The Trump administration will pull the nomination of Dr. Janette Nesheiwat to be surgeon general following reports that she inflated her credentials, Fox Business reported.
Nesheiwat has described herself as a double board-certified physician with a degree from the University of Arkansas School of Medicine. But Nesheiwat actually earned her medical degree from the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, in St. Maarten.
Nesheiwat has also been criticized by conservatives for touting the idea that children can identity as a gender that differs from their biological sex.
“But the most important thing of all of this is no matter what gender your child identifies as, accept them and love them for who they are,” she said on Fox News in 2022.
Nesheiwat’s nomination hearing was scheduled for May 8 before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.