Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies during his Senate confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill, Jan. 30, 2025. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Associated Press)
"Harnessing the power of text messaging to reduce HIV incidence in adolescent males across the United States," one $5,122,427 grant that was awarded to a nonprofit called the Center for Innovative Public Health Research reads, Fox Digital learned.
"Sex hormone effects on neurodevelopment: Controlled puberty in transgender adolescents," was the title of a terminated $3,692,048 grant to Stanford University, according to HHS.
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"#TranscendentHealth – Adapting an LGB+ inclusive teen pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys," reads another $1,319,024 grant awarded to the Center for Innovative Public Health Research.
The University of California, San Francisco's $2,554,402 grant for "Structural Racism and Discrimination in Older Men's Health Inequities" also was canceled, Fox Digital learned, as was a $822,539 grant to UCLA called "Buddhism and HIV Stigma in Thailand: An Intervention Study."
Health and Human Services is canceling millions in National Institutes of Health research grants related to gender and DEI studies. (Adobe Stock)
The grant cancellation announcement comes after President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders removing DEI initiatives from the fabric of the government following President Joe Biden's tenure.
Trump, on his first day in office, signed an executive order focused on "ending radical and wasteful government DEI programs" and one focused on restoring merit-based opportunity and "ending illegal discrimination," which ended DEI practices at the federal level in favor of merit-based systems.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visits "The Story With Martha MacCallum" at Fox News Channel Studios. (Jason Mendez/Getty Images)
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Federal agencies across the board have since worked to gut federal offices of DEI initiatives to abide by the president's orders. On Friday, HHS announced it had terminated hundreds of other NIH research grants related to DEI and gender that totaled more than $350 million.
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The research grants included research on "multilevel and multidimensional structural racism," "gender-affirming hormone therapy in mice" and "microaggressions," among others.
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