Rep. Mace offers bill to ban publicly funded 'transgender animal experiments' blessed by Fauci

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., introduced legislation to prohibit federal taxpayer funding of so-called transgender animal research of the sort the Department of Government Efficiency halted this spring on mice and the subject of an earlier House Oversight Committee hearing on animal cruelty, especially efforts approved by former National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci.

The Transgender Research on Animals Now Stops and Money for Ideological Cruelty Eliminated Act (TRANS MICE Act), whose text is not available yet online (HR 4512) but was provided exclusively to Just the News by White Coat Waste Project, whom Mace thanked for its advocacy, would prohibit federal funding to "conduct, support, or fund (directly or indirectly)" certain research.

That includes "any research to study the effects of drugs, hormones, surgery, or other interventions to alter the body of a qualified animal to no longer correspond to the biological sex of such animal," specifically by "disrupting the development of an animal’s body; inhibiting the natural functions of the animal’s body; or modifying the physical appearance of an animal."

Exceptions are made for any "non-human vertebrate that changes sex during its lifetime; or naturally possesses both male and female reproductive organs."

Mace's cosponsors are Republican Reps. Paul Gosar of Arizona, Brandon Gill of Texas and Lauren Boebert of Colorado.

“Americans are rightfully tired of seeing their tax dollars spent on wasteful experiments disguised as research while advancing a political agenda," Mace said in a statement. "This legislation brings accountability, ends taxpayer-funded cruelty, and ensures science serves the public, not ideology."

WCW president and founder Anthony Belloti touted the group's "viral investigations, shocking Congressional testimony, and relentless campaigning to expose and end taxpayer-funded transgender animal experiments" as convincing Mace and "President Trump himself" to oppose such research.

"Trump’s historic cuts have already saved thousands of animals and millions of taxpayer dollars" but National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and Department of Veterans Affairs grants uncovered by WCW have also "funneled federal funds to similar disturbing transgender animal tests," making Mace's bill necessary, Belloti said.