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.
Transgenic ≠ Transgender
You expect him to conceive that different words mean different things?
Probably just did a search for “trans”
The guy who thinks “asylum seekers” are coming from literal insane asylums?
Or that the same word can have multiple definitions.
He doesn’t even know the difference between windmills and wind turbines. Is anyone surprised? 🙄
I’m not sure I know the difference…
But you likely haven’t claimed to be the top expert of all knowledge in the universe, have you? 🤫
For anyone curious:
A windmill and a wind turbine are different in structure and purpose, even though many people use the terms interchangeably. A windmill is a very old technology that uses the wind to either mill grains into flour, drive machines, or move water. A wind turbine converts wind energy into electricity by turning a turbine. [Source]
Nobody ever claimed that Republicans were smart enough to spot the difference.
all 3 syllable words start to sound the same once your iq gets low enough
What is transgenic?
Edit: I googled it.
This came up in another thread too. The experiments were all related to hormone therapy. They weren’t just listed because they include the word trans
Edit: read the list if you don’t believe me.
The “liberals” downvoted your comment because they don’t fucking read. Lol.
Jesus, whose 12 year old wrote that Whitehouse article?
The Fake News losers at CNN
🤦♂️
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.
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.
I was halfway in reading this, and laughing at every fucking period. Then I said “That’s it, this is ‘Not The Onion’ material.”
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.
At this point, everything involving Trump and Musk are Not the Onion material.
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It’s transgenic, not “transgender”
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Asylum Seekers are not from insane asylums (yes, they actually believe that, too. These are just ferociously stupid people.
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This “transgenic” experiment introduces cross-sex hormone therapy to mice. Sounds familiar?
My brother in Christ that’s how hormone-based research works. It’s not only to look at possible health risks in the case of average people, you include people on hormone therapy, but also cis people who naturally have wonky hormones and what that can mean for them in the context of what is studied. Usually, in medicine, you’re supposed to be thorough, and try to cover most of the population and find any discrepancies.
