A doctor who studied puberty blockers found that it does not in fact improve patients’ mental health but she is refusing to publish her study because she worries that her work will be “weaponized” by critics of transgender medicine. She told the New York Times that she thinks that puberty blockers did not make these kids better, “most likely because the children were already doing well when the study began.”
Hahaha. Okay. If they were already so great, why would they have been included in a study that was specifically looking for improvement?
More likely, her work is in line with most research that shows that puberty blockers do not help anyone feel better. Often, they just feel worse because the drugs make kids sterile, pauses their brain maturation, and keeps their genitals in a child-like state forever. Research on gender transition also shows that it increases the risk of suicide, not decreases it as gender advocates like to pretend.
According to the New York Post, “critics – including one of Olson-Kennedy’s fellow researchers on the study — said the decision flies in the face of research standards and deprives the public of ‘really important’ science in a field where Americans remain firmly divided.”
A scientist should not be trusted if they withhold a study that does not fit in with their preconceived hypothesis. That’s not “following the science” is it?
The study cost taxpayers $10 million but we don’t get to see it because she doesn’t like the results.
