The Trump administration has canceled more than 800 million dollars in the health of gay people, and the studies of cancer and viruses that tend to influence the members of sexual minority groups and make efforts to defeat the return of sexually transmitted infections, according to the analysis of federal data conducted by the New York Times.
In line with its deep opposition to both gender diversity and diversity programs for teenagers, the administration has worked strongly to clarify research that touches stock measures and the health of transgender people.
But its repression has bounced down from these issues, eliminating medical research space Almost 10 percent From American adults.
Among the 669 scholarships that the National Institutes of Health has been completely or partially from, from early May, at least 323 – approximately half of it – related to LGBTQ health, according to the review of the time of each grant.
Federal officials have allocated $ 806 million for the projects that were canceled, which was expected to attract more funding in the coming years.
Dozens of research institutions have lost funding, a list that not only includes the goals of the White House such as Jones Hopkins and Colombia, but also public universities in the south and west, such as Ohio State University and Alabama University in Birmingham.
At Florida State University, research was canceled of $ 41 million, including a great effort to prevent HIV for teenagers and youth, who suffer from five new infections in the United States every year.
In the end of the past two months, the National Institutes of Health justified discounts by telling scientists that they are working “no longer affecting the agency’s priorities.” In some cases, the agency said that canceled research “is based on sexual identity”, which led to “non -scientific results” ignored “biological facts”.
Other termination messages have told the scientists that their studies were made by “being” primarily on the artificial and unconscious groups, including the targets of uninterrupted stocks.
The discounts follow an increase in federal funding for LGBTQ research over the past decade, and the active encouragement of the National Health Institutes of grant proposals that focus on sexual and sexual minority groups that started during the Obama administration.
President Trump’s allies argued that the research is being filmed through ideological bias.
“There was a train of science violations to fit in advance,” said Roger Sevirino of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative intellectual tank that helped formulate some Trump administration policies.
“This was based on a non -scientific hypothesis that biology is actually relevant, and a political project to try to generalize the idea that people can change their gender.”
Scientists have said that canceling research on a wide range of diseases related to sexual and sexual minorities groups has actually created a hierarchical sequence of patients, and some of them deserve more than others.
“Some people in the United States should not deal with second -degree research materials,” said Simon Roser, a professor at the University of Minnesota whose laboratory was studying cancer in gays before a large financing was withdrawn.
“This, I think, is the definition of anyone of intolerance,” he added. “Intolerance in science.”
The projects that have been canceled are among the most vital manifestations of the broad dismantling of the infrastructure that supported 80 years of medical research throughout the United States.
Besides ending studies, in federal officials gum The process of making grants by slow walking payments, delaying grant review meetings and expanding new award awards.
There may be greater changes in the store: On Friday, Mr. Trump suggested reducing the budget for the National Institutes of Health from approximately $ 48 billion to 27 billion dollars, noting what he described in part as the agency’s efforts to enhance the “ideology of extremist sexes”.
Legitimacy of collective fines is unclear. Two separate lawsuits challenge the cancellation of a wide range of grants – one made by a A group of researchersAnd the other by 16 countries – He argued that the Trump administration failed to provide the legal logical basis for discounts.
The White House and the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services did not respond to the suspension requests.
Andrew Nixon, spokesman for the Ministry of Health, He told the Daily Lilis newspaperAnd a conservative post, last month, that this step is “away from the studies of dio and abusive gender” “according to the executive orders of the president.
The National Health Institutes said in a statement: “The National Institutes of Health takes measures to end the funding financing that is not in line with the priorities of the national health institutes and HHS. We are still dedicated to restoring our agency for its traditions of supporting evidence -based golden science.”
LGBTQ discounts have finished studies on antibiotics resistance, unjust autism in sexual minorities groups, some throat and other types of cancer that are not affected by these groups. Funding losses led to fire in some LGBTQ laboratories, which were recently preparing to expand.
Used in the National Institutes of Technology used to reserve the abolition of grants for rare cases of poor research behavior or possible harm to the participants. Scientists said that the latest cuts, away from the protection of the participants in the research, instead put them in the way of harm.
They cited the abandonment of clinical trials, which were now left without federal financing to take care of the volunteer participants.
“We stop the things that prevent suicide and prevent sexual violence,” said Katie Edwards, a professor at the University of Michigan, who has been funded for many clinical experiences that include “LGBTQ”.
HIV research has been hit in particular.
NIH has ended many major grants for adolescent medicine experiments for HIV/AIDS, a program that helped set the foundation for use in adolescents from the drug system that can prevent infections.
This system, known as prevention before exposure, or preparatory, is attributed to the help of overcoming the disease in young people.
The discounts in the program were exposed to a continuous experience of a product that would prevent both HIV and pregnancy virus and a second experience looking to combine sexual health advice and behavioral therapy to reduce the spread of HIV in young sexual minorities who use doping.
Scientists said that along with the end of dozens of other HIV studies, the discounts undermined the goal of Mr. Trump’s first term to end the HIV in the country within a decade.
Ended by the National Institutes of Health, to work on other sexually transmitted diseases, as well.
Dr. Matthew Spinley, an infectious pathologist at the University of California, San Francisco, was in the middle of a clinical trial of dexycycline, a common antibiotic, which is taken after sex, can prevent some infections with syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia.
He said that the trial was “as you get Nardi”: a random study in which the participants were given various systems of antibiotics to find out how it is met.
He expressed his hope that the results will help scientists understand the effectiveness of the drug in women, as well I crossed in the past.
But health officials, noting their opposition to the search for “sexual identity”, stopped financing the experiment in March. This left Dr. Spinley without any federal financing to monitor half a scale of people who were already taking antibiotics.
It also placed thousands of doses that Dr. Spinley bought with taxpayer money at the risk of waste. He said that stopping work on diseases such as syphilis and HIV will allow new outbreaks to publish them.
“He was talking about himself,” said Dr. Spinley, who added that he was talking about himself, and not his university. “It is a devastating matter for affected societies.”
Despite the last focus On aspects of transitionFederal officials abolished many grants that examine the potential risks of hormonal treatment for sex. Projects looked at whether hormonal therapy could, for example, increase the risk of breast cancer, cardiovascular disease, brain development or HIV
Other grants, which have ended, have been examined ways to treat mental illness in transgender people, who are now compensated 3 percent of high school students And reporting higher rates of constant sadness and suicide attempts.
For Dr. Edwards, from the University of Michigan, funding for a clinical experience was stopped in search of how to reduce online guidance from depression and self -harm among transgender teenagers, one of six studies on her salary that was canceled.
Examination of the latest interventions of young families LGBTQ to enhance more supportive care, thus reducing dating for violence and using alcohol among young people.
The national health institutes classify research except through some diseases, which makes it difficult to know the amount of money that the agency dedes for LGBTQ health. But a Report in March It is estimated that such research is less than 1 percent of the National Institutes of Health for a decade.
The Times sought to understand the volume of financing ending with LGBTQ medical research by reviewing addresses, and in many cases, research summaries for each of the 669 grants that the Trump administration said was completely or partially canceled in early May.
In addition to grants related to LGBTQ personnel, diseases and treatments that affect them, the times included in the counting studies that are designed to recruit participants from sexual and sexual minorities groups.
Grants related to diseases such as HIV have been excluded that focused on non -gay patients.
While the times when the NIH scholarship has studied, the Trump administration also ends or considers the end of LGBTQ programs elsewhere of the Federal Health System. She has ProposalFor example, it hides a hot line specializing in suicide for youth LGBTQ.
Research cuts a field cavity that is not only larger in the past, but also extends to include a wide range of disease threats after HIV
Scientists have already said that younger researchers are losing jobs in sexual and sexual minorities research and cleaning CVs online from the evidence they worked in this field.
Five scholarships obtained by Brittany Charlton, professor of Harvard College of Public Health, including one of the areas looking at high rates of salvation among women LGBTQ.
She said that ending research on the threats of the disease for sexual and sexual minority groups will inevitably revitalize all the population. “When others get sick around you, it affects you, even if you think it’s not.”
Irina Huang The reports contributed.
