Fun fact, I take hormones. I have LOTS of cis friends who receive HRT (hormone replacement therapy) for a variety of reasons.
HRT does NOT make humans transgender.
HRT CANNOT make MICE transgender.
NO MONEY HAS EVER GONE TOWARD "MAKING MICE TRANSGENDER."
Research has been done on mice regarding the effects of HRT. None of it "makes mice transgender." Said research can be beneficial to trans folks. It is ALSO beneficial to the MANY MANY CIS FOLKS (that's "not transgender" for those of you who just can't bring yourself to acknowledge that cis is a descriptor and not a fucking insult) who take hormones for any reason.
So no, absolutely zero dollars has gone into "making mice transgender," and defunding research on the effects of hormone therapies will potentially cause future harm to ANYONE TAKING HORMONE THERAPY, including quite possibly YOU or someone you care about.
Also fuck propaganda. Stop swallowing lies just because someone claims they agree with your biases.
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in reply to Crys Wolf • •I resent that I was not put on HRT when I started perimenopause early.
I didn't read about "making mice transgender." I'm not even sure what that would look like. I'd guess that treating male mice with female mouse hormones would create some physical and behavioral changes, but there's no way to determine whether those changes make the mice feel more like themselves or not.