CNN Goes to Bat for the Scientific Use of ‘Pregnant People’
30th August 2025
Public health officials have a long way to go before they regain the public’s trust, and a regrettable Thursday segment on CNN’s The Source showed just how little some in the industry and in the media care. Amid some weak questioning from host Kaitlan Collins, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who recently resigned as the CDC’s Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, trumpeted his use of the term “pregnant people” and his pronouns.
Collins teed up a clip from the day’s White House press briefing, “Dr. Daskalakis, you were specifically referenced today, during the White House press briefing. I’m not sure if you saw this, but I want—I want everyone to listen to what the press secretary had to say today.”
In the clip, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt declared, “One of those individuals wrote in his departure statement that he identifies pregnant women as pregnant people. So that’s not someone who we want in this administration, anyway.”
Collins then simply put the ball on the tee, “I want to give you the chance to respond to that.”
CNN, like all of the Wokerati, know that it is through redefining terms that the Left has successfully dominated discussions of public (and private) policy. Their objective is to eliminate ThoughtCrime, and the way you do that is by giving people no tool with which to express their divergence from the Narrative.