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.:
The 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.)
alabastervlog|9 months ago
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#descriptio...
hyeonwho4|9 months ago
busterarm|9 months ago