A woke, leftist doctor who refused to publish her own study that found that puberty blockers do not help transgender kids is being excoriated for hiding the facts because she is a political supporter of the radical transgender agenda.
Once again, we see these “follow the science” leftists don’t actually follow any science and only follow their political agenda.
Per the New York Post:
A prominent doctor and trans rights advocate admitted she deliberately withheld publication of a $10 million taxpayer-funded study on the effect of puberty blockers on American children — after finding no evidence that they improve patients’ mental health.
Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy told the New York Times that she believes the study would be “weaponized” by critics of transgender care for kids, and that the research could one day be used in court to argue “we shouldn’t use blockers.”
As to the study:
For the National Institutes of Health-funded study, researchers chose 95 kids — who had an average age of 11 — and gave them puberty-blocking drugs starting in 2015. The treatments are meant to delay the onset of bodily changes like the development of breasts or the deepening of the voice.
After following up with the youths for two years, the treatments did not improve the state of their mental health, which Olson-Kennedy chalked up to the kids being “in really good shape” both when they started and concluded the two-year treatment.
However, the Times points out that her rosy assessment contradicts earlier data recorded by the researchers which found around one-quarter of study participants “were depressed or suicidal” before receiving treatment.
It’s just more evidence that left-wingers have no integrity and warp everything to their politics.
Transgenderism is not a “treatment” for kids. It is mutilation. Period.
Ultimately, Harry Potter writer J.K. Rowling had the exact right take on this:
'We must not publish a study that says we're harming children because people who say we're harming children will use the study as evidence that we're harming children, which might make it difficult for us to continue harming children.' pic.twitter.com/hS4CcswkXg
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 23, 2024
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