In a high-profile attack on LGBTQ science research this spring, President Donald Trump decried supposedly wasteful research like $8 million for “making mice transgender.” Trump played the mice remark for laughs during a joint address to Congress on March 4.
But the $8 million in funding was not a joking matter; the federal grants supported six research efforts funded by the National Institutes of Health that focused on HIV, asthma, infertility, breast cancer and other pressing issues.
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