"Just listen to some of the appalling waste we have already identified," Trump said at the address, before reeling off a laundry list of things the U.S. has supposedly paid for, such as "diversity, equity, and inclusion scholarships in Burma" and "free housing and cars for illegal aliens." He capped off the list with a particularly attention-grabbing line item: According to Trump, the U.S. has spent "$8 million on making mice transgender."
But is it?
I have a feeling we're going to be hearing a lot about transgender mice over the next few years, so I thought I'd take a look at Trump's claim and get to the bottom of transgender mouse science.
Transgenic mice are commonly used in medical research. By altering their DNA, scientists can create a mouse with the specific biologic or biochemical features they'd like to study. As far as we know, mice don't have any concept of their own identities, so they can't technically be transgender. Trump doesn't seem to have been mixing up the words, though. He didn't mean "transgenic." He meant "transgender," as this White House press release clearly states.
Did the National Institutes of Health really spend $8 million making mice transgender?
Instead, these studies were aimed at approximating gender-affirming hormone therapies in mice so that we'd have a better idea of how these therapies affect things like HIV vaccine efficiency and breast cancer risk in humans.
None of the studies listed on the White House's press release include performing surgeries on mice either. Instead, they all involved injecting animal models with testosterone or estrogen in order to approximate hormone therapies often given as part of gender-affirming care.
Why the focus on mice?
If the Trump administration legitimately believes scientific research that involves "transgender mice" is wasteful on its face, they have a ton of cutting to do. Controlling the hormone levels of laboratory animal models is common in endocrinology, in studies of everything from menopause, to osteoporosis, to male pattern baldness—but only studies focused on transgender healthcare were included on Trump's list.
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