Yes, Biden Spent Millions on Transgender Animal Experiments
TLDR
This press release mischaracterizes legitimate scientific hormone research using animal models as “$8 million spent on making mice transgender.” The claim combines costs from multiple studies over several years that actually investigate important health effects of hormone treatments on conditions like HIV, cancer, and asthma - not attempting to change mice’s gender identity.
President Trump’s claim about $8 million spent on “making mice transgender” is misleading and lacks important context.
The studies cited are not about “making mice transgender” but involve legitimate scientific research using animal models to study various aspects of hormone therapy and its effects. These studies aim to understand the impacts of hormone treatments on various health conditions, including HIV susceptibility, cancer risks, and asthma.
This cited costs combin multiple separate studies over several years, not a single expenditure.
Animal models, including mice, are commonly used in medical research to study human health conditions and treatments. The term “transgender” is incorrectly applied to these animal studies. The correct scientific term is “transgenic” or hormone-treated animals. These studies are not aimed at “making mice transgender” but at understanding the effects of hormone therapies on various health conditions. Research includes studying fertility impacts, cancer risks, immune responses, and other health-related outcomes.
The presentation of these studies as “egregious examples of waste, fraud, and abuse” is a political framing that ignores their scientific value. Characterizing this research as part of a “radical gender ideology” misrepresents the scientific purpose of these studies.
While these studies do involve hormone treatments in animal models, characterizing them as “$8 million spent on making mice transgender” is a gross oversimplification that misrepresents the nature and purpose of legitimate scientific research.
Last night, President Donald J. Trump highlighted many of the egregious examples of waste, fraud, and abuse funded by American taxpayers, including $8 million spent by the Biden Administration “for making mice transgender.”
The Fake News losers at CNN immediately tried to fact check it, but President Trump was right (as usual).
FACT: Under the Biden Administration, the National Institutes of Health doled out millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded grants for institutions across the country to perform transgender experiments on mice.
- $455,000: “A Mouse Model to Test the Effects of Gender-affirming Hormone Therapy on HIV Vaccine-induced Immune Responses”
- $2,500,000: “Reproductive Consequences of Steroid Hormone Administration”
- “These mice manifest defects in ovarian architecture and have altered folliculogenesis.”
- $299,940: “Gender-Affirming Testosterone Therapy on Breast Cancer Risk and Treatment Outcomes”
- “We will compare the incidences and tumor specific survival in female mice (intact) and oophorectomized female mice receiving TT with their respective counterparts that do not receive TT.”
- $735,113: “Microbiome mediated effects of gender affirming hormone therapy in mice”
- $1,200,000: “Androgen effects on the reproductive neuroendocrine axis”
- “Aim 2 utilizes transgenic mice to test whether male-level androgens acting via AR specifically in kisspeptin neurons are necessary and/or sufficient for androgen inhibition of in vivo LH pulse parameters, including pulse frequency, and the estrogen-induced LH surge.”
- $3,100,000: “Gonadal hormones as mediators of sex and gender influences in asthma”
- “We will study the contributions of estrogens to HDM-induced asthma outcomes using male and female gonadectomized mice treated with estradiol…”
TOTAL: $8,290,053