The National Institutes of Health, under President Joe Biden, has spent millions of dollars funding experiments where animals are given sex-change procedures and studied for the benefit of the transgender community.
Taxpayers have footed the bill for roughly $10 million in transgender animal experiments in recent years, according to a selection of grants compiled by the White Coat Waste Project and obtained exclusively by the Washington Examiner. The federal spending supported research ranging from studying the cardiovascular effect of giving “feminizing hormone therapy” to male rats to providing animals injected with sex hormones, a “popular drug of abuse utilized at raves,” to investigate overdose in “vulnerable female and transgender populations.”
“Taxpayers don’t want their hard-earned money wasted by the NIH to make monkeys and mice transgender through invasive surgeries and hormone therapies or to give animals overdoses of sex party drugs,” Anthony Bellotti, president and founder of White Coat Waste Project, told the Washington Examiner. “This is low-hanging fruit for DOGE and the incoming Administration that we’re proud to have uncovered and exposed. The solution is simple: Stop the money. Stop the madness.”
Elon Musk, who President-elect Donald Trump has tasked with cutting government costs and improving outputs through the Department of Government Efficiency, has signaled openness to cutting federally funded animal testing.
Musk’s medical device company, Neuralink, however, faced a federal investigation in late 2022 following complaints from employees that its animal testing was causing unnecessary suffering and death among monkeys at his labs.
