Around $10 million in American taxpayer funds was spent last year on experiments using “transgender lab rats,” Republican lawmaker Nancy Mace has said. She claimed the sum was an example of massive misuse of taxpayers’ money by former President Joe Biden’s administration.
Speaking on Thursday at a House Oversight Committee hearing titled ‘Transgender Lab Rats and Poisoned Puppies: Oversight of Taxpayer Funded Animal Cruelty’, Mace criticized the allocation of taxpayer funds for “gender-affirming care” in animal research. The hearing featured testimony from a representative of the White Coat Waste Project, which exposes animal testing projects.
“Why is the federal government spending taxpayer dollars to create transgender animals?” Mace demanded, referring to initiatives protecting transgender rights and programs promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), which the federal government had established during Biden’s administration.