House Republicans plan to probe suppression of federally funded puberty blocker research

Published October 24, 2024 7:33pm ET



House Republicans are promising to investigate efforts from a prominent transgender medicine physician to withhold results from studies funded by the National Institutes of Health on the mental health effects of puberty blockers for minors. 

As previously reported by the Washington Examiner and other outlets, Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, who runs one of the largest youth gender clinics in the United States, may be delaying publication of the results from a multiyear study funded by the NIH because she and her colleagues are concerned about the findings being used by critics of transgender medical treatments for minors.

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