The left has weaponized nearly every sacred institution we hold dear: education, the justice system, and worst of all, medicine. What’s truly terrifying is that their obsession with political ideology has trumped truth, facts, and even the well-being of the people. We saw this horrifying shift unfold during COVID, where so-called “medical experts” traded their credibility for political loyalty. They abandoned their profession, not to help Americans but to push a left-wing agenda. And now it’s happening again with the dangerous trans agenda targeting vulnerable teens. A new study exposes the lie at the heart of the entire trans movement, but what’s even more alarming is that the experts know it—and they’re hiding it to keep the gravy train rolling.
An influential doctor and advocate of adolescent gender treatments said she had not published a long-awaited study of puberty-blocking drugs because of the charged American political environment.
The doctor, Johanna Olson-Kennedy, began the study in 2015 as part of a broader, multimillion-dollar federal project on transgender youth. She and colleagues recruited 95 children from across the country and gave them puberty blockers, which stave off the permanent physical changes — like breasts or a deepening voice — that could exacerbate their gender distress, known as dysphoria.
The researchers followed the children for two years to see if the treatments improved their mental health. An older Dutch study had found that puberty blockers improved well-being, results that inspired clinics around the world to regularly prescribe the medications as part of what is now called gender-affirming care.
But the American trial did not find a similar trend, Dr. Olson-Kennedy said in a wide-ranging interview. Puberty blockers did not lead to mental health improvements, she said, most likely because the children were already doing well when the study began.
“They’re in really good shape when they come in, and they’re in really good shape after two years,” said Dr. Olson-Kennedy, who runs the country’s largest youth gender clinic at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.
Gender-confused kids are now in “really good shape”? How can that be when all we ever hear is how “depressed” and “suicidal” these kids are and how they’ll be miserable for the rest of their lives if they don’t get gender reassignment treatment?
What these kids are suffering from is a condition called “gender dysphoria,” and they need proper treatment for that—not puberty blockers pushed to advance left-wing politics.
The truth is, what we’ve been told about puberty blockers has all been a lie. The actual data doesn’t add up, and the so-called “experts” know it, but they don’t want to tell you. The New York Times goes on:
In the nine years since the study was funded by the National Institutes of Health, and as medical care for this small group of adolescents became a searing issue in American politics, Dr. Olson-Kennedy’s team has not published the data. Asked why, she said the findings might fuel the kind of political attacks that have led to bans of the youth gender treatments in more than 20 states, one of which will soon be considered by the Supreme Court.
“I do not want our work to be weaponized,” she said. “It has to be exactly on point, clear and concise. And that takes time.”
She said that she intends to publish the data, but that the team had also been delayed because the N.I.H. had cut some of the project’s funding. She attributed that cut, too, to politics, which the N.I.H. denied. (The broader project has received $9.7 million in government support to date.)
To put it simply, puberty blockers don’t help troubled teens, and the “experts” don’t want you to know that because their gravy train depends on keeping the truth hidden. The New York Times piece continues:
Dr. Olson-Kennedy is one of the country’s most vocal advocates of adolescent gender treatments and has served as an expert witness in many legal challenges to the state bans. She said she was concerned the study’s results could be used in court to argue that “we shouldn’t use blockers because it doesn’t impact them,” referring to transgender adolescents.
In case you were wondering, yes, medicine, science, research, and results have been weaponized. But not by the right or by those seeking to share the truth. No, it’s been hijacked by the left—medical activists who couldn’t care less about the facts. Their sole focus is pushing the left’s trans agenda, no matter who it destroys. The New York Times piece continues:
Other researchers, however, were alarmed by the idea of delaying results that would have immediate implications for families around the world. “I understand the fear about it being weaponized, but it’s really important to get the science out there,” said Amy Tishelman, a clinical and research psychologist at Boston College who was one of the study’s original researchers.
Dr. Tishelman also noted that, even if the drugs did not lead to psychological improvements, they may have prevented some of the children from getting worse. “No change isn’t necessarily a negative finding — there could be a preventative aspect to it,” she said. “We just don’t know without more investigation.”
Keep in mind that while this Dutch study supposedly showed that puberty blockers helped depressed teens and was used as a shining example to push trans medicine on kids, no one else could replicate the results. When the US and US tried, they failed. Yet, the medical “experts” and their cohorts in media and politics continue to promote this faulty narrative, allowing them to abuse and mutilate teenagers with impunity. More:
England’s youth gender clinic in 2011 tried to replicate the Dutch results with a study of 44 children. But at a conference five years later, the British researchers reported that puberty blockers had not changed volunteers’ well-being, including rates of self-harm. Those results were not made public until 2020, years after puberty blockers had become the standard treatment for children with gender dysphoria in England.
In 2020, Dr. Olson-Kennedy’s group described the initial psychological profile of the children enrolled in the U.S. study of puberty blockers, whose average age was 11. Before receiving the drugs, around one quarter of the group reported depression symptoms and significant anxiety, and one quarter reported ever having thoughts of suicide. Eight percent reported a past suicide attempt.
In a progress report submitted to the N.I.H. at that time, Dr. Olson-Kennedy outlined her hypothesis of how the children would fare after two years on puberty blockers: that they would show “decreased symptoms of depression, anxiety, trauma symptoms, self-injury, and suicidality, and increased body esteem and quality of life over time.”
That hypothesis does not seem to have borne out. “They have good mental health on average,” Dr. Olson-Kennedy said in the interview with The New York Times. “They’re not in any concerning ranges, either at the beginning or after two years.” She reiterated this idea several times.
This is junk science. They’re pumping innocent kids full of puberty blockers, messing with their hormonal makeup and the way God created them, all to push a political ideology. These mentally vulnerable teens are nothing more than lab rats for progressives, who are desperate to score social brownie points for their Marxist cause.
When you witness this kind of blatant medical tyranny, the politicization, and weaponization of science, it becomes crystal clear how these so-called “experts” were able to use COVID to target and control so many people.
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