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> In case anyone missed it, I'd like to point out the obvious: her professional reputation, and her paycheck (i.e. her grants), depend on a continued supply of unhappy gender-transitioning children.

This kind of knee jerk conspiratorial nonsense is exactly why reactionaries share blame for making this into a needlessly politicized shit show.

It is indeed anti-scientific to hold back the study, just like it's anti-scientific to latch on to one result and use it to support the reactionary panic narrative. Just like covid and climate change before it, once we're here we've all lost. Do better and maybe we can manage to walk the fine line of truth at the heart of the matter, because neither extremist camp has it right.

If you think there were 95 people involved in the study then your reading comprehension is near 0.

"The doctor, Johanna Olson-Kennedy, began the study in 2015 as part of a broader, multimillion-dollar federal project on transgender youth. She and colleagues recruited 95 children from across the country and gave them puberty blockers, which stave off the permanent physical changes — like breasts or a deepening voice — that could exacerbate their gender distress, known as dysphoria."

I notice a trend of comments that contradict the most basic facts of an article. Are you a bot? Is lying a fetish?

> Results: >A total of 95 youth were enrolled in the GnRHa cohort. Mean age was 11.22 years (SD=1.46), and the majority were white (52.6%) and designated male at birth (51.6%). Elevated depression symptoms were endorsed by 28.6% of GnRHa cohort youth, and 22.1% endorsed clinically significant anxiety. About a quarter (23.6%) endorsed lifetime suicidal ideation, with 7.9% reporting a past suicide attempt. A total of 316 youth were enrolled in the GAH cohort. Mean age was 16.0 years (SD=1.88), and the majority were white (62%) and designated female at birth (64.9%). Elevated depression symptoms were endorsed by 51.3% of the GAH cohort, and 57.3% endorsed clinically significant anxiety. Two-thirds (66.6%) endorsed lifetime suicidal ideation, with 24.6% reporting a past suicide attempt. Life satisfaction was lower amongst both cohorts compared to population-based norms.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7897328/ This abstract is linked in the article

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