Following President Donald Trump's address to Congress on Tuesday, a rumor spread online that he misspoke when he said the government used taxpayer money to fund research on "making mice transgender."

Whether Trump actually mixed up "transgenic" and "transgender" is impossible to determine without direct confirmation from the administration itself. However, based on the evidence, it appears more likely that the Trump administration either parroted claims made elsewhere, misinterpreted complex scientific data or simply chose to misrepresent it. Reporter Joey Esposito has the details.

The conservative-led nonprofit White Coat Waste claims the government spent $250 million on "transgender animal experiments."

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