Daniel Denger of Wisconsin Family Action thinks that the taxpayer money that was headed for DEI programs will be much better spent on marriage, family life and religious liberty.
“We're thankful that President Trump and his administration (chose) to stop this funding, especially in light of a recent audit report from our state government showing that the University of Wisconsin system has been using DEI measures with taxpayer money.”
Wisconsin is among 16 states to file a federal lawsuit in response, Campus Reform reports. The university, which has its main campus in Madison, gets about a third of its research budget from NIH, the lawsuit revealed.
Denger believes the cancelation of the NIH funding will not impede other university projects and operations.
“The university will still be able to function in many of its roles. The one thing that it will stop is they won't be able to research these far-left propaganda areas.”
One grant was canceled because the study highlighted "gender identity," which the NIH identified as "unscientific," according to The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
“Research programs based on gender identity are often unscientific, have little identifiable return on investment, and do nothing to enhance the health of many Americans,” the NIH stated in its explanation for why the grant had been canceled.
It’s a change in tone from the NIH previously.
Campus Reform reports that in the past the agency has awarded $2.6 million to the University of Arizona to study “LatinX” LGBTQ youth and more than $4 million to the University of Michigan to create transgender mice and study their fertility then more than $400,000 to Duke University to study potential HIV treatments for transgender mice.
