Much of Donald Trump’s talk is dismissed as loud talk and when the US President said that the US Government had spent $8 million in making Transgender mice it was initially received with skepticism. However a deeper analysis of the federal funding revealed that taxpayer’s money was indeed used to fund studies in gender affirming hormone treatments in rodents.
The investigations on such funding of projects were conducted by whistleblower, the White Coat Waste Project and it uncovered details of how $250 million was spent for transgender-related animal studies in the last twenty years as per a report by the Telegraph. The watchdog also uncovered the existence of two dozen federal funding worth $64 million which are bankrolling such research.
CNN’s Van Jones says “it’s not even real“ that we spent $8 million on transgender mice.
CNN themselves were forced to issue a correction that it is in fact true.
It’s so crazy that CNN thinks Trump made it up… pic.twitter.com/lzRAaybpVg
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 7, 2025
Federal funding under the aegis of National Institutes of Health (NIH) is ongoing for the following projects-
- Research on how HIV vaccines perform in male mice who are administered female hormones for model gender transition under the aegis of Duke University ($455,000).
- Effect of hormone therapy in mice including physiological and behavioral changes under the aegis of University of Michigan ($2.5 million).
- Research on breast cancer risks in transgender individuals by analyzing tumors in hormone-treated mice Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center ($300,000)
- Effects of gender-affirming hormone therapy on gut microbiome changes under the aegis of Emory University ($735,000).
- Effects of male sex hormones on female mice under the aegis of University of California ($1.2 million)
- Effects of female hormone administration on lung functions in mice under the aegis of Indiana University ($3.1 million)
In a recent episode of Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Elon Musk who is heading the newly created DOGE to trim down wasteful expenditure has termed such experiments akin to horror show and also accused the researchers of maiming animals and also wasting Taxpayers money on needless and disreputable experiments.
Earlier Trump’s claims were met with skepticism and CNN after it fact checked claimed that the news was fake. However after a statement by White House which labelled the news network as fake news losers CNN quickly retracted its statement and admitted that Trump’s claims were based on genuine NIH funded studies.
However scientists contended that the studies were not limited just to transgender hormone replacement but fulfilled major medical goals. The research which is carried out on mice transcends into a cure for osteoporosis, breast cancer, and other conditions. Scientists also contend the experiment was carried out on genetically modified mice or Transgenic mice and not transgender mice.
A researcher at Emory University explained,
“We study the effects of hormone treatment used by transgender people on skeletal development. The goal is to understand whether these treatments impair bone growth and increase the risk of osteoporosis later in life.”
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