NIH to finish active research subsidies related to LGBTQ+, dei studies

Several active research subsidies related to studies involving LGBTQ+problems, gender identity and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) are being canceled in the National Health Institutes (NIH) because they supposedly do not comply with the “priorities” of the current administration.

From last week, at least 24 ending letters were sent to the researchers from several universities and there have probably occurred, a NIH official with knowledge of the matter, who requested anonymity, confirmed to ABC News.

According to copies of some of the termination letters, seen by ABC News, the canceled subsidies involved research on “transgender problems” and “gender identity”, including the study of stress in adults LGBTQ+ major and the epidemiology of Alzheimer’s disease and another dementia in older adults LGBTQ+.

“This award no longer made the priorities of the agency,” all letters are read. “Research programs based on gender identity are often not scientific, they have little return on identifiable investment and do nothing to improve the health of many Americans. Many of these studies ignore, instead of seriously examining biological realities. It is Nih’s policy not to prioritize these research programs.”

“The premise … is incompatible with the agency’s priorities, and no modification of the project could align the project with the agency’s priorities,” the letters continue.

The letters indicate that NIH generally allows subsidy recipients “to take appropriate corrective action” before a termination decision is allowed. However, the letters declare “there is no corrective action possible here.”

It occurs when President Donald Trump has made radical changes in the federal government in his first weeks in office, including the issuance of a new orientation that only recognizes two sexes, promising “Defend women from the extremism of gender ideology“And issuing several executive orders with the objective of dismantling the initiatives ofi.

Neither NIH nor the White House immediately responded to the request for ABC News comments.

In addition, NIH institutes and centers are asked to review the awards for new and ongoing projects to ensure that they do not “contain any research activity of Dei or the DEI language that grants the perception that NIH funds can be used to support these activities.”

According to an orientation document, obtained by ABC News, NIH employees are asked to place these projects in one of the four categories. Category one is whether the purpose of the project is related only to DEI, in which case the prize cannot be issued.

Category two involves “partially” projects that support Dei’s activities. The prize can only be awarded if “non -conforming” activities are negotiated outside the project.

Category three involves projects that do not support Dei’s activities but may contain a language related to DEI, which must be eliminated before an award can be issued, and category four involves projects that do not support any activity of DEI.

It is not clear what exactly means that a project supports Dei’s activities or contains a language ofi, but the guidance document includes examples such as the purpose of a meeting that is diversity or “a statement on institutional commitment to diversity.”

On Wednesday, a federal judge issued a National Order The NIH blockade to make cuts to research funds that researchers warned could catastrophically damage medical and scientifically and potentially and potential research in the United States.

“As the statements in support of a preliminary court order against the implementation of the rate change notice, the risk of damage to the investigation institutions and beyond is immediate, devastating and irreparable,” wrote the United States district judge, Angel Kelley, wrote about the attempt to limit indirect costs to 15%, adding the attempt to reduce the federal law violated.

It remains to be seen if the court order will have an effect on the projects of the universities that received termination letters.

Peter Charalambous of ABC News contributed to this report.