The Global Pediatric Medicine Field Has a Clear Habit Of Hiding—And Discouraging—Inconvenient Research Findings

What NYT reported about Johanna Olson-Kennedy sitting on her null findings on puberty blockers is but one such story in a field in which many researchers prioritize the mission over honest science.

That’s a quote from a talk that pediatric gender medicine doctor Johanna Olson-Kennedy gave in which she was dismissing concerns about young people potentially regretting getting double mastectomies for a gender transition.

Some of the biggest names in the pediatric gender medicine field are part of an entrenched global trend in which they prioritize the transgender advocacy mission over honest and direct science. They hide inconvenient research findings. And they seek to prevent other researchers from even asking questions that might yield inconvenient answers. Supporting them is a cabal of activists and LGBTQ nonprofits standing at the ready to bully and cancel any scientists or journalists who might bring to light any of the more questionable aspects of pediatric gender medicine.

This pattern is not just limited to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles’ Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy. If you haven’t already heard, according to reporting in The New York Times, this major leader in the pediatric…