Johanna Olson-Kennedy, a physician affiliated with Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, is embroiled in a controversy over a taxpayer-funded review she led, as The Federalist just reported. Olson-Kennedy has much argued that turning gender-confused children into lifelong health patients— via menstruation blockers, opposite-sex hormones, and mutilating surgeries— is the best way to save them from anguish and death.
But The New York Times has revealed that Olson-Kennedy’s own research shows this is n’t true. The 95 young patients she and her colleagues followed for two years ( with a$ 10 million grant from the National Institutes of Health ( NIH) ) and who had undergone “affirming” medical care, all but showed no improvement in their mental health. There goes the tale.
But Olson-Kennedy did what any socially motivated, conflict-of-interest-riddled “expert” would do — she buried the study. Then, she fretted, the terrible forces that oppose the death of children’s bodies to treat a psychological disorder might seize on the studies to support their position in judges, parliament, and the public mind. ” I do not want our job to get weaponized”, she told the Times.
One of those cruel forces, J. K. Rowling, paraphrased the good doctor’s issue:” We may never publish a research that says we’re harming children because people who say we’re harming children will use the study as evidence that we’re harming children, which may make it difficult for us to continue killing children”.
None of this should amaze anyone who has followed Olson-Kennedy’s job in the transgender business limelight.
In the last instance, Olson-Kennedy was arguing for chopping off the good chests of small girls. Regret over this torturing surgery often arises, she claimed, and even if it did, but what? A fresh mastectomy victim can “go and obtain them” if she decides after that she wants breasts.
Olson-Kennedy’s work seems to be characterized by its nonchalance about guiding kids toward possibly lifelong misery. She revealed at a professional event that many of her patients have serious mental health issues that are naturally influencing their female distress:” Thirty percent of my sample had moderate to severe depression symptoms. Thought about suicide, 49 percent … Attempted suicide, over 30 percent … A lot of drug use … A lot of kids were sexually active, and a not insignificant number of my kids have actually done … sex work]prostitution ]”.
A teen should know that all is not well in her world when she realizes that she is actually working as a prostitute. So perhaps we should approach these troubled children and find the root causes of their suffering? Unnecessary, says Olson-Kennedy. Comparing these trans-identifying patients to diabetics, she dismisses the value of therapy:” I do n’t send someone to therapy when I’m going to start them on insulin”.
Olson-Kennedy’s unwavering determination to transition as many confused children as possible is supported by both her personal and professional life. She is legally wed to a woman who identify herself as a counselor and authorizes the entry of the young patients on the transgender conveyor belt. The two activists are highly sought-after speakers on the trans circuit.
Olson-Kennedy is also president-elect of the U. S. Professional Association for Transgender Health ( USPATH), the U. S. affiliate of the radical advocacy organization World Professional Association for Transgender Health ( WPATH). WPATH is now embroiled in a scandal of its own, despite claiming to be the sole arbitrator of treatment standards and guidance for gender-confused patients. High-level WPATH doctors have admitted in private to carrying out these medical interventions, including surgeries and administration of carcinogens, without the informed consent of their minor patients. But Olson-Kennedy seems unfazed.
The money is still flowing in. In the trans industry, doctors like Olson-Kennedy get a lot of money from their experience on the gravy train. A professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center complained about the amount of funding doctors and hospitals could use for these procedures in 2018. Pharmaceutical companies, for their part, are profiting from the pricey medications and hormones given to young patients ( see here and here ).
So the trans industry, fronted by doctors such as Olson-Kennedy, has a lot riding on the narrative that it’s improving and even saving kids ‘ lives by medicalizing their gender dysphoria. The outcome is Olson-Kennedy and her fellow researchers ‘ decision to bury their own research that proves their claims are false.
Republicans in Congress have requested the release of the study’s findings and announced an investigation into the Olson-Kennedy/NIH scandal. Sunlight in this area of politicized federal “public health” is long overdue.
This episode provides a good example of the trans movement’s moral bankruptcy in relation to the medical profession and the government health bureaucracy. Doctors position themselves as unquestionable authorities on medical procedures that lead to wealth. To help conflicted researchers produce proof that their work is beneficial to patients and must continue, the federal government gives money to them.
When that research inconveniently shows the opposite, it is suppressed. Taxpayers are never told the truth unless it supports the accepted narrative. And innocent patients suffer.
Everything about Big Trans in America is a lie, a lie supported by a complicit public health bureaucracy. It’s past time for scrapping the whole corrupt structure.
Jane Robbins is a senior fellow with the American Principles Project in Washington, DC, an attorney. In that capacity, she created state and federal legislation to restore state and local governments ‘ constitutional autonomy in education policy and defend religious freedom and conscience. She received degrees from Harvard Law School and Clemson University.
