$10M in taxpayer funds spent creating transgender animals last year: Rep. Nancy Mace

$10 cardinal successful payer funds were spent past twelvemonth creating transgender animals, a survey by White Coat Waste Project revealed. 

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-SC, laid retired the misuse of payer dollars backing "gender-affirming care" for animals during opening remarks astatine a subcommittee proceeding connected Thursday. The hearing, titled "Transgender Lab Rats and Poisoned Puppies: Oversight of Taxpayer Funded Animal Cruelty," featured a witnesser from the White Coat Waste Project. 

"Last year, the White Coat Waste Project exposed much than $10 cardinal successful payer funds that were spent creating transgender mice, rats, and monkeys," Mace said. "These DEI grants funded achy and deadly transgender experiments that forced laboratory animals to acquisition invasive surgeries and hormone therapies astatine universities crossed the country."

Mace took purpose astatine the Biden-Harris administration's extremist argumentation docket for allowing payer dollars to money "surgically mutating carnal genitals."

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WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 19: U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) arrives for a House Republican caucus gathering astatine the U.S. Capitol connected November 19, 2024 successful Washington, DC. Mace introduced authorities that would necessitate House members and staffers from "using single-sex facilities different than those corresponding to their biologic sex." Mace introduced the measure successful effect to incoming Representative-elect Sarah McBride (D-DE) who volition soon beryllium the archetypal transgender subordinate of Congress.  (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

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"The Biden-Harris medication spent 2.5 cardinal payer dollars to survey the fertility of transgender mice," Mace said. "The Biden-Harris medication was truthful anxious to propagate their extremist sex ideology crossed each facets of American nine that they were surgically mutating carnal genitals. Taxpayer wealth went to that."

Before yielding to ranking subordinate Rep. Shontel Brown, D-OH, Mace said wasteful authorities spending connected carnal cruelty is simply a "nonpartisan issue."

"The US authorities spends successful excess of $20 cardinal a twelvemonth conducting experiments connected animals," Mace said. "We spent implicit a cardinal dollars to find retired if pistillate rats receiving testosterone therapy were much apt to overdose connected a day rape drug. That's what your payer dollars were being spent on."

Rep. Nancy Mace narrowly won predetermination successful 2020 implicit incumbent Joe Cunningham (D) by one-percent oregon astir 5,400 votes. With recently redrawn redistricting maps successful place, she comfortably won reelection by 14%. (Getty Images)

Mace thanked the White Coast Waste Project for their research. Justin Goodman, SVP of White Coat Waste Project; Dr. Paul A. Locke, a Professor astatine Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; and Elizabeth Baker, Director of Research Policy astatine Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine were invited to attest astatine Thursday's hearing. 

Beagles who were rescued from a National Institutes of Health (NIH) supplier were successful the assemblage arsenic a "reminder of the existent outgo of carnal experimentation," Mace said. In 2022, Mace stopped a $1.8 cardinal dollar cause trial experimentation connected beagle puppies. 

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"Today, astir of the twenty-seven NIH institutes and centers behaviour oregon enactment carnal testing—as does the Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, the Department of Defense, and countless agencies," Mace said. "I anticipation today’s speech tin likewise forestall payer dollars from needlessly backing carnal experimentation."