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That ended up not being the gotcha that y'all thought it was and CNN had to add a correction on their fact-check because mice were indeed being administered cro
by busterarm 1y ago
That ended up not being the gotcha that y'all thought it was and CNN had to add a correction on their fact-check because mice were indeed being administered cross-sex hormone therapy, just not for the purpose of changing their sex. One of the experiments in particular was to determine how gender-affirming care would affect humans, which indeed makes it at odds with the administration's DEI policy and is not just them being dumb about what transgenic means.
- tessierashpool 1y ago[flagged]
- busterarm 1y agoit's a footnote on CNN's own fact check of the story. I literally had already mentioned where the citation is in my post.
- alabastervlog 1y agoThe truth is mixed. What the White House got wrong was characterizing the studies they canceled as being on "transgender" mice, while the mice (at least, in many cases, IDK if all of them) were not in any way "transitioned", so there's no reasonable way to describe that as being a study on "transgender mice". However, many of those studies were definitely about the effects of e.g. hormone therapy used to support human transitions. Some language used by the White House suggests that they may indeed have thought the mice were transgender because the mice were in fact transgenic, but those studies also were related to transgender healthcare, so, it's probably not accurate to say that the confusion is why those were cancelled. It's probably because they did in fact have to do with transgender healthcare. It is also the case that studies involving hormones that had dick-all to do with transgender healthcare were cancelled because, I guess, too many keywords matched whatever inept search the fascists did. E.g.: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10891526#description https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10891526#descriptio...
- hyeonwho4 1y agoThe White House press release had links to the eight grants in question. The claimed values of the grants were inflated by the press release, but they did actually involve studying the effects of cross sex hormone administration, so in this case the claims of confusion between "transgender mice" and "transgenic mice" were the fake news. (Also, the claimed 8M USD over N years is peanuts compared to the money spent annually on developing actual transgenic mice.)
- exe34 1y ago> is not just them being dumb That's a wild take for anything this admin does.
- space-savvy 1y agoI read the papers posted by the White House to support their claim of transgendered mice . https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/03/yes-biden-spent-millions-on-transgender-animal-experiments/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/03/yes-biden-spent-... I’m not a molecular biologist, but some seemed just good solid research on women’s health, like asthma prevalence, that just happened to study a mixture of transgender individuals and mice models since both are useful for understanding androgen sensitivity. Another included research on disruptors in lutenizing hormone. It still seemed a pretty dumb thing to attack. Not to mention transgendered people are people too, and allowed to have some medical research related to their existence.
- rad_gruchalski 1y agoAnd that’s on the official White House page? The language is crazy in that post.
- alistairSH 1y ago[flagged]
- busterarm 1y ago[flagged]