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Shocking revelation woke Biden administration scientists spent millions turning monkeys and mice transgender [1]

['Cassidy Morrison Senior', 'Cassidy Morrison Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com']

Date: 2025-02-07 23:29:47+00:00

South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace slammed the Biden administration for using more than $10million in taxpayer money to fund ‘painful and deadly transgender experiments' on mice.

According to Ms Mace, the experiments 'forced lab animals to undergo invasive surgeries and hormone therapies.’

In a hearing last week, she detailed findings from the White Coat Waste Project, which revealed the NIH had issued over $240 million grants for transgender animal experiments, including $26 million in active funding to support studies into the effects of feminizing and masculinizing hormones in mice.

Ms Mace said in her opening statement: ‘The Biden-Harris Administration was so eager to propagate their radical gender ideology across all facets of American society that they did not pause to consider that such experiments are not only cruel, but unnecessary.’

The research sought to understand how hormones might influence wound healing, how gender-affirming hormone therapy impacts the immune system, reproductive function, and heart health.

Early stages of research like this are often conducted in mice because they share many genetic similarities with humans, making them a comparable model for studying human biology.

There’s no sign of grant funding being revoked, but the Trump administration aimed to cut the NIH’s budget.

President Trump’s federal spending freeze initially disrupted NIH grants but was quickly reversed due to confusion.

Rep Nancy Mace cited the White Coat Waste Project’s findings, which showed the NIH had granted over 10 federal funds to universities and hospitals for studies on feminizing and masculinizing hormones in mice

Scientific research is often conducted in mice because they share many genetic similarities with humans, making them a comparable model for studying human biology

Rep Mace said in an Oversight Committee hearing titled ‘Transgender Lab Rats and Poisoned Puppies: Oversight of Taxpayer Funded Animal Cruelty,’ that the Biden administration had allowed taxpayer dollars to fund ‘surgically mutating animal genitals.’

The studies identified by White Coat Waste received grant funds for a wide range of amounts from $48,000 to over $3million.

The organization provided a list of 10 problematic grants to the committee.

Justin Goodman, WCW’s senior vice president of advocacy and public policy, said the true totals are actually much higher: 'Some of these tests examine the effects of sex party drugs or the impact of hormones used for human gender transitions on the size and shape of lab animals’ genitals.’

The study with the most funding on WCW’s list explored how estrogen influenced lung inflammation caused by asthma by administering hormones to mice.

The intended purpose was to understand the sex-specific effects of estrogen in asthma, with the goal of developing personalized treatments for women.

Another study, which received $1.1million in grant funding, investigated how sex hormones affect the way GHB - a rave drug popular among the LGBTQ+ community – is processed in the body.

The intended purpose was to better understand how sex hormones influence the transporters in the body that affect GHB's clearance and toxicity.

White Coat Waste found that grants ranged from $48,000 to over $3 million. According to Justin Goodman [pictured], WCW’s senior VP of advocacy and public policy, the actual totals are much higher. He noted that some studies examine the effects of party drugs or gender-transition hormones on lab animals’ genitalia

The above chart shows insurance claims for diagnoses of gender dysphoria by year - they have doubled since 2017

Mice constitute around 95 percent of laboratory animals used in research, ranging from studies on gender transition treatments to potential cancer cures and heart disease drugs.

It is standard for any experimental medication to undergo animal testing, but while scientists can give mice hormone treatments to study biological effects, this does not make them 'transgender' in the way humans use the term.

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Rep Mace cited another study in which ‘federal funds were also used to forcibly transition male monkeys to see if hormone therapy made them more susceptible to HIV.

‘Monkeys cannot be infected with HIV. Yet this federally funded experiment forced them to take hormone-altering drugs to study a virus they cannot have.'

Monkeys cannot be infected with HIV - human immunodeficiency virus - but they can be infected with SIV – simian immunodeficiency virus – which is a well-established model for studying HIV in humans.

Research on SIV has helped scientists better understand HIV transmission, progression, and treatment.

Mr Goodman said: 'Taxpayer-funded animal testing is the poster child for waste, fraud and abuse.

'Wasteful spending on animal testing is a government-wide epidemic that's especially relevant to the Oversight Committee and this Subcommittee concerned with innovation and security.'

This chart shows insurance claims for puberty blockers in the US by year. It shows claims have doubled since 2017

There is no indication that grant funding will be rescinded or the research stopped, but the Trump administration has pledged to slash the NIH’s funding.

When President Donald Trump gained office, he issued a sweeping freeze on federal spending, which upended the NIH’s grant-making process.

Given the confusion it caused, however, the president quickly walked back the freeze.

The Trump administration slashed funding for medical research last week, impacting study into treatments for heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and more.

On Friday, the NIH announced it would limit grant-funded indirect research costs to 15 percent, cutting the current 30 percent average in half.

The administration anticipates cutes, which include those to more than 400,000 jobs, will save about $4 billion.

The Association of American Medical Colleges said the government's support of indirect facilities and administrative costs 'allows medical research to happen.'

The move will 'diminish the nation's research capacity, slowing scientific progress and depriving patients, families, and communities across the country of new treatments, diagnostics, and preventative interventions,' the group said in a statement.

Transgender health care, including hormone therapies and puberty blockers, have become flashpoints in an ongoing culture war, with 26 states enacting restrictions on access to them.

It was a marquee issue during the 2024 election, with Mr Trump pledging to undo protections for trans people from discrimination and access to healthcare.

He said last October: 'I will take historic action to defeat the toxic poison of gender ideology and reaffirm that God created two genders, male and female.'

The curbs to trans rights are part of the administration's attempt to fight back against 'gender ideology'.

One of his first executive orders rescinded a long list of Biden-era policies. For instance, he changed gender' to 'sex' on government forms.

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