosis has made it much worse," she told journalist Michael Pollan in the Netflix documentary "How to Change Your Mind," which explores the potential of <a href="https://www.insider.com/magic-mushroom-ocd-psilocybin-michael-pollan-netflix-how-change-mind-2022-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">psychedelic drugs</a> to treat severe mental and physical health conditions, including depression.Psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in "magic" mushrooms, is illegal in most countries, but some are starting to recognize its potential to relieve anxiety and depression for people with terminal cancer. In Canada, for example, such patients can access a synthetic version of the drug from a licensed dealer, but the process to<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/first-legal-magic-mushroom-psilocybin-canada-terminally-ill-cancer-patient-2022-4?r=US&amp;IR=T"> get approval can be lengthy.</a> Despite some friends warning her against it, Kral was adamant that she wanted to take the drug, and volunteered for a clinical trial.According to Tina Beattie, a former professor of Catholic studies at the University of Roehampton, UK, drugs that are acquired legally aren't morally prohibited for Catholics. Dr. Manish Agrawal, an oncologist and researcher in Maryland involved in the clinical trial that Kral took part in, said in "How to Change Your Mind" that emotional and psychological distress impacts cancer patients' quality of life "probably more" than physical symptoms. "The depression, if it could be alleviated, why not try it?" Kral said.<h2>'I thought the waves were cancer'</h2>Kral took a high dose of psilocybin while being supervised by a medical professional at the Aquilino Cancer Center in Maryland in November 2020.The life-altering trip started one hour after she took the drug, and began with beautiful music, with Kral as the conductor. She saw visions of her ancestors getting married, as well as her own wedding — a moment of happiness. But then the vision shifted."These ferocious waves were going on and they scared me so much. I thought the waves were the cancer. And then I decided: Teach me what you need to teach me, waves," she said. "The vision went on and there was quite a bit of blackness. I had the feeling that I was inept. That I could not bring forth life," she said.At this point, she processed a miscarriage that took place 44 years ago. Kral envisaged the Virgin Mary telling her she would take care of the baby."It's been hidden in the mind, I guess. Now it's out and it's free so I don't have to worry anymore," Kral said."I still fall into depression. I still feel pain from the cancer. But there is an underlying reality that it's OK," she said.Kral's experience reflects that of <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8542741/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">others with cancer </a>who have taken psilocybin in a handful of trials and found it helped with anxiety and depression. However, more research is needed to know exactly how well it works and whether it is safe for all patients, Dr. Charles Grob, a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, told Insider. Psilocybin, alongside therapy, has also <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/magic-mushroom-depression-mental-health-treatment-psilocybin-therapy-tim-ferriss-2022-2?r=US&amp;IR=T" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shown promise </a>for non-cancer patients with severe depression. Matthew Johnson, a professor in psychedelics and consciousness at Johns Hopkins University, told Insider that we don't know whether cancer patients with depression get the same benefits as the non-cancer patients with <a href="https://www.insider.com/guides/health/mental-health/what-is-depression">depression</a>."It may be that the nature of the distress in cancer is more susceptible to lasting treatment with psilocybin, but that is anecdotal and we need future research to tease this out," he said.<h2>Mystical experiences might make trips more effective </h2>A million dollar question in <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/psychedelic-clinical-trials-tracker-mdma-lsd-magic-mushroom">psychedelic</a> science is whether a "trip" or mystical experience, such as what Kral may have experienced, is needed for patients to benefit.David Yaden, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research, told Insider that people with depression and anxiety who <a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsptsci.0c00194" target="_blank" rel="noopener">took psilocybin in studies</a> were more likely to report having a mystical experience on research questionnaires after taking high doses. Those with strong mystical experiences were in turn more likely to see their symptoms and well-being improve. Again, more research is needed to prove that mystical experiences correlate with these perceived benefits.Even Kral, a retired English teacher, couldn't fully articulate her experience, but a shift in mindset was clear."There is an opening up, to nature, and people, and life," Kral said, adding: "Maybe there's one more day to live, and live it as well as I can."

A woman with terminal cancer says taking 'magic' mushrooms eased her depression and helped her process a miscarriage she had decades ago

<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cost-of-inequity-how-inequity-persists-in-american-daily-life-2021-6"></a><div type="image" title="sex health" height="1665" width="2221" msid="83989325" hostid="261"></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>US sex-education policy isn't federally mandated and often supports abstinence-only programs.</li><li>This has resulted in many states promoting anti-LGBTQ programs and languaging.</li><li>The <keyword id="40166" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="sex-education">Sex Education</keyword> Coalition is helping to reintroduce legislation to mandate comprehensive <keyword id="2607501" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Sex-Ed">sex ed</keyword>. </li></ul>US sex-education policy is predominantly decided by state governments and has historically supported abstinence-only programs, which can create a hostile environment for LGBTQ students and threaten the health and wellbeing of young people. The American Medical Association advocated for standardized sex-education curricula <a href="http://sites.bu.edu/dome/2021/01/24/theres-no-such-thing-as-sex-without-consent/">in the 1950s</a>, but in 2021, we've still yet to see this kind of policy implemented. <div type="image" title="Christine Soyong Harley" height="451" width="600" msid="83989328" hostid="261"></div>"We dont have any federal mandate or provisions around comprehensive sex <keyword id="6355445" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="education">education</keyword>, and our only federally funded programs are mostly geared toward teen-pregnancy prevention - which is a really narrow lens of what sex education should be," Christine Soyong Harley, president and CEO of <a href="https://siecus.org/">SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change</a>, a national organization focused on advocacy and policy work, told Insider.Here's a look at how American sex education has evolved over time.<h2>What the US government spends (and doesn't spend) on sex education</h2>Conservative religious groups began treating sex education as a public threat <a href="http://sites.bu.edu/dome/2021/01/24/theres-no-such-thing-as-sex-without-consent/">in the 1960s</a>, claiming that teaching children and teens about sex would encourage them to engage in "risky" sexual behavior.Research shows that sex education actually <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/news-release/2012/sex-education-linked-delay-first-sex">delays sexual activity in teens</a>, but their fear-mongering paved the way for <a href="https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/issues/sex-education/how-sex-education-funded">abstinence-only-until-marriage (AOUM)</a> education programs in the 1980s during the AIDS crisis.Since 1982, the United States government <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6366514/">has spent $2 billion dollars</a> on abstinence-only education, which became even more prevalent (and more funded) on school campuses during the early 2000s <a href="http://sites.bu.edu/dome/2021/01/24/theres-no-such-thing-as-sex-without-consent/">under the George W. Bush administration</a>. In addition to being <a href="https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news/abstinence-only-education-failure">wholly ineffective</a>, abstinence-only education <a href="https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2018/04/197244/trump-abstinence-only-education-lgbtq-youth-impact">endangers LGBTQ youth</a> by barring conversations about their identities, actively stigmatizing their relationships, teaching medically inaccurate information, and failing to discuss ways to practice safer sex. But until 2010, these programs were the only sex-ed courses funded by federal dollars.That year, former President Barack Obama introduced the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP), <a href="https://youth.gov/evidence-innovation/investing-evidence/teen-pregnancy-prevention-initiative">which received $75 million in annual funding</a>, and the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPPP), <a href="https://youth.gov/evidence-innovation/investing-evidence/teen-pregnancy-prevention-initiative">which received $100 million in annual funding</a>.While federally funded abstinence-only education continued, these <a href="https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/issues/sex-education/how-sex-education-funded">two federal programs</a> aimed to provide science-based information to public-school students. The <a href="https://opa.hhs.gov/grant-programs/teen-pregnancy-prevention-program-tpp/about-tpp">TPPP</a> funded organizations that develop programs in and outside of schools to reduce US teen pregnancy and STI rates through contraceptive use, and <a href="https://powertodecide.org/personal-responsibility-education-program-prep">PREP</a> funded programs that teach both abstinence and contraceptive use to vulnerable student populations.Cut to the Trump-Pence administration. Former President Trump tried to transform TPPP <a href="https://siecus.org/resources/trump-shifts-teen-pregnancy-prevention-program/">into an abstinence-only program</a>, and in 2018, announced plans <a href="https://annexteenclinic.org/2018/06/13/comprehensive-sex-ed-in-u-s-schools-a-brief-history/">to completely eliminate it</a> (though that never happened).With President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris now in the White House, sex-education advocates and student organizers hope to develop new federal programs and increase existing TPPP and PREP funding - ideally by <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/article/2021/03/next-federal-budget-matters-lot-sexual-and-reproductive-health-and-rights-heres-what">redirecting $110 million from abstinence-only funds into comprehensive sex education</a>.<h2>How sex ed differs across state lines</h2>Because <keyword id="575242" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Public-Schools">public schools</keyword> aren't nationally mandated to teach comprehensive sex education, states aren't required to provide medically accurate or evidence-based lessons - let alone LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum. In fact, since state and local governments decide how to allocate funding, sex ed isn't even prioritized in some school districts' budgets - so it's not taught at all. According to <a href="https://siecus.org/state-profiles/">SIECUS</a>, 35 states teach abstinence-only education, 15 states don't require sex ed to be medically accurate or evidence-based, and eight states explicitly require teachers to use curricula that discriminates against LGBTQ people by banning words like "gay" and "transgender," referring to queerness as criminal, or writing anti-LGBTQ language into their sex-ed policiesOther states are moving toward more comprehensive and affirming programs. 29 states and the District of Columbia mandate sex ed, while eight require culturally responsive sex education, nine require lessons about consent, and seven include "affirming sexual orientation instruction" about LGBTQ identities and sexual health in their sex-ed policies.As long as abstinence-only programs and anti-LGBTQ education persist across state lines, students have to organize to demand access to comprehensive curricula. Armonte Butler, senior program manager of LGBTQ health and rights at Advocates for Youth, supports queer students as they fight for sex-education access and has worked with students at a Pennsylvania high school as they try to get a now-defunct sex-ed program reinstated following a principal's departure - the only sex-ed advocate on the faculty. <div type="image" title="Armonte Butler" height="450" width="600" msid="83989330" hostid="261"></div>Other students, he said, plan letterwriting campaigns to demand districts fund sex-ed programs that provide medically accurate information and don't stigmatize people living with HIV. Students and groups like <a href="https://www.advocatesforyouth.org/">Advocates for Youth</a>, <a href="https://www.glsen.org/">GLSEN</a>, and <a href="https://www.poweru.org/">Power U</a> are calling for districts to divest from bloated school police budgets and redirect money to resources such as inclusive sex education, trauma-informed school counselors, free menstrual products, pregnancy and parenting classes, and free contraceptives.<h2>How legislation contributes to hostile school environments for queer students</h2>Jaden Ziv, a 21-year-old queer college student and sex-ed advocate, went to high school in Tennessee, where <a href="https://siecus.org/state_profile/tennessee-fy21-state-profile/">teachers can be fined $500</a> per student if their lessons deviate from abstinence-only curriculum or they positively discuss queerness. "Legislators know that teachers need a secure job and aren't going to risk the fine," he told Insider.<div type="image" title="Jaden Ziv" height="561" width="748" msid="83989333" hostid="261"></div>When schools make it illegal for transness and queerness to be discussed - or just fail to provide education that doesn't stigmatize different identities - they inevitably contribute to issues like anti-LGBTQ bullying and violence.GLSEN's <a href="https://www.glsen.org/sites/default/files/2020-10/NSCS-2019-Executive-Summary-English_1.pdf">2019 National School Climate Survey</a> found that the majority of LGBTQ students (86.3%) hear negative or harassing language from both students and educators - which additionally includes derogatory language around their race, ethnicity, religion, immigration status, and disability.As a result, LGBTQ students were more likely to miss school, develop depression, struggle academically, and express disinterest in attending college."LGBTQ students also face high rates of school discipline, including higher rates of detention, suspension, and expulsion than non-LGBTQ youth," Kinjo Kiema, an associate director of youth organizing at Advocates for Youth, told Insider. "Because schools are hostile environments toward queer and trans youth - especially Black queer youth and youth of color - schools effectively push them out, increasing their likelihood of dropping out and funneling them into that <a href="https://bhsd.sccgov.org/sites/g/files/exjcpb711/files/o4mh-schooltoprisonpipeline-factsheet-00-00-00.pdf">school-to-prison pipeline</a>."<div type="image" title="Kinjo Kiema" height="450" width="600" msid="83989336" hostid="261"></div>In recent months, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/15/politics/anti-transgender-legislation-2021/index.html">an onslaught of anti-trans legislation across the country</a> has targeted trans youth, attempting to cut off their access to gender-affirming medical services, ban them from participating in team sports, and mandate teachers inform parents if a child <a href="https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/546995-new-nc-bill-would-require-schools-to-tell-parents-if-a">"exhibits gender nonconformity."</a> Some bills explicitly affect the classroom, while others impact social services, but <a href="https://www.teenvogue.com/story/anti-trans-laws-students">the harm they cause trans students is the same</a>. "These bills so deeply impact what happens with young people's lives, and young people's lives are in school," Diana Thu-Thao Rhodes, vice president of policy at Advocates for Youth, told Insider. "For a trans young person living in a state where their own identity and body is being debated as allowable to exist - that has a huge impact on mental health, suicidal ideation, and how safe they feel at school."<div type="image" title="Diana Thu Thao Rhodes" height="450" width="600" msid="83989340" hostid="261"></div><a href="https://www.glsen.org/">GLSEN</a>, a national education organization that works to develop affirming learning environments for LGBTQ students, has honed in on four factors that determine safer school climates and student success: supportive educators, supportive policies, inclusive curriculums, and supportive peer-to-peer spaces, which includes campus organizations like <a href="https://www.glsen.org/support-student-gsas">gender-sexuality alliances</a> (GSAs). When schools provide all of these resources, students can access the information they need to thrive and be healthy, in school and outside of it.Brittany McBride, associate director of sexuality education at Advocates for Youth, trains sex educators and encourages them to work towards being affirming - not just inclusive."We need to make holistic, sustainable changes throughout the entire curriculum, from using language that's reflective of their experiences - like saying 'partner' instead of 'boyfriend' or 'girlfriend,' and not assuming someone's gender identity during lesson examples - to ensuring that teachers are trained to actually understand these lessons," she told Insider. "And not just have one day in class when LGTBQ issues are addressed; that should be a normal part of every single interaction in the classroom so that LGBTQ students get the information they need to live the lives they want."<div type="image" title="Brittany McBride" height="450" width="600" msid="83989341" hostid="261"></div>Ultimately, LGBTQ-affirming sex education contributes to the overall health of our society. "When you're teaching sex ed, you're not just teaching sex ed," Ziv said. "You're teaching consent, bodily autonomy, and how to be aware of yourself. And that's what they're stripping away with these anti-LGBTQ bills."<h2>How policy change can improve the lives of LGBTQ students</h2>"If abstinence-only education is the foundation we're operating from, then what we've been doing for the last 20 years is not really educating people adequately," Melanie Willingham-Jaggers, executive director of GLSEN, told Insider. Because of this history, even in states where sex-education policy moved forward after the Bush years, the majority of students were still without comprehensive, affirming programs, and were instead taught from a curriculum limited to avoiding pregnancy and STIs.Willingham-Jaggers cited other recent federal-funding decisions like the <a href="https://www.glsen.org/news/supreme-courts-espinoza-ruling-devastating-public-education">Supreme Court's June 2020 Espinoza ruling</a>, which decided that states must fund religious education, including anti-LGBTQ programs, with taxpayer money, as alarming. "Public dollars are being used to discriminate in schools, so that is a fundamental flaw and loophole that was expanded under the Trump administration and the Betsy DeVos Department of Education," Willingham-Jaggers said.<div type="image" title="Melanie Willingham-Jaggers" height="2250" width="3000" msid="83989345" hostid="261"></div>To expand and improve federal policy, the Sex Education Coalition - a group made up of several allied organizations including <a href="https://www.plannedparenthood.org/">Planned Parenthood</a>, <a href="https://www.advocatesforyouth.org/">Advocates for Youth</a>, <a href="https://siecus.org/">SIECUS</a>, and <a href="https://urge.org/">URGE</a> - is helping to reintroduce federal legislation to mandate comprehensive sex education. <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5">H.R.5</a>, the Equality Act, passed the House in March and, if signed into law, would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include non-discrimination policies around gender identity and sexual orientation, including in public education. Thu-Thao Rhodes said the coalition is also working to reintroduce the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2720">Real Education for Healthy Youth Act</a> (REHYA) by merging it with the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2701">Youth Access to Sexual Health Services Act</a> (YASHS).REHYA aimed to fund comprehensive sex-education programs that go beyond pregnancy and STI prevention, while YASHS aimed to fund sex-ed programs as well as sexual healthcare access for marginalized students. Combining these pieces of legislation would provide federal-funding streams for LGBTQ-inclusive, medically accurate, and age-appropriate sex ed and create a grant program ensuring young people's access to sexual healthcare.On April 28, following several years of organizing by Alabama students and their allies in coalition groups like URGE, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/551046-alabama-gov-signs-bill-to-remove-anti-lgtbq-language-from-sex-education">signed a bill into law</a> that will remove anti-LGBTQ language from the state's sex-ed policies. Previously, educators were required to refer to homosexuality as a crime and shameful lifestyle. "While there is more work to be done, proactive policies at the state level do have an impact on congressional members as far as pushing forward more federal legislation," Thu-Thao Rhodes said.

A look at how US sex education in public schools has evolved over the last 60 years and its impact on LGBTQ students

<ul class="summary-list"><li>On February 22nd, <keyword id="11896956" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="texas" source="Orion">Texas</keyword> Gov. Greg Abbott signed an authorization to prosecute parents of transgender youth if they give their child gender-affirming care.</li><li>The order is one of many in recent years denying trans children <keyword id="11897506" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="healthcare" source="Orion">healthcare</keyword> and basic rights in the US.</li></ul>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed an <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/O-MastersJaime202202221358.pdf">authorization</a> on February 22nd, instructing the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate and prosecute parents of transgender youth if they give their child gender-affirming care. That authorization impacts families like Nandeen Herring's, whose son already faces obstacles navigating the world as a Black, transgender man. "I have a Black man in the making, if you will, already trying to make his way with a scarlet letter all over his body," Herring, who lives in New Jersey, told Insider. "To be accused of abusing my child when the bottom line is telling me is that here we go again with this heteronormative mess."Since 2020, an <a href="https://www.insider.com/over-half-of-us-states-tried-passing-anti-trans-bills-2021-3">overwhelming amount</a> of anti-transgender laws have been created that bar trans youth from <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/alabama-anti-trans-bill-sports-teams-2021-4">competing in sports</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/arkansas-becomes-first-state-to-ban-healthcare-for-trans-youth-2021-3">receiving healthcare coverage</a>. Abbott took it a step further with his latest move, which includes investigating and prosecuting doctors who give gender-affirming care to trans children. Abbott said medical procedures on <keyword id="11978711" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="transgender-children" source="Orion">transgender children</keyword> "constitutes child abuse." Parents of trans children of color and medical advocates told Insider they vehemently disagree. "My child knows what they are, what they feel, and need, and there's no discussion," Herring said.According to a <a href="https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Trans-Youth-Health-Bans-Mar-2022.pdf">UCLA report</a>, 150,000 transgender youth in the United States and more than 54,000 transitioning transgender youth are at risk of losing access to gender-affirming medical care. Advocates told Insider they see Abbott's move as another step toward criminalizing trans youth and their families."A lot of the educators, teachers, security resource officers, whoever are in these schools, have preconceived notions and can be racist and can be transphobic," Tea Sefer, associate director of policy at Advocates for Youth, told Insider. "There are all these incidences of not just punishing students for using the restroom that aligns with their gender, but also physically harassing, physically removing them from these places." <div type="image" title="Marsha Aizumi and her son" height="2666" width="3555" msid="90462938" hostid="261"></div><h2>"He says, 'mama, I'm not choosing to be transgender. This is who I am.'"</h2>Throughout Marsha Aizumi's son Aiden's childhood, he struggled with anxiety and suicidal thoughts. Aiden first came out as lesbian in middle school, but by his sophomore year of high school, he came out as trans. Aizumi told Insider, all she knew to do was support him. "He says, mama, I'm not choosing to be transgender. This is who I am," Aizumi told Insider. "So when I hear these things about states that are not allowing parents to get healthcare for their trans children, I always think that if my son didn't get help, not only would he have been suicidal, but I'm not even sure he would be here today."As a Japanese American, Marsha said she could not find any available resources for her family when her son came out as transgender in 2009. She said in many Asian American households, there is a pressure to assimilate in the US. In these households, she said, an <keyword id="11911085" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="lgbtq" source="Orion">LGBTQ</keyword> child can sometimes be treated as a source of shame for going against the grain."The shame it's not just the dishonor to yourself or your immediate family. It's to your extended family. It's to your ancestors. It's to your lineage," Aizumi said. While the <keyword id="11894571" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="health" source="Orion">health</keyword>care disparity between Asian Americans and white Americans is not as wide as it is for other communities of color, the disparity in mental health outcomes is vast. In 2017, suicide was the leading cause of death for Asian Americans ages 15 to 24, according to <a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/article/health-disparities-race-ethnicity/#:~:text=In%202017%2C%2010.6%20percent%20of,percent%20of%20non%2DHispanic%20whites.&amp;text=89.4%20percent%20of%20African%20Americans,93.7%20percent%20of%20white%20Americans.&amp;text=44.1%20percent%20of%20African%20Americans%20had%20government%20health%20insurance%20coverage%20in%202017.">American Progress</a>. With the recent rise in <a href="https://www.insider.com/aapi-hate-crimes-spikes-more-than-500-in-san-francisco-in-2021">hate crimes against Asian Americans</a>, that number has continued to rise, according to the <a href="https://www.apa.org/monitor/2021/07/impact-anti-asian-racism">American Psychological Association</a>. "Our children are just like your children," Aizumi said. "They want to do good things in the world. My son wants to be able to go out and just be himself and not worry about being targeted in any way." Marsha has written a book with her son, "Two Spirits, One Heart," where they detail their journey toward acceptance. Her son, Aiden, has also spearheaded LGBTQ support networks within Asian American communities and is currently working at Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), a national organization uniting families and allies with the LGBTQ community. <h2>"I was listening to my child." </h2>Herring's son came out to her at 7 years old and faced a lot of discrimination and bullying from teachers, classmates, and healthcare professionals over the next few years. The bullying became so bad that Herring moved her four sons from upstate New York to Philadelphia. She told Insider she knew something was wrong when her son, who used to love school, refused to go anymore. Herring's son is not alone. 38% of Black LGBTQ youth <a href="https://www.thetrevorproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/All-Black-Lives-Matter-Mental-Health-of-Black-LGBTQ-Youth.pdf">reported discrimination</a> based on sexual orientation or gender identity, <a href="https://www.thetrevorproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/All-Black-Lives-Matter-Mental-Health-of-Black-LGBTQ-Youth.pdf">according to The Trevor Project</a>, with 52% also saying they faced discrimination due to their race. This is added to the <a href="https://www.hrc.org/resources/violence-against-the-trans-and-gender-non-conforming-community-in-2020">rising</a> number of Black trans people who are killed every year. "Every individual is not just one thing, the intersectionality of every individual in this world is complex and beautiful," Herring said. "And thus why you may not understand it, that is not for you to question and place that burden on the individual that walks this world free."Herring credits the Philadelphia Children's Hospital for finally helping her family feel safeIn contrast to the traumatic misnaming and misgendering of her child by teachers and other school staff members, she credits the hospital staff and mental health professionals for saving her and her four sons' lives. But while Herring has benefited from the trans community at the hospital, she said she has had trouble explaining to white families of trans children about the obstacles her family faces concerning race and class. Families like hers typically would not be able to access this type of lifesaving care, she said. "I was listening to my child," Herring said. "I want for trans children to receive the healthcare that they deserve, just like their so-called heteronormative counterparts. We deserve the same."<div type="image" title="A candlelight vigil on September 14, 2020 at the Reading Hospital in West Reading, PA in support of Roxanne, a black trans woman shot by Reading Police" height="1496" width="2000" msid="90462940" hostid="261"></div><h2>The criminalization of trans youth of color.</h2>The trans community feels the criminalization of their identity on a daily basis, Herring said. Trans youth of color are more likely to be bullied and targeted by their teachers or peers at school, said Sefer, and they are usually punished along with the instigator. Trans youth of color are also twice as likely to be suspended compared to their white trans counterparts, according to a report by <a href="https://www.glsen.org/activity/restorative-discipline">Glsen</a>. Students who are suspended are three times as likely to be arrested within a year of the incident, according to the <a href="https://www.aclu.org/issues/juvenile-justice/school-prison-pipeline/school-prison-pipeline-infographic?redirect=racial-justice/infographic-school-prison-pipeline">American Civil Liberties Union</a>. "I think it is not ironic that at the same time that critical race theory is being attacked in schools and that we're seeing this new wave of banning books and banning the accurate teaching of history — and I think, as is often seen in history, those young people in the most difficult margins are facing this disproportionately — so, those young trans kids of color who have disabilities have not been generally talked about, but are disproportionately represented in statistics around policing incarceration, bullying, and discrimination," Sefer said. Herring has written a book titled "<a href="https://mascotbooks.com/mascot-marketplace/buy-books/childrens/picture-books/life-according-to-z/">Life…According to Z</a>," about her son's transition. She said parents of trans or non-binary children of color continue to reach out to her out of fear on social media, and she offers resources and support as much as she can. She occasionally teaches workshops at schools in New Jersey to parents who have LGBTQ children about ways that they can advocate for their children without disrespecting them. Herring said <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/new-poll-shows-americans-overwhelmingly-oppose-anti-transgender-laws">polls</a> show that the public is against denying healthcare to transgender people. Herring fears that while Texas is the only place currently investigating and prosecuting the parents of trans youth, other states will soon follow suit, despite the fact that the <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/new-poll-shows-americans-overwhelmingly-oppose-anti-transgender-laws">American public is against</a> laws that restrict the rights of the transgender community."For the most part, parents of trans and non-binary kids know that the world is not safe for their child," Lillian Riveria, director of family programming at Gender Spectrum, told Insider. "They live with a lot of fear. I don't think they predicted or suspected that this could happen. But I think we're at a point historically in our nation where everything is possible."Insider reached out to Gov. Abbott's office for comment but did not hear back.

After Texas calls healthcare for trans kids 'child abuse,' families of color fight back: 'Our children are just like your children.'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>For nearly a year, Heidi Richard's severe and worsening pain was dismissed as <keyword id="12047214" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="anxiety" source="Orion">anxiety</keyword> and mono.</li><li>After demanding a scan, she learned she had advanced <keyword id="6355291" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="cancer" source="Orion">cancer</keyword> and continues to undergo treatment.</li></ul>Heidi Richard, a 47-year-old elementary school teacher in Worcester, Massachusetts, is a lifelong runner who'd always been healthy. So she knew something was wrong in spring 2019 when she started experiencing severe stomach pains, vomiting, and night sweats. At the doctor, though, she was told her symptoms were just stress or anxiety. She was given an antacid and sent on her way, she <a href="https://www.today.com/health/womens-health/pain-symptoms-dismissed-diagnosis-rcna22983?utm_campaign=likeshopme-gallery&amp;cid=sm_npd_td_in_td-bio_180511&amp;utm_medium=instagram&amp;utm_source=dash%20hudson&amp;utm_content=www.instagram.com/p/Cb_oHMVDQ9_/">wrote for Today.com</a>. Richard's pain and vomiting didn't subside, and she unintentionally lost 30 pounds. "I was trying to eat, but I was just unable to — I was just getting so sick," she wrote. This time, doctors chalked it up to mono, despite testing negative for the infection. They told her to keep taking the antacid and prescribed anxiety meds. Richard's symptoms intensified, and she developed back pain and neck swelling. When doctors tried to give her a muscle relaxer for what they brushed off as a pulled muscle, she demanded an imaging test. The diagnosis: stage 4 <a href="https://lymphoma.org/aboutlymphoma/nhl/dlbcl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">diffuse large B-cell lymphoma</a>, a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which had spread to her abdomen, spleen, bone marrow, sternum, lungs, groin, and neck."Doctors kept saying, 'Oh, it's anxiety or you can't handle the stress of your job or you're overreacting. It's not a big problem,'" she wrote. "I don't feel like they would have said those things to me if I had been a man." Richards underwent chemo, got a stem cell transplant, and continues to receive immunotherapy once every three weeks. On April 18, she'll run the Boston marathon, albeit more slowly than her past races. She's speaking out to encourage other people to listen to their bodies. "Know what your baseline is and when something is wrong, don't be afraid to ask for a second opinion or ask for that test," she wrote. "Don't be afraid of sounding like a hypochondriac — that's what I was afraid of and luckily I spoke up when I did, because finally I had enough." <h2>Other women have been coming forward with stories of "<keyword id="13561260" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="medical-gaslighting" source="Orion">medical gaslighting</keyword>" </h2><a href="https://www.insider.com/medical-gaslighting-patients-say-doctors-deny-symptoms-misdiagnose-2022-4">Medical gaslighting</a> describes when medical professionals dismiss a person's symptoms, deny tests or treatments, and ultimately misdiagnose them. Women are especially vulnerable to the experience.Since medical literature largely <a href="https://grants.nih.gov/policy/inclusion/women-and-minorities/guidelines.htm#:~:text=The%20NIH%20Revitalization%20Act%20of,and%20minorities%20in%20clinical%20research.&amp;text=The%20statute%20includes%20a%20specific,and%2C%20in%20particular%20clinical%20trials.">focuses on how symptoms present in white men</a>, students and doctors might not know how to spot these signs in other patients.Women patients also tend to wait longer for cancer and heart-disease diagnoses than men, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/28/well/live/gaslighting-doctors-patients-health.html">The New York Times</a> reported. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2825679/pdf/jwh.2008.1007.pdf">One study</a> found that younger women were two times more likely than young men to have a medical expert give a mental-health diagnosis when their symptoms pointed more to heart disease. Chloe Girardier, 23, is one victim of medical gaslighting. She said she sought a doctor's appointment after a persistent cough but was denied at first because it was "just a cough," <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/12/13/i-was-told-my-cough-and-weight-loss-was-covid-the-reality-was-worse/">The Sun</a> reported. After five months and seven doctor's appointments with no answers, Girardier — who by then had begun losing weight for no apparent reason — said she insisted on a chest X-ray. The scan revealed a 4.25-inch mass in her chest that turned out to be <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hodgkins-lymphoma/symptoms-causes/syc-20352646">Hodgkin's lymphoma,</a> a rare cancer that required her to undergo intensive chemotherapy. "I can't believe it wasn't looked into further, and if I hadn't pushed for the chest X-ray, I may still not have a diagnosis," she said.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Pediatric HAL is a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/medical">medical</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/robot">robot</a> that actually bleeds, cries, urinates, and mimics other human behavior. </li><li>Medical students use HAL to learn how to diagnose and treat illness before working with real patients. </li><li>Pediatric HAL is part of a line of robots from the company Gaumard, which also makes robots that simulate pregnant people, newborns, and trauma wounds.</li></ul>Narrator: This medical robot actually bleeds and cries. His name is Pediatric HAL.HAL: Hi, I'm Pediatric HAL. I can show you how I feel by moving my face and my eyes.Narrator: HAL is part of a line of medical training robots manufactured by a company called Gaumard. Gaumard makes humanlike robots that simulate childbirth, newborn care, surgery, and trauma wounds. Pediatric HAL is designed to mimic the reactions of a child around five years old. During training, doctors, nurses, and first responders all practice various simulations on HAL before treating real patients.James Archetto: He breathes, he cries, he speaks. His head moves back and forth. His eyes move. He has blood pressure, pulse, pulse oximetry, glucose measurement.Narrator: In many situations, medical students practice on standardized patients who are actors faking certain symptoms, but those actors probably don't want to be stuck with a needle over and over again. Instead, students can use HAL to learn how to do more physically invasive procedures, like putting in a breathing tube or starting an IV. And because his body is programmable, HAL can show signs of poor health that an actor might not be able to mimic.When you shine a light on HAL's eyes, his pupils may or may not dilate. Even really good actors probably can't control their pupils. And HAL actually responds to real equipment. If he starts to flatline, a nurse can use a defibrillator to shock his heart back into action. HAL also has a variety of internal motors and pumps that move air and fluids around, which help it mimic bodily functions, like breathing and using the bathroom.Archetto: He has a small reservoir in his left finger, left middle finger, for glucose measurement. So you can take a regular glucometer and you can actually put a glucose solution in there, prick his finger, and it would give you an actual glucose reading.Narrator: HAL also has reservoirs for holding fake urine, fake blood, and there's even one in his head for holding fake tears. We have artificial blood. It's honestly just a powder that you add water to and it creates a red fluid, but there's also urine and as I mentioned, there are tears. For tears, it's water. For urine, it's food coloring. Narrator: The educator can also modify HAL's responses on the fly. If a training team isn't working fast enough, the teacher can program HAL's software to make his blood pressure go up or his breathing get faster.Archetto: Nothing ever goes according to plan in the emergency room or in critical care. So you may have a plan of care for a particular patient, but something changes and it all goes south in a hurry. We can make HAL respond just as a patient would be. So that's become so valuable in those learning environments.Narrator: But HAL doesn't only teach doctors and nurses how to perform medical procedures. It helps students learn how to interpret and appropriately respond to a young patient's behavior. When you look at HAL, you can tell that he's not a real boy, but his facial expressions and simulated emotions still have an effect on the physicians and nurses in training.Henry Henao: We have a concept called suspending disbelief. So it's the fact that, okay I know that it's a mannequin, it's a simulator. They know it's a mannequin and it's made of plastic and electronic parts, but they look beyond that. So we ask them to forgive the fact that it's not a real patient, and once they break through that they really start making very human connections to the patient in front of them. And they, yeah, it kind of melts away.Narrator: People don't always communicate verbally, especially young children, and that's why HAL's creators programmed him to have these non-verbal reactions.Archetto: When he cries, he cries real tears and that's important because, again, that's a way of communicating.Narrator: At times, HAL's responses are so real that people respond to him like he's a human. Archetto: HAL was there and he was sitting in his bed and we made him cry, and one of the nurses, who was in attendance, reached down and actually picked him up and tried to console him. She actually hugged him. So, it does have that impact on caregivers. It makes the scenario very realistic.HAL: My family says I'm one of the smartest kids around. I can show you how I feel by moving my face and my eyes and if you talk to me, I'll talk back.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Keenan Anderson died four hours after police tased him multiple times in the chest. </li><li>No official cause of death has been released, but a police expert said it could have been the Taser.</li></ul>A panicked Keenan Anderson flagged down police on January 3 <a href="https://www.insider.com/blm-cofounder-cousin-keenan-anderson-tased-lapd-seven-times-death-2023-1">following a traffic incident in Venice, California</a> and ended up restrained on the ground while a Los Angeles Police Department officer deployed a Taser at least 6 times.In between the shocks — applied to the upper left side of his back — Anderson yelled in pain and pleaded for help, as seen in body camera footage released by the LAPD on January 12.Hours after being tased, the 31-year-old English teacher and cousin of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CnLUOyfrkmh/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors</a> went into cardiac arrest and died at the hospital. "The police are supposed to be here to protect and serve the people, and yet they abuse their authority and have a lack of respect for human life," Dominique Anderson, the younger sister of Anderson, <a href="https://www.nbclosangeles.com/local-2/family-officials-call-for-lapd-reform-after-death-of-keenan-anderson/3075614/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said in a news conference</a> following the release of body camera footage of her brother's death.Although no official cause has been announced by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, Anderson's death has sparked new conversations about the deadly use of stun guns by police, which have resulted in the deaths of over a thousand people between 2000 and 2018, according to a <a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/section/usa-taser/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters report.</a>The deaths <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-minneapolis-police-protests-tasers-in/black-americans-disproportionately-die-in-police-taser-confrontations-idUSKBN23M16E" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disproportionately affect Black people</a>, Reuters found. Black people accounted for 32% of deaths, despite only making 14% of the US population, while white people made up 29% of deaths, despite making up 60% of the population. "The Taser directly caused the death of Mr. Anderson, I believe," <a href="https://www.insider.com/officer-response-in-jayland-walker-shooting-overkill-expert-says-2022-7">Kalfani Turè</a>, an assistant professor at Mount Saint Mary's University, told Insider. Turè, a former police officer who now researches use-of-force incidents, explained that many police departments have no rules limiting how stun guns are used because of the false notion that Tasers are non-lethal — despite overwhelming evidence that they can kill people. Turè — who is against the current use of Tasers — also pointed out that their use could <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/20/florida-taser-burns/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">potentially set people on fire.</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=474703414855925" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a news conference</a> following the release of the body camera footage, LAPD Chief Michel Moore told reporters the LAPD had "no pre-set limit on the number of times a Taser can be used in a particular situation" but said that police should "generally avoid repeated or simultaneous activation's to avoid potential injury."In addition to the repeated use of the Taser, Turè pointed out that the officer's use of the Taser near Anderson's chest — especially considering the fact that he appeared to be in a nervous state — is not advised for officers, as stun guns can cause the heart to stop. "Just as the Taser operates at a low amplitude, meaning that it's quiet, so does the heart," Turè said. "No one sees the heart. No one hears the heart. But when you disrupt the heart the results are profound." Turè also said the use of drugs could have contributed to an agitated state and an increased heart rate. LAPD released a toxicology report stating Anderson tested positive for cocaine and marijuana, but experts say that doesn't mean he was <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7vazm/lapds-release-of-drug-tests-is-smearing-keenan-anderson-groups-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">high during the encounter with police.</a>Medical experts and activists have been calling for a ban on police use of stun guns for years following research as early as 2012 revealing the <a href="https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/tasers-no-longer-non-lethal-alternative-law" target="_blank" rel="noopener">weapon is now less-than-lethal</a>, rather than <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/police-organizations-tout-tasers-as-nonlethal-weapons" target="_blank" rel="noopener">non-lethal.</a> Police argue stun guns <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19268749/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prevent lethal encounters</a>, but some studies have shown <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/18/theres-no-evidence-tasers-reduce-police-use-of-firearms-new-study-shows.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">no evidence to back up this claim.</a>"We support the calls by Keenan Anderson's family and community members to restrict the use of Tasers, and more crucially, to ensure that traffic, accident, and crisis responses are led by civilian professionals, mental health care providers, and community-based organizations – not police armed with Tasers or other weapons," ACLU of Southern California told Insider in a statement.In Anderson's case, Turè also said the use of a stun gun was an unnecessary use of force against someone who he said "passively resisted" officers. Advocates pointed out that Anderson could have been <a href="https://www.insider.com/calls-for-mental-health-help-turn-deadly-recent-police-shootings-2022-9">suffering from a mental health crisis. </a>On Friday, Anderson's family filed a $50-million wrongful-death claim against the city of Los Angeles, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-20/keenan-andersons-family-files-50-million-legal-claim-against-la-after-he-died-following-tasering-by-lapd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Los Angeles Times reported</a>, which alleged the use of the stun gun resulted in injuries that led to Anderson's death."We saw a man who was afraid," said attorney Carl Douglas said of the body camera footage during a news conference, according to the LA Times. "We saw a man who was unarmed and compliant."The LAPD did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

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