The new fiscal year has brought more taxpayer-funded mania to college campuses. According to Just the News, the taxpayer-funded National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently supported a project at the University of California, San Diego involving experiments on mice related to gender-affirming medication.
The grant, which totaled $584,117, was given to UC San Diego as part of an experiment aimed at “fine-tuning” male hormone usage for women who identify as men. This marks the second grant that this project has obtained from the NIH. For the fiscal year of 2025, the project was awarded an initial $646,301.
During the operations of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), this program was targeted for termination due to its accusations of animal cruelty. After an initial cutoff by the DOGE last year, a Massachusetts federal district court ordered the project to resume, citing its termination as “arbitrary and capricious.”
This experiment is part of a broader pattern, as UC San Diego has implemented several policies and programs promoting gender ideology.
As reported previously by Legal Insurrection, UC San Diego Health states that it hosts the “most comprehensive gender health program” while bragging that it is the only “hospital system in San Diego to offer the full spectrum of gender-affirming services to adults (ages 18 and up).” Additionally, in a mandatory training session issued at the university, students were told that disagreeing with aspects of transgender ideology constituted a “hostile environment.”
The NIH is also known for funding several other programs at Universities pertaining to diversity, equity, and inclusion. CriticalRace.org has uncovered several taxpayer-funded initiatives by the National Institutes of Health that offer race-specific opportunities.
At the University of Southern California, for example, the “USC PREP” program was described as “an NIH-funded one year program for minority, disabled and financially disadvantaged students who wish to embark on a research and academic career in the biomedical sciences.”
Other race-based initiatives funded by the NIH include the “Diversity Programs Consortium,” which aimed to “[enhance] the diversity of the NIH-funded workforce.”
With the closure of government departments such as DOGE, radical gender ideology and DEI programs are beginning to reemerge. Although the full extent of taxpayer-funded programs supporting unethical research remains uncertain, oversight efforts are expected to persist at both the federal and watchdog levels.
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