NIH awards new funding to transgender mice experiments after DOGE cutoff
‘Woke pseudoscience’: Funding for UC San Diego study had been reinstated under court order last summer, but budget period ended and NIH was under no legal obligation to issue new award, anti-animal testing watchdog says. FOIA lawsuit filed.
By Greg Piper
Less than a year after the Department of Government Efficiency abruptly halted funding for transgender experiments on animals, intended to improve so-called gender-affirming care for humans, the National Institutes of Health chose to fund at least one again.
The University of California San Diego study of “androgen effects on the reproductive neuroendocrine axis” to fine-tune male hormones for women who identify as men, using mice that were “gonadectomized,” injected with testosterone and decapitated, received another $584,117 for fiscal 2026, following the $646,301 it received for fiscal 2025.
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