South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace closed the Biden administration for the use of more than $ 10 million in tax money to finance 'painful and deadly transgender experiments' on mice.
According to Mrs. Mace, the experiments have forced 'lab animals to undergo invasive operations and hormone therapies.'
In a hearing last week she detailed the findings of the White Coat Waste Project, which showed that the NIH had issued more than $ 240 million subsidies for transgender animal experiments, including $ 26 million in active financing to support studies in the effects of feminization and Masculinating hormones in mice in mice.
Mrs. Mace said in her opening statement: “Biden-Harris administration was so enthusiastic about spreading their radical gender ideology in all facets of American society that they did not pause to consider that such experiments are not only cruel, but unnecessary.”
The research tried to understand how hormones can influence wound healing, the gender -confirming hormone therapy influences the immune system, reproductive function and health of the heart.
Early stages of research such as these are often carried out at mice because they share many genetic similarities with people, making them a similar model for studying human biology.
There is no sign of subsidy financing that is withdrawn, but the Trump administration wanted to lower the budget of the NIH.
President Trump's federal expenditure initially disrupted nih subsidies, but was quickly reversed because of confusion.
Rep Nancy Mace mentioned the findings of the White Coat Waste Project, which demonstrated
Scientific research is often carried out in mice because they share many genetic similarities with people, making them a similar model for studying human biology
In a hearing of the Supervisory Committee with the title 'Transgender Lab Rats and Puppy's, REP MACE said: supervision of animal abuse funded by the taxpayer that the BIDEN administration taxpayer dollars had allowed' surgical mute animal genitals'.
The studies identified by White Coat Waste received subsidy funds for a wide range of amounts from $ 48,000 to more than $ 3 million.
The organization gave a list of 10 problematic subsidies to the committee.
Justin Goodman, senior vice president of WCW of advocacy and public policy, said that the real totals are actually much higher: “Some of these tests investigate the effects of drugs for sex parties or the impact of hormones used for human sex transitions on the size and form of the genitals of lab animals. '
The study with the most financing on the WCW list investigated how estrogen influenced pneumonia caused by asthma by administering hormones to mice.
The intended goal was to understand the sex -specific effects of estrogen in asthma, with the aim of developing personalized treatments for women.
Another study, which received $ 1.1 million in subsidy, investigated how sex hormones the way GHB – a rave -medicine is popular with the LGBTQ+ community – is incorporated into the body.
The intended goal was to better understand how sex hormones influence the transporters in the body that influence the approval and toxicity of GHB.
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White Jas waste discovered that subsidies varied from $ 48,000 to more than $ 3 million. According to Justin Goodman [pictured]WCW's senior VP of advocacy and public policy, the actual totals are much higher. He noted that some studies investigate the effects of party medicines or gender transition hormones on the sex organizations of lab animals
The graph above shows insurance claims for diagnoses of gender dysphoria per year – they have doubled since 2017
Mice form approximately 95 percent of the laboratory animals used in research, ranging from studies on gender transition treatments to potential cancer treatments and medicines for heart conditions.
It is standard for possible experimental medication to undergo animal tests, but although scientists can give mouse hormone treatments to study biological effects, this does not make them 'transgender' in the way people use the term.
Rep Mace mentioned another study in which 'federal funds were also used to switch male monkeys with violence to see if hormone therapy made them more sensitive to HIV.
'Monkeys cannot be infected with HIV. Yet this federally funded experiment forced them to take hormone -changing medicines to study a virus that they cannot have. '
Monkeys cannot be infected with HIV – Human Immuno Deficiency Virus – but they can be infected with SIV – Simian Immunodeficiency Virus – which is a well -established model for studying HIV in humans.
Research into SIV has helped scientists better understand HIV transfer, progression and treatment.
Goodman said: 'The taxpayer funded tests of animals is the poster-child for waste, fraud and abuse.
“Waste expenditure on testing animals are a government -wide epidemic that is especially relevant to the supervisory committee and this subcommité that deals with innovation and safety.”
This graph shows insurance claims for puberty blockers in the US per year. It shows that claims have doubled since 2017
There are no indications that subsidy finance will be withdrawn whether the investigation has stopped, but the Trump government has promised to reduce the financing of the NIH.
When President Donald Trump received office, he gave a major freezing to the federal editions, who informed the NIH's subsidy process.
However, given the confusion it caused, the president quickly declined the freezing.
The Trump administration last week reduced the financing for medical research and influenced the research into treatments for heart conditions, cancer, diabetes and more.
On Friday, the NIH announced that the indirect research costs funded by subsidy would limit to 15 percent, reducing the current average of 30 percent in two.
The administration expects that the cuts, including those up to more than 400,000 jobs, will save around $ 4 billion.
The Association of American Medical Colleges said that the government's support for indirect facilities and administrative costs 'allows medical investigation'.
The relocation will reduce the research capacity of the nation, delay scientific progress and deprive patients, families and communities throughout the country of new treatments, diagnostics and preventive interventions, “the group said in a statement.
Transgender healthcare, including hormone therapies and puberty blockers, have become flash points in a continuous cultural war, with 26 states that determine restrictions on access to them.
It was a selection issue during the 2024 elections, in which Mr. Trump promised to reverse the protection for transmensens against discrimination and access to health care.
He said last October: “I will take historical action to defeat the poisonous poison of gender ideology and to confirm that God created two sexes, male and feminine.”
The sidewalk edges for trans -rights are part of the attempt by the administration to fight back against 'gender ideology'.
One of his first executive orders has withdrawn a long list of Biden era policy. For example, he changed gender 'in' sex 'on government forms.
