By Derek Vanbuskirk
University of California, San Francisco’s (UCSF) Chancellor Dr. Sam Hawgood said Tuesday his medical school still administers gender transition-related care despite having received more than $800 million in federal funds in 2025.
Hawgood admitted doing so while serving as a witness at the House Committee on Education and Workforce hearing Tuesday entitled, “Training Activists, Not Physicians: The Impact of DEI on Medical Schools.”
“We have transgender programs for both pediatrics and adults,” Hawgood said under oath, while clarifying that they do not offer surgery to patients under 18 but that they do give puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children.
Hawgood said they are following the recommendations of professional associations in North America.
Republican Missouri Rep. Bob Onder, who was questioning Hawgood, said that continuing the practice would ignore recommendations from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the United Kingdom, Finland, and Sweden.
UCSF Chancellor Dr. Sam Hawgood: “We have transgender programs for both pediatrics and adults.”
ONDER: “Your transgender clinic does continue to give puberty blockers and wrong sex hormones to children?”
HAWGOOD: “Correct.” pic.twitter.com/rjRDPjyQuf
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 14, 2026
“It’s not a program that I am an expert in,” Hawgood responded, adding that UCSF also abides by federal and state law.
A week after President Donald Trump started his second term, he signed an executive order with the stated goal of “Defunding Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” calling for the heads of departments and agencies to “take appropriate steps to ensure that institutions receiving Federal research or education grants end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children.”
However, the court injunction on the executive order remains one of the few nationwide injunctions still in effect after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that judges could grant nationwide injunctions only under specific circumstances.
UCSF boasts that it received $824 million in funds from the National Institutes of Health just last year. The school says the money is being used “to drive the discovery, translational, and clinical science that leads to new treatments for disease and advances U.S. leadership in health and science.”
When Onder asked Hawgood to confirm whether medical students had been involved in the transition procedures, Hawgood responded that his eyesight was not very good despite his glasses, before the two moved on with the questioning.
“It should concern every American that one of the nation’s leading medical schools asserts that biological men can get pregnant. Watch Dr. Sam Hawgood, Chancellor of the University of California San Francisco, try to justify that nonsense,” said Congresswoman Mary Miller.
Republican Illinois Rep. Mary Miller asked Hawgood about the school’s curriculum, which advises against using the term “pregnant women” and instead embraces “pregnant people.”
Hawgood admitted that this is part of the curriculum, adding that it allows them to attend to “a wide diversity of patients.”
“Of course, the vast majority of pregnancies are in women, and I have absolutely no problem with using ‘pregnant women.’ I use it myself,” Hawgood said.
“It’s ridiculous,” Miller said.
Transgender medical procedures can harm people’s health. 95% of young transgender people on testosterone develop pelvic floor dysfunction; most have bowel issues and sexual dysfunction. As the Telegraph reported, “Around 87 per cent…had urinary symptoms such as incontinence, frequent toilet visits and bed-wetting, while 74 per cent had bowel issues including constipation or being unable to hold stools or wind in. Some 53 per cent suffered from sexual dysfunction…Almost half had an ‘orgasm disorder’, while a quarter suffered from pain during sexual intercourse.”
Transgender treatments can lead to a lifetime of pain, discomfort, and medications. As Britain’s National Health Service explains, hormones “need to be taken for the rest of your life, even if you have gender surgery.” An FDA official who supported giving minors puberty blockers conceded that they actually increase suicidality. Indeed, the “FDA knew ‘gender affirming’ puberty blockers increase ‘suicidality’ in 2017,” reported Just the News.
Even the transgender lawyer who challenged Tennessee’s restrictions on transgender treatments for kids admitted to the Supreme Court that “completed suicide is thankfully and admittedly rare” among transgender youth, even those not given gender-affirming treatment, and that “there is no evidence…that this [transgender-affirming] treatment reduces completed suicide.” The ACLU’s Chase Strangio admitted that to the Supreme Court.
Yet doctors who did sex changes often falsely told parents that they needed to give their kids a sex change to keep them from committing suicide, even though this isn’t true. One of America’s most prominent gender doctors, “Dr. Olson-Kennedy disclosed to how she speaks with parents of gender dysphoric patients: ‘We often ask parents, “Would you rather have a dead son than a live daughter?’”
