New NIH grant terminations target transgender studies

Researchers across the United States and beyond who study transgender health are learning that their National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants are being abruptly canceled. Two such killed grants were revealed on Monday and Science has now identified another 14 focused on transgender human health that, on 28 February, were terminated by way of a letter from NIH saying each project “no longer effectuates agency priorities.”

...[T]he agency placed seven employees on administrative leave this week—all of whom had formerly worked in NIH’s defunct Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office (SGMRO). They had been reassigned under former President Joe Biden’s administration to other topics in an apparently futile attempt to protect them...

Yesterday in a press release, the White House identified six “egregious” NIH grants totaling $8,290,053, most of which involved giving rodents hormones to study their effects on diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, and asthma, although it didn’t explicitly say they had been canceled. But the president’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said in a social media post it had killed a total of seven grants involving “transgender experiments on animals.” It only noted two specific rodent grants, neither of which matches the White House press release list.

Brittany Charlton, an epidemiologist at Harvard University who studies sexual and gender inequity in medicine, says the NIH cancellations will hurt a marginalized transgender community already frightened by the Trump administration’s anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and could in the long run eliminate needed mental and physical health resources. “These cuts are going to have catastrophic effects,” she says. “They’re not only impacting the LGBTQ community, but also scientific integrity and the broader community as well.”

NIH funds more than 400 grants that mention “transgender,” “gender minority,” or “nonbinary” in their abstracts, but only a handful appear to have been terminated so far.

>> Brittany Charlton, an epidemiologist at Harvard University who studies sexual and gender inequity in medicine, says the NIH cancellations will hurt a marginalized transgender community already frightened by the Trump administration’s anti-LGBTQ rhetoric

Brittany Charlton is a sex pervert.

But tell me... where do I find this “marginalized transgender community”...? Do they live in a trailer park outside of New Orleans? A seedy hotel in Boston? Where the hell IS this “community”???

Oh, nevermind, I get it... this “community” is a fantasy made up by Brittany Charlton and other sexual deviants like her.

At one time, faggot and tranny DEVIANTS — or if you prefer, PERVERTS — were forced by their societal peers to live “in the closet”. They HID their perversion from society at large and practiced their sick, satan-driven “sexuality” apart from the rest of NORMAL!!! There, I said it!!! humanity.

How I long to see those NORMAL times return... and the Brittany Charltons of the world to be swept into the dustbin of history along with other FAILED ideologies!

Brittany Charlton is a sex pervert.

According to her website.

"Dr. Brittany Charlton is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is the Founding Director of the LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence—a partnership of the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute.

"Additionally, Dr. Charlton is the Director of Faculty Development for the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. At the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, she is Co-Director of the Master of Science Program in Epidemiology. At the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, she is Co-Leader of the Cancer Epidemiology Program. Dr. Charlton is also on the faculty of The Fenway Institute, Boston Children's Hospital, and Brigham and Women's Hospital.

"Dr. Charlton is known as a leading scholar of sexual and gender minority health inequities, particularly in cancer and reproductive health. The second focal area of her research is contraception use and family planning among people of all sexual orientations and gender identities. Her research has sustained continuous funding for the last 15 years from the NIH and foundations, including the American Cancer Society. She has been the Principal Investigator on 18 grants, including her most recent NIH-funded R01 award, focused on sexual orientation-related disparities in obstetrical and perinatal health. Additionally, she collaborates with colleagues across the globe on a host of large-scale studies. Dr. Charlton has published over 75 original research papers including in JAMA, BMJ, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, and American Journal of Public Health.

"Further, Dr. Charlton leads several mentoring initiatives, particularly for underrepresented minorities. She is a Certified Facilitator through the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences and the founder of the Harvard Sexual and Gender Minority Health Mentoring Program. Dr. Charlton is an award-winning mentor who has mentored more than 50 early-career faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and trainees. In the classroom, Dr. Charlton is the Course Director for several classes across the university. In the realm of medical education, she is an alum of the Rabkin Fellowship in Medical Education, and she helps lead efforts at Harvard Medical School to integrate sexual and gender minority health content across the medical school curriculum.

"Dr. Charlton received her MSc and ScD from the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

But what a long and lucrative career in obtaining grants.

Her research has sustained continuous funding for the last 15 years from the NIH and foundations, including the American Cancer Society. She has been the Principal Investigator on 18 grants...

That's the gold standard is measuring academic success.

Not how often you've been published, nor how many awards you've won. Those are nice. But the real measure of academic achievement is the ability to obtain grant money.

Whoa, that seems awfully extreme. Just because they work there doesn't mean the want to be replumbed.

to other topics in an apparently futile attempt to protect them...

OK, different reassignment that they to to teenage kids.

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