A little-known division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has conducted research on “sexual and sexual minorities,” including experimental research on child sex reassignment, over the past decade, according to a review by the Daily Caller News Foundation. has invested more than $1 billion in Grant.

Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office (SGMRO) established in 2015 take an oath To “advance rigorous research on the health of SGM populations,” including “individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, transgender, nonbinary, two-spirit, queer, and intersex.” Although the office has no grant-making authority of its own, it coordinates and facilitates hundreds of millions of dollars worth of research across NIH each year.

The secretariat has cooperated with ensuring safety. 1 billion dollars NIH records show that over the past several years it has funded numerous studies on the health of “sexual and sexual minorities,” including stress in rural same-sex couples and adolescence for 8-year-old minors. Studies on the effects of phase-blocking drugs are also included. Under former President Joe Biden’s administration, the number of NIH-funded SGM studies increased significantly, with at least 100 more studies conducted each year from 2021 to 2024 compared to 2017 to 2020.

“If SGMRO is supporting research involving experimental medical interventions on minors, a thorough investigation is required,” said Stella O’Malley, director of the agency. Genspecta nonpartisan organization that advocates for “non-medical solutions to gender issues,” in an email to DCNF.

“Given the lack of evidence of long-term effects and growing documentation of significant physical and psychological risks, the government has decided not to recommend research into puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones in healthy children. It’s very concerning that the government is funding this,” O’Malley continued, noting that: “Most young people with gender concerns” resolve their concerns without medical intervention. “These experiments are both unnecessary and harmful.”

Multiple polls conducted between 2022 and 2024 show that a majority of Americans currently oppose gender reassignment medical care for minors, but several federally funded studies have found that , are actively prescribing these drugs to monitor their effects on the child’s development.

Michael Costa, editor-in-chief of Gays Against Groomers, said: organization Certain LGBTQ+ people who oppose medical gender reassignment for minors have told the DCNF, “’Gender Affirming Care’ is pharmaceutical conversion therapy and is nothing more than a euphemistic label for genital mutilation and sexual lobotomy. ” he said.

President Donald Trump has made eliminating gender ideology a central part of his 2024 election campaign. On Inauguration Day, the president signed an executive order ensuring that the federal government recognizes only the permanent genders of men and women.

Trump: “As of today, it will be the official policy of the United States government going forward that there are only two genders: male and female.”

That should be common sense and reality.

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— Gays Against Groomers (@againstgrmrs) January 20, 2025

President Trump on Tuesday instructed All federal diversity, equity, and inclusion employees will receive paid leave and eventually be removed from the government payroll entirely. The administration is expected to continue cutting what it considers unnecessary government departments and spending.

NIH and SGMRO did not immediately respond to multiple inquiries from DCNF regarding the agency’s status under the Trump administration.

Although the agency’s future funding remains uncertain, past reports have revealed a large amount of SGMRO research funded through various NIH offices, some of which are listed in the agency’s fiscal year 2023. . report. DCNF has compiled five of the most unusual SGM studies that received a total of more than $2 million in funding from the NIH.

Experimental hormone testing on minors for $707,054

Stanford University received $707,054 from the National Institute of Mental Health; study A study to monitor the effects of cross-sex hormones on the brains of minors.

Researchers claim the study aims to correct a lack of data on “early adolescents” taking cross-sex hormones. They also point out that this study has “never been conducted” in this age group. The study will continue until May 31, 2025. (Related: NIH-funded study offered cash to parents to study effects of puberty blockers on children)

Study of puberty blockers suppressed for $1,111,300

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles receives $1,111,300 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; study It is intended to give children and young people a puberty blocker. Subjects ranged from 8 to 20 years of age, but the majority of those receiving puberty blockers were 11 years of age. The results have been kept secret by study leader Dr. Joanna Olson-Kennedy due to expected political backlash.

Olson-Kennedy is referred to As “America’s best-known youth gender medicine practitioner,” she said she plans to eventually make the data public. According to The New York Times reports that the project $9.7 million Government funded as of October 2024.

“We don’t want our work to be weaponized,” Olson-Kennedy told The New York Times. “You have to be right to the point, clear and concise, and that takes time.”

It’s like they’re using children as lab rats.

— Gays Against Groomers (@againstgrmrs) October 23, 2024

California-based physicians are currently facing the following challenges: lawsuit Kaya Clementine Breen, a former patient, alleged that President Olson-Kennedy acted medically negligently, stating that “a child cannot consent to being a patient for the rest of his life.” (Related: Detransitioners say they felt suicidal after suffering irreversible damage from doctors who ‘affirmed’ their transgender identity)

Clementine, a transitioner who is suing Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy for medical negligence, says what she wishes her doctor had told her before going ahead with puberty blockers, hormones and a double mastectomy.

“I wish she had interrogated my ideas about femininity.” pic.twitter.com/hEMuGzLke3

— Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell (@TheElizMitchell) December 11, 2024

Cath review, details report A paper published a few months before the interview about Olson-Kennedy’s own research said there was “weak evidence” to support the use of puberty blockers in adolescents, and that clinicians “do not know how much children and young people It has become clear that it is not possible to say with certainty whether Japan will move in that direction. I have a permanent transgender identity. ”

$100,000 for HIV research in Malaysia

The National Institute on Drug Abuse has provided $100,000 to: yale university Universities implementing HIV the study In Malaysia. The gist of the study is that Malaysia is facing a “rapidly growing HIV epidemic” and that “most It warns that it is affecting “high-risk” people. ” Researchers will provide Malaysian university students with a five-year training program to work on “HIV prevention and treatment.”

“Our efforts…ultimately…will improve the health and well-being of SGM individuals across the country,” former NIH Director Francis S. Collins said in the 2023 SGMRO report. In just the past three years, expensive SGM studies have been conducted in Malaysia, China, Jamaica, Russia, and Peru.

$481,970 Study of Stress in Rural Gay Couples

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences provided additional funding. study The study, conducted by the University of Nebraska, focuses specifically on the experiences of “sexual and gender minority couples” who are experiencing financial hardship.[s]”

Researchers have spent nearly $500,000 to find that “alcohol use” is the cause of these couples’ unhealthy relationships, and that the result is a “sense of psychological connection to the LGBTQ+ community.” Tried to prove that promoting. The results have not yet been published.

Testing the effects of testosterone on vaginal bacteria for $283,494

The University of Alabama at Birmingham received $283,494 in funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study the effects of testosterone injections in “vaginal specimens.”

The researchers are awaiting formal conclusions after peer review, but the implications of the study are that “testosterone may have harmful effects, including…an increase in a variety of bacteria, many of which are bacterial It seems that there is something that is related to sexual vaginosis.

The researchers wanted to “identify ways to optimize the health benefits of testosterone in TGM.” [transgender-identified men]However, available information Shows that testosterone appears to cause complications in ‘vaginal specimens’.

The SGMRO office, which funnels millions of taxpayer dollars into these and many other studies, was established primarily for the following reasons: 2011 report A study commissioned by the NIH under former President Barack Obama found that there was “relatively little health research” regarding the LGBTQ population.

Joseph Filioria, a gender policy analyst at the Manhattan Institute, told DCNF that the institute “needs to be committed to evidence-based medicine and biological realism,” but many He said researchers were likely to have a “predetermined conclusion” before the study was completed.

“The problem is that [the SGMRO] Determining the type of research that will be funded… [the SGMRO] This sets the tone for how all NIH offices think about sex and gender. ” Fillioria said. “I think it’s very concerning that the NIH continues to promote this practice.” [of transitioning minors] Despite lacking evidence and refusing to provide evidence. ”

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