Doctor Withholds Taxpayer-Funded Research that Contradicts Her Beliefs on Puberty Blockers

(Washington Stand) Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, who serves as the medical director for the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, has been conducting research on “transgender health” for nearly a decade as part of a larger federal project. Over the years, Olson-Kennedy has received $9.7 million in taxpayer money from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). But now that the results of her work are finally in, she is refusing to share them.

“I do not want our work to be weaponized,” she claimed in an interview with The New York Times published Wednesday. She emphasized that the results of the research, which focused on 95 adolescents all around age 11, must be “exactly on point, clear and concise,” which she said “takes time.” However, as one of America’s leading voices supporting so-called “gender-affirming care” on minors, Olson-Kennedy admitted the results weren’t what she was expecting, because they did not prove that using puberty blockers improves an adolescent’s well-being.  (Read More)

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