Rep. Mary Miller Calls Out Gender and DEI Ideology in Medical Schools

The United States House of Representatives held hearings this week on how diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) ideology is harming medical schools. They took place in the House Committee on Education and Workforce and were properly entitled, “Training Activists, Not Physicians: The Impact of DEI on Medical Schools.”

The committee certainly learned this was true, as we shall see.

Committee Chair Congressman Tim Walberg (MI), in calling the proceedings to order, explained, “Last August, the Education and Workforce Committee opened investigations into three medical schools before us today.” Those schools are the David Geffen Medical School at UCLA, the University of California, San Francisco and University of Illinois College of Medicine. He explained, “It soon became clear that the antisemitism that we were investigating was the result of a deeper problem. It was a result of the activist infrastructure that these schools had themselves constructed.”

Illinois Congresswoman Mary Miller said in an opening statement, “The Hippocratic Oath states that physicians will ‘do no harm or injustice to their patients.’” She continued, “Unfortunately many medical schools have abandoned this oath, not only by advocating for abortion and child mutilation, but also by allowing political activism into the exam room in the form of DEI.” Rep. Miller said medical schools should be teaching their students to save all lives under their care, “even the unborn, which thanks to technology, we have a window into the womb. They are babies.”

Things got particularly interesting when the basic medical fact of biological reality came up.

Rep. Miller asked Dr. Sam Hawgood, a specialist in neonatology and Chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), about his school’s classroom guide entitled,“Framework for Gender and Sex Concepts in Teaching,” which advises against using the term “pregnant women” in favor of “pregnant people.” Her question to Dr. Hawgood was direct and clear: “Who are pregnant people compared to pregnant women?”

He answered with this stunner: “Of course, the vast majority of pregnancies are in women.” Yet, he quickly assured the committee, “I have no problem using the term ‘pregnant women.’ I use it myself.”

It is remarkable that a medical professional of any tier would say such a dumb thing. But that is what the hegemony of gender ideology has created in our nation’s institutions.

You can see Dr. Hawgood’s ridiculous answer for yourself here:

Even Caitlin Flanagin, a long-time writer for The Atlantic, posted to X after this incredible display of ideological brainwashing, “Middle-aged, well-educated man understands that this weird incantation is necessary for career success.”

It is shameful. Leaders like Dr. Hawgood know they need to dutifully parrot wild non-sense statements like, “Of course, the vast majority of pregnancies are in women,” because they know who is running their institutions: DEI officials and gender ideologues. It is literally safer for him to say such things to Congress than speak medical truth to his activist faculty and students. This is not leadership. It is not science. He might as well refer to horoscopes as a medical tool, for that is just as serious as the house of cards gender theory rests upon.

Gender ideology makes really smart people say really dumb things. Gender pronouns and other such language are the introductory catechism of a new pagan faith. No one should ever use them in a misguided desire to be kind or compassionate. They inevitably lead to not being able to truthfully say what a man or woman is.

We see evidence of this on a regular basis.