Trump administration focuses on trans health and identity

In his state of the Union speech last month, President Trump told the congress that the Ministry of Government Efficiency had discovered $ 8 million that the federal government had ‘mice transgender’. There is of course not something like a transgender mouse. But there are transgene mice. Yet in his speech, the president did not refer to TransGene Mice. He is wrongly, but intentionally, claimed that tax money was spent on ‘transgender animal experiments’. In the light of other statements in the address on the nation, this can be part of a broader policy aimed at undermining transzeeheness and identity.

Genetically modified mice are often used for research or as animal models of human diseases. Here, TransGene refers to a genetic technique that changes the DNA of laboratory animals. Scientists create transgenic animals by inserting or removing genes. As Jeremy Faust notedThe federal government finances projects that use transgene mice to study dozens of diseases and biological mysteries.

But Trump was not on transgene mice. In fact, one day after the address, the White House doubled By stating that “Biden spent millions” and $ 8 million specifically for “making MICE transgender.”

The studies in question refer to research into mouse models with regard to the use of hormone treatments. In particular, researchers inject sex hormones in laboratory animals such as mice and monkeys and they investigate the behavioral and biological effects that result from changing their hormonal profiles.

Experts believe that such experiments with mice have improved our understanding of the impact of sex hormones on a whole series of disorders, including asthma and cancer,, but also reproductive health and their role in HIV vaccinations.

It is clear that this work is not about gender transitions in mice. And so we will remain the question why the president would insist that it is. Rolling stone speculate That Trump may have deliberately done this in an attempt to burn cultural war flames. After all, cultural issues were prominent during the State speech, especially related to transgender issues. For example, the president said he ‘signed an order This makes it the official policy of the US government that there are only two sexes: male and female. “

And Trump noticed: ‘me signed an executive order Forbid public schools to indoctrinate our children with transgender ideology. Me, too signed an order To take out all the financing of the taxpayer to every institution that deals with sexual mutilation of our youth. “This apparently refers to hospitals and health systems that provide care to gender incongent minors.

It is worth noting that if the president meant an operation with “mutilation”, such interventions are in minors who seek such care, rare. But the use of cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers is more common and the subject of considerable controversy and debate in recent years.

After leaving almost all national institutions of projects financed by health with regard to transgender health, a Nature exclusive report That the Trump administration instructs NIH to study potential regret after gender crossing.

However, there is clearly more going on than just focusing on any trans -health problems. Transventality can also be at stake. The policy that proclaims the existence of only two genera is an example. In addition, federal government agencies are subject to one clear From the use of every language that includes terms such as “transgender” and even “gender” themselves.

In one New York Times opinion partM. Gessen wrote about ‘denaturalization’, or was excluded from society that guaranteed their legal rights. Gessen pointed to the inaugural address of Trump and one of his first executive orders as proof of this. Here the president claimed that there are only two sexes: male and female, based on conception and unchangeable. Trump also stated that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs could legally refuse to issue passports on transgender and non -Binary Americans who reflect their gender identities, so that the department would only publish passports that “accurately reflect the gender of the holder.” And in a separate executive order, Trump surprised transgenders to serve in the army. The transferring message was that Transmensen do not exist, according to Gessen.

Strengthening the concern of Gessen was an incident two months ago in the House of Representatives. Fox News reported That a house republican from Illinois, Mary Miller, a transgender legislator from Delaware, Sarah McBride – who identifies himself as a woman, introduced as “The Gentleman … Mr. McBride” for a floor speech.

When asked why she did this, Miller said, “I refused to deny the biological reality,” added, “President Trump restored the biological truth in the federal government and I refuse to perpetuate the lie that gender is open to our interpretation. That is not.”