Bill Maher has repeatedly peddled a false talking point that researchers are not creating transgender animals for testing, and that President Donald Trump confused “transgenic” mice with “transgender.”
Maher’s latest lie about the issue came in an interview with Charlie Kirk, after the Turning Point USA founder mentioned how the transgender animal testing would “take your breath away.”
“I called that out on my show,” Maher interjected. “That was bullsh-t. It wasn’t ‘transgender.’”
Maher smugly continued, “See, that worries me about you, Charlie. You seem to have swallowed that one whole, like a snake does a mouse without looking into it. It was ‘transgenic’ mice. It’s hugely different.”
“He got it wrong,” Maher falsely said of Trump, “and no one was around to tell him he got it wrong.”
Hey @billmaher & @charliekirk11:
Taxpayer-funded TRANSGENDER mice are real, and really wasteful. @WhiteCoatWaste has $250M+ worth of govt receipts
Super easy to fact check this. CNN & Forbes have issued corrections & @ChrisCuomo deleted false posts pic.twitter.com/R9gZdRKHbF
— Justin Goodman (@JustinRGoodman) April 23, 2025
Maher first claimed the studies were actually on “transgenic” mice, not transgender, on his show in March.
Bill’s wrong. Trump’s right.
It’s transGENDER mice.
CNN & Forbes have both had to issue corrections when they tried to debunk this true story.@WhiteCoatWaste has exposed 100s of millions of tax $ wasted to create transgender lab animals in cruel experiments https://t.co/284mOZeqGR
— Justin Goodman (@JustinRGoodman) March 16, 2025
Maher is actually the one who “got it wrong.”
Before President Donald Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency began slashing funds, $400 million in active grants were allocated in whole or in part to the study of transgender animal testing. These experiments ranged from surgically altering the gonads of rats to mimic sex-change procedures to force-feeding testosterone to adolescent mice.
The cruel and bizarre tests were exposed by the White Coat Waste Project, a watchdog organization that has worked for years to end taxpayer funding for this expensive, unnecessary, and painful research.
In one example, a $1,155,503 grant, uncovered by White Coat Waste and highlighted by The Gateway Pundit, gave $1,155,503 to the University of the Pacific to castrate male rats and inject them with estrogen, remove female rats’ ovaries and inject them with testosterone, and then overdose them with GHB to “evaluate the potential for altered toxicity/overdose risk in transgender men and women.”
“GHB toxicokinetics will be evaluated in OVX and castrated animals in the presence or absence of individual male and female sex hormones. Hormone replacement studies in the opposite sex (cross-sex hormone therapy) will evaluate the potential for altered toxicity/overdose risk in transgender men and women,” the grant description reads.
The grant was part of the National Institutes of Health’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) program.
The university boasted that the research “spotlights Pacific’s commitment to diversity and inclusion. The NIH SCORE Program is designed to increase the research support at institutions such as Pacific with a history of training and graduating students from groups underrepresented in the biomedical sciences.”
Over 500 animals were slated to have sex changes and ultimately be killed for this research.
Other now-defunct research included a $299,240 grant to create “transmasculine” lab animals by giving female mice testosterone and removing their ovaries and a $442,444 grant to sterilize animals, inject them with hormone therapies, and then inflict wounds to mimic transgender humans receiving gender-affirming surgeries.
Maher is an “honorary director” with PETA and has long claimed to be against animal research.
Just like PETA, he is willing to let animal abuse continue in order to attack President Trump.
Another PETA Lie: ‘Trump Did Nothing to Stop Animal Experimentation’
For years, PETA has publicly criticized President Trump, sided with his enemies, ignored his huge accomplishments for animals in labs, and tried to co-opt the efforts of more effective organizations — namely, White Coat Waste.
After the first Trump Administration made historic progress to end cruel animal tests, in November 2021, PETA tweeted, “Unfortunately, Trump did nothing to stop animal experimentation.” A blatant lie.
During Trump’s first term in 2018, WCW successfully pushed the FDA to end nicotine addiction tests on monkeys, retire the animals to a sanctuary, and establish an agency-wide lab animal retirement policy in 2020. The organization also played a key role in dramatically reducing the FDA’s in-house primate testing, culminating in the closure of its largest monkey lab in 2023.
President Trump also personally defunded the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Fauci-funded animal lab that probably unleashed COVID.
FDA’s Move to Phase Out Animal Testing Hailed as Victory for White Coat Waste Project
This care for animals has continued under his second term, with the Trump administration phasing out animal testing at both the Food and Drug Administration and Environmental Protection Agency. They have also cancelled grants for many cruel research projects, saving taxpayers millions of dollars.
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