It turns out it actually was a transgender experiment and CNN had to retract their fact check. BigPapasan needs to do better at keeping up with the news cycle.

"All six grants actually focused on the safety of various hormone treatments, not on whether it was possible to make mice transgender. In particular, the six studies investigated how hormone therapy impacts things like breast cancer risks, response to HIV vaccines, asthma symptoms and fertility.

“There is a considerable gap in knowledge," wrote one team of researchers, which received a $455,000 grant to study how hormone therapy affects people’s response to HIV vaccines, "surrounding the immunological responsiveness of transgender people, a population at considerably higher risk for HIV and other STIs.”

So tell me big Pappa Fraud do you want your tax dollars researching this?

As for your source? Forbes can go fuck itself with this, "Its only pocket change" bullshit.  

"Pocket Change
The total amount of these grants was listed as $8,290,053 — about a millionth of a percent of total federal spending in fiscal year 2024 (or less than a tenth the cost of a single F-35 fighter). With an estimated 1.4 million transgender adults living in the United States, that’s an investment of about $5.85 per person."

Soooooo the long and the short of this is Big Pappa Felcher has painted himself into a corner of supporting waste.