Incompetent Ass Karen Bass
2025-03-09 08:29:11 UTC
President refers to non-profit investigating taxpayer-funded experiments
on the effects of gender-affirming drugs in rodents
Donald Trump on Tuesday told Congress Elon Musk had rooted out “hundred
of billions of dollars” worth of government waste thanks to Doge.
Reeling off a long list of examples of apparent misspending, Mr Trump
said that $45 million had been spent on diversity, equity, and inclusion
scholarships in Burma, $20 million on the Arab version of Sesame Street
– and “$8 million for making mice transgender”.
“This is real,” he said.
Left-wing media outlets were quick to dismiss the claims as
misinformation. After the White House released a statement branding CNN
“fake news losers”, the outlet issued a correction to its fact check of
Mr Trump’s speech, stating that “an earlier version of this item
incorrectly characterised as false Trump’s claim”.
The president was referring to an investigation by the White Coat Waste
Project, a non-profit campaigning to stop animal testing, which
investigates taxpayer-funded experiments on the effects of
gender-affirming drugs in rodents.
Justin Goodman, senior vice-president for the lobbying group, claimed it
has documented “over $250 million spent on transgender animal
experiments over the last couple of decades”.
He added that “there are over two dozen active federal grants funding
transgender animal experiments, worth a total of $64 million”.
These include a National Institute of Health (NIH) funded project at
Duke University that allegedly received $455,000 to study how HIV
vaccines work in male mice subjected to female hormones – to imitate
human gender transitions.
In another experiment, scientists at the University of Michigan
allegedly spent $2,588,000 of an NIH grant investigating the effects of
hormone treatment in mice to imitate gender transition.
A further experiment at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre
allegedly spent $300,000 investigating breast cancer risk for
transgender people by looking at tumours in mice.
A study at Emory University funded by NIH also allegedly spent $735,000
evaluating the contribution of the gut microbiome towards gender
affirming hormone therapy in mice.
A researcher at Emory said: “We study the effects of the hormone
treatment used by transgender people on skeletal development. We want to
know if these hormones impair skeletal growth and increase the
probability of osteoporosis later in life.”
They added that the experiments are conducted in “normal mice”.
Male sex hormone treatment on female mice
Meanwhile, scientists at the University of California are alleged to
have spent $1,229,000 of NIH money looking at the effects of male sex
hormone treatment on female mice.
A final experiment at Indiana University, funded by $3,100,000 of NIH
money, looked into the effects of feminising hormone therapy on the
lungs of rodents.
Representatives for the White Coat Waste Project testified at a February
House Oversight Committee meeting chaired by Nancy Mace, in which the
South Carolina congresswoman used the examples of gender experiments on
animals to underscore concerns about government waste.
The watchdog’s representatives alleged that 95 per cent of the federal
funding comes from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases.
Mr Musk recently called government spending on research into the effects
of hormone treatment on animals “demented” in an episode of the Joe
Rogan Experience podcast.
The Tesla billionaire said the scientists were “mutilating animals”,
describing the experiments as the “worst thing you can possibly imagine
from a horror show”.
Elon Musk
Elon Musk said the scientists were ‘mutilating animals’ Credit: Chip
Somodevilla/Getty Images North America
During his first term, Mr Trump moved to restrict animal testing, with
the Environmental Protection Agency announcing plans to end the practice
by 2035.
However, the agency reportedly abandoned its plans last year amid
concerns that testing chemicals on animals remains the safest means of
reducing harm to humans.
Mr Goodman said: “We’re absolutely thrilled and honoured that the
president highlighted our investigation during the state of the union
and helped us expose wasteful government spending that’s torturing
animals in grotesque experiments.
“I think that these experiments are a great example of DEI programmes
run amok, where programmes that claim to be intended to help
marginalised people are being exploited to torture animals in sick
experiments that only benefit the mad scientists conducting them.
“I think most taxpayers agree that money should not be spent to perform
hormone therapies on lab animals to make them transgender.”
In a statement on its website, CNN said its story had been updated with
context about the spending, “which was for research studies on the
potential human health impacts of treatments used in gender-affirming care”.
Some scientists have raised concerns that Mr Trump’s comments have
misled the public into believing that the studies on mice are only for
modelling transgender hormone replacement.
One scientist said that experiments on mice have improved our
understanding of the impact of sex hormones on a whole range of conditions.
They pointed to raloxifene, a medication used to treat osteoporosis in
postmenopausal women, which they said would not have been available
without years of studying the effects of hormones on rodents.
Duke University, the University of Michigan, Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Centre, the University of California and Indiana University were
approached for comment.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/03/06/trump-said-us-spent-8m-dollars-trans-mice-he-was-right/
on the effects of gender-affirming drugs in rodents
Donald Trump on Tuesday told Congress Elon Musk had rooted out “hundred
of billions of dollars” worth of government waste thanks to Doge.
Reeling off a long list of examples of apparent misspending, Mr Trump
said that $45 million had been spent on diversity, equity, and inclusion
scholarships in Burma, $20 million on the Arab version of Sesame Street
– and “$8 million for making mice transgender”.
“This is real,” he said.
Left-wing media outlets were quick to dismiss the claims as
misinformation. After the White House released a statement branding CNN
“fake news losers”, the outlet issued a correction to its fact check of
Mr Trump’s speech, stating that “an earlier version of this item
incorrectly characterised as false Trump’s claim”.
The president was referring to an investigation by the White Coat Waste
Project, a non-profit campaigning to stop animal testing, which
investigates taxpayer-funded experiments on the effects of
gender-affirming drugs in rodents.
Justin Goodman, senior vice-president for the lobbying group, claimed it
has documented “over $250 million spent on transgender animal
experiments over the last couple of decades”.
He added that “there are over two dozen active federal grants funding
transgender animal experiments, worth a total of $64 million”.
These include a National Institute of Health (NIH) funded project at
Duke University that allegedly received $455,000 to study how HIV
vaccines work in male mice subjected to female hormones – to imitate
human gender transitions.
In another experiment, scientists at the University of Michigan
allegedly spent $2,588,000 of an NIH grant investigating the effects of
hormone treatment in mice to imitate gender transition.
A further experiment at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre
allegedly spent $300,000 investigating breast cancer risk for
transgender people by looking at tumours in mice.
A study at Emory University funded by NIH also allegedly spent $735,000
evaluating the contribution of the gut microbiome towards gender
affirming hormone therapy in mice.
A researcher at Emory said: “We study the effects of the hormone
treatment used by transgender people on skeletal development. We want to
know if these hormones impair skeletal growth and increase the
probability of osteoporosis later in life.”
They added that the experiments are conducted in “normal mice”.
Male sex hormone treatment on female mice
Meanwhile, scientists at the University of California are alleged to
have spent $1,229,000 of NIH money looking at the effects of male sex
hormone treatment on female mice.
A final experiment at Indiana University, funded by $3,100,000 of NIH
money, looked into the effects of feminising hormone therapy on the
lungs of rodents.
Representatives for the White Coat Waste Project testified at a February
House Oversight Committee meeting chaired by Nancy Mace, in which the
South Carolina congresswoman used the examples of gender experiments on
animals to underscore concerns about government waste.
The watchdog’s representatives alleged that 95 per cent of the federal
funding comes from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases.
Mr Musk recently called government spending on research into the effects
of hormone treatment on animals “demented” in an episode of the Joe
Rogan Experience podcast.
The Tesla billionaire said the scientists were “mutilating animals”,
describing the experiments as the “worst thing you can possibly imagine
from a horror show”.
Elon Musk
Elon Musk said the scientists were ‘mutilating animals’ Credit: Chip
Somodevilla/Getty Images North America
During his first term, Mr Trump moved to restrict animal testing, with
the Environmental Protection Agency announcing plans to end the practice
by 2035.
However, the agency reportedly abandoned its plans last year amid
concerns that testing chemicals on animals remains the safest means of
reducing harm to humans.
Mr Goodman said: “We’re absolutely thrilled and honoured that the
president highlighted our investigation during the state of the union
and helped us expose wasteful government spending that’s torturing
animals in grotesque experiments.
“I think that these experiments are a great example of DEI programmes
run amok, where programmes that claim to be intended to help
marginalised people are being exploited to torture animals in sick
experiments that only benefit the mad scientists conducting them.
“I think most taxpayers agree that money should not be spent to perform
hormone therapies on lab animals to make them transgender.”
In a statement on its website, CNN said its story had been updated with
context about the spending, “which was for research studies on the
potential human health impacts of treatments used in gender-affirming care”.
Some scientists have raised concerns that Mr Trump’s comments have
misled the public into believing that the studies on mice are only for
modelling transgender hormone replacement.
One scientist said that experiments on mice have improved our
understanding of the impact of sex hormones on a whole range of conditions.
They pointed to raloxifene, a medication used to treat osteoporosis in
postmenopausal women, which they said would not have been available
without years of studying the effects of hormones on rodents.
Duke University, the University of Michigan, Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Centre, the University of California and Indiana University were
approached for comment.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/03/06/trump-said-us-spent-8m-dollars-trans-mice-he-was-right/