NIH Is Funding a Study on the 'Benefits' of Puberty Blockers

Part 1 investigated the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL)'s taxpayer-funded program pumping out "transgender"-identifying kids by the dozen. Part 2 exposed SMYAL's partnership with the gender clinic at Children's National Hospital, offering an unfiltered glimpse behind the curtain of childhood "gender transitioning." This third and final installment of Townhall's investigation encapsulates how this is not an isolated incident; it's a microcosm of LGBTQ indoctrination efforts happening elsewhere across America.

A federally funded research project is actively recruiting "transgender" children to study the "mental health benefits" of puberty blockers, as part of a nationwide push to reshape public policy on pediatric "gender care."

Three major U.S. children's hospitals, which all house gender clinics, are co-conducting this clinical study: Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio; Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago, Illinois; and Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C.

Since 2021, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), an agency of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has pumped over $3 million into the multi-site, longitudinal study, which was recently renewed for the 2024 fiscal year, per a repository of NIH-funded portfolios reviewed by Townhall.