Yet the White House doubled down today on Trump’s line, sharing a government webpage that declared, in a slightly more nuanced phrasing: “Yes, Biden spent millions on transgender animal experiments.” As is typical of DOGE, the page tallies up spending in a completely misleading way in order to arrive at an arbitrary number. One line item, for more than $3 million, was research examining how “sex-specific inflammatory mechanisms controlled by hormones” may contribute to asthma, and whether estrogens account for a higher prevalence of the chronic lung disease in women. A different hormone study, priced at $1.2 million, indeed used “transgenic” — not transgender — mice. About $2.5 million went to a fertility study. Another project looked at how gender hormones affect the gut microbiome of mice. Of the highlighted research that does address transgender health, there’s a $300,000 analysis of breast cancer risk for female-to-male trans individuals taking testosterone. Again, the mice used for clinical purposes did not undergo gender transition.

A single entry, pegged at $455,000, was for HIV researchers looking at the immune response of mice who had been given cross-hormone therapy, which is perhaps the closest the list gets to an example of “making mice transgender.” Clearly, however, that was not the ultimate objective of their work.

  • OneMeaningManyNamesOP
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    232 months ago

    I was halfway in reading this, and laughing at every fucking period. Then I said “That’s it, this is ‘Not The Onion’ material.”

    • P03 Locke
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      22 months ago

      At this point, everything involving Trump and Musk are Not the Onion material.

    • @humiddragonslayer@lemm.ee
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      152 months ago

      Yeah, I sent that ‘official government webpage’ to multiple friends and they seriously asked if it was written by Trump himself. It’s so surreal to read something like that and to know it’s not a shitpost.

    • OneMeaningManyNamesOP
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      112 months ago

      Some were vigilant enough to note that a group of Nazis chanting “Lügenpresse” at a Trump rally meant his “fake news” slogan was a Nazi dogwhistle. Or as Musk’s AI Grok is now conditioned to parrot: The Legacy Media.

      According to the article has antisemitic connotation and it was ubiquitous in Third Reich propaganda.

    • @JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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      12 years old is approx 7th grade and thus slightly higher than the average adult reading level.

      So, yeah, basically. They are just tacking on extra cringe for that authentic 6th-grade experience.

  • NutWrench
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    172 months ago
    1. It’s transgenic, not “transgender”

    2. Asylum Seekers are not from insane asylums (yes, they actually believe that, too. These are just ferociously stupid people.