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…
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