Four months ago, Tara McKay, an associate professor at Vanderbilt University, received an award from the National Institutes of Health recognizing her contributions to the field of LGBTQ+ health research.
After President Donald Trump was inaugurated, the office that gave her that award — the Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office — was closed.
And over the last week, grants that McKay and other researchers had through the NIH to study LGBTQ+ health have been canceled, with researchers told via email that their work’s inclusion of trans people conflicted with “agency priorities.”
