The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cancelled several grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Tuesday, including over half a million dollars going to a “pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys.”
DOGE, led by tech mogul Elon Musk, revealed in a late night X post that NIH had just ended the following grants:
Among the most outlandish was a $620,000 grant for “an LGB+ inclusive teen pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys,” referring to biological girls who claim to be boys.
The health institute, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), was also spending about $700,000 to study cannabis use in “sexual minority gender diverse individuals,” $740,000 on examining “social networks” among “black and Latino sexual minority men in New Jersey,” $50,000 on assessing “sexual health” among…
