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I'm kind of torn on this one. I've seen the "transgenic" explanation in several other places, and as I normally do, my initial reaction was "Ha ha, stupid Trump." (And also a deep underlying sadness that doesn't ever really go away)

But I clicked the link on this post. They listed the grants referenced in their $8 million total. One did mention transgenic mice, though others could use transgenic mice and not specifically mention it. But if you click through to the grant proposals (which I assume DOGE did not write), every entry does indeed involve research on the effects of gender-affirming medication, even the one that mentions transgenic mice. To be clear, the other claim from media reports is also true - that these are grants for cancer and HIV research. But specifically, for things like the interaction between HIV vaccines and gender affirming meds.

To make my position clear, I support these studies. I think it's important to study how asthma and cancer medications may affect the trans population differently than those not on gender-affirming meds. And you never know what additional discoveries will be made along the way. But I think that the response that MAGA got confused about transgender vs transgenic is disingenuous at best, if the information from this link is true (who knows if the 8 mill is the full contract or remaining values, etc).

I think diversity, equity, and inclusion are exactly what we need, and historically, a lot of harm has been caused by treating white male as default in medical studies. It is a truly terrible thing that they are canceling studies like these. But I think we need to recognize that when they say things like, Biden spent 8 million dollars trying to make mice transgender, what we're dealing with is bait. They want us fighting over whether or not we made mice transgender. The point here is that this is yet another example of this Federal government usurping the power of the purse without being checked. They will always try to use small lies to hide the Big Lie.

... 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.

Oh my god, I looked at the Rolling Stone article and this is the real explanation? I expect them to be stupid, but this is the basis for their talking point?

I am accurately using the word "literally," when I say I literally can't keep up with how stupid they are. I genuinely lowered my expectations as far as I could, and it wasn't low enough.

What will they publish when they wind out that the government transcribes speeches and so on?

Ladies, gentlemen, and my fellow freaks and geeks, i give you: the final form of the US Government.

They probably have a Trump AI for this sort of thing.

The Fake News losers at CNN immediately tried to fact check it, but President Trump was right (as usual).

/s?

Business as usual while the world tumbles into ww3 . And Next, weather

The underlying cause is they are more emotional driven than the baseline human, I think. We're all emotional, but I feel like some people really let the truthiness gutfeel of emotions rule the day and facts are just not that important to them.

Pick like any of those and you see they had a choice between feelings that make them feel smart or part of an in-group, or facts that made the world clash with their beliefs. And because they're kind of fools and cowards, they go with the feel-good most of the time.

We’re trying

Stupidity is contagious and the Internet is a superspreader. It's like COVID except it lasts even longer than long COVID and it's way more dangerous.

Omg, I forgot about the forggs!!

Indeed.