Joe Biden may be out of office, but his influence still permeates the government. But Trump isn’t going to stand for it.
And now an uncovered backroom Biden deal was just discovered by Trump and it’s dumbfounding.
President Biden was quick to spend over $100 million in taxpayer funds on transgender policies and programs within his administration—a plan that is still bleeding federal funds as the Trump administration attempts to shut it down.
Some of the spending is only now coming to light, including a breast cancer screening pilot program for men who identify as women, which is costing taxpayers $420,386.
Beyond healthcare, however, Biden’s administration spent millions implementing transgender policies across the federal government, implementing aggressive workplace and inclusion initiatives.
Now determined to stop that, President Trump has launched a series of executive orders aimed at scrubbing the federal agencies of transgender-related programs he calls “transgender lunacy.
His latest executive order, signed Wednesday, takes direct aim at men competing in women’s sports. “There will be no federal funding” for schools that violate the new rule, Trump warned during a White House ceremony.
Earlier in the week, Trump took an even broader step to cut off federal funding for all transgender-related initiatives.
One of his first actions was to shut down the USAID headquarters in the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, as officials began investigating the department’s massive spending on transgender and DEI – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion – programs in foreign countries.
Some of this spending occurred right under the agency’s own roof. Nearly $900,000 in taxpayer funds went toward building gender-neutral restrooms inside the Reagan Building.
But the NIH outdid them all with the $1.12 million it paid to build just one gender-neutral bathroom at its Bethesda, Maryland campus. Of that, a cool $123,320 went to design fees alone. The final construction costs: well over $1 million.
Another $1 million in federal funds in New York was used to convert men’s and women’s restrooms at Letchworth State Park into gender-neutral facilities – justified in grant paperwork as a way to “address a changing view of gender concerns.”.
All in all, the Biden administration shelled out at least $3 million to construct gender-neutral restrooms in a few government buildings—talc of over $100 million dished out to transgender-related initiatives at home and around the world.
One particularly egregious example was the State Department’s decision to spend $50,000 in Hyderabad and Chennai, India to “sensitize employees of corporate entities” to transgender issues in the workplace. In 2023, the National Endowment for the Arts used $25,000 in taxpayer money to fund the National Queer Arts Festival in San Francisco.
Last month, Trump went further and barred federal funding of gender transition-related healthcare for children. Under Biden, millions had already been spent on research into transgender medical treatments for minors.
For example, the Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati received $1.7 million in federal grants for a study still under way on blood clot risks for transgender adolescents and young adults receiving hormone therapy. The study promotes hormone treatments—despite their irreversible effects—as “one of the most effective interventions for treating gender dysphoria” in transgender youth.
The investigative think tank Capital Research Center has been tracking the Biden administration’s extravagant transgender spending. The total sum is likely even higher, says researcher Parker Thayer, since Biden pushed through additional funding in his final months in office.
These grants ran the gamut from smaller tens-of-thousands-dollar allocations for more localized transgender initiatives to multi-million-dollar scientific research projects. A large portion of the spending focused on mental health and medical issues, including the transmission of HIV among transgender individuals.
One blatant example: the NIH awarded Emory University $5 million to study transgender women—biological men—living with HIV.
While much of Biden’s transgender funding has already been spent, some programs remain active but are now at risk of losing federal support under Trump’s leadership.
Not surprisingly, Trump’s crackdown is facing fierce resistance from the LGBTQ lobby.
On Thursday, activist group PFLAG, along with the American Association of Physicians for Human Rights, filed a suit against Trump in an effort to block his executive order defunding transgender medical services for minors.
The lawsuit calls Trump’s order “discriminatory and dangerous,” while it contends that hospitals around the country are “abruptly halting medical care for transgender people under nineteen, canceling appointments and turning away some patients who have waited years to receive medically necessary care for gender dysphoria.”
Trump, however, remains undeterred.
“Every day we are eliminating the extremism of the last four years,” he declared on Wednesday.
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