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They are not "transgender mice studies". They are human health studies using mice as a model animal, as is routine in biological research.
$455,000: “A Mouse Model to Test the Effects of Gender-affirming Hormone Therapy on HIV Vaccine-induced Immune Responses
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They are not "transgender mice studies". They are human health studies using mice as a model animal, as is routine in biological research.
$455,000: “A Mouse Model to Test the Effects of Gender-affirming Hormone Therapy on HIV Vaccine-induced Immune Responses
Testosterone therapy would be gender-affirming for most men. Huge numbers of women take progesterone. Many, many others hormones reinforce gender-associated behaviours and physiology. No one thinks anything of it until someone is taking it for reasons they don’t approve of.
But we could manipulate all kinds of studies we don’t agree with because they happen to utilize “gender-affirming” hormones. We could do this to tens of thousands of studies. We would be technically correct, yet extremely wrong.
In this case the main point of the study is laid out here: "information on the effects of sex hormone therapy on immune responsiveness is scarce"
If you ignore the reason this gap in knowledge became relevant, this has nothing to do with transgender people or affirming gender. It has everything to do with understanding the health of the broader population; particularly as sex hormones are used with increasing frequency (sex hormones are androgens, estrogens, and progestogens; very common, normal hormones used by all kinds of people).
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Please refrain from posting deliberately misleading and inflammatory statements here. The studies in question involve administering hormonal treatments to mice to investigate health outcomes relevant to humans, not altering the gender identity of mice. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-tr...
Interesting times indeed https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/03/yes-biden-spent-...
The Fake News losers at CNN immediately tried to fact check it, but President Trump was right (as usual).
Language like this is why I won’t vote for Pierre Poilievre here in Canada, or even take him seriously at all.
I almost can’t believe this stuff is on the White House website.
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You should take everything he says with a grain of salt. He’s defunding research on transgenic mice, not transgender.
Where did this bogus "transgenic" narrative come from? And BTW he didn't say "research on transgender mice", he said "making mice transgender"... which is technically incorrect but obvious to me (and, I thought, anyone knowledgeable in the field) that the research involved giving mice hormone therapy. https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/04/politics/fact-check-trump-add...
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$455,000: “A Mouse Model to Test the Effects of Gender-affirming Hormone Therapy on HIV Vaccine-induced Immune Responses
You realize a lot of hormones could be classified as gender-affirming, right? Testosterone therapy would be gender-affirming for most men. Huge numbers of women take progesterone. Many, many others hormones reinforce gender-associated behaviours and physiology. No one thinks anything of it until someone is taking it for reasons they don’t approve of. But we could manipulate all kinds of studies we don’t agree with be…
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The posted article was about research to cure blindness with stem cells. The top comment implied that such research was being defunded. I asked for an example that was not about defunding research on transgender mice. The only examples provided were for research that was confused with transgender research. So it seems that Doge is not cutting research for curing blindness and the like but only for transgender and som…
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You should take everything he says with a grain of salt. He’s defunding research on transgenic mice, not transgender.
Where did this bogus "transgenic" narrative come from? And BTW he didn't say "research on transgender mice", he said "making mice transgender"... which is technically incorrect but obvious to me (and, I thought, anyone knowledgeable in the field) that the research involved giving mice hormone therapy. https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/04/politics/fact-check-trump-add...
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Animal testing should be banned, so that's fine
The shadow druids are gaining a foothold in Silicon Valley circles, it seems.