(Clipping from DOGE X account)
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) this week announced the cancellation of several National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants that were geared toward transgender experiments on animals.
During President Donald Trump’s speech on Tuesday, he laid out a variety of DOGE discoveries, reading out some of the ways the U.S. government has wasted U.S. taxpayer dollars. That included a grant for transgender experiments on animals.
“…$8 million for making mice transgender,” Trump said, reminding Americans that this is “real.”
On Wednesday, DOGE followed up, announcing the cancellation of grants for such experiments’
Yesterday, @NIH cancelled seven grants for transgender experiments on animals including:
– $532K to “use a mouse model to investigate the effects of cross-sex testosterone treatment”
– $33K to test “feminizing hormone therapy in the male rat”— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) March 5, 2025