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Republican Nancy Mace introduced the TRANS MICE Act after Donald Trump falsely claimed the Biden administration spent millions to "make mice transgender." Mace shared on social media on Monday (August 18) that the bill would stop the non-existent research. "The Biden Administration has spent tens of millions of taxpayer dollars on federally funded transgender research on mice," Mace wrote on X. "We introduced the Tr*ns Mice Act to ensure federal dollars are directed toward real priorities for our country, not wasteful and inhumane experiments." This proposed legislation stems from a speech Trump gave in March where he claimed the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had found $8 million in funding for "making mice transgender," which was not true. CNN's fact checkers clarified that the White House provided a list of grants totaling $8.3 million for health studies where mice received treatments used in gender-affirming healthcare. The studies were intended to determine how thes...

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