(DC Pundit) – In news that would make Dr. Frankenstein raise an eyebrow, White Coat Waste has uncovered several transgender animal experiments, courtesy of your tax dollars. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been playing fairy godmother to a slew of scientists determined to turn mice into the animal kingdom’s answer to RuPaul’s Drag Race contestants.
15 active grants totaling over $26 million were uncovered. These grants, cleverly hidden under the innocuous-sounding “Sexual and Gender Minorities” category, accounted for a whopping $373 million in 2023 alone.
Let’s take a tour through this scientific circus, shall we? At the University of Alabama at Birmingham, $668,250 was spent studying whether mice on “gender-affirming hormone therapy” handled kidney failure better.
Not to be outdone, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor has dropped $2,587,605 since 2019 to turn mice transgender and study the effects of testosterone. One can only imagine the tiny mouse locker rooms and confusion that ensued.
But the pièce de résistance comes from Oregon, where $9,738,868 was spent at Health & Science University to turn rams gay. Yes, you read that right. The goal was to control testosterone secretion in fetal testes, presumably to create the world’s first ovine pride parade.
The justifications for these experiments read like a parody of academic jargon. Duke University, for instance, spent $455,120 giving mice sex changes to study HIV vaccine responses.
Harvard, not to be left out of the party, justified transitioning mice by claiming it was necessary for understanding endometrial regeneration in “women, non-binary people, and transgender men around the world.” I wonder if the mice were consulted about their preferred pronouns.
🇺🇸REP MACE: $10-MILLION SPENT ON CREATING TRANSGENDER MICE, RATS, AND MONKEYS
You can't make this stuff up…pic.twitter.com/kBkRk1h0bY
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 6, 2025
The list goes on, with grants ranging from studying “gender-affirming hormone therapy” in rats to examining the “sex-influenced cardiovascular disease” in mice. It’s as if scientists decided to create their own version of “The Island of Dr. Moreau,” with a focus on gender identity.
In total, the NIH has wasted an estimated $245,000,000 on transgender animal experiments.
While these experiments have produced little of definitive use, they’ve certainly been a boon for the researchers and institutions involved. Over $10 million was awarded to various universities to study whether animals could help transcend the “cultural” barriers to hormone therapy. Nothing says “cultural understanding” quite like a hormone-injected mouse.
As Justin Goodman of White Coat Waste told Congress, “Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to pay billions of dollars every year for outdated, cruel, and potentially dangerous animal experiments. Especially when most Americans are opposed to this.”
WATCH: @JustinRGoodman tells Rep. Eli Crane at least $241 million in taxpayer money has been spent on "transgender animal testing."
"In a lot of these cases, they involve mice, rats, monkeys, who are being surgically mutilated and subjected to hormone therapies to mimic female… pic.twitter.com/h2fHLgVjuE
— Off The Press (@OffThePress1) February 7, 2025
Copyright 2025. DCPundit.com | Featured image credit: Rama, CC BY-SA 2.0 FR, via Wikimedia Commons
