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💉💉 In an astonishing development, the New York Times was the only corporate media platform to run this story. I’m starting to think someone high up at the Times is questioning the trans agenda. The Times’ article was headlined, “U.S. Study on Puberty Blockers Goes Unpublished Because of Politics, Doctor Says.” ...

In 2015, hyphenated-doctor Johanna Olson-Kennedy received a broad, multimillion-dollar grant to research the beneficial effects of castration drugs on children’s emotions. She launched a nine-year study of 411 kids who received so-called “puberty blockers,” which permanently prevent their secondary sexual characteristics from developing, and which trans advocates claim make kids with gender dysphoria happy.

Johanna expected to confirm that hypothesis. She is a trans activist and has often been an expert science witness in high-profile trans cases. But the results of Johanna’s study unexpectedly went the other way. ...

But ever since that first introductory paper, as the years have gone by, Johanna’s team has never again published their findings. When the Times asked her why not, Johanna explained, “I do not want our work to be weaponized.” She expanded on that, adding she was worried her study’s results could be used in court to argue that “we shouldn’t use blockers because it doesn’t impact” transgender adolescents.

In other words, no matter how hard they tried, they cannot find any improvement in the study’s heavily drugged kids.

Harry Potter author and women’s rights activist J.K. Rowling made the obvious sarcastic point:

J.K. Rowling • @jk rowling • Oct 23
'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.'

Quibblers will argue Rowling got it wrong, since what we know about Johanna’s unpublished study suggests the kids came out even-Steven. But Rowling is right, since that metric only counted mental health. It didn’t account for all the other problems transitioning kids face.

For just one example of many, boys given puberty blockers face permanent shrinkage, since their package remains forever child-sized. They are usually left with what the doctors call, and I am not making this up, a “micro penis.” Those are two words that should never go together. Obviously, boys who de-transition will not enjoy living with a micro penis. It’s not good for their kidneys, either.

But that’s not even the stupidest part. Fake vaginas are made by hollowing out and “inverting” (don’t ask) the male member. But if the member is micro-sized, doctors can’t make a fake vagina out of it. It’s not deep enough. There’s not enough skin there to do anything useful. So giving boys puberty blockers ensures a bad result from their “gender-affirming surgery.”

You will have to explain how any of that makes sense to trans advocates, because I cannot. I think it must have something to do with a related condition called, “micro brain.”

That being said, there’s a second ugly facet to this tarnished story. What does this self-censorship say about our credentialed class? What does it say about the whole academic publication racket that withholding politically inconvenient results is considered business as usual? How many scientific studies are never published because of politics?

WSJ reporter Kyle Smith tweeted yesterday that a Republican doorknocker told him campaign outreach staff are being forced to lie about Democrat policies, by watering down the truth, making the Democrats’ initiatives sound less crazy, because independent voters simply refuse to believe what the Democrats are actually doing. In other words, it’s literally unbelievable:



I feel that way writing C&C sometimes. I think, they’re never going to believe this. Like this next story: Who on Earth would sue to put illegal aliens back on the voting rolls, and when they lose, appeal all the way to the Supreme Court? Crazy Democrats.

The viral story caused the school to issue a statement, announcing that they would “delay the visit” of the drag queen event for another time.

This event should not just be “delayed” but entirely canceled. Men pretending to be women who post sexually explicit pictures and promote 18+ drag events online should not be allowed near children.