NIH Using Taxpayer Dollars to Fund Transgender Study Led by LGBTQ Activist
The National Institutes of Health has developed a reputation for its controversial use of taxpayer dollars and for allowing contemporary politics to influence its research initiatives. The agency's decision to award a $43,000 grant to research the “health status of gender minorities” in a study conducted by an anti-Trump political activist who believes that gender and biological sex are separate is not likely to quell those criticisms.
According to the grant for the study, “The transgender (TG) community experience health disparities associated with individual factors, such as gender identity and expression. To date, the majority of TG health-related studies have taken a narrow view of health by focusing on mental health outcomes and cross-sex hormone therapy, and frequently conceptualized health as the absence of engagement in health-harming behaviors.”