As I reported earlier this week, the carefully-constructed delusion about the medical necessity to mutilate confused children in the name of transgender rights is finally, blessedly crashing down. I already reported on the lawsuit that revealed how HHS official “Rachel” Levine and the trans cheerleading medical group WPATH conspired to hide evidence that there were no benefits to kids from their quackery.

https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/rachel-levine-must-resign-2d7?publication_id=61371&post_id=150390017&isFreemail=true&r=9bg2k&triedRedirect=true

Now, the latest outrage: Back in 2015, the NIH awarded a taxpayer-funded grant to study the effectiveness of puberty blockers on improving the mental health of children. Nine years later, the results have yet to be published, but study head Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy claimed the kids were in “really good shape when they come in, and they’re in really good shape after two years.”

In reality, a quarter of them were depressed or suicidal before treatment, and there was no change afterwards. Now, Olson-Kennedy has admitted that she withheld publishing the study for political reasons. She didn’t want it “weaponized” by opponents of the treatments because, as the New York Times reports, “the findings might fuel the kind of political attacks that have led to bans of the youth gender treatments in more than 20 states.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/10/24/doctor-admits-to-blocking-publication-of-10-million-taxpayer-funded-study-showing-no-mental-health-benefits-of-puberty-blockers-on-transgender-children/

I don’t need to comment on that because “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling already summed it up perfectly in a single X/Twitter post:

“We must not publish a study 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 might make it difficult for us to continue harming children.”