New NIH grant terminations target transgender studies—even in mice

Researchers across the United States and beyond who study transgender health are learning that their National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants are being abruptly canceled. Two such killed grants were revealed on Monday and Science has now identified another 14 focused on transgender human health that, on 28 February, were terminated by way of a letter from NIH saying each project “no longer effectuates agency priorities.” ...[T]he agency placed seven employees on administrative leave this week—all of whom had formerly worked in NIH’s defunct Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office (SGMRO). They had been reassigned under former President Joe Biden’s...