Olson-Kennedy Laboratory News

CHLA's Center for Transyouth Health and Development helped Avery find hope and a new beginning.

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Under the compassionate care of CHLA’s Jo Olson-Kennedy, gender-nonconforming and transgender kids emerge into themselves.

In a new editorial published in JAMA Pediatrics, Johanna Olson-Kennedy, MD, medical director of The Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles discusses

Dr. Johanna Olson and team have made a significant finding: transgender individuals have sex hormone levels consistent with the sex they were assigned at birth.