Trump officials axe period research after false claim it was about ‘menstrual cycles in trans men’

Misinformation regarding transgender men has led to officials axing federal research into finding safer period products. 

President Donald Trump has already made false statements about the Biden administration creating transgender mice and sending “eight million dollars to promote LGBTQI+ in the African nation of Lesotho.”

Now, he has supported claims that a government grant to the Southern University and A&M College, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, that aids research into period products, was being used to support trans men who menstruate. 

US secretary of agriculture Brooke Rollins took to X/Twitter on Saturday (8 March) to reveal that his department was cancelling a $600,000 (£465,000) grant to study “menstrual cycles in transgender men”. 

Grant does not fund research related to trans men

Rollins linked

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