Trump’s NIH Cuts Grants for Transgender Experiments on Animals

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The administration of President Donald Trump has cut taxpayer-funded grants for transgender experiments on animals, the watchdog White Coat Waste Project (WCW) told Breitbart News exclusively.

Two National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants awarded under the administration of former President Joe Biden — both to Harvard University — were terminated early on March 12, per WCW, a bipartisan government watchdog.

One of the grants, worth $299,940, was titled “Gender-Affirming Testosterone Therapy on Breast Cancer Risk and Treatment Outcomes” and used toward “transmasculine” animal experiments, in which female mice were administered testosterone and had their ovaries removed.

“This proposal will undertake preclinical studies to address breast cancer (BC) risk and treatment concerns of transmasculine people (female-to-male transition),” an abstract of the grant

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