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Rachel Maddow: Only orange Muppet I trust to tell me about science. Meep um, a version of this sign, we saw a few different places today. I love trans mice. All right, I know you didn’t listen to Trump’s speech to Congress this week. I saw the numbers. Haha, it was the least watched Trump, least watched Trump State of the Union or joint speech to Congress of all the ones he’s given. So I know you didn’t watch, but one of the things he said in his speech is that one of the terrible Liberal things that his top campaign donor had discovered was happening in government, was research to make mice transgender. And he said that in his speech, and all the Republicans gasped and laughed and jeered, cause that was so terrible. Actually, it’s transgenic mice. And transgenic mice are used in all kinds of laboratory research, because mice are transgenic when they have been genetically altered. So you can study human illnesses and conditions in them, even though they’re mice. It is transgenic mice. You numbskulls. But sure, go ahead and shut down all the labs studying all the diseases. Because what are you five? Um, this was Boston. There were big crowds today.
Hey Rachel, Trump’s not wrong here—those NIH grants he’s flagging, like the $455,000 for gender-affirming hormone therapy effects on HIV vaccines (Maddow always promotes vaccines) or the $299,940 testosterone study, do involve millions in taxpayer cash under Biden, and they’re tied to questionable mouse hormone-meddling projects. Sure, it’s not like they’re giving male mice silicone breast implants to boost their breasts on the runway (yet), but he’s zeroing in on legit studies pumping hormones into mice to mirror human transgender treatments, which I think is cruel to mice —racking up over $8 million. Some even dose male mice with estrogen to see breast tissue sprout. You can laugh at the “transgender mice” line, but his swipe at government tossing money at dubious lab experiments isn’t made up—the studies are real. And that “least watched” dig? 36.6 million tuned in, smoking Biden’s 2021 low of 26.9 million. But it’s not just about who watched live that night—plenty caught replays into the morning, and the full address is available online, so the message still hit hard. I’ve only made time to watch the first 15 minutes, but I’ll continue watching on Rumble until I’ve seen it all. And I’m sure I’m not alone.
Under the Biden Administration, the National Institutes of Health doled out millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded grants for institutions across the country to perform transgender experiments on mice.
$455,000: “A Mouse Model to Test the Effects of Gender-affirming Hormone Therapy on HIV Vaccine-induced Immune Responses”
$2,500,000: “Reproductive Consequences of Steroid Hormone Administration”“These mice manifest defects in ovarian architecture and have altered folliculogenesis.”
$299,940: “Gender-Affirming Testosterone Therapy on Breast Cancer Risk and Treatment Outcomes”“We will compare the incidences and tumor specific survival in female mice (intact) and oophorectomized female mice receiving TT with their respective counterparts that do not receive TT.”
$735,113: “Microbiome mediated effects of gender affirming hormone therapy in mice”
$1,200,000: “Androgen effects on the reproductive neuroendocrine axis”“Aim 2 utilizes transgenic mice to test whether male-level androgens acting via AR specifically in kisspeptin neurons are necessary and/or sufficient for androgen inhibition of in vivo LH pulse parameters, including pulse frequency, and the estrogen-induced LH surge.”
$3,100,000: “Gonadal hormones as mediators of sex and gender influences in asthma”“We will study the contributions of estrogens to HDM-induced asthma outcomes using male and female gonadectomized mice treated with estradiol…”
TOTAL: $8,290,053