[s1artibartfast]

Not a Trump fan, but for many people including me, Trump comes out looking like the sane one when he calls a mouse on HRT a trans mouse, and the rebuttals are:

-"The studies weren't about gender in mice because, gender being a social construct, mice don't have it"

-Scientists weren't actually "putting mice in drag and asking them their pronouns."

-Trump confused transgenic mice with transgender mice

[aredox]

Except that Trump is visibly insane in almost everyone of his interactions; and if we focus on the narrow topic of those mouse studies, their goal was to find ill effects of HRT - so scientists were literally looking for bad things HRT could cause.

[ipaddr]

The last line makes you both seem foolish because he is confusing both terms.

It reminds me of historical elections where one candidate called the other homo sapiens and the ignorance of the public fell for it

[s1artibartfast]

How so? From my point of view it seems like the conflation lies with the critics.

The word he used was transgender, and the studies were all for transgender health in a mouse model.

Critics are the ones bringing transgenic into the conversation, which neither matches what he said, or the majority of the studies.

It is as if Bob called the ocean blue, but Sally claims Bob really meant red, while simultaneously pointing out he is wrong because the ocean actually blue. It is a really weak criticism.

A more coherent response is simply: "Studying transgender health in mouse models is important, and those studies were a good use of money"