Extremist doctor hides data that show puberty blockers do NOTHING to help kids
Why are National Institutes of Health-backed doctors hiding data from a near-decade long study on gender-based medical interventions for children?
Because — as study lead Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy admitted in a recent, bombshell New York Times interview — the results did not prove what she hoped they would prove, namely that puberty blockers and similar treatments improve kids’ mental health.
“I do not want our work to be weaponized,” fretted Olson-Kennedy — that is, to inform the scientific and political debates over trans-ing kids.
We should be grateful: The good doctor has unveiled the ugly truth at the heart of the gender-industrial complex.
Olson-Kennedy is a hardcore advocate of “hormones first, questions later.”
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She serves in the vanguard of experts appearing in court to stop states from keeping these treatments restricted to adults.
And now she’s found data that contradict her fundamental thesis — i.e. that kids need to be given these life-altering medicines early and often.
No problem at all: Simply hide the results indefinitely and brag to the Times about it.
Doctors like Olson-Kennedy don’t care about science. Or helping kids and families. Or getting to the truth of a difficult subject.
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They love power and its exercise, pure and simple. They’re medical authoritarians.
Worse still, Olson-Kennedy holds a high position at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles in its “transyouth” clinic.
How can someone with such a blatant disregard of basic ethics continue in any clinical medical position?
She needs to be kept as far away from treating people as possible.
She is deliberately and openly withholding, for nakedly political reasons, data crucial for her professional colleagues and the families seeking their advice.
And she got funds for the project from a pot of almost $10 million in taxpayer cash, which only doubles and redoubles her obligation to publish all the data in a full and transparent way.
This isn’t the first time such an obfuscation has happened, sickeningly.
A British study in 2016 also found that such interventions did nothing to help kids’ mental health — findings that weren’t made public until 2020, long after the treatments had become standard.
God only knows how many children’s lives were altered for the worse in the interim.
Horrifically, the interview also suggests that Olson-Kennedy may have lied about her work.
Her preliminary findings allegedly saw about 25% of the kids included in the study dealing with mental health issues; now she tells the Times (with no clear explanation) this isn’t the case.
Whatever happens with Olson-Kennedy — and we hope she is censured and punished — remember this.
Only blind ideologues see reality as a “weapon” wielded against them; actual scientists embrace it.
Here’s hoping the truth sets free the families people like Olson-Kennedy have lied to.
