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.
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.
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.
Gender affirming does not mean Trans.
Testosterone creams and pills would be gender affirming medications. It's probably important to know how those medications are going to react with other medications and conditions. 9 Mil for a study is a drop in the bucket.
Doge is chasing fragments of pennies, at a time where there are glaringly obvious actual loopholes and waste in the government.
Thanks for sharing this thought. I had the same feelings and was disappointed to see that many of us are falling into the same headline clickbait trap that we accuse the other side of. Thankfully, you're getting plenty of upvotes.
Yes, the word transgenic was used in the description of the one of the funded studies. However that same cited study is intentionally attempting to study the effects of androgen treatment on reproductive health for the benefit of transgender individuals.
I do not condone this ridiculous writing from an official Whitehouse press release. I also fully approve of every single study listed. But the "haha they're dumb" rhetoric is not helpful. What's helpful is encouraging people to demand sources, think critically, and hold authority figures accountable when they lie.
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.
... 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.
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.
More than meets the eye!
What will they publish when they wind out that the government transcribes speeches and so on?
Yeah, they want to make genes trans now. The woke are out of control!
The fact that Whitehouse.gov has turned into another extension of Trump's Twitter is so fucking insulting to the entire country and everything it stands for. Go fuck yourself you whiny little pussy.
Can we take the time to acknowledge that the phrase “fake news losers at cnn” was used in an official executive white house release? This is on par with the release they put out a couple weeks ago that spelled “executive” as ecexutive” 🥴🤡 America is cooked.
I saw that, and knew it was going to be a wild ride.
I knew it was going to be a wild ride 9 years ago the first time the democrats moved mountains to sabotage sanders at every turn in an effort to prevent any administration that would resemble FDR from gaining power effectively handing trump the win which was their preference to moving even a millimeter to the left on policy. I mean instead of listening to the working class this time they instead decided to move further right and court conservatives with endorsements from the cheng family, george bush and others. Neo Liberalism has pushed class dictatorship so far down our throats and ultimately led to this full on fascist decline we are in. It is obvious to anyone with a functioning cerebral cortex that the system will not allow us to remedy it through the mechanisms of the system and the only option we now have is a revolution and class warfare which has been waged against us relentlessly for the last 5-6 decades.
spelling is not really trumps strongsuit, nor it is followers, thats where the "weave" comes into play.
Trump Decried Millions Spent ‘Making Mice Transgender.’ It Was Cancer and Asthma Research.
tl;dr: trump lies again, while also failing to comprehend the written word.. again.
Business as usual while the world tumbles into ww3 . And Next, weather
And Next, weather
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Look outside and see for yourself.
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Guess. That's all we can do right now, too.
Thats if we have NOAA much longer. Knowing how its going so far it will be cancelled for "maKiNg RAiNboWs aNd SuPPoRtiNg cOmMuNisT sAntA ClaUS"
hes going to get mad when he sees the word transatlantic flights.
The Fake News losers at CNN immediately tried to fact check it, but President Trump was right (as usual).
That's real. That's a real life quote from the real life, official white house website. "Wtaf" is an understatement here.
"Transgenic sounds enough like transgender to me and now I'm pissed off for no reason. Hey boss!"- Stephen Miller, probably.
Strong North Korea vibes with a note of high school bully
“As usual” 🤣 this is hilarious, just not a good and happy kind of hilarious
Transgender.... Animal Experiments? What the fuck are you even talking about?
Edit: These are just experiments showing if changes in hormones effect asthma and reactions to the HIV Vaccine, this is a clear case of "I'm counting on you to get mad and not read the article"
Trump got mad that people tried to fact check his claim that Biden spent millions on turning the mice trans. Then the Whitehouse officially released this at a rebuttal of the fact checks.
"Transgenic" is the actual word from those studies. As in, genetically altered. Because they were researching genetic causes and treatments for diseases.
But fuck it, transgender mice, whatever.
The first couple links they provide are for studying immune responses of mice that have undergone hormone replacement or gonadectomies.
Still it's not the same as their claims. There's not even close to a trillion dollars there.
They're expecting people to see buzzwords and jump on their hate bandwagon. Sadly, they are.
Why shouldn't we do medicine for all humans to protect the whole herd and safeguard the core of society?
From the times of India article: "studies referenced in the document had no connection to gender identity alterations in animals."
Researchers tested drug cross interactions. On mice. The most common subjects in lab tests.
Take a grain of truth. Twist it. It is the core idea behind every fascist propaganda machine.
Also, take the opportunity to also attack freedom of the press, dehumanize trans people, and delegitimize scientific research and healthcare.
Yeah, people are really missing that this is the point. It's a quadruple whammy. Anything to garner further support for press restrictions, scientific restrictions and imposing personal choice restrictions on people in the "out" group.
There's no way the people in charge of writing this article didn't know that they weren't making transgender mice. What they did know, however, was the depraved depths of gullibility, hate and stupidity of their audience and they played right to them.
THE FOOD INDUSTRY HAS SPENT BILLIONS ON TRANS FATS!!! THEY ARE WOKE!!!
Never thought anyone would claim Monsanto to be woke, but here we are....
/s
Every day I'm just wondering if all this is even reality. I think this is The Bad Place 🤔
Muhahahahahahaha, aw man! I can't believe that you figured it out! You really suck ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed.
rm -rf /
I think what I find the most upsetting (not really, but that's just the phrase), is just how unhinged it all is. If you sat me down, made it my job to come up with content like this, and gave me a full think tank of people... I could never come up with something this stupid.
You think you know right? You think there are limits to stupidity. You've met many people in your life, some smarter than others. You've read the news, you see what people do, you see how they react. You're able to see just how stupid people can be.
There has to be a bottom. Then, oh look, a new and deeper hole.
It's just absolutely wild that anyone could look at something like this and go, "Yeah, a well functioning human adult put that together."
Username tracks
Naw, too much hope for that
These are the same dipshits who think that "asylum seekers" are literally people from insane asylums.
Same I didn't realize until this very moment lol wth
Clearly, if anyone has the resources to march across a desert and navigate the countless hoops of an immigration application, it's someone suffering from debilitating mental illness.
I think Mike Judge is actually a time traveller and came back to warn us with Idiocracy. Now I just need to find out who is building the machine so I can go back and do... stuff.
Idiocracy was a better timeline than this. President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho may have been a bit lacking in the patience department, but he honestly wanted what was best for his people, and he fucking listened to "the smartest man in the world," and did what he was told to do to fix the problems. Then he actually abdicated because he thought Not Sure could run the country better than he could.
White House is now a branch of newsmax
Nah, newsmax has better editorial standards.
You’re actually right. Newsmax is still beholden to the law and has been taken to task over their bullshit.
The troubling thing is that this is Trump signaling the right wing media that it’s ok to go even harder.
dont you mean PUTINS RT news,(fox is a branch of putins/murdoch collaboration)
There's a list of experiments. They mostly sound pretty standard, looking at the effects of various (hormone, etc.) medications on things like breast cancer, reproduction, etc. Tons and tons of medical experiments covering all sorts of different things are carried out each year. And they're a big part of why the USA has long been a leader in drug and medical research.
Edit: The full press release:
Can someone check my math? I’m estimating Trumps first term tax cuts saved the top 1% at least $100b durning his first term. Trump is complaining about less than $9m being spent here. $9m is 0.009% of $100b. Did I get that all right?
Can someone check my math? I’m estimating Trumps first term tax cuts saved the top 1% at least $100b durning his first term.
It is closer to $2.5. trillion.
The experiment wasn't even for transgender animals. It was for transgenic which is an entirely different thing.
The Whitehouse was trying to make catgirls
transgenic mice has been used in research for decades too. you ever heard of scid mice, those are transgenic mice.
lol: 'biden spent less on medical research for transgender care during 4 years than trump spends on hookers in a year. news at 11.'
In theory this will be available for the remainder of the history of the United States too
Conservatives like to be lied to.
Q kooks prove that conservatives like to be lied to.
Sandyhook kooks prove that conservatives like to be lied to.
Pizza kooks prove that conservatives like to be lied to.
Birther kooks (Obama was a Muslim) prove that conservatives like to be lied to.
Bircher kooks (Ike was a Communist) prove that conservatives like to be lied to.
Start the Steal kooks prove that conservatives like to be lied to.
Hermain Cain kooks prove that conservatives like to be lied to.
Horse medicine cures Covid kooks prove that conservatives like to be lied to.
Laetrile cures Cancer kooks prove that conservatives like to be lied to.
Pet eater kooks prove that conservatives like to be lied to.
Ukraine attacked Russia kooks prove that conservatives like to be lied to
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.
Maybe instead of fact checking, we should keep dropping little truth nuggets that sound like lies but are actually true.
Like it's a sexy secret
Reality is a team sport, to some people.
Their stated ideals are ad-hoc justifications. All that has ever mattered is ingroup loyalty.
And they think that's all you're doing, because they think that's all there is.
Man, Trump is such a thin skinned bitch.
Apparently the Times of India has entered the chat....
They're not turning mice 'trans'; they're turning science into a circus for political clowns.
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I find it hard to believe that even the most ardent Trump supporters don't cringe at seeing something like this posted on the official website of the whitehouse.
Even if someone (somehow) doesn't know that human drugs and treatments are tested on mice (or other animals) before being tested on humans, they must at least feel some kind of shame/embarassment/humiliation at seeing a headline so petty and childish right under the whitehouse logo.
they do feel some sort of shame, by remaining silent on it. then again i dont think conservatives can self-reflect.
They do feel shame. A lot of their issues come from inferiority complex and their way of dealing with it is by trying to bring everybody else down to their level.
“The Fake News losers at CNN to fact check it, but President Trump was right (as usual).”
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Is this a quote from the article?
My god it is. Satire is dead and the US killed it.
I'd go to Starbucks but I don't have time for a HJ
It is slowly becoming globally known how absolutely stupid the current administration is.
Slowly?
Yeah. Believe it or not the US is not the center of everyone's universe.
This reality is a strange blend of Idiocracy and 1984. It's really hard to imagine describing the way things are now to an adult in the 1980s. The GOP being so in love with the Russians is something else, given the depth of all the anti Russian propaganda during the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s it's crazy we ended up here.
no pun intended here its a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as several governments.
It's funny right up until you're strapped to a table, forced to look at a mouse, and admit it's trans.
I feel like that should qualify as libel. I know Biden is a public figure so the rules are loose, but that's gotta be crossing a line.
Republicans have lied for decades, why would they stop now that they are in power?
I work with someone who is happily parroting this bullshit and I'm not even near America. Please Americans... Do something.
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.
That takes me directly to another "fact" he schooled me on. COVID was engineered by the labs in Wuhan and I should read RFK's book about it. This shit is bad and it's really fucking me up.
Beat their ass
When idiots speak - bigger idiots listen intently.
This is going to seem unrelated, but I wish my fellow countrymen didn't have a virtually unlimited appetite for finding out.
Something bad must be happening that has nothing to do with transgender animals.
It belongs in a museum!
Wait, I mean, after the war it will!
It will be important to never (re)forget (again) so that we won't (re(re(re(re(re)))))repeat the same mistake (again).
this message comes out 40 days late as we were too busy with all this lib owning and maga winning. but just so you know.
civil law has been suspended, clown law is now in effect.
yes i clicked articles. headline is the article. how typical.
Indubitably.
Non-human animals literally can't have gender to us as it is a social construct for humans.
That’s why leftists say it’s the same as biological sex
It serves no other purpose
Oh the white house can use the word transgender if they use it to bash democrats. But not to describe a transgender person.
Not the frogs!
We must make the frogs gayer
Omg, I forgot about the forggs!!
Weak vibe.
TRANSnational crime syndicate, masquerading as the American, Russian, and several European governments.
Liberals are making your cars transgender! Get rid of all transmissions, it's the devils machine!
Is it true?
Its really something the white house published, but it's also a disinformation campaign to make trump look like he isn't an idio. It is also an attack on freedom of the press, scientific research, and on lgbqt+.
Considering how many people lost their minds believing the propaganda that this statement was false, it seems appropriate to raise awareness how so many are being manipulated by media.
…but this statement is false
So did you just look at the picture and go "I knew it" without reading the whole article published by the Whitehouse?
What in reading there is experiments on mice using chemicals commonly associated with people who are transitioning gender, but in relation to things such as cancer and further medical conditions etc
Just like a "tanning pill" can help with boner issues or pills associated with diabetes care can help with weight loss the uses and interactions of these drugs can potentially have important impacts in many areas.
Sounds very official and professional. Everyone at the white house is required to talk like Trump now?
Ladies, gentlemen, and my fellow freaks and geeks, i give you: the final form of the US Government.
It's somehow even worse than Idiocracy.
They probably have a Trump AI for this sort of thing.
The I stands for idiocy
Oh wow, I just realized that they could put an AI in office if Trump were to die, and the only way it could be found out is by lack of typos and correct grammar.
/s?
so it's not /s
And I am being serious here, it's actually bolded on the webpage.
I want to laugh. I want to cry. JFC. The world has gone insane.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/03/yes-biden-spent-millions-on-transgender-animal-experiments/
for now, I plan to dig deepering into the actual claim, but the wording of the press release is... something...
I'm quoting the press release, those aren't my thoughts.
eventhough cnn shills for trump in some form.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/04/politics/fact-check-trump-address-congress/index.html
I mean even CNN issued a clarification of their own fact check that says what he said is true. Just in typical Trump fashion he worded his rant like a 5 year old that found a thesaurus.