UCSF chancellor flubs biology but aces Evasion 101

The head of a prestigious health sciences university, of all people, should understand simple biology.Yet Dr.Sam Hawgood, a pediatrician and the chancellor of UC San Francisco, this week struggled to concede that only women can bear children.Under questioning from Illinois Rep.

Mary Miller at a House committee hearing on DEI in medicine, the good doctor prevaricated.Miller: “Has a nonbiological woman ever had a baby?”Hawgood: “A transgender person can.”Miller: That’s not a nonbiological woman (and she repeated the question).California's top news, sports and entertainment delivered to your inbox every day.

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Never miss a story Hawgood: “I would reiterate we take care of transgender patients.”Oh dear. Let’s be real here: The advice to say “pregnant people” and not “pregnant women” –– which appears in UCSF’s “Framework for Gender and Sex Concepts in Teaching” –– is not just wrong.It’s ludicrous.“Pregnant people” is right up there with “birthing person” and “sex assigned at birth” as a phrase that contravenes reality. And reorienting the language of an entire nation around transgenderism, in true Orwellian style, is bananas.California's top news, sports and entertainment delivered to your inbox every day.

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Never miss a story It’s an insult to women everywhere to use words that would erase the reproductive capacity that makes them distinct, instead claiming that any man, anytime, can be a woman –– and be the same, like magic!No biological man/nonbiological woman has ever given birth, because it’s physically impossible.The fact that Hawgood –– an accomplished physician and administrator with reported annu...