The Chancellor of one of America’s most prestigious medical schools testified before Congress Tuesday. Under oath. And he could not bring himself to state, clearly and directly, that only women get pregnant.Rep. Randy Fine asked the question that shouldn’t require asking: “Who else gets pregnant besides women?”
Dr. Sam Hawgood, Chancellor of UCSF, answered: “Transgender men.”
Fine’s response was exactly right: “That is insane.”
Because it is. A “transgender man” is a biological female. A biological female who becomes pregnant is a woman who is pregnant. The progressive language gymnastics that produce the phrase “transgender men get pregnant” are not medicine. They are ideology wearing a lab coat — and the fact that the Chancellor of a major American medical school cannot state basic reproductive biology under oath tells you everything about how completely the DEI takeover of academic medicine has succeeded.
The exchange got worse from there. Fine pressed Hawgood to at least use his own framework consistently: if a transgender woman is a woman, then who are these “other people” getting pregnant if not women? Hawgood twisted himself into a semantic pretzel trying to avoid saying “transgender men” — offering “transgender person” as a dodge — before Fine finally dragged the answer out of him word by word.
“Transgender men get pregnant,” Hawgood finally conceded.
“That is insane,” Fine said again. He was right both times.
It didn’t end there. Rep. Miller asked Hawgood a direct yes-or-no question: has a non-biological woman ever had a baby? Simple. Binary. Answerable in one word.
He couldn’t do it. The Chancellor of UCSF — a man who runs an institution that trains the next generation of American doctors — sat before Congress and refused to state whether a biological male has ever given birth.
The answer is no. It has never happened. It cannot happen. No amount of hormone therapy, surgical intervention, or ideological commitment changes the basic biological reality that pregnancy requires female reproductive anatomy. This is not a controversial position in medicine. It is medicine.
What Tuesday’s hearing exposed is something conservatives have been warning about for years: DEI ideology hasn’t just infected university diversity offices and HR departments. It has penetrated the medical and scientific establishment so deeply that the chancellor of a major research institution will torture the English language under congressional oath rather than state a biological fact that every person alive already knows.
This is who is training America’s doctors. This is the ideology being embedded in medical education, hospital policy, healthcare administration, and clinical guidelines — not as an optional philosophical framework, but as mandatory orthodoxy that anyone who wants to advance in academic medicine had better not question publicly.
Randy Fine called it insane. He’s right.
The DEI hearing made the stakes concrete: this isn’t about pronouns and bathroom policies. It’s about whether American medicine will be grounded in biology or in ideology.The Chancellor of UCSF just answered that question — and he answered it badly.