Last month, workers rally rally for the rights of transgender people at the National Mall at Washington DC.Credit: Kayla Bartakowski/Getty
As the US National Institute of Health (NIH) has continued to avoid almost every research project on transgender health, the White House has directed the agency to focus on focusing on “regret” after a person infection to align his body with his gender identity. Many NIH employees, who were given oblivion because they are not authorized to talk to the press, confirmed the instructions Nature,
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Two weeks ago, Matthew Memoli, who was acting at the time NIH director, sent an e-mail to the directors of several NIH institutes. It states that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which is the original agency of NIH, is “directed to the research fund on certain areas” “which belongs to children and adults’ chemical and surgical mutations”-a reference to linga-confusion and surgery. “This is very important for the President and Secretary” Robert F. Kennedy Junior of HHS, added e-mail.
Based on its priorities, the White House sometimes directs the largest public funder of NIH-world’s biomedical science-some comprehensive subjects, such as cancer or women’s health, to study the health of women, but the uniqueness of the latest instructions, inflammatory language and a hyper-polarization topic is unprecedented to focus on the topic, saying NIH employees. Although the White House sometimes “can push us on various things, we normally get out of the approach”, call a staff member.
Many scientists slammed the proposed studies as an ideological operated by a sudden cancellation of more than US $ 180 million in NIH funding for research on transgender health.
Harry Barbie says, “It actually translates people to this medical lens, where the important thing to know about them is that they seek medical infection” and regrets, Harry Barbie says, who studies the health of people of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, and study the health of people of people (LGBT+), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (LGBT+). Identify as “When ideology on scientific qualification is given priority, the entire scientific enterprise is threatened.”
NIH and White House did not respond NatureQuestions about concerns with new research priorities or scientists with their clear ideological turn. The HHS stated that “NIH is giving priority to research that meets the best interests of public health, not ideological agenda, and will continue to support studies that provide clear, purpose data-especially about the long-term effects of gender infections.”
Shifting focus
Estimates suggest that 1.6 million people in the United States identify as transgender, and about one-fourth of them receive gender-confusion surgery. research suggests1 Access to these processes can reduce anxiety, depression and suicidal idea among people.
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US President Donald Trump Signed an executive order on its first day in office On January 20, the US government was directed to stop accepting that gender may be different from sex at birth. Many trans-health research grants were quickly adhered to, and the agency is now transferring the type of this type of research. E-mail from Memoli, obtained by NatureThe Trump administration specifies the two areas of research that the Trump administration wants to fund “social transition”, which occurs when a person changes how they express their gender to others – for example, by changing their name or appearance.
Says e-mail, “These include regret and decline after social infections as well as chemical and surgical mutuality of children and adults” and “social infections and/or results from children undergoing chemical and surgical deformities”, call e-mail.
Excess research on trans the experience of people – including understanding the causes of dissatisfaction after infection – needs Barbie. But they worry that the only focus on negative consequences is incorrect: Less than 1% of transgender people undergoing gender-confusion surgery, according to an analysis published by Barbie and their colleagues2Comparatively, 14.4% comprehensive population report is regret after any kind of surgery3,
So far, about 187 NIH grant funding trans-health research has been abolished, according to A Online efforts to track the research of Trump team Deduction By Brittany Charlon, Boston, an epidemicist at the Harvard C School of Public Health at Boston, Massachusetts, who studies LGBT+ health and their colleagues. In 2023, NIH funded about 180 projects in the region, according to NIH employee.
If these proposed studies proceed, it will create a “deformed research ecosystem, where only politically favorable conclusions are allowed to exist” and “” Evidence Vacuum for Physicians trying to correct the rights “, called Barbie.
