Professor gets NIH grant to study ‘rural gender diverse youth’

The National Institutes of Health awarded nearly half a million dollars to study “gender-affirming care for BIPOC and rural gender diverse youth,” with some of that money coming after President Trump took office.

The most recent entry for the study shows the federal government spent $143,000 on the project in fiscal year 2025. However, another government database shows that taxpayers spent $428,296 on the research since April 2023.

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“This grant is yet another data point underscoring how deeply ideologically corrupted the NIH had become, and the urgency for the Trump Administration to clean up the organization,” Ian Kingsbury with medical reform group Do No Harm told The Fix via a media statement.

He also challenged the project’s abstract, which stated that gender-affirming care has mental health benefits, calling it “a dubious claim based on shoddy, unreliable evidence.”

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