You expect a medical study to just look at patients. That was the plan. The actual report shows a different goal entirely. Researchers wanted to find specific types of kids, and a new report from the Daily Signal shows the truth behind the scenes. The study aimed to enroll “additional youth of color” and more males, which was a taxpayer-funded project at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles that ran for nine years with up to $10 million in funding. The lead doctor is Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, who specializes in “gender affirming care” and tracked kids from age 8 to age 20. They wanted to fix the racial mix of the group because most kids in the study were white at 67 percent, while only 9 percent were Hispanic and 4 percent were Black.
They also wanted more boys in the hormone group, which was mostly girls who wanted to be boys, so more girls who believe they desire to be boys were examined by the study. Dr. Olson-Kennedy feared the results would be “weaponized,” and that is why the New York Times said it was not published. The Oversight Project finally got the final report and shared it with the Daily Signal in late 2024. This changes how we see the whole medical project, but the sequence of events is what matters most.
The study found scary things about bone health. Kids on puberty blockers had lower bone density than normal, and the report says they had “lower amounts of calcium in their bones.” This might be because they did not move enough, and whether an individual might become an athlete can be influenced by low bone density. It could affect how tall you grow, and people in a comparable circumstance to osteoporosis could be placed by it. Dr. Neal Cornett of the Oversight Project spoke to the Daily Signal and said the physical health impact needs scrutiny.
The study also looked at heart health and cholesterol, where hormone treatments changed “good” and “bad” cholesterol levels. Boys on testosterone saw “bad” cholesterol go up, and the study noted these changes are “consistent with known effects.” It also warned about future fertility issues because the report says they want to save tissue samples for later to study long-term impacts on fertility. Some girls on testosterone had high red blood cell counts, and 6.5 percent developed abnormally high red blood cell concentration. These are real numbers from real kids.
We need to know what is happening to our children. The doctors wanted to change the race of the group, and they said this was because of the demographics of Los Angeles. They wanted to make the study look more diverse, but the health risks are not about race. They are about the drugs given to these kids. The report warns of lasting negative impacts on bone density, and it warns of heart health issues too. Dr. Olson-Kennedy did not answer questions about the story, and the hospital did not answer either. The report sat buried for a long time because it was not published since the doctor was scared.
She thought the findings would be used against her, but now we see the data is there. It shows kids might face problems like osteoporosis, it shows kids might have heart issues, and it shows the study had a hidden agenda. They wanted to find more youth of color and males, and they wanted to fix the numbers before the study ended. This report warns every family.
The report says the third goal was to archive tissue so they want to study cellular mechanisms underlying treatment response and see how the drugs change the body. We must ask if this is safe for our kids, and the answer might be no. The report says the study had two main groups where one group got puberty blockers from age 8 to 16 while the other got hormones from age 12 to 20. The younger group was split between boys and girls, but the older group was mostly girls. 52 percent of the blocker group were males, and 65 percent of the hormone group were females. The data is clear, the risks are real, and we cannot ignore what the report says.
