What did Brooke Rollins claim about government spending on 7 Mar 2025?
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture (Trump administration) ·
CANCELLED: $600,000 grant to study “menstrual cycles in transgender men”
The grant was not a study of transgender men's menstrual cycles. Its official description lists research on feminine hygiene products made from natural fibers and menstrual-hygiene education for young women and girls.
The federal award record for the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant to Southern University Agricultural & Mechanical College (FAIN 20243882142035) lists its objectives as producing regenerative cotton, regenerative wool and industrial hemp, developing and evaluating feminine hygiene products made from those fibers, educating 'young women and girls' about menstrual hygiene management, enhancing student instruction and providing a local fiber processing center; transgender men appear once, in a background sentence noting they 'may also menstruate' (USAspending.gov award record).
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