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Word ‘obesity’ exacts ‘violence on fat people,’ course claimed
University of California Los Angeles and University of California San Francisco medical schools each removed requirements for certain diversity, equity, and inclusion courses following reports by the Washington Free Beacon.
The schools told the House Committee on Education and Workforce this month “that they had discontinued mandatory social justice courses that claimed weight loss is a ‘hopeless endeavor’ and endorsed unlawful takeovers of public infrastructure,” according to the Free Beacon.
School officials provided testimonies on UCLA’s “Structural Racism and Health Equity” course and UCSF’s “Justice and Advocacy in Medicine” course while the Trump administration is investigating the first-year curricula at these schools.
The UCLA course condemned the use of the word “obesity,” claiming it is “used to exact violence on fat people.”
The San Francisco medical school’s social justice course “promoted an anti-Israel protest that shut down the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, delaying the delivery of frozen organs and putting transplant patients at risk,” the Free Beacon reported.
UC San Francisco chancellor Sam Hawgood said the course didn’t meet the school’s “standards for relevance and scholarship.”
The courses were created to comply with since-removed accreditation standards mandating that medical schools teach “the importance of health care disparities and health inequities.”
At the hearing, committee chair Tim Walberg said, “These classes are filled with propaganda.”
“They are focused on topics that have nothing to do with medical science—because they seek to make medical students not into competent doctors, but into far-left activists,” he said.
Other medical schools have also been accused of teaching ideologically-driven content.
A 2025 Speech First report found that top medical schools are enforcing beliefs such as “weight inclusivity,” racial justice, and gender ideology on their staff and students, The College Fix previously reported.
For example, the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School offers a “Developing Outstanding Clinical Skills” program that teaches students to embrace “weight inclusivity, arguing that weight-loss strategies foster a ‘culture of shame.’”
Students also are instructed to avoid terms such as “overweight” or “obese.”
Additionally, the Oregon Health & Science University and Portland State University School of Public Health hosts an initiative to combat “anti-fat bias,” according to its webpage.
“The purpose of the Fat Justice Working Group is to engage students, faculty and staff of the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health (SPH) in learning, activities and advocacy to reduce weight stigma and anti-fat bias in ourselves, our School and society at large,” the webpage states.
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