More than 10 million US dollars in taxpayer funds were reportedly spent on transgender animal experiments involving mice, rats and monkeys, according to a watchdog study cited in a congressional oversight hearing.

The White Coat Waste Project, a bipartisan government watchdog organisation, has investigated how Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) funding has been used. Congresswoman Nancy Mace, an outspoken critic of gender ideology, cited the study in her opening remarks at last week’s congressional subcommittee hearing titled, „Transgender Lab Rats and Poisoned Puppies: Oversight of Taxpayer Funded Animal Cruelty,” the US news portal The Christian Post pointed out.

Mace highlighted,

the Biden-Harris administration allocated 2.5 million US dollars to study the fertility of transgender mice, while another experiment spent 1.1 million dollars to explore the impact of testosterone therapy on female rats, mimicking transgender men, and their likelihood to overdose on a party drug commonly used in the LGBT community for „chemsex.”

Additionally, Mace said

tax dollars funded a study to transition male monkeys by forcing them to undergo hormone treatments to see if it made them more susceptible to HIV — a virus they cannot contract.

„The Biden-Harris administration was so eager to propagate their radical gender ideology across all facets of American society that they did not pause to consider that such experiments are not only cruel, but unnecessary,” Mace said,adding that some studies had a scientifically questionable nature. Citing research, which indicated 90 per cent of novel drugs that show promise in animal testing fail during human clinical trial, Mace said: „It is well known that because of the differences between animal and human biology, animal testing frequently does not produce results relevant for humans.”

Justin Goodman from the White Coat Waste Project was also on hand for the hearing. He said his organisation recently identified „over 240 million dollars in grants for transgender animal experiments”.

As part of the national DEI push, colleges and universities across the country have received funding for academic inquiries and endeavors. Last year, a federal agency awarded nearly 1 million dollars in taxpayer funding to three academic institutions to help make undergraduate biology courses more „inclusive” for trans-identifying students, claiming that most courses „inaccurately categorise sex and gender as binary.”