Republicans demand answers from NIH director after 2 involved in transgender youth study ‘died by suicide’

House Republicans and Senators are asking the director of the NIH for answers following a transgender youth study during which two people died by suicide.

"During this study, two young people died by suicide and eleven reported suicidal ideation," the letter says. "Rather than shutting the study down after such serious adverse events, the researchers published their paper, concluding that the study was a success because cross-sex hormones had altered subjects’ physical appearance and improved psychosocial functioning."  Greg Norman is a reporter at Fox News Digital.

A summary published by the New England Journal of Medicine said, "Participants were enrolled in a four-site prospective, observational study of physical and psychosocial outcomes. "