The NIH is spending $35,000 in taxpayer money on a ‘transgender’ University of Maryland student’s project about lesbian, ‘gender-nonconforming,’ and other ‘birthing people.’ (The College Fix) — A University of Maryland doctoral student will study “gender minority birthing people” with funding from the National Institutes of Health. Ezra did not respond to several emails asking for comment on the term “sexual and gender minority birthing people” and whether the study faced any pushback from the Trump administration. The Fix also contacted the project’s program official Ronna Popkin asking how the NIH hopes to use the findings of this study. The Trump administration is also currently funding a study on “rural gender diverse youth,” as The Fix previously reported.