The National Institutes of Health could be hiding the effect of puberty blockers, drugs that often are given to minors as part of so-called gender-affirming care, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., suggested Monday in a letter to the agency’s director obtained by The Daily Signal.
In his letter to NIH Director Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, Rubio draws particular attention to an NIH-funded study by Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, a physician who is the medical director of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
Despite the Obama administration’s decision to support Olson-Kennedy’s study more than nine years ago, the findings have yet to be released, allegedly out of fear of the political repercussions.
Rubio writes that Olson-Kennedy was part of a group of researchers who received nearly $6 million from NIH to study physical and mental…
