An influential doctor and pro-transgender activist withheld publication of a $10 million taxpayer-funded study on the effectiveness of puberty blockers.
For the study, researchers chose 95 gender-distressed children at an average age of 11 years old and gave them puberty-blocking drugs starting in 2015. The drugs delay the onset of puberty-driven changes such as breast development for girls and deepening of the voice for boys. The delay of the development of these sex characteristics is intended to alleviate gender dysphoria by allowing the subjects to remain less visibly “sexed.”
The study showed no evidence that the blockers improved the mental health of the young people.
Last week the New York Times reported that Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy admitted she didn’t publish the study because the results would be “weaponized.” She said: “I do not want our work to be…
