• The Trump Administration just canceled another National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant exposed by White Coat Waste (WCW) investigators that was funding cruel transgender experiments on animals. 
• The canceled $1.1 million grant was using DEI funds to surgically sterilize lab animals, inject them with hormones from the opposite sex, and overdose them on a party drug used for “chemsex.”
• Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have now canceled ten transgender animal testing grants exposed by WCW, saving thousands of animals and millions of tax dollars.
• WCW’s ongoing investigation has identified dozens of additional grants still funding transgender animal tests with money from the NIH, National Science Foundation, and the Department of Veterans Affairs.  
• WCW has sent DOGE billions more in wasteful government experiments on dogs, cats, and other animals to put on the chopping block.

Earlier this month, the Trump Administration’s Department of Government Efficiency canceled nine National Institutes of Health grants funding transgender animal tests that White Coat Waste investigators uncovered and flagged for the DOGE chopping block. 

Now, they’ve cut a tenth grant exposed by WCW, saving thousands of animals and millions of tax dollars.

Grant documents obtained by WCW through the Freedom of Information Act show that in the $1.1 million NIH-funded testing, University of the Pacific experimenters castrated male rats and injected them with estrogen, removed female rats’ ovaries and injected them with testosterone, and then overdosed them with the party drug GHB to “evaluate the potential for altered toxicity/overdose risk in transgender men and women.” 

The grant—paid for with DEI funds—explains that the altered lab animals represent “transgender individuals who have undergone gender confirmation surgery” and how GHB is an increasingly popular drug in the transgender community for “chemsex” to “enhance and prolong sexual sessions.”

At the end of the experiment, the rats were bled out and decapitated. The project planned to use and kill over 500 animals.

WCW first exposed the NIH grant in December 2024 and testified to Congress about it during a February 2025 House Oversight Committee hearing. The White House referenced and linked to WCW’s investigation of this grant and other transgender animal testing spending we exposed in a press release earlier this month. 

Transgender animal experiments are real—and really wasteful. WCW’s ongoing investigation of federal spending has identified dozens of additional grants funding inhumane transgender animal tests with money from NIH, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. 

The solution is simple: