WND By Audrey Streb, Daily Caller News Foundation January 23, 2025
'Deeply concerning': Dems quietly used little-known NIH office to fund child sex-change experiments with taxpayer cash
Goal was to 'advance rigorous research on the health of SGM populations,' including 'individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, transgender, non-binary, Two-Spirit, queer, and/or intersex'
A little-known arm of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has directed over $1 billion into "sexual and gender minority" research, including experimental studies on child sex changes over the last 10 years, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation review of grants.
Founded in 2015, the Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office (SGMRO) vows to "advance rigorous research on the health of SGM populations," including "individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, transgender, non-binary, Two-Spirit, queer, and/or intersex." Though the office does not have grantmaking authority of its own, it coordinates and facilitates hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of research across NIH every year.
The office has helped secure over $1 billion in funding for a slew of studies on "sexual and gender minority" health over the past several years, including research into the stress of rural gay couples and the effects of puberty blocking drugs on minors as young as eight, according to NIH records. Under former President Joe Biden's administration, the number of SGM studies funded by the NIH increased significantly, with at least 100 more being conducted annually from 2021-2024 as compared to 2017-2020.
"If the SGMRO is supporting research involving experimental medical interventions in minors, this requires thorough investigation," wrote Stella O'Malley, the director of Genspect, a nonpartisan organization advocating for "non-medicalized solutions to gender distress," in an email to the DCNF.
"Government funding for studies on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones in healthy children is deeply concerning, given the lack of evidence for long-term benefits and the growing documentation of significant physical and psychological risks," O'Malley continued, also noting that "most gender-distressed youth" resolve their angst without medical intervention. "These experiments are both unnecessary and harmful."
Though a majority of Americans now oppose medical sex-change treatments for minors, according to multiple polls conducted between 2022 and 2024, several federally funded studies are actively prescribing these drugs to monitor their effects on children's development.
Michael Costa, the editor-in-chief of Gays Against Groomers, an organization of LGBTQ+ identified individuals who oppose medical sex changes for minors, told the DCNF that "'Gender-affirming care' is pharmaceutical conversion therapy — nothing more than a euphemistic label for genital mutilation and sex lobotomy."
President Donald Trump made rooting out gender ideology a central part of his 2024 campaign. On the day of his inauguration, the president signed an executive order ensuring that the federal government will only recognize the two immutable sexes, male and female.
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