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This is literally from whitehouse.gov, I can't belive this is an official post from the executive branch. I feel like it needs to be shared for posterity. (infosec.pub)

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https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/03/yes-biden-spent-millions-on-transgender-animal-experiments/

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They're turning the ~~frogs~~ mice ~~gay~~ trans!

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[–] takeda@lemm.ee 183 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (14 children)

transGENIC - meaning they were able to modify cells in mice to more resemble human to be able to develop new medications that were difficult to develop, but I guess anything that has word "trans" is woke. The transportation secretary should be on a lookout.

[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

... transgenic mice to test whether male-level androgens ... are necessary and/or sufficient for androgen inhibition of in vivo LH pulse parameters

They used the transgenic mice to test if hrt works. And the others have nothing to do with transgenic mice, most are explicitly about hrt and one is testing if asthma differences in sex is actually caused by hormones.

[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 38 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Thanks for the hint. Also CNN added context to their article.

The morning after Trump’s speech, the White House provided a list of $8.3 million in federal grants to health studies that involve mice receiving treatments that can be used in gender-affirming health care. The White House list made clear what Trump, in the speech, did not: The studies were meant to figure out how these treatments might affect the health of humans who take them, not for the purpose of making mice transgender.

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