Two academic leaders from medical schools struggled to give direct answers about which types of people can have babies during a House hearing on DEI in medical schools on Tuesday.
We are in serious trouble as a country if we cannot agree on basic, scientific facts like these:
Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL): Dr. Hawgood, UCSF’s [University of California – San Francisco] classroom guide titled “Framework for Gender and Sex Concepts in Teaching” advises against using the term “pregnant women. Instead, it says to use “pregnant people.”Who are pregnant people compared to pregnant women? Just curious.Dr. Sam Hawgood, Chancellor of UCSF: So that is a part of a curriculum to help our students who are facing a wide diversity of patients. Of course, the vast majority of pregnancies are in women, and I have absolutely no problem with using the word “pregnant women.” I use it myself.Miller: Has a non-biological woman ever had a baby?Hawgood: A transgender person can.Miller: That’s not a biological woman. Has a non-biological woman ever had a baby?Hawgood: I would reiterate…Miller: No. It’s ridiculous.Hawgood: …we take care of transgender patients.
Watch the two clips below:
Miller stumped Dr. Steve Dubinett, dean of the UCLA School of Medicine:
Miller: Can someone have a uterus but not be a woman? Because it seems like your school is promoting that ridiculous idea.Dubinett: I think, again, as Dr. Hoggood has described, we’re treating transgender people, but we’re doing that in compliance with state and federal law.Miller: And you do teach biology?Dubinett: Yes we do.Miller: I’m gonna ask you again. Can someone have a uterus and not be a woman? Just say yes or no. Can they?Dubinett: Again, I would, I would need to…Miller: That’s what your medical school is promoting.
This was another exchange. From FOX News:
“Lastly, Dr. Dubinett, a required course at UCLA medical school advises ob-gyn students not to, and, I quote, assume gender identity,” Miller told Dr. Steve Dubinett, dean of UCLA School of Medicine.”OK, from another class in May of 2026. It included a disclaimer that while it uses the term she and women, it does not intend to exclude, and I quote, ‘those who have a uterus but do not identify with these terms.’ What does that even mean?”
Watch his response:
During the same hearing, Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-CT) chastised the deans for not injecting colonialism into the curriculum:
I am incredibly disappointed that, as academic deans, you could not immediately answer the question about teaching colonialism in healthcare. Teaching colonialism directly addresses the systemic roots of healthcare inequities. It exposes how historic power structures dictate who receives quality care. It’s important for future doctors to have that education, to recognize how that historic legacy promotes biases and and negatively impairs outcomes. That’s why you teach colonialism in healthcare.I am equally as disappointed to hear that we have deans from California universities, specifically, who can’t immediately say that the Black Panther Party was central to healthcare discussions.
The root of this entire problem is fear of the left. You can see and hear it in the responses of these deans. People in higher education are absolutely terrified by the idea of a mob of leftists coming after them for not affirming their views.
Until we get past that, none of this will change.
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