Pregnant Women Suffer More Miscarriages When They Fall for 'Trans' Nonsense
This story raises questions about governance, accountability, and American values.
Watching Dr. Sam Hawgood twist himself into knots over a four-word sentence tells you everything about where academic medicine has landed. Randy Fine asked him a simple question: can men get pregnant?
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This story is important to bring up in light of the embarrassing testimony of Dr. Sam Hawgood, the chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco. Hawgood repeatedly told Congress that 'most pregnant people are women' but refused to say what he really thought: that some 'men' can get pregnant, too.
Rep. Randy Fine pushed Hawgood to admit what we all knew he wanted to say: that some 'pregnant people' are 'trans men.'
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Watching Dr. Sam Hawgood twist himself into knots over a four-word sentence tells you everything about where academic medicine has landed. Randy Fine asked him a simple question: can men get pregnant? Hawgood, chancellor of one of the top medical schools in the country, wouldn't answer it plainly. He'd concede "most pregnant people are women" like he was handing over state secrets, but he wouldn't finish the thought. Everyone in that room knew exactly what he believed and exactly why he wouldn't say it out loud.
That's the real story here, not just an awkward hearing clip. When the people running medical institutions won't say a sentence as basic as "pregnant women are women" without hedging, it's not caution. It's cowardice dressed up as inclusivity. And it filters straight down into how care gets delivered, what language goes on intake forms, what a scared, pregnant woman is called by the people supposed to be looking after her.
Language isn't a side issue in medicine. If doctors and hospital administrators are more worried about offending an ideology than being direct with patients, something in the chain of care gets lost. Women deserve clarity from the people treating them, especially in moments as vulnerable as pregnancy. Renaming reality doesn't make anyone safer. It just makes the people saying it feel better about themselves.
Fine deserves credit for not letting Hawgood slide past the question with academic mush. That's what oversight is supposed to look like: not gotcha theater, just refusing to accept an answer that isn't actually an answer. If the people running our medical schools can't say plainly who gets pregnant, they've got no business lecturing anyone about following the science.
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