By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-06 01:48:57 | Updated at 2024-12-22 11:32:16
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U.S. Study on Puberty Blockers Goes Unpublished Because of Politics, Doctor Says
New York Times ^ | October 23, 2024 | Azeen Ghorayshi
Posted on 12/05/2024 5:35:31 PM PST by grundle
The leader of the long-running study said that the drugs did not improve mental health in children with gender distress and that the finding might be weaponized by opponents of the care.
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.
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.
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1 posted on 12/05/2024 5:35:31 PM PST by grundle
To: grundle
Any legitimate medical researcher in this country (e.g., from a major medical school) who did any kind of study of “gender affirming care” that was even slightly critical of the industry would be shunned by the medical establishment and would very possibly lose his/her medical license.
2 posted on 12/05/2024 5:43:27 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
To: grundle
Other more extensive studies in Europe disagree with the limited findings of the one sudy the NYSlines refers to.
3 posted on 12/05/2024 5:43:49 PM PST by Wuli
To: grundle
A member of a drug cartel who did a study that showed that taking cocaine and meth was bad for one’s health would also probably not publish.
4 posted on 12/05/2024 5:46:22 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
To: grundle
How about treating the mental illnesses instead of encouraging it.
Oh, and ban atrazine too.
5 posted on 12/05/2024 5:47:05 PM PST by packagingguy
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