After a nearly $10 million taxpayer-funded study on “puberty blockers” was buried because it concluded the drugs cause irreparable harm to children who become convinced they are transgendered, Congress will now investigate whether government-funded scientists are manipulating research to push a “woke” liberal agenda.
U.S. House Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) is “conducting oversight of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) after the results of a $9.7 million taxpayer-funded research project studying the effects of puberty blockers for transgender youth has been hidden by the project’s principal investigator,” the House Oversight and Accountability Committee announced.
“In a letter to National Institutes for Health (NIH) Director Monica Bertagnolli, Subcommittee Chairwoman McClain requests documents and information related to the ongoing project and unpublished project data,” a Committee statement
“The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is conducting oversight of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant of $9.7 million to an ongoing research project titled, ‘The Impact of Early Medical Treatment in Transgender Youth,’” wrote McClain. “We are alarmed that the project’s principal investigator, Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, is withholding publication of the project’s research findings which cast doubt on the efficacy of the ‘gender affirming’ model, because she believes the findings could be ‘weaponized’ by critics of transgender medical interventions for children.”
According to the Committee, “One research study in this project, known as the Trans Youth Care (TYC) study, gave medical puberty blockers to 95 children in the early stages of puberty and observed subsequent mental health outcomes over two years. Dr. Olson-Kennedy has implied there have been no clinical impacts on mental health in the TYC cohort after initiating puberty blockers.”
“However, a 2020 paper authored by TYC researchers conflicts with Dr. Olson-Kennedy’s account of the cohort as being in good mental health before the study began. According to this paper, the children in the TYC cohort did experience troubling mental health symptoms when the study began,” the Committee reveals.
“Dr. Olson-Kennedy’s apparent mischaracterization of the TYC study’s results and refusal to publish taxpayer-funded research because they contradict her pre-existing biases and could be cited by critics of ‘gender affirming’ medical interventions is an irrefutable example of politicization of scientific research to further an ideological agenda. Deliberately mischaracterizing and withholding the results of the TYC study has serious implications for the health and safety of children who are subjected to ‘gender affirming’ medical procedures, many of which are irreversible and hold lifelong implications despite lacking adequate scientific support for their efficacy or safety,” continued McClain. “NIH is responsible for overseeing its extramural research projects to ensure supported researchers practice transparency, exemplify scientific integrity, and are proper stewards of taxpayer funds. Therefore, in light of the NIH grantee’s unwillingness to release the research project’s findings, we ask that you provide documents and information to assist the Committee’s oversight of this matter.”
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The entire trans-agenda is purely Satanic.
Irreparable damage is being doe to young people who are not old enough to have a clue about what real life is.
Sad for these young people and for all of society.
I agree with Mr. James Green; it is time we stopped these types of things from happening here in America. The people who conduct this type of activity need to be arrested, convicted and put in prison!
“STOP THE INSANITY”
Any person who covers up a legitimate scientific study to further their own agenda should be arrested and prosecuted.