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Trump’s ‘transgender mice’ don’t exist.
During the State of the Union address Tuesday night and in a post on the White House website published Wednesday, Donald Trump and his administration tried to claim that the government was spending millions on “transgender animal experiments.”
However, as this Rolling Stone article points out, the National Institutes of Health grants cited as examples of “examples of waste, fraud, and abuse” aren’t for that at all, with the White House misleadingly referring to studies of transgenic (not transgender) mice, and others about the effects of hormones that again, did not create transgender animals.
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