The U.S. Department of Agriculture granted Southern University Agricultural & Mechanical College in Louisiana $600,000 to study menstrual cycles in “transgender men,” according to a new database compiled by the American Principles Project.
The database, “Funding Insanity: Federal Spending on Gender Ideology under Biden-Harris,” states the school “will Study Menstrual Cycles in ‘Transgender Men And People With Masculine Gender Identities, Intersex, And Non-Binary Persons.'”
“The first occurrence of menstruation occurs at approximately 12 years of age and ends with menopause at roughly 51 years of age,” the grant description states. “A woman will have a monthly menstrual cycle for about 40 years of her life, averaging to about 450 periods over the course of her lifetime.”
“It is also important to recognize that transgender men and people with masculine gender identities, intersex and non-binary persons may also menstruate,” it states. “At any given moment about 26% of the world’s population is menstruating.”
The study aims to address “growing concerns” related to menstruation, including the potential use of natural fibers like hemp in feminine hygiene products.
The school did not respond to multiple requests for comment on the project via email in the last two weeks.
Reached by The Fix, an APP spokesman said the grant and others listed in the database are “the tip of the iceberg.”
“We know that this is just the tip of the iceberg. Our project looked only at grants and contracts that specifically pertained to gender ideology in some way. But there is far more spending out there relating to DEI, critical race theory, and other left-wing ideologies that we did not capture here,” Paul Dupont told The Fix via email.
“There is a great deal of work that still needs to be done to identify and hopefully eliminate this graft. DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency] is going to have some busy weeks and months ahead,” Dupont said.
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In total, the APP identified 341 federal grants from the Biden administration to various institutions, ranging from colleges to hospitals. The grants totaled “more than $128 million in obligated federal funds,” according to the group.
Last year, the Department of Education allocated more than $470,000 to Boston College for the purpose of “building Epic-Health,” an “empowerment program for LGBTQ+ students in school GSAs (gay-straight alliances).”
In 2023, three grants totaling $5.8 million from the State Department aimed to “increase participation in gender studies” for international students. The grants were allocated to the Lebanese American University, the American University of Beirut, and the American University in Cairo.
Earlier that year, the Department of Health and Human Services allocated nearly $1 million to the University of California, San Diego, for the creation of the “trans-safe patient safety learning lab,” with the goal of improving “patient safety for transgender individuals.”
The grant description states it will be used to “engage with the full range of stakeholders in an iterative process of co-design and development, using both new and proven tools to produce interventions that address the systemic determinants of psychological harm in transgender individuals.”
In another instance, the USDA granted over $16,000 to the University of Arizona in 2022 “to strengthen recruitment in federal programs and outreach to ‘LGBTQ’ students.”
One year prior, the National Institutes of Health allocated nearly $700,000 to Boston University to study “social media and substance abuse risk and resilience among gender minority emerging adults.”
Other notable federal grants included almost $2 million to the American Bar Association to “shield the LGBTQI population in the Western Balkans,” over $1 million to the Bandhu Social Welfare Society to “support gender diverse people in Bangladesh,” and $42,000 to the Humpty Dumpty Institute to “promote human rights, increase LGBTI+ inclusion.”
The Fix reached out to the USDA, Boston College, Boston University, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Southern University and A&M College for comments on these projects via email in the last two weeks. None responded.
