LGBTQ Researchers Sue HHS Over Canceled Grants
STAT News reports: A group of physicians and researchers working on LGBTQ+ health sued the National Institutes of Health and HHS over the sweeping grant terminations that have impacted medical research on queer people as part of the implementation of President Trump’s executive orders targeting transgender people and diversity initiatives. Over a dozen researchers and … The post LGBTQ Researchers Sue HHS Over Canceled Grants appeared first on Joe.My.God..
STAT News reports:
A group of physicians and researchers working on LGBTQ+ health sued the National Institutes of Health and HHS over the sweeping grant terminations that have impacted medical research on queer people as part of the implementation of President Trump’s executive orders targeting transgender people and diversity initiatives.
Over a dozen researchers and a nonprofit group, GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality, joined in filing the suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. The complaint also names health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and NIH director Jay Bhattacharya as defendants.
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I’m so proud of this lawsuit against the administration’s unprecedented, sweeping, and discriminatory terminations of NIH funding for LGBQTI+ health research. Our LGBTQI+ community knows all too well that silence equals death. But we will not be silenced. We will not be ignored. pic.twitter.com/Sefvll0wFA
— Omar GP (@omargp) May 20, 2025
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