Top Medical School Admits It Is Still Transing Kids Despite Taking Nearly $1 Billion In Federal Dollars

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.

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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 35 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.

“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.”

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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.

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.

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“It’s ridiculous,” Miller said.