They are not "transgender mice studies". They are human health studies using mice as a model animal, as is routine in biological research.

$455,000: “A Mouse Model to Test the Effects of Gender-affirming Hormone Therapy on HIV Vaccine-induced Immune Responses

but they are not searching for a way to make mice transgender. The point of the research is to model those effects as they might occur in humans, not to figure out how to make transgender mice.

Which effects? Why should a taxpayer care?

Please read for yourself, you're showing ignorance and laziness, which leads us all to believe you're not arguing in good faith. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

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.

You realize a lot of hormones could be classified as gender-affirming, right?

Testosterone therapy would be gender-affirming for most men. Huge numbers of women take progesterone. Many, many others hormones reinforce gender-related 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.

Yes this kind of therapy is very important for some people to live a life where their hormones align with their sex. I have a friend who is a cis woman but has enough testosterone being naturally produced that she has some thicker facial hair. And this is with hormone therapy. If she wasn't taking supplementary female hormones, she'd likely have more serious misalignment between primary and secondary sex characteristics. And I have to imagine it could cause problems with her monthly cycle if the hormones aren't balanced right

It’s the title the researchers chose.

  The Fake News losers at CNN immediately tried to fact check it, but President Trump was right (as usual).

Genuinely, how can someone take this language seriously? I don’t understand how this doesn’t leave a sour taste in anyone’s mouth, as though they’re being treated like gullible fools by their own administration.

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.

Even if that were the case, is it wrong to support research into health related outcomes for American citizens? There’s nothing wrong with working on research to make American citizens medical and life outcomes better. That’s what government should be doing.