Puberty Blocker Data Censored to prevent Ban

The results of a government-funded research project that showed the drugs had no mental health improvements for "gender-distressed" children who were put on puberty blockers have been withheld because the project director believes they might be used to stop such treatments.

In the nine years since the study was funded... Dr. Olson-Kennedy’s team has not published the data. Asked why, she said the findings might fuel the kind of political attacks that have led to bans of the youth gender treatments in more than 20 states.

Dr. Olson-Kennedy is one of the country’s most vocal advocates of adolescent gender treatments... She said she was concerned the study’s results could be used in court to argue that 'we shouldn’t use blockers because it doesn’t impact them.'” "Other researchers, however, were alarmed by the idea of delaying results that would have immediate implications for families around the world.

U.S. Study on Puberty Blockers Goes Unpublished Because of Politics, Doctor SaysThe New York Times