Pro-Trans Researcher Hides Data Showing Puberty Blockers Don't Work Share This article Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are pledging to investigate charges that a study focusing on transgender minors funded by the National Institutes of Health is being withheld.
The New York Times reports the study showed no improvement to the mental health of children who received puberty blockers, and that the lead researcher, Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, who runs the country's largest youth gender clinic at the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, apparently hid those results from the public for many years and still hasn't published the results, despite the taxpayer-funded study beginning nine years ago. "I do not want our work to be weaponized," she admitted, pointing to the possibility of her study being used to convince more states to ban youth transgender procedures, adding to the 24 that have already done so.
Meanwhile, there's new data on transgender procedures on minors. Beth Serio, RN, External Relations Manager with Do No Harm , which focuses on keeping identity politics out of health care, told CBN News the data shows transgender medical interventions on minors from 2019 to 2023 proved to be both widespread and lucrative. "I think that the motive to simply make money is very much a driving force here," she said.
Doctors and hospitals have taken in some $120 million through prescribed puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones plus surgical procedures to remove gender-sp.