Trump admin cuts additional $1M in federal funding for 'transgender animal' experiments

"This is a great victory for taxpayers and animals," Anthony Bellotti, president and founder of White Coat Waste Project, said. "We're proud that our blockbuster investigation has prompted the Trump administration to slash millions in DEI funds and other wasteful spending earmarked for creating transgender lab animals through sterilization, hormone therapies, and invasive surgeries and then subjecting them to drug overdoses, open wounds, electroshocks, and other painful and deadly experiments."

"Despite the mainstream media's shameful misinformation campaign, transgender animal experiments are real - and really wasteful," Bellotti added. "The solution is simple: Stop the money. Stop the madness!"

The project set out to "characterize GHB toxicokinetics and toxicity in the absence of sex hormones and in response to sex and cross-sex hormone therapy in males and females" to determine if hormone replacement increased overdose risk in transgender men and women.

"We spent over $1 million to find out if female rats receiving testosterone therapy were more likely to overdose on a date rape drug," Mace said last month. 

"At our House Oversight Committee hearing last month, we exposed cruel, taxpayer-funded transgender animal experiments," Mace told Fox News Digital in a statement. 

"We uncovered how NIH wasted over a million dollars studying whether female rats - after having their ovaries removed and being injected with testosterone to mimic transgender men - were more likely to overdose on a date rape drug. President Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency are now shutting down these appalling and inhumane experiments the Biden administration chose to fund with your hard-earned tax dollars," Mace added. 

"Since last year, I've exposed how the Biden administration got caught in the woke mousetrap and wasted millions of tax dollars on transgender animal experiments," Ernst said. "I'm grateful that President Trump and DOGE are eliminating this wacky pseudoscience. Together, we are ending the silly science and ensuring that all studies funded by tax dollars are squeaky clean."