Millions of taxpayer dollars were wasted funding studies of transgender animals, Rep. Nance Mace reported Thursday at her House Oversight subcommittee hearing.
“Late last year the White Coat Waste Project exposed that more than $10 million dollars in taxpayer funds were spent creating transgender mice, rats, and monkeys,” Chairwoman Mace revealed, opening the “Transgender Lab Rats and Poisoned Puppies: Oversight of Taxpayer Funded Animal Cruelty” hearing.
“For example, the Biden-Harris Administration spent $2.5 million taxpayer dollars to study the fertility of transgender mice,” Mace said:
“Let that sink in: we spent over two million dollars studying the fertility of transgender mice.”
“$1.1 million was spent to find out if female rats receiving testosterone therapy to mimic transgender men were more likely to overdose on a party drug (GHB),” Mace continued.
“Federal funds were also used to forcibly transition male monkeys to see if hormone therapy made them more susceptible to HIV, Mace said.
However, “Monkeys cannot be infected with HIV,” Mace noted. “Yet, this federally-funded experiment forced them to take hormone-altering drugs to study a virus they cannot have.”
“The Biden-Harris Administration was so eager to propagate their radical gender ideology across all facets of American society that they were surgically mutating animals’ genitals,” Mace said. “Taxpayer money went to that.”
“So, my question: were they castrating mice? Castrating monkeys? Were they given double-mastectomies?” Mace asked. There’s no way of telling, she said, because many of the experiments simply referenced a vague term: “gender-affirming care.”
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To make matters worse, these types of studies are highly unreliable, Mace explained:
“It’s well know that, because of the differences between animal and human biology, animal testing frequently does not produce results relevant to humans. In fact, 90% of novel drugs that are successful in animal tests fail in human clinical trials.”