Please vote “no” on this petition. CE should not be “required” on any one subject. Thank you! 

This is not why this medical board exists. Doing this would undermine the legitimacy of the board's true purpose and mission. This board's role is extremely important with life and death consequences that result from how these CE hrs are utilized.

The question is simple:

Do you want to be a medical board and improve patient care?

OR

Do you want to be a politicized lever for various non-medical agendas and be the laughing stock of the veterinary community?

It's a nice topic but it's irrelevant for this board.

Training of this sort has been shown to be completely ineffective to the stated goals of the programs and may actually do more harm than good. The purveyors of these programs have a leftist political agenda that is evolved from Marxist doctrine.

The programs are inherently racist as they focus on identifying of groups of people based on immutable characteristics. They reject any notion of objective competency or character issues without first considering historical wrongs that may have been committed against people with these immutable characteristics.

Judging people by their immutable characteristics is, and always has been, wrong no matter whether for favoritism or for discrimination. When a program undertakes to set people apart and treat them differently based on skin color, sex, gender identity or sexual preference, it is wrong. It doesn't matter what are the intentions.

These “training” sessions continue to alienate us as a society and only further divide us rather than unite us.  Many of these class providers have little to no verifiable training and certification to teach people on these very delicate topics.  Please trust in your fellow American that they will treat others with respect and dignity.  Do not force this “training”.