House Oversight Committee reveals $241 million in taxpayer funds spent on transgender research using animals

Millions of taxpayer dollars have been spent on studying transgender surgeries and treatments using animals, the House Oversight Committee revealed.

In a hearing, the committee found that $241 million in taxpayer dollars had been spent on transgender animal experiments. The findings emerged after Justin Goodman, Senior Vice President of Advocacy and Public Policy at White Coat Waste Project, testified at an oversight hearing earlier this month. Goodman testified that the amount of money spent was just the “floor” of this research.

“In a lot of these cases — they involve mice, rats, monkeys, who are being surgically mutilated and subjected to hormone therapies to mimic female to male or male to female gender transitions, gender-affirming hormone therapies, and then looking at the biological, psychological and physiological effects of the gender transitions, looking at the effects of taking vaccines after you’ve transitioned these animals from male to female or female to male, looking at the size of their genitals changing after you’ve put them on estrogen or testosterone therapies to transition them,” Goodman testified.

He also pointed to a $1.1 million grant for experiments in which female lab rats were given testosterone to mimic transgender males. Additionally, Goodman criticized the lack of transparency in federal spending databases, saying, “You essentially need a degree in Information Technology to navigate the federal spending databases to find any of this stuff.”

Oversight Committee member Eli Crane responded by questioning whether the government was being transparent about its spending, to which Goodman replied, “Not at all, and it’s by design.” Goodman further claimed that Dr. Anthony Fauci had approved funding for about 95 percent of the transgender experiments on animals, according to Breitbart.