'Nancy Mace battles nonexistent 'transgender mice research' after Trump's false claim' & other Wed/Thur news briefs

The Biden Administration has spent tens of millions of taxpayer dollars on federally funded tr*nsgender research on mice.

We introduced the Tr*ns Mice Act to ensure federal dollars are directed toward real priorities for our country, not wasteful and inhumane experiments.

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— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) August 18, 2025

Nancy Mace introduces ludicrous ‘Trans Mice Act’ after false Trump claims​ - Long story short - Trump made up a ridiculous story about research turning mice transgender. Nancy Mace, the desperately attention-seeking Congressional leader, jumps on the story to spearhead some type of "legislation." In other words, a stupid man makes up a stupid story, causing a incredibly attention-hungry but nonetheless stupid woman to piggyback on it for the sake of publicity. 

LGBTQNation goes into more detail - Nancy Mace spearheads “Trans Mice Act” to ban research that Donald Trump made up

Trump quietly bans federal health insurance from covering gender-affirming care - Trump's ugly war against the transgender community continues. A president, or any elected leader, having such vitriol against an innocent group of people is simply vile. And it's worse how so many folks are desensitized to it because it doesn't affect them. 

The national suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth became defunct. States are scrambling to help - Our kids need this.

Hillary Clinton: Supreme Court ‘will do to gay marriage what they did to abortion’ - We will see, Mrs. Clinton. Still, your advice is something our community should follow. 

LGBTQ groups denounce takeover of D.C. police – except for one - Who else but the Log Cabin Republicans? 

And finally:

The Trains of Dusk and Dawn (The Astraeus Journey) - Queer author - and a good friend of mine - Erica Lieberman presents something for you LGBTQ science fiction fans:

 Anna Alla is a young, gifted woman with a mouth to match. Unfortunately, her attitude leaves her vulnerable in the society she lives in. Her home, Astraios, is a tidally locked planet with one side always facing the sun, and one side always facing the night; the same way our moon faces the earth. Both extremes are uninhabitable, leaving only the narrow space between dusk and dawn for the people of Astraios to live. The society built around this unique world demands austerity. With a caste system designed to remind the inhabitants of their place in the world, there is no moving up, and every chance to be moved down (Downgraded). 

There is no home. Members of the higher castes travel on trains from one city to the next, working a week at a time assigned to jobs based on their caste. The lowest cast, Walkers, walk the tracks in a perpetual loop, clearing the tracks of debris. No one owns more than the clothes they wear, the most basic essentials, and the food they eat. Anna Alla fit neatly into the lowest level of the middle caste (Specialists) as a child. To satisfy her love of history, she hoped to be assigned to maintenance of the oldest equipment on Astraios.

 Instead, she finds herself downgraded and living a life she doesn’t understand. Anna has to find a way to overcome her situation and her tendency to make her situation worse in ways she can’t fully appreciate. With her newly found friends, the nerdy outcast ekes out a place for herself and shares a new way of thinking that is a threat to the leaders of her society. Anna Alla’s life is hard, but one of her own making, for better or for worse.