BALTIMORE (TND) — A transgender health group tried to prevent researchers from publishing a study showing little evidence supporting gender transition procedures for children, according to documents acquired by Do No Harm (DNH).

In 2020, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) commissioned researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Maryland to execute “systematic reviews on the evidence supporting ‘gender affirming’ care,” DNH wrote via X. Those researchers allegedly found “little to no evidence about children and adolescents.”

Emails acquired by DNH show a Johns Hopkins researcher say WPATH later fought the release of the study, which contradicted its Standards of Care Version 8.

“I have been distracted and I am not sure what we will end up publishing in a timely manner as we have been having issues with this sponsor trying to restrict our ability to publish,” the researcher wrote. “This is not because the review questions were different but we found little to no evidence about children and adolescents.”“Oh wow, sorry to hear about the issues with the sponsor,” another replied. “Knowing there is little/no evidence about adolescents is helpful.”

Johns Hopkins did not respond to repeated requests for comment from The National Desk (TND) on the matter. TND also reached out to WPATH for comment, but has not received a response. This story will be updated if responses from either are received.

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"This is an outrageous rejection of good science and good medicine," Do No Harm board chairman Stanley Goldfarb said. "The case for so-called gender affirming care grows weaker by the day."

Gender transition procedures for minors have become a major topic of debate in the U.S. A 14-year-old staying in Wyoming for gender transitioning treatment in February was allegedly relocated to Canada without their parents’ consent.

“Our public defenders have just kind of told us to ‘be quiet, keep your head down, play nice and let your daughter finish this program,’” the child’s parents told TND at the time. “When it started to become clear that wasn’t what was happening and we spoke out, custody of our daughter was taken from us at that point.”

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