House Hearing: Med School Deans Now Humiliated by Biology
Miller questioned medical school leaders about gender-inclusive language and pregnancy in medical education.

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TAP FOR WHYRedState is a partisan outlet, and this page is explicitly opinion rather than original straight-news reporting. The named author and attributed quotations provide some transparency, but the piece offers little independent sourcing or engagement with competing views.
- Source type — Opinion-first partisan outlet; this is explicitly an opinion article.
- Editorial standards — The argument relies substantially on assertions and a personal anecdote rather than documented independent reporting.
- Author attribution — The article names its author and identifies the speakers whose remarks it quotes.
The piece includes specific quotations from a congressional hearing and identifies the speakers, but it is a strongly argued opinion article with little sourcing beyond those remarks and an anecdote. It does not present the deans’ fuller explanations or other perspectives on the medical and educational issues.
HOW WE SCORE ↗The article primarily advances one side of a contested issue. It quotes the deans’ brief responses but gives little context for their views or the educational guidance being discussed.
- Counterarguments presented — The deans’ brief replies appear, but their reasoning and broader perspective are not developed.
- Loaded language — Repeatedly uses pejorative wording about the views and curriculum it opposes.
- Source diversity — Relies on hearing exchanges and the author’s personal anecdote, without outside expert perspectives.
The article uses strongly approving language for its own position and disparaging terms for gender-inclusive approaches, while presenting no comparable case for those approaches. Its framing is distinctly conservative on the issue.
- Language tone — Uses loaded phrases such as “woke horse squeeze” and “shameful” to condemn the curriculum and the deans’ responses.
- Framing — Frames the hearing as a conflict between biological facts and gender-inclusive language, in favor of the former.
- Source selection — Quotes Miller and the deans but offers no independent expert or alternative perspective.
At a House hearing, Rep. Mary E. Miller questioned medical school leaders about gender-inclusive language and whether transgender people can become pregnant. The opinion article argues that medical education should be grounded in biological sex.
Rep. Mary E. Miller questioned University of California San Francisco Chancellor Sam Hawgood about guidance recommending the term “pregnant people,” and asked whether a non-biological woman had ever had a baby. Hawgood replied that a transgender person can. Miller also questioned UCLA School of Medicine Dean Steve Dubinett about course materials addressing gender identity.
The author argues that medical education and health care should rely on biological sex, and criticizes the deans’ responses and the curriculum guidance discussed at the hearing. The article also includes the author’s account of conversations with his daughter, an emergency medicine doctor, about the importance of knowing patients’ anatomy.
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Representative questioning medical school leaders at a House hearing
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8 OUTLETSAt a House hearing on medical-school curricula, Mary Miller questioned university medical leaders about pregnancy-related terminology. Center outlets present the exchange chiefly through Republican lawmakers’ criticism of inclusive terminology, while noting administrators’ defense of their programs as preparing physicians for diverse patients. Right-leaning outlets more often frame the exchange as a conflict between inclusive language and biological science, with some tying it to DEI’s influence on medical education.
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- townhall.com · Head of Top California Med School Couldn't Say This Biological Fact During a Congressional Hearing
- Daily Mail · Woke California medical school boss offers worrying answer when asked if only women can get pregnant at congressional hearing
- New York Post · Head of top California medical school squirms when asked whether only women can get pregnant
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