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https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/04/politics/fact-check-trump-add...
Transgenic refers to an organism or cell whose genome has been altered by the introduction of one or more foreign DNA sequences from another species by artificial means.[1][2]
Trumps’s team grabbed the term to anger credulous people and get their support. Trump might not know what it means, but his team does, and they don’t care. I expect depatru knows what it means as well, or is capable of finding it out. But he’d rather add to the manipulation.
I’m linking to both genome.gov and to Wikipedia in case the government site is taken down.
[1]https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Transgenic [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgene
The studies in question involve administering hormonal treatments to mice to investigate health outcomes relevant to humans, not altering the gender identity of mice.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-tr...
Testosterone therapy would be gender-affirming for most men. Huge numbers of women take progesterone. Many, many others hormones reinforce gender-associated behaviours and physiology. No one thinks anything of it until someone is taking it for reasons they don’t approve of.
But we could manipulate all kinds of studies we don’t agree with because they happen to utilize “gender-affirming” hormones. We could do this to tens of thousands of studies. We would be technically correct, yet extremely wrong.
In this case the main point of the study is laid out here: "information on the effects of sex hormone therapy on immune responsiveness is scarce"
If you ignore the reason this gap in knowledge became relevant, this has nothing to do with transgender people or affirming gender. It has everything to do with understanding the health of the broader population; particularly as sex hormones are used with increasing frequency (sex hormones are androgens, estrogens, and progestogens; very common, normal hormones used by all kinds of people).
The effects mentioned in the abstract are:
- How feminizing hormone therapy (estrogen and anti-testosterone medications) affects immune responses to HIV vaccines
- Changes in gene expression patterns in immune cells following hormone therapy
- Potential differences in vaccine efficacy and adverse outcomes related to hormone therapy
Why is this important? This research could lead to the ability to create more personalized vaccination approaches that consider hormonal factors between men and women.
The Fake News losers at CNN immediately tried to fact check it, but President Trump was right (as usual).
Language like this is why I won’t vote for Pierre Poilievre here in Canada, or even take him seriously at all.
I almost can’t believe this stuff is on the White House website.
I asked for an example that was not about defunding research on transgender mice. The only examples provided were for research that was confused with transgender research.
So it seems that Doge is not cutting research for curing blindness and the like but only for transgender and some related-sounding other studies that were lumped in together, which will probably be sorted out in time.