Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy runs the gender clinic at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles. You can read an interview with her about trans health here on the Children’s Hospital website. As author Jesse Singal explains in a report for the Economist, Dr. Olson-Kennedy isn’t just any doctor, she’s one of the most outspoken proponents of gender affirming care for minors in the country, i.e. someone who is quoted in the media on this topic frequently.
Her activism seems to have overcome her commitment to transparency. Recently, Dr. Olson-Kennedy made news for sitting on the results of a government funded study of trans children because the outcome didn’t support her ideological commitments. The study, which she launched in 2015, was supposed to demonstrate that children given puberty blockers were better off, i.e. less prone to harm themselves and happier. But the…
