In a post to social media, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced a funding cut to the National Institute of Health (NIH). They explained that millions of dollars had been spent on brutal experiments that exposed animals to transgender type surgeries. This is one of several large funding cuts DOGE has handed out to the NIH, but this one gathered a massive reaction on social media.
“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,” the Department posted to their X account. The agency made their own post, reacting to the news.
“NIH remains committed to advancing biomedical research under NIH’s priorities and promoting radical transparency in alignment with the @POTUS agenda. Our work is driven by accountability to all Americans as we push forward in science and public health,” they said. Social media erupted in controversy after the news broke.
“Culture shift: It’s the ending of Frankenstein-esque experiments, and it’s the cessation of force feeding of transgender ideology on impressionable children,” said one user. “Animals don’t need to be tortured like this even if it is a poor little mouse. People are just sick and twisted with their experimentation upon animals!” another noticed.
“Every time we think the spending can’t get more ridiculous, we are proven wrong! Thank you , @DOGE, for continuing to clean up the madness,” one user replied. “Happy to see this. No need for useless, cruel and inhumane animal experiments,” one woman noted. This is absolutely crazy. House Oversight Committee has recently uncovered that $241 million in taxpayer funds were used to study transgender surgeries and treatments on animals, with Fauci authorizing 95% of these experiments (according to Rep. Eli Crane),” a commenter said.
During a Feb 6 hearing titled”Transgender Lab Rats and Poisoned Puppies: Oversight of Taxpayer Funded Animal Cruelty,” Justin Goodman who works for the White Coat Waste Project, gave his thoughts. “In a lot of these cases, they involve mice, rats, monkeys, who are being surgically mutilated and subjected to hormone therapies to mimic female to male or male to female gender transitions.”
“[These experiments look] at the biological, psychological and physiological effects of the gender transitions, looking at the effects of taking vaccines after you’ve transitioned these animals from male to female or female to male, looking at the size of their genitals changing after you’ve put them on estrogen or testosterone therapies to transition them,” he said.
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This news comes after months of existing cuts at the NIH. They themselves took to social media to announce the scale of the cutbacks. “Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs,” they wrote. “Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above what many major foundations allow and much lower than the 60%+ that some institutions charge the government today. This change will save more than $4B a year effective immediately.”