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Doctor concealed tax-funded puberty blocker study after it did not show mental health benefits

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A doctor who runs the “transgender” clinic at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles blocked the publication of a $6 million federal study on puberty blockers because the results failed to show any mental health benefits for children who were given the gender transition drugs, according to a New York Times report.

Johanna Olson-Kennedy, the leading researcher on the study and the medical director of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development, is a staunch proponent of allowing doctors to provide transgender puberty-blocking drugs to children who suffer from gender dysphoria.

The researchers, who received nearly $6 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), gave puberty blockers to 95 children who suffered from gender dysphoria to analyze whether the drugs improved their mental health. The average age of the children enrolled in the study was less than 11 and a half years old.

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