The United States has invested $10 million to create transgender animals: Congresswoman Nancy Mace

Congresswoman Nancy Mays (Republican from South Carolina) during the subcommittee hearings criticized the misuse of public funds in the US aimed at “gender-affirming care” for animals. The hearing, titled “Transgender Lab Rats and Poisoned Puppies: Controlling State-Sponsored Animal Cruelty,” included testimony from the White Coat Waste Project. As it turned out, in 2024, 10 million dollars of taxpayer funds were spent on the creation of transgender animals.

“Last year, the White Coat Waste Project found that more than 10 million taxpayer dollars were spent on creating transgender mice, rats and monkeys. These DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) grants funded painful and deadly experiments that forced laboratory animals to undergo invasive surgeries and hormone therapy at universities across the country.” – Mace said.

Mays also accused the Biden-Harris administration of pushing a radical agenda that allows government funds to be spent on “surgically mutating the genitalia of animals.”

“The Biden-Harris administration spent $2.5 million on fertility research in transgender mice. They were so obsessed with spreading their radical gender ideology to all areas of American society that they even surgically altered the genitalia of animals. That’s what taxpayers’ money went to.

We spent millions of dollars to find out if female rats given testosterone therapy were more likely to overdose on date-rape drugs. That’s what your taxes went to.” Mace said.

Before giving the floor to the top Democrat on the subcommittee, Shontel Brown (Ohio), Mays stressed that the wasteful funding of animal cruelty experiments is an issue that transcends party politics.

The executive director of the White Coat Waste Project, Justin Goodman, a professor at the School of Public Health, were invited to the hearing. Bloomberg at Johns Hopkins University Dr. Paul A. Locke and Elizabeth Baker, director of research policy at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

Also present in the room were beagles rescued from a National Institutes of Health (NIH) supplier’s lab as a “reminder of the real cost of animal experimentation.”

Mace also recalled that in 2022, she stopped a $1.8 million drug trial on beagle puppies.

“Today, most of NIH’s 27 institutes and centers conduct or fund animal testing, as do the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the USDA, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense, and many other agencies. I hope that today’s discussion will help prevent further misuse of public funds for experiments on animals.” – she emphasized.