Physicians hold a place of honor and respect in our society and, until recently, rightfully so. Medical school admission relied on merit, and years of rigorous, exhausting work preceded a newly minted doctor’s entry into practice. While every profession has always been limited by having to hire exclusively from the human race, the medical profession zealously upheld the highest standards of science and professional skill.

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There are always exceptions, but one could be reasonably sure, until recently, that just about any physician knew what they were doing. One could rest assured that physicians understood that there are fundamental differences between men and women and that failing to recognize those differences could have destructive, even deadly, consequences. Men, not producing eggs or having uteri, could not become pregnant and, having no vaginas, could not deliver children. Women, not producing sperm or having penises to deliver it, could not impregnate women or anything else.

But then-Supreme Court Justice nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, admitting she was not a biologist, set a precedent that educated people have no idea what a woman might be. It was a precedent even medical schools gladly adopted because it freed them from the burdens of stodgy old science and opened new horizons of gender-free, simultaneously inclusive non-medicine.

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At a recent congressional hearing, the chancellor of the University of California at San Francisco, a medical doctor and presumably a biologist, had no idea what a woman, or a woman’s anatomy, might be either:

I can't believe this is real.

The Chancellor of UC San Francisco testified under oath that a "vast majority of pregnancies are in women." Implying some pregnancies occur in men.

When asked directly whether a non-biological woman has ever had a baby, he refused to answer. This… pic.twitter.com/mNk8f1eCDa

— Jenn Pellegrino 🇺🇸 (@JennPellegrino) July 14, 2026

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.”

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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 words “pregnant women.” I use them myself.

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Miller: Has a non-biological woman ever had a baby?

Hawgood: A transgender person can.

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Miller: That’s not a biological woman. Has a non-biological woman ever had a baby?

Hawgood: I would reiterate…

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Miller: No. It’s ridiculous.

Hawgood: …we take care of transgender patients.

The dean of the UCLA School of Medicine did no better:

A so-called "medical professional" and Dean at UCLA's School of Medicine @dgsomucla doesn't understand basic biology.

Here's a fun fact for Dr. Steve Dubinett: Someone with a uterus is a woman.

It's embarrassing that this even has to be said. pic.twitter.com/cT3dFSjw3t

— Rep. Mary Miller (@RepMaryMiller) July 14, 2026

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. Hawgood 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.

Fox provides more of Dubinett’s lunacy:

“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?”

Dubinett was unable to explain what that meant, yet this is a dean at one of America’s premier medical schools, a man responsible for the training of America’s future physicians.

Such is the destruction DEI has wrought. How hard can it be for these supposedly learned physicians to admit that men are men, women are women, trans people are mentally ill, and, when men pretend to be women, have menstrual cramps, or even become pregnant, it’s the duty of physicians to refer them for appropriate mental health treatment, which does not include feeding their delusions?

Yet so caught up in DEI are they, and so afraid of being called a transphobe, that they harm mentally ill patients, prescribe hormones that will forever alter them, and perform surgeries that mutilate even children. The fact that they do such things demonstrates that they know very well what women and men are but feel the need to bow to deranged social pressure and abandon science.

One would hope exceptional young men and women are still being admitted to medical school and would recognize this kind of instruction as the dangerous nonsense it is, but one really can’t count on that anymore, can one? After all, DEI admissions guarantee that plenty of students will buy into it and God only knows what else.

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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, lifelong athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer, and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.

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