House Republicans began an investigation Monday regarding the attempts of a youth transgender medicine physician to suppress the results from a federally funded study on puberty blockers’ mental health effects due to political reasons.

Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, medical director for the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, claimed that she had been delaying the publication of the study’s results funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) because she feared they would be used by critics of minors’ transgender medicine.

Chairwoman of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Healthcare and Financial Services Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., sent a letter to NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli regarding the status of the study, which was conducted with a $9.7 million NIH grant, according to the Washington Examiner.

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