Doctor who hid $10 million ‘trans kid’ study gets USPIE’s November 2024 Millstone Award

A well-known doctor and trans rights advocate is the designated winner of the Millstone Award from United States Parents Involved in Education (USPIE) after admitting that she deliberately withheld publication of a $10 million taxpayer-funded study on the effect of puberty blockers on American children.

Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy told The New York Times that the study would be “weaponized” against such treatments and that opponents could use it in court to argue that “we shouldn’t use blockers.”

“Well, yes,” says Sheri Few, founder and president of USPIE. “The study should be available, especially for parents being threatened with loss of custody if they won’t go along with the insanity that their boys are really girls and girls are really boys.

“This woke academic refused to publish a study of puberty blockers because it not only doesn’t make the point she wanted — to justify experiments on minors — but instead shows such treatments as ineffective or even harmful.

“When science confirms common sense instead of justifying bizarre, immoral experiments on impressionable children, we should listen. No wonder Olson-Kennedy, a trans advocate, deep-sixed it. This earns her our November 2024 Millstone Award.”

Millstone of the Month awards are given to the person or persons who have committed the most egregious acts against children, usually in government schools.

“Researchers chose 95 kids — who had an average age of 11 — and gave them puberty-blocking drugs starting in 2015,” the New York Post reported, noting that the study was funded by the National Institutes of Health. “The treatments are meant to delay the onset of bodily changes like the development of breasts or the deepening of the voice.”

“After following up with the youths for two years, the treatments did not improve the state of their mental health, which Olson-Kennedy chalked up to the kids being ‘in really good shape’ both when they started and concluded the two-year treatment,” the Post said.

“However, the Times points out that her rosy assessment contradicts earlier data recorded by the researchers which found around one-quarter of study participants ‘were depressed or suicidal’ before receiving treatment.

“The issue of young children being steered into ‘transitioning’ has been important in this year’s election,” Few says. “The Democratic Party and Kamala Harris are all in, supporting it. Republicans, including former President Trump, oppose it. This study should be heard. Parents, guardians, and children need to be aware of the dangers of puberty blockers and the detrimental effects that they can have on children, especially their mental health.

“The bottom line is that no one should be medically altering children’s natural bodies. This study cover-up is another example of leftist indoctrination; they don’t want people to hear about the negative outcomes.”

Olson-Kennedy, the Times says, is a leading advocate for providing “gender-affirming care” to adolescents, and regularly provides expert testimony in legal challenges to state bans on such procedures, which have been adopted by more than 20 states.

A Washington Post-KFF Trans in America survey found that 68% of U.S. adults are against providing puberty blockers to trans-identifying youth ages 10 to 14, and 58% oppose hormone treatments for those ages 15 to 17.

Child protective agencies throughout America under the guise of “equity” and “health care” are turning into policing units that threaten parents into consenting to “gender-affirming” treatments for their confused children — or else be branded as “abusers” who will lose custody.

That’s the ugly reality of what the federal Department of Health and Human Services is promoting under a rule issued by the Biden/Harris administration. States are told that they must ensure that foster children who identify as LGBTQ+ are placed in “affirming” homes.

“As the country is fast approaching the 2024 presidential election, people need to be warned that this cruel, evil, anti-parent and anti-child policy will worsen if Kamala Harris is elected president,” Few says.

United States Parents Involved in Education (USPIE) is a nonprofit, nationwide coalition that seeks to return education to its proper local roots and restore parental authority over their children’s education by helping parents and local communities to escape federal and other national influences. It is the vision of USPIE to create a culture where parents, empowered with the authority to choose what and how their children learn, are the undisputed primary educators of their children, where local schools operate in support of families, and where education is unencumbered by federal mandates.

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