GOP targets transgender animal testing in defund demand to NIH
FIRST ON FOX: A group of Republican lawmakers are pushing to block federal funding for transgender experiments on animals in the fiscal year 2027 spending bill. A letter spearheaded by...
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FIRST ON FOX: A group of Republican lawmakers are pushing to block federal funding for transgender experiments on animals in the fiscal year 2027 spending bill. A letter spearheaded by Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., and backed by GOP Conference Chair Lisa McClain, R-Mich., and more than a dozen other lawmakers asks appropriators to include language in the fiscal year 2027 spending bill banning federal funding for research on animals studying the effects of "drugs, surgery, or other interventions" intended to alter the human body. "Tax dollars shouldn’t be funding the Biden Administration's sickening transgender animal tests ," Gosar said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "That’s why I’ve been working with White Coat Waste to stop the NIH and other federal agencies from wasting money on this woke pseudoscience ever again." HHS UNLEASHES SWEEPING CRACKDOWN ON CHILD ‘SEX-REJECTING PROCEDURES,’ THREATENS HOSPITAL, MEDICAID FUNDING Just days ago, Just the News reported that the NIH awarded another $584,117 to the University of California, San Diego for fiscal year 2026 to continue a mouse study examining the effects of cross-sex hormone treatments. The lawmakers noted in their letter that language explicitly banning transgender experiments on animals was also included in the 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Educationv appropriations bill. The letter comes in response to investigations led by medical watchdog White Coat Waste and the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, which discovered that under the Biden administration, the National Institutes of Health, led by Dr. Anthony Fauci, issued millions of dollars in grants for experiments to create transgender mice, rats and monkeys. The purpose of these experiments was to "mimic transgender human children and adults." TRUMP-SIGNED SHUTDOWN BILL SENDS $4M TO CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS UNDER FEDERAL PROBE FOR TRANSGENDER CARE President Donald Trump heavily criticized NIH's spending on these experiments during his…