California Post91%
UCSF chancellor flubs biology –– but aces Evasion 101 96%
By CA Post Editorial Board100%
7/16/2026, 12:36:37 AM
Keywords: California, Dei, Doctors, Hearing, Medical School, San Francisco, Transgender, Ucla, US House Of Representatives, Opinion
BS Summary: This article contains 29 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Politically Right Leaning Bias, and Ad Hominem, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 87.3% saturation with 338 hits. Analysis detected 1,867 faulty-reasoning hits from 387 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 94.3% and a BS Rank of 96% (645 of 16,140 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 96.00% of the article peer group.
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).
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 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 annual compensation of $1 million –– could not admit that, in clear terms, does not reflect well on him, his institution, or the state of medical-school training generally.
Instead, it suggests that Hawgood and others like him are more interested in genuflecting to far-left ideology than they are in basic medical reality.
And they’re training the next generation of doctors?
At best, medical students lose valuable instructional time to lectures on politics dressed up as inclusion.
At worst, Californians get less competent doctors who may care more about gender theory than healing patients.
Another side effect of putting ideology above truth: the erosion of trust in authority.
Who can forget Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s inability to define “woman” during her 2022 Supreme Court confirmation hearings?
Her credibility has never fully recovered.
The same fate awaits Hawgood and Dr.
Steve Dubinett, dean of UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine.
Dubinett likewise stumbled through the House committee hearing on DEI –– stumped, apparently, by the question of whether someone can have a uterus but not be a woman.
What a spectacle.
Before the House and the world, these esteemed doctors aced Evasion 101 but flubbed tests of truth, leadership and basic science.
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