Folks, there's no other way to describe it — this is evil:
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.'
That's right, folks: A major researcher found evidence that we shouldn't use puberty blockers, and she withheld it because she was worried it would lead people to believe ... we shouldn't use puberty blockers.
Seems like the logical conclusion here is that we shouldn't use puberty blockers! Call me nuts.
The study, it should be stressed, was pretty rigorous:
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.
Ah yes, the kids seeking to delay their natural, God-given bodily changes are "in really good shape." Got it. Totally scientific there.
Just as a reminder, these "blockers" are chemical castration drugs with serious consequences:
In any event, that finding "contradicts earlier data recorded by the researchers which found around one-quarter of study participants 'were depressed or suicidal' before receiving treatment."
Somethings tells me Dr. Johanna might not be the most thorough and discerning physician on the planet.
Maybe the fact that she is married to a woman who took testosterone to look like a man might have something to do with it:
One "transgender youth expert," meanwhile, was none-too-impressed by this straight-up withholding of science:
It's not her prerogative to decide based on the results that she will or won't publish them. ...
It's contrary to the scientific method. You do research, and then you disclose what the results are.
Unsurprisingly, J.K. Rowling, one of the most severe critics of transgender insanity these days, had thoughts:
Trans ideology is on the ropes and its advocate are getting desperate. Let's keep up the good fight.
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