• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Hey, OP, this “transgenic vs transgender” thing actually is disinformation. The White House (ignore the Trump-brand petulant diaper baby bullshit) has presented easily verifiable receipts. They’re:

    1. Correct about the level of funding (easily audited per page).
    2. Correct that each of these was related heavily or wholly to the ways exogenous sex hormones affect mice.
    3. Completely, utterly wrong for treating them as superfluous. Even if you don’t believe trans people deserve medical study for their own health (which is nonsense), and even if you seriously believe $8 million is anything more than a drop in the bucket for the US federal government (we’re talking an actual millionth of the annual budget spread across several years), studies such as the $1.2 million one on androgens’ effect on female reproductive health can objectively help non-trans people such as people with PCOS. It’s good even if you’re a disgusting bigot.
    • Star Stuff@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Transgenic mice are mice given human genes to better test medicines before human testing. Better medicines help us all.

      More transgenic stuff include bacteria with genes that produce life-saving medicines.

      This is vitally important stuff.