[fumeux_fume]

You're kinda splitting hairs here which lends me to believe you also fail to grasp the reality of the situation. We have no idea if Trump really knows the difference between the words transgenic and transgender, but we know that these studies are mostly--if not completely--focused on aspects other than simply changing the sex of the mice. If I had to guess, the grant proposals probably contained enough woke buzzwords to make them appear to be such.

source: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-tr...

[redeux]

I think we should be beyond giving the Trump regime the benefit of the doubt. They’ve shown repeated and obvious malicious intent. I think it’s more likely that they cherry picked this study because they believed that their rubes would fall for it. I doubt Trump himself knows anything about the study.

[whimsicalism]

Splitting hairs? The original comment implied that studies on transgenic mice were becoming politically verboten, which is unambiguously false.

Only because it somewhat goes against one anti-Trump narrative do we now accuse the commentator of “splitting hairs”/being overfocused on details. Sorry, but details-obsession is part of Hacker News for you. Trump does more than enough idiotic things, I’ve never understood the desire to just make up things about him.