Re: Monkey Business: Sicko Queer Biden Admin's Transgender Primate Experiment in Turmoil After Free Beacon Report

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The government-funded research project that created transgender
monkeys is in turmoil after a Washington Free Beacon report
exposed its existence, internal emails show.

Just days after the Free Beacon report on the study that
injected male monkeys with female hormones, the study's lead
researcher "expressed concerns" about publishing the results
because his or her name would appear on the final report,
according to internal communications obtained by the Free Beacon
through a Freedom of Information Act request. Professor Mauricio
Martins, who heads the study for Scripps Research, informed the
National Institutes of Health of the development in a Jan. 19
email, complaining that his monkey-based research to determine
why transgender women have high rates of HIV was "being twisted
and berated by people who are not qualified to judge its merit."

The NIH official who received the email, Dr. Jeff Cummins, told
Martins he stood by the study and called the Free Beacon壮 story
"misinformation."

"Unfortunately, these are the times in which we live," Cummins
wrote in his Jan. 20 response to Martins. "I am amazed by the
misinformation that is so quickly spread on social media."

The emails are the latest example of public backlash derailing
the Biden administration's radical spending initiatives. After
the Free Beacon exposed in February that the Biden
administration was funding the distribution of crack pipes to
promote racial equity, for example, the New York Times reported
that the "uproar" over the program "derailed" the
administration's entire drug policy.

Cummins did not respond to a Free Beacon inquiry on what was
"misinformation." A spokeswoman for Scripps Biomedical Research,
which now operates in partnership with the University of
Florida, told the Free Beacon the lead researcher had "concerns
about the negative impact of prior media coverage and subsequent
politicization of the research."

The NIH redacted the lead researcher's name from the now-public
emails, and the researchers have yet to publish their findings
from the study, which stopped receiving funding on April 1.

The initial Free Beacon report detailed how NIH-funded
researchers at UF Scripps Biomedical Research injected male
monkeys with feminizing hormone drugs to determine why
transgender women have high rates of HIV. Researchers then
tested the monkeys to determine if their immune systems were
weakened in response to the simian immunodeficiency virus葉he
monkey equivalent of HIV.

The NIH-funded study faced criticism from animal rights groups,
government accountability organizations, and transgender
activists. Fox News host Tucker Carlson covered the Free Beacon
story in a January segment with an official from PETA, which
slammed the study as pointless and cruel.

"It's an experiment that an eighth-grade science student could
figure out is totally meaningless," said Kathy Guillermo, vice
president of the animal rights group.

The University of Florida said its researchers "stand behind its
relevance."

"This important research is necessary to stay ahead of a global
epidemic that has cost an estimated 35 million lives since 1981,
and continues to affect an estimated 38 million people globally
who are living with HIV," the group told the Free Beacon.

Cummins defended the study in internal emails, assuring Martins
his efforts to address a "critical knowledge gap in gender-
affirming hormone therapy" are "incredibly important."

Martins disclosed in the emails that he was caught off guard by
the source of the backlash.

"To my surprise, the segments in question prompted a backlash on
Twitter by the transgender community, who stands to gain the
most by the research outlined," Martins wrote in the Jan. 19
email to Cummins.

The transgender monkey study is a part of a larger effort from
the NIH to counter the spread of HIV in the transgender
community, whose members are 49 times more likely to be infected
with the disease than nontransgender individuals, according to
the agency. Other NIH studies include a $155,000 project with a
University of Alabama researcher to study how testosterone
treatment for women weakens disease-fighting microorganisms in
the vagina. A project at Emory University received $230,000 from
the agency to study the rectum immune cells of transgender
people.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which
is run by Dr. Anthony Fauci, awarded $477,121 to the research
project between December 2021 and April 2022. The NIH division
acquires 400 to 600 rhesus macaque monkeys each year from a
South Carolina island leased by Charles River Laboratories,
which has a $27.5 million federal contract. The transgender
monkey study used rhesus monkeys, although researchers acquired
them from the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center.

Researchers kept the transgender monkeys alive after the study
and returned them to their colony at the Wisconsin National
Primate Research Center, according to documents obtained through
the information request. The center did not respond to inquiries
on the status of the monkeys after the hormone treatments.

Published under: Anthony Fauci, Biden Administration, NIH,
Transgender

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