alt Hacker NewsI don't think that much thought went into it. The change was initiated by the department's DEIA ("A" for Accessibility) office. Anything that office did was a priority for this administration.
Keep in mind that the transgenic mouse breeding program used to make lab mice for research got defined because the President claimed Democrats were so woke they were funding "trans" mice research.
Half of what they are doing is virtue signalling and posturing without any real understanding of what they are doing.
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vkou • last Thursday at 6:59 AM
More than half. Almost everything they do is virtue signaling.
t0lo • last Thursday at 6:31 AM
I listened to the economist podcast on that- hilarious in the worst way- was leading harvard research
rdiddly • last Thursday at 7:10 AM
All true except the fact that it's not virtue that they're signaling.
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The funny thing is that they were indeed funding “trans” mice research:
> To understand the effects of feminizing sex hormone therapy on vaccination, we propose to develop a mouse model of gender-affirming hormone therapy, assess its relevance to human medicine through singe-cell transcriptome studies, and test the immune responses of “cis” vs. “trans” mice to a HIV vaccine.
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10849830#descriptio...