Many of these transgender animal grants were coded in the NIH’s “Sexual and Gender Minorities” category — a category routinely used to route diversity equity and inclusion grants — which accounted for approximately $373 million of spending in 2023.
One experiment at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, cost Uncle Sam $668,250 — a sum well spent while studying whether mice receiving so-called”gender-affirming hormone therapy” responded well to treatments for kidney failure.
At the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, $2,587,605 has been spent since 2019 turning mice transgender to study testosterone treatment on “reproductive phenotype and function and determine the reversibility of these effects following cessation” of the hormone.
In Oregon, $9,738,868 has been spent at Health & Science University to “expand and improve knowledge of the developmental and neurobiological determinants of sexual partner preferences/orientation using domestic sheep as the experimental model.” The goal was to turn rams gay by controlling testosterone secretion by the fetal testes.
The researchers claim this test is of public interest because “Fetal development is a time when critical neuroanatomical and physiological components of the reproductive system are established and determine the sexual phenotype and reproductive health of the adult individual. The proposed studies will illuminate essential hormonal, neural and cellular mechanisms that activate the fetal reproductive axis, and will contribute to our understanding of underpinnings of brain sexual differentiation, especially in relation to sexual partner preferences.” […]
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