transgender mice? [View all]
Another day, another day to be ashamed to be an American.
Last night, Trump complained about millions of dollars being used to develop "transgender mice."
Except it's not happening. Old Twinklesphincter, or whoever wrote his speech, was confusing transgender mice with transgenic mice. Transgenic mice are used very widely to study how genes work and how genetic disorders happen. Very practical stuff.
When corrected about it, the White House doubled down, and they just released a document listing alleged efforts to develop "transgender animals." (I won't provide a link, as I don't think it should get a lot of visibility, but it can be found through a google search.) These studies add up to around 8 million dollars, but because none of them are working to create transgender animals, the document is useless.
(The document also says Biden funded them, but he didn't. They were funded by the NIH following the same competitive peer-review process all us scientists endure when applying for federal research support.)
You can look them up for yourself. These grants explore the impact of hormone treatments on on such things as vaccine effectiveness, fertility, cancer, and asthma. The rodents are being administered hormones to simulate treatments given to transgender people, but that doesn't mean these rodents become transgender.
In other words, they're not looking at the phenomenon of transgenderism itself - they're looking at the long-term impacts of some of the treatments involved in gender transition.
I know Trump is restricted by his limited anatomy - he has only two parts, a mouth and an anus, and they're interchangeable - but is it too much to ask his speechwriters to do a little proofreading?
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