ANOTHER VICTORY: Trump Admin Cancels NIH Grant to Turn Animals Transgender and Overdose Them on GHB

The Trump administration has cancelled another wasteful National Institutes of Health grant to study overdoses of a party drug (GHB) by transgender people.

The $1,155,503 grant, uncovered by taxpayer watchdog White Coat Waste and highlighted by The Gateway Pundit, gave $1,155,503 to the University of the Pacific to castrate male rats and inject them with estrogen, remove female rats’ ovaries and inject them with testosterone, and then overdose them with GHB to “evaluate the potential for altered toxicity/overdose risk in transgender men and women.”

“GHB toxicokinetics will be evaluated in OVX and castrated animals in the presence or absence of individual male and female sex hormones. Hormone replacement studies in the opposite sex (cross-sex hormone therapy) will evaluate the potential for altered toxicity/overdose risk in transgender men and women,” the grant description reads.

The grant was part of the NIH’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) program.

The university boasted that the research “spotlights Pacific’s commitment to diversity and inclusion. The NIH SCORE Program is designed to increase the research support at institutions such as Pacific with a history of training and graduating students from groups underrepresented in the biomedical sciences.”

Over 500 hundred animals were slated to have sex changes and ultimately be killed for this research.

Earlier this month, the Trump White House referenced and linked to WCW’s investigation of this grant and other transgender animal testing grants.

Rep. Eli Crane and WCW VP Justin Goodman also discussed the grant during a February 6, 2025 House Oversight Committee hearing.

On March 21, the Trump NIH cut funding to this grant, which was scheduled to run until March 31 and could potentially have been extended.

Anthony Bellotti, president and founder of White Coat Waste Project, said in a statement provided to Gateway Pundit, “This is a great victory for taxpayers and animals. We’re proud that our blockbuster investigation has prompted the Trump Administration to slash millions in DEI funds and other wasteful spending earmarked for creating transgender lab animals through sterilization, hormone therapies, and invasive surgeries and then subjecting them to drug overdoses, open wounds, electroshocks, and other painful and deadly experiments. Despite the mainstream media’s shameful misinformation campaign, transgender animal experiments are real—and really wasteful. The solution is simple: Stop the money. Stop the madness!”

Sen. Joni Ernst, Senate DOGE Caucus Chair, added, “Since last year, I’ve exposed how the Biden administration got caught in the woke mousetrap and wasted millions of tax dollars on transgender animal experiments. I’m grateful that President Trump and DOGE are eliminating this wacky pseudoscience. Together, we are ending the silly science and ensuring that all studies funded by tax dollars are squeaky clean.”

Following WCW’s investigations, President Donald Trump has now cut 10 NIH grants funding transgender animal experiments.