The Trump administration directed its main biomedical research agency in mid-March to study the physical and psychological effects of gender transitioning among children, incensing some critics, according to reports.
Matthew Memoli, Acting Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) at the time, emailed several NIH directors saying that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) “has been directed to fund research on a few specific areas” regarding “chemical and surgical mutilation” of children and adults, the scientific journal Nature reported. The HHS is the NIH’s parent agency.
Two specific areas of government interest were “regret and detransition following social transition as well as chemical and surgical mutilation of children and adults” and “outcomes from children who have undergone social transition and/or chemical and surgical…
