In a flagrant example that demonstrates the urgency to crack down on reckless government spending, the federal agency that runs the nation’s scandal-plagued food stamp program gave a public historically black university over half a million dollars to study menstrual cycles in transgender men and people with masculine gender identities. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), long rocked by fraud and corruption in its $112.8 billion food stamp program, awarded the $600,000 grant to Southern University A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana last spring and the money is scheduled to flow through the spring of 2027. After explaining that a woman will have a monthly menstrual cycle for about 40 years of her life, the USDA grant document states that “it is also important to recognize that transgender men and people with masculine gender identities, intersex and non-binary persons may also menstruate.”

The outrageous trans menstrual cycle study was uncovered by a conservative nonprofit that recently published a database of government-funded programs to promote gender ideology. The Virginia-based group, American Principles Project (APP), documents $174 million in federal spending on programs advancing far-left gender ideology under the Biden-Harris administration. The money was used to fund projects that promote radical ideas on gender both domestically and abroad, the group reveals, adding that agencies involved in the spending spree also include the departments of Defense, State and Health and Human Services (HHS) as well as the famously corrupt U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which the Trump administration is working swiftly to clean up after determining that “waste and abuse runs deep.” With a massive budget of around $40 billion, USAID has for years come under fire for the egregious programs it funds with public money and fortunately for American taxpayers, President Trump froze USAID disbursements on day one while his administration identifies problems.

If there was any doubt about the need for the commander-in-chief’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to clamp down his predecessor’s carefree spending spree, the APP database eliminates any uncertainty. Among the highlights are three State Department grants totaling $5.8 million to universities in Arab nations—Lebanese American University, American University of Beirut, and American University in Cairo—to “increase participation in gender studies.” USAID awarded the American Bar Association nearly $2 million to “shield the LGBTQI population in the Western Balkans,” and north of a million dollars to the Bangladesh-based Bandhu Social Welfare Society to “support gender diverse people” in the South-Asian Islamic country well known as a recruiting ground for terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

The Department of Education, which Trump is working to dismantle, awarded nearly half a million dollars last year to a Catholic university in Massachusetts so it could build an “empowerment program” for LGBTQ+ students in school gay-straight alliances. HHS gave a public university in San Diego, California around a million dollars to create a “trans-safe patient safety learning lab” that aims to improve “patient safety for transgender individuals.” The Department of Defense (DOD) doled out $850,000 in contracts to explore “racial, ethnic, and gender disparities in the military justice system.” The Department of the Interior (DOI) gave the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation a million dollars to convert men’s and women’s bathrooms into gender neutral bathrooms at Letchworth State Park.

The list of scandalous awards goes on and on, illustrating the need for an entity like DOGE. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) allotted a private research university in Massachusetts $700,000 to study “social media and substance abuse risk and resilience among gender minority emerging adults.” The DOD disbursed nearly $350,000 in contracts to research reports on undermining authoritarian regimes using gender. The USDA also doled out around $230,000 to a “Brazil forest and gender consultant” and the State Department spent nearly $25,000 to premier a play in which women speak about their vaginas in the Gujarati language in India as well as nearly $22,000 to train 50 LGBTQI refugees in Kenya on “barbering, hairdressing, beauty therapy and cosmetology, food production, and computer programming.” The agency also spent $2,315 to teach English to “professional transgender women makeup entrepreneurs” in Nepal.

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