Still active: At least 15 NIH grants for trans animal experiments

by WorldTribune Staff, February 12, 2025 Real World News

Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), meet the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

There are at least 15 active NIH grants funding transgender experiments on animals, according to the White Coat Waste Project.

More than $26 million in taxpayer money is funding these experiments. Many were coded in the NIH’s “Sexual and Gender Minorities” category — a category routinely used to route diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) grants — which accounted for approximately $373 million of spending in 2023.

The White Coat Waste Project said the experiments include:

• In Oregon, $9,738,868 has been spent at Health & Science University to “expand and improve knowledge of the developmental and neurobiological determinants of sexual partner preferences/orientation using domestic sheep as the experimental model.” The goal was to turn rams gay by controlling testosterone secretion by the fetal testes.

• A $3,148,325 grant was awarded to Indiana University researchers to study “Gonadal hormones as mediators of sex and gender influences in asthma.”

• At the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, $2,587,605 has been spent since 2019 turning mice transgender to study testosterone treatment on “reproductive phenotype and function and determine the reversibility of these effects following cessation” of the hormone.

• At the University of Alabama at Birmingham, $668,250 was spent to study whether mice receiving so-called ”gender-affirming hormone therapy” responded well to treatments for kidney failure.

• At Duke University, mice were given sex changes through hormones and surgery to study “HIV vaccine-induced immune responses.” This testing has cost taxpayers $455,120.

• The University of Mississippi Medical Center received $65,948 for a grant titled “Cross-Sex Steroid Therapy and Cardiovascular Risk in the Transgender Female,” which used rats that were given sex changes.

• Johns Hopkins University scientists were given $48,974 to understand “how chromosomal makeup and cross-sex hormone administration affect wound healing in mice.”


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