Trump White House directs NIH to study 'regret' after transgender people transitionAfter cancelling nearly all NIH projects studying transgender health, Trump's team instructs the US biomedical agency to study negative consequences of transitioning.
Link to Full ArticleNature - Max Kozlov
03 April 2025
As the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) continues to defund nearly every research project on transgender health, the White House has directed the agency to focus on studying "regret" after a person transitions to align their body with their gender identity. Several NIH employees, who were granted anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the press, confirmed the directive to Nature.
Two weeks ago, Matthew Memoli, who was acting NIH director at the time, sent an e-mail to the directors of several NIH institutes. It said that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which is the NIH's parent agency, "has been directed to fund research on a few specific areas" related to what it calls "chemical and surgical mutilation" of children and adults — a reference to gender-affirming care and surgery. "This is very important to the President and the Secretary" of the HHS, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the e-mail added.
Many scientists, reeling from the abrupt cancellation of more than US$180 million in NIH funding for research on transgender health, slammed the proposed studies as ideologically driven.-----------------------------
I wonder how many scientists who depend on funding for survival will jump on board just for the financial benefits.
Due to the way it is worded, we already know what the study results will be used for. It doesn't matter if the study sample is too small to be statistically significant.
This is Cass Report 2.0
