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<\/source><\/picture>One of California\u2019s largest school districts reportedly offered financial rewards to teachers who attended a webinar with advocates who encourage children with gender dysphoria to receive cross-sex hormones or undergo body-altering surgeries.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Unified School District invited teachers to attend a webinar last week titled \u201cThe Wellbeing of Sexual and Gender Diverse Girls\u201d in exchange for three Continuing Education credits and hours to use towards salary points, The Daily Wire reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Los Angeles Unified School District did not immediately respond to The Christian Post\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n The webinar featured Aydin Olson-Kennedy, a female licensed clinical social worker who identifies as a man, and her spouse, Johanna Olson-Kennedy.\u00a0<\/p>\n Johanna Olson-Kennedy is the medical director of The Center for Transyouth Health<\/a> at the Children\u2019s Hospital Los Angeles, and she has been providing cross-sex hormones and other medical interventions to trans-identified youth and adults for 16 years. She is also a member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, an organization that promotes \u201ctransgender health\u201d to its professional and student members.\u00a0<\/p>\n The couple presented alongside one of the school district\u2019s diversity officers during the webinar. While the content of the webinar is unclear, the couple\u2019s advocacy work is available to the public.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to an archived\u00a0GenderTrender<\/a> post from August 2015, Aydin Olson-Kennedy requested members of the trans community donate funds for a double mastectomy procedure for a child with Down syndrome in a hospital\u2019s intensive care unit. The child, named Sky, could not read or write on her own, so her mother had to write the fundraising requests for her.<\/p>\n The report also shared a screenshot of a 2015 commercial disclosure that showed Aydin Olson-Kennedy and her wife have ties to Endo International Pharmaceutical, which markets the types of hormones they reportedly provide to trans-identifying individuals, including minors.<\/p>\n Johanna Olson-Kennedy is the co-author of a study<\/a> facilitated by the National Institutes of Health and published by The New England Journal of Medicine in January. The study examined the psychosocial outcomes of experimental sex hormones on 315 youths after two years. The participant\u2019s ages ranged from 12 to 20, and the youth identified as trans or nonbinary.<\/p>\n As journalist Brandon Showalter wrote in a February\u00a0CP<\/a> op-ed, two participants committed suicide, which the study documented as \u201cadverse events.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Showalter also highlighted a progress report<\/a>\u00a0detailing a 5-year NIH\u00a0grant<\/a>, which was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. The NIH awarded a $5.7 million grant, which started in 2015, to study \u201cthe impact of early medical treatment in transgender youth.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe unearthed report revealed that mid-way through this study, Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, one of the grant\u2019s awardees, lowered the age for the cross-sex hormone cohort inclusion criteria from 13 years old to 8,\u201d Showalter wrote.<\/p>\n In a\u00a0video<\/a> published in March 2019 on YouTube, Johanna Olson-Kennedy is heard discussing how some teen girls with gender dysphoria undergo surgery to remove their breasts. The video was reportedly recorded at the “Professional Symposium” convened by the “Gender Spectrum” in July 2018. In the recording, she suggests that girls who later regret undergoing a double mastectomy can simply obtain breast implants.\u00a0<\/p>\n The invitation for teachers to attend the webinar featuring the pair of advocates is not the first time LAUSD has received attention for encouraging its teachers to promote LGBT issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n Last July, Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the conservative think tank Manhattan Institute,\u00a0shared<\/a> documents he obtained from the school district’s Human Relations, Diversity, and Equity Department on X, formerly known as Twitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Los Angeles Unified School District encourages kindergartners to experiment with non-binary pronouns, trains teachers to subvert ‘mainstream white cis-heteropatriarchy society,’ and promotes sexual identities such as ‘trans,’ ‘pansexual,’ ‘two-spirit,’ and ‘genderqueer,'” Rufo tweeted.\u00a0<\/p>\n Other documents included a “Queer and Trans-Affirming School Calendar” titled “Queer All School Year.”<\/p>\n Samantha Kamman is a reporter for The Christian Post. She can be reached at:\u00a0samantha.kamman@christianpost.com<\/a>. Follow her on Twitter:\u00a0@Samantha_Kamman<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Join thousands of others to get the FREEDOM POST<\/strong> newsletter for free, sent twice a week from The Christian Post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nFree<\/span> Religious Freedom Updates<\/h2>\n