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

The Trump-Vance administration has cancelled more than million in research into the robustness of sexual and gender minority groups according to a review Sunday in The New York Times The paper detected more than half of the grants through the National Institutes of Wellness that were scrapped through early May involved the research 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 constituents 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 wellness research began under the Obama-Biden administration and continued since Under his first term Trump dedicated substantial tools toward his Ending the HIV Epidemic in the United States initiative Cuts administered under the wellbeing secretary appointed in his second term Robert F Kennedy Jr have put the future of that undertaking in question The post Trump admin cancels more than million in LGBTQ physical condition grants appeared first on Rough Draft Atlanta