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"$1.1 million was spent to find out if female rats receiving testosterone therapy to mimic transgender men were more likely to overdose on a party drug (GHB)," Mace continued.
"Federal funds were also used to forcibly transition male monkeys to see if hormone therapy made them more susceptible to HIV, Mace said.
However, "Monkeys cannot be infected with HIV," Mace noted. "Yet, this federally-funded experiment forced them to take hormone-altering drugs to study a virus they cannot have."