NIH-Funded Study Finds Puberty Blockers Failed to Improve Youth Mental Health

A taxpayer-funded study of children and young adults taking puberty blockers and hormone treatments found no improvement in youth mental health.

The Oversight Project, a watchdog group, obtained the final report of “The Impact of Early Medical Treatment in Transgender Youth” and shared it with the Daily Signal.

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“The argument has been that this improves mental health,” Dr. Kurt Miceli, the chief medical officer at Do No Harm, which opposes gender changes for children, said. “ … The narrative by advocates has been that this is lifesaving treatment.”

He noted that a separate 2023 New England Journal of Medicine article referenced two minors observed in a study who committed suicide.

The recently released study noted that “Denominator for retention (expected visits) does not include participants who withdrew consent, passed away, or have not reached the end of their extended follow-up window.” But it does not say how the youths “passed away,” Miceli noted.

“Two suicides were reported in a previous study, but downplayed,” Miceli said. “It’s important for science and important to patients to know.”

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