NIH Blows Over $40,000 on Study of “Health Status of Gender Minorities”

Let the government play the leading role in funding medical research, and you know you are going to get moonbattery passed off as science, research involving “healthcare disparities” being a prime example. But this is so over the top, it’s almost as if the bureauweenies who waste our money are deliberately poking a stick in our eye:

A new study conducted by the National Institutes of Health on the “health status of gender minorities” is costing taxpayers over $40,000. …

“Contemporary, empirically-based knowledge of transgender health is scant,” according to the grant for the project. “Subsequently, as this population continues to grow, they will have key health promotion, illness prevention, and chronic illness self-management challenges.”

Translation: we need to prioritize healthcare not just for politically favored racial groups, but also for people who identify as freakazoids.

Ethan Cicero, a post-doctoral student at Duke University, received the grant. Cicero describes his employer as “The Resistance” on his now-private Facebook account.

Maybe the NIH will give some of our money to Keith Olbermann next.

As for Cicero’s scientific qualifications,

“Hey Women’s Marchers, vagina does not equal woman,” Cicero wrote on Facebook, referencing the liberal march the day after Inauguration Day that received criticism from transgender activists for not being inclusive to biological men who identify as women.

The present adventure in transgender activism disguised as scientific research has cost taxpayers $43,576. No worries; there is plenty more where that came from:

The NIH recently received a $2 billion funding boost in a law to keep the government funded through September.

Maybe instead of increasing the funding, they might consider decreasing the waste on P.C. B.S.

On a tip from Torcer.