An influential American physician has admitted to delaying, for nine years, the publication of a taxpayer-funded study on the mental health effects of puberty blockers in youth with gender dysphoria for fear that the results could be used to support prohibitions of so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors.
Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, a leading Los Angeles physician who runs the largest youth gender clinic in the United States, told the New York Times that she and her colleagues have delayed publication of results from a two-year-long study funded by the National Institutes of Health because they worried that the findings would be used by critics of transgender procedures for minors.
“I do not want our work to be weaponized,” Olson-Kennedy told the publication.
The nearly $10 million study followed the development of 95 children from across the country to see if their mental health improved following treatment with puberty blockers.
Olson-Kennedy said that treatment with puberty blockers did not lead to mental health improvements, likely because the children were doing well when the study began.
“They’re in really good shape when they come in, and they’re in really good shape after two years,” she said.
But the unpublished findings contradict preliminary research released by Olson-Kennedy and colleagues in 2022, which found approximately a quarter of adolescents were depressed or suicidal before starting either puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones.
Gender, race, and IQ studies are all politicized. Inverted woke ideology demands it. This is not science, nor is it a good way to run a huge society. It is both obvious and in perfect alignment with evolutionary theory that groups of humans long separated from each other will have multiple differences in all spheres of activity, including IQ. It is also obvious that providing strong drugs to children so adults can act out their fantasies about gender dysphoria does not make good sense. Ideologies that want to remake humans or are based on fantasies like the sameness of all humans are stupid and wrong on the face of it. Hiding a measly research paper because you fear its results will be ‘weaponized’ is itself weaponization of its results. The West today is characterized by fear of facts, fear of discussing facts, fear of facing the factual complexities of human reality. This fear has both been caused by an internecine pathocracy and also has allowed that pathocracy to flourish. ABN
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