Letter to Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Mast Demands Accountability from Fauci on Transgender Monkey Experiments

Letter

January 11, 2022
Dr. Anthony Fauci
Director
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
5601 Fishers Lane, MSC 9806
Bethesda, MD 20892
Dear Dr. Fauci:
I write to you with serious concerns about the recent reports of research funded by the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) that involves injecting male monkeys with
feminizing hormone therapy.1
This $200,000 of funding awarded in December of last year is a distressingly wasteful use of
taxpayer dollars, primarily because it cruelly uses monkeys as inadequate stand-ins for humans
by shooting them up with hormones they do not naturally produce.2 This kind of manipulation of
the health of monkeys is unnecessarily cruel, and the NIAID must answer questions about its
judgement in funding such a study.
Please answer the following questions:
* How many monkeys would be subjected to feminizing hormone therapy?
* Have similar studies been conducted and funded by NIAID in the past?
* Did NIAID fund this study over other studies that would use willing human participants,
organ-on-chips or artificial intelligence? If so, why?
It's unconscionable that taxpayers are on the hook for funding such a ridiculous study that puts
monkeys' lives on the line and no doubt causes them serious distress. I look forward to a timely
explanation of how NIAID can justify funding this cruel and wasteful research.
Sincerely,
Brian Mast
Member of Congress

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