At some point, in some matters, basic realities have to be acknowledged. In some of these instances, it can literally be a matter of life and death, for example, in medicine. And yet there are always those who insist on blurring these lines, even in basic biology, even in medicine.
That can be dangerous. The facts are plain: Humans are mammals, and as mammals, we are sexually bipolar. Humans are members of the clade Eutheria, in which sex is determined genetically, at conception; for most eutherian mammals, including us, that means an XY chromosome pairing produces a male, and an XX pairing, a female. There are a few exceptions (and the monotreme mammals, like the platypus, do some really bizarre stuff with sex chromosomes) but in humans, it's XX or XY, barring a few unusual and rare genetic abnormalities.
Now, a grown man can put on a dress and claim to be a woman, and nobody much cares. But when the leaders of our nation's medical schools - the people that are teaching people to be doctors, to provide health care to Americans, can't admit these basic realities, then we have a problem.
And yet, on Tuesday, in a hearing in the House of Representatives, that's precisely what happened. Representative Mary Miller (IL-15) grilled a number of medical school deans, and these scions of our healthcare education establishment refused to admit that men can't have babies.
Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., asked two university medical leaders in a tense hearing Tuesday to directly answer whether non-biological women can have babies and didn’t receive a straight answer, prompting a fiery statement from the congresswoman to Fox News Digital.
"Doctor (Sam) Hawgood, you see UCSFs Classroom Guide, titled ‘Framework for Gender and Sex Concepts in Teaching,’ advises against using the term pregnant women," Miller told the chancellor of the University of California San Francisco in an Education and Workforce Committee hearing on DEI's impact in medical schools.
"Instead, it says to use pregnant people. Who are pregnant people compared to pregnant women? Just curious."
It gets worse.
"Has a non-biological woman ever had a baby?" Miller asked, and Hawgood responded that a "transgender person can."
"That's not a biological woman. Has a non-biological woman ever had a baby?" Miller shot back.
Hawgood responded, "I would reiterate" before Miller interrupted saying, "It’s ridiculous."
"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?"
Look, at some point, facts must be paramount. Woke must give way to truth. The delivery of medical care is one of those times.
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Our oldest daughter is an emergency medicine doc with over 15 years of experience. She has related to me several times how "transgender" individuals have come in with, say, abdominal pain, and insist on being called whatever sex they are transitioning to - she replies with "I don't care how you identify, I have to know what parts you have, because if you're actually a man, you might have gas, but if you're actually a woman you could have an ectopic pregnancy that could kill you." Too many of these people still resist examination and evaluation.
But those are individuals, responsible for no one but themselves. Medical schools should know better. The training of physicians, and the delivery of healthcare, must be rooted in science, in fact, and the fact is, no man, no adult male human, has a uterus. No man, no adult male human, can have a baby. Only women, no matter what any one woman may choose to claim to be, can become pregnant. Only women can have babies.
This isn't exactly news.
Note that the deans being interviewed in this hearing aren't just practitioners. They aren't even individual educators. These are the people who are setting the curriculum of medical schools, and they are unable to admit that only women can have babies.This virus has spread well beyond the medical community. Note that, in the hearing, even Rep. Miller was using the term "biological woman," which is a redundancy. Sex is a matter of biology. Biology is a matter of science. Science is the study of facts, and the facts are that humans are sexually bipolar, male and female, and in the delivery of healthcare, that's the only determination that matters.
This is a shameful miscarriage of the very system of education that produces our nation's primary healthcare providers.
Our systems of education have been badly broken for some time. Higher education is certainly no exception, but there's a major difference between some knucklehead pursuing a Gender Studies degree and someone studying to be a physician. The Gender Studies major is only harming himself, or herself, or xeself, of flippity-floppity-floofself, or whatever they may choose to identify as. But medical students are learning to save lives. There's no room for the kind of shameful woke horse squeeze that these deans of American medical schools are shoveling out.
