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Last night, Dimwit Donald claimed that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had uncovered an outrageous expenditure authorized by the Biden administration: a whopping $8 million “for making mice transgender.”
Umm, like many of Musk's claims of waste, fraud, and abuse, it was bullshit and the White House couldn't produce the receipts to substantiate his claim but tried anyway.
A clumsy or automated search for any mention of “trans” material in medical records might easily have flagged “transgenic” studies.
Yet the White House doubled down on Trump’s line on Wednesday, sharing a government webpage that declared, in a slightly more nuanced phrasing: “Yes, Biden spent millions on transgender animal experiments.” As is typical of DOGE, the page tallies up spending in a completely misleading way in order to arrive at an arbitrary number. One line item, for more than $3 million, was research examining how “sex-specific inflammatory mechanisms controlled by hormones” may contribute to asthma, and whether estrogens account for a higher prevalence of the chronic lung disease in women. A different hormone study, priced at $1.2 million, indeed used “transgenic” — not transgender — mice. About $2.5 million went to a fertility study. Another project looked at how gender hormones affect the gut microbiome of mice. Of the highlighted research that does address transgender health, there’s a $300,000 analysis of breast cancer risk for female-to-male trans individuals taking testosterone. Again, the mice used for clinical purposes did not undergo gender transition.Americans will die because Dimwit Donald, Elmo, and republicans don't know the difference between transgenic and transgender and are killing funding for studies that simply have the prefix “trans” mentioned anywhere in them.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-new... 