Trump admin cancels more than $800 million in LGBTQ health grants

The Trump-Vance administration has cancelled more than million in research into the medical of sexual and gender minority groups according to a review Sunday in The New York Times The paper ascertained more than half of the grants through the National Institutes of Soundness that were scrapped through early May involved the analysis of cancers and viruses that tend to affect LGBTQ people The move goes further than efforts to claw back diversity related programs and gender affirming care for transgender and gender diverse youth implicating swaths of research by institutions like Johns Hopkins and Columbia along with residents universities The Times notes that a million cut impacting Florida State University will stall a major effort to prevent HIV in adolescents and young adults who experience a fifth of new infections in the United States each year A surge of federal funding for LGBTQ medical research began under the Obama-Biden administration and continued since Under his first term Trump dedicated substantial materials toward his Ending the HIV Epidemic in the United States initiative Cuts administered under the healthcare secretary appointed in his second term Robert F Kennedy Jr have put the future of that activity in question The post Trump admin cancels more than million in LGBTQ wellbeing grants appeared first on Rough Draft Atlanta