I can’t believe this needs to be said. TransGENIC mice are not TransGENDER mice - ThreadSky

https://medresearch.umich.edu/health-lab/mouse-model-gender-affirming-testosterone-treatment-and-fertility-finds-decrease-egg-yield-not. There are transgender mice models, and your framing suggests that it's ridiculous to even study transgender issues.

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hemiscott.bsky.social•14 hours ago

There are sources which may indicate where the obsessive rightwing focus on transgender modeled research in mice and other animals came from. This has been percolating for at least a few months:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Transgender-mice-WCW-12-2024-v2.docx.pdf

https://blog.whitecoatwaste.org/2024/12/21/wcw-investigation-10m-wasted-to-create-transgender-mice-and-monkeys/

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takahanazawa.bsky.social•15 hours ago

you telling me these mice make trans people

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iowademocrat.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Did no one review this moron’s speech before he read it on tv? My husband has over 30 years of experience in this field, he has a PhD in molecular biology and design mice daily at the University of Iowa! I swear if they cut more NIH funding because if this dumb ass comment 🤯

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bluecrusade.bsky.social•10 hours ago

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dingleclaus.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Please, no one tell that idiot trump that Proteins require both TRANScription and TRANSlation ... god forbid he finds out about TRANSmembrane Proteins

The fact that the dumbest president ever is killing NIH funding is tragic. Saying Transgenic mice are transgender during the SOU is embarrassing

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joeleneoooo.bsky.social•2 hours ago

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shred18.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yet we don’t need a department of education

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jogybl.bsky.social•2 hours ago

I am pretty sure the "transgenic" idiocy came from Musk, as he is the guy who is anally fixated on fighting anything that could be "transgender".

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sallyatticum.bsky.social•1 day ago

But "The Transgender Mice" would be a great band name...

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sparky15756.bsky.social•14 hours ago

They'd need to be bikers too!

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mhathaway.bsky.social•21 hours ago

"They're eating the cats and dogs!"

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glebaron.bsky.social•13 hours ago

There's actually something much more sinister going on here. The speechwriters know this is wrong, but will be lapped up by uneducated people as an example of corruption, when it's nothing of the sort.

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blueinthesouth.bsky.social•2 hours ago

THEY know, but I'll bet he didn't.

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melscott98.bsky.social•1 day ago

Sigh.

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jmsy10.bsky.social•14 hours ago

just tell me which restroom the mice should use

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cassius335.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh, THAT is what that asshole was on about...

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tcr2.bsky.social•6 hours ago

So I wasn’t hearing that wrong. For a second, I thought I was going to have to call my brother-in-law and tell him to watch out for funding cuts on his lab or its closure.

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ximarie.win•11 hours ago

Mice can’t tell you their gender preference 🤭

Transgenic mice are mice that have had foreign DNA put into the nucleus of a fertilized mouse egg. The new DNA becomes part of every cell and tissue of the mouse. These mice are used in the laboratory to study diseases.

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elkmovie.bsky.social•1 day ago

If they spent more than $0 on humanities funding they’d probably ban all historical discussions of Transalpine or Cisalpine Gaul

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sparky15756.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Biker Mice From Venus could have been a great show about transgender mice

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george45gr.bsky.social•7 hours ago

So those mouse would turn us Trans
Or gay
I thought this was the frogs work
(Obvious sarcasm)

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seansatori.bsky.social•1 day ago

Depends on the gene, no?

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gennerveevy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Wait until he finds out about how many transgenic crops there are.

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dumnbunny.bsky.social•1 day ago

You can’t fool me! They have “trans” in the name! This is why I avoid trans fats, refuse to drive the Trans-Canada Highway, and opposed the Trans Mountain Pipeline! /s

Jesus fuck, Trump is such a fucking clown …

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eastpole.bsky.social•1 day ago

When, one day, you fly on a rocket to the moon, there will be no tranlunar orbital insertion!

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eastpole.bsky.social•1 day ago

I can't believe I typoed the key word of the joke!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-lunar_injection

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sparky15756.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Trans-Lunar Orbital Insertion sounds like a great name for a metal band

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chuckpilon.bsky.social•1 day ago

Is the Trans-Siberian Orchestra ok or are they hated too?

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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social•1 day ago

Uh, I think it might have been a reference to this study, which was about mouse models of gender-affirming care:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36484619/

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hemiscott.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I didn’t see the shitshow and can’t say how much of a flub the fascist made, but your link shows at least one study that was using mice as a model for transgender people. Maybe the confusion between transgender and transgenic is overblown? Trump was probably hyperbolizing greatly.

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immunologic.org•1 day ago

Some of it related to monkey studies of HIV with supplemental hormones to assess differential susceptibility, but also, legitimite transgenic research models — none of which are transgender mice (or animals)

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hemiscott.bsky.social•16 hours ago

None of which gets at the linked study which used female mice and says:
“…we induced a transmasculine youth mouse model”

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hemiscott.bsky.social•16 hours ago

And:
“To our knowledge, this study describes the first mouse model mimicking gender-affirming hormone therapy in peripubertal transmasculine youth.”

A tempest in a teapot but still.

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ella42.bsky.social•1 day ago

Unfortunately it does need to be said. Over and over again. But the truth will never impact their narrative.

This is theater of the absurd.

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marinaelpiniki.bsky.social•11 hours ago

I laughed out loud when I heard him say this. What a knob. The misinformation is rampant.

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wtfmagritte.bsky.social•1 day ago

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kimberlywheiman.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Oh man. That really should need to be said.

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outofmanyone.bsky.social•10 hours ago

They are eating the cats and dogs again 🙄

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nywonk.bsky.social•1 day ago

Good Lord.

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foolberto.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh good grief no context I see this on my feed and kinda can figure it out and oh god they are so stupid and we are stuck with the consequences

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alexdesignsit.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I was wondering what the hell he was talking about with the mice 😬

thank you for explaining

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chuckpilon.bsky.social•1 day ago

I can, sadly, believe it needs to be said. Understanding words isn’t one of their strengths.

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immunosci.bsky.social•1 day ago

Where on earth was this brought up???

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rainsurname.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump's SOTU is full of lies, as usual, including one about spending millions of dollars to make mice transgender.

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immunosci.bsky.social•1 day ago

Interesting 🤨

But not shocked. They’re dubious and stupid.

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miss-grimke.bsky.social•2 hours ago

But they are telegenic

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wordleaddict.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Trans women are most at risk of HIV—tragic that research using mouse models to investigate this phenomenon are the subject of ridicule.

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keith-85.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Paediatrics is not the same as paedophilia.

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pissedoffllama.bsky.social•1 day ago

Jesus fucking Christ. How is this idiot still alive and why hasn’t SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE, worked on their aim?!

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chaplainrichard.bsky.social•8 hours ago

We are in a low-budget parody of Idiocracy…

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nerdbro3000.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh good lord. The POTUS is functionally illiterate..! 🙃

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usernameneil.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think he's actually illiterate, not just functionally

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nerdbro3000.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think it’s about actual mouse studies on hormonal treatments used in gender affirming care - so maybe not transgenic but also NOT transgender!

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immunologic.org•1 day ago

No, some of it related to monkey studies of HIV with supplemental hormones to assess differential susceptibility, but also, legitimite transgenic research models

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blueinthesouth.bsky.social•2 hours ago

There's a clip of him pretending he needs glasses to read something. He can't read.

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xiphosb4.bsky.social•1 day ago

Neurosyphilis is a hell of a drug.

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kitkat42.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm going fucking sicko mode about this omg I hate the party of illiteracy

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pissedoffllama.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’ve been infuriated about a lot of things over the past few months, but I really think this one takes the cake. Maybe they need to spend some money educating him to spare the rest of us from his stupidity.

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kitkat42.bsky.social•23 hours ago

absolutely for real - I'm a biologist and seeing this made me want to cry! like I hate them for targeting trans people and they shouldn't be targeting anything on trans people or hormone research, but this specific gaff is especially ridiculous

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geraldlohnas.bsky.social•4 hours ago

How do you know unless you asked them?

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spike-x.bsky.social•21 hours ago

I can absolutely believe this needs to be said.

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flyingjay.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh, that's what it was.

Of course.

Like condoms for Gaza, essentially. Or Ukrainian "raw" earths.

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dconrad.bsky.social•1 day ago

Our country doesn't have much raw earth and you know why? Because our country is cooked.

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spacely.bsky.social•1 day ago

It was lost in translation (from English to MAGA).

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viga.bsky.social•1 day ago

This reminds me of that "homophones" situation.

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maricac.bsky.social•1 day ago

I just...can't even....
Sigh.

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landicine.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Let them hope they never need Transaortic Valve Replacement, Transcyte Skin Graft, or a simple transfusion.

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texas-bluebird.bsky.social•1 day ago

Gahhhhhhh

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familiaralien.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Oh for fuck sake mice don't even have genders so you cannot trans what isn't there! Like they have sex characteristics of course but gender is a form of introspection.
As smart as these little rodents are this is a type of higher thinking that mice likely do not possess. 🫠

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familiaralien.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Its fucking infuriating that people out there making laws about trans people don't even have a grade school level understanding of what a gender is.... or that trans is a Latin prefix that's an absolute fuckton of English words use (the vast majority of which have nothing to do with gender).

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kipruss3.bsky.social•1 day ago

I cant believe we have gotten this stupid

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soberchinaski.bsky.social•1 day ago

To the MAGA mind virus, things are what the Dear Leader says they are.

Donald Jim Jones Trump

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permanentmajority.bsky.social•6 hours ago

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souleater1212.bsky.social•9 hours ago

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immunologic.org•1 day ago

Conflating types of research involving:

1) hormone treatment and susceptibility to
HIV
2) hormone treatment in animal models to understand gender-affirming care mechanisms
3) legitimate transgenic animal models

NONE of which are transgender mice.

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alixmb.bsky.social•1 day ago

I am LOL-ing bc I've just spent the last few days at my new job reading protocols about xenograft mouse studies in oncology research.....

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wa7iut.bsky.social•1 day ago

I want a trans mice t-shirt tho!

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spacely.bsky.social•1 day ago

And a cartoon where a trans cat chases a trans mouse.

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sabersaharkhiz.bsky.social•1 day ago

🤣🤣🤣

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clanghoff.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump also conflates seeking asylum with "insane asylums", though.

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mullinshere.bsky.social•1 day ago

"But they're woolly mammoths now, right?"

"Um, wrong mouse article...."

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blithedale.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Someone did a text string search for trans*

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mgresist.bsky.social•7 hours ago

And, so what if they were...

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alexhgo.bsky.social•16 hours ago

It would almost be hilarious if it weren't so serious

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bethmeacham.bsky.social•1 day ago

LOL!!!

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lilseb.bsky.social•1 day ago

Wait till they hear about the trans-continental railway.

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bambiwhambi.bsky.social•20 hours ago

They'll have a tough time believing everyone in the Siberian orchestra is trans too, I bet

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phunphunphun.bsky.social•15 hours ago

We have the Trans-Canada highway too!
Convert and Trans-port!?

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firegurlll.bsky.social•17 hours ago

You go on one sex and leave the opposite. Fun railway ride

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marshviper.bsky.social•1 day ago

do mice even have gender?

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doonethingforme.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Only the conservatives, most of them lean in a postmodernist gender abolition direction but you have to understand mouse feminism is on its like, 90th wave since their generations are so much faster than ours

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fromgulagtogilead.bsky.social•1 day ago

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jcmarcotte.bsky.social•1 day ago

#TrumpLies #TrumpLies

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dibblehepcat.bsky.social•1 day ago

And transporters don't work in hospitals and hotels

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angelaintexas.bsky.social•2 hours ago

What’s really scary is no one in his team has the intelligence to pick this up?

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dragonblaze.co.uk•17 hours ago

For some reason I'm not surprised.

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clegggg.bsky.social•1 day ago

If we don’t perfect the technology to trans mice then china surely will. Disappointing to say the least

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suburban-vampire.bsky.social•11 hours ago

In America, they tried to do a 1/3rd Pounder to compete with the Quarter Pounder. It was a failure because Americans don't understand fractions.

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moderntrumpet.bsky.social•3 hours ago

So many fell for his stupid lies

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aeirould.bsky.social•1 day ago

Very few people know that Minnie is a transgender mouse. This is why the Disney power couple doesn’t have kids.

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imojen.bsky.social•22 hours ago

They could adopt?? They obviously don’t have kids because they’re happy with their lifestyle and feel no need to change it

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chadski27.bsky.social•21 hours ago

We’re starting to realize a lot that we take for granted wasn’t learned and heeded by the undereducated. We thought most of them just wanted to live their lives. Then social media came along.

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