The White House responded with a fact sheet
citing six studies involving gender ideology and mice, all funded by the NIH and costing American taxpayers over $8 million.
One
study treated both male and female mice with estrogen to discover how to better “treat and prevent asthma in cis and transgender women.” That study cost taxpayers over $3.1 million over four years starting in 2021.
Another
study that cost over $1.2 million and began last year used mice to explore how testosterone affects the reproductive systems of “transgender males” or biological women who take testosterone.
Another
study last year on “gender affirming hormone therapy” in mice
injected male mice with estrogen and female mice with testosterone to analyze the relationship between the hormone drugs, the gut microbiome, and skeletal maturation. That study cost the taxpayers $735,113.
One
study used mice to explore how taking testosterone affects breast cancer in the “underserved transmasculine community” or biological females who identify as male. That study from 2023 cost just under $300,000.
A
study that has cost $2.5 million since 2019
gave mice both puberty blockers and testosterone to explore the effects of testosterone on the reproductive systems of trans-identifying females. The study said it “developed a mouse model to mimic T treatment for FTM gender transition” and found the mice “manifest defects in ovarian architecture” and see changes in egg development.
Finally, one
study developed a “mouse model of gender-affirming hormone therapy” to “test the immune responses of ‘cis’ vs. ‘trans’ mice to a HIV vaccine.” That study began last year and cost the taxpayers $455,120.
“The Fake News losers at CNN immediately tried to fact check it, but President Trump was right (as usual),” the White House said.
Frivolous scientific research is a target of Elon Musk’s DOGE, which was tasked by Trump with rooting out federal waste.
Gender ideology has become a searing political and cultural issue across the country over the last several years.
Trump signed several executive orders during his first weeks in office banning males from women’s sports, defining sex as male and female, and pulling federal funding from schools that promote gender ideology.
At least six studies involved mice and gender ideology.