Johanna Olson-Kennedy, a pediatrician affiliated with Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, is embroiled in a scandal over a taxpayer-funded study she led, as The Federalist recently reported. Olson-Kennedy has long argued that turning gender-confused kids into lifelong medical patients — via puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones, and mutilating surgeries — is the best way to save them from despair and suicide.
But The New York Times has revealed that Olson-Kennedy’s own research shows this isn’t true. The 95 young patients whom she and her colleagues observed for two years (with $10 million in federal grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)) showed no improvement in their mental health despite receiving “affirming” medical interventions. There goes the narrative.
So Olson-Kennedy did what any politically motivated, conflict-of-interest-riddled “expert”
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