There’s an awful lot of money to be made by creating lifelong medical patients who need “gender-affirming care.” We’ve said that before. The Daily Signal’s Jarrett Stepman has the latest on the leftward transition of the medical establishment.

The American Medical Association recently passed a series of resolutions in the name of diversity, equity and inclusion that highlight how elite, professional organizations have been deeply compromised by ideology.

… The AMA, which accredits medical schools and has enormous power over the medical profession, passed a series of resolutions in mid-June denouncing legislation that would prevent “gender-affirming care” for minors and in support of racial preferences in higher education.

Obviously, he says, “Supporting ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors is bad enough, but affirmative action? That issue would seemingly be out of the purview of medicine.” Of course it is, but nothing is out of reach for the woke monster.

The AMA explained in its amicus brief that “diversity in the education of the nation’s physicians and other health care professionals is a medical imperative.” The best argument that the association could come up with for why enforced racial preferences are a “medical imperative” is that, according to some research, having diverse doctors improves outcomes for patients.

That’s a dubious premise, but given the power of the DEI ideology, would they ever acknowledge studies that demonstrated the opposite?

The Associated Press did just publish an investigative series purporting to find racism almost literally everywhere in medicine. Such “systemic racism” is the dogma of the Left. To wit, Stepman writes:

The DEI cult never seems to need actual positive results to conclude that all diversity efforts are beneficial. It doesn’t matter how shallow, silly, expensive, or directly harmful the initiatives are, they are always promoted as good and necessary. …

And those diversity efforts, according to the AMA, require racial preferences and discrimination.

The AMA said in a press release that it maintains “unequivocal opposition to legislation that would dissolve affirmative action or punish institutions for employing race-conscious admissions.”

Importantly, Stepman offers this analysis:

Institutional science and medicine are going woke, abandoning professional standards and even common sense, it seems. Their gatekeeping power remains immense, though. This is, in effect, how the ruling elites rule. They use generations of institutional trust and their overwhelming power over who may or may not enter the ranks of the managerial elite to browbeat society into accepting the most extreme elements of the cultural revolution.

Ultimately, “Woke ideology spreads like a cancer.” Fortunately, though, “We, the people, still have the power to change the course we are on if we choose to do so.”

Read the whole thing here.