Judicial Watch has received thousands of pages of records in a California Public Records Act lawsuit on behalf of The Daily Caller News Foundation that show top doctors in the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) gave puberty blockers to children as young as age nine.

Judicial Watch obtained the records as the result of a 2023 lawsuit for information about UCSF’s transgender program’s targeting of children.

Recently, an email chain between The New York Times reporters, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), and National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials with the subject line “Final Qs on Trans Youth Care study” details discussion regarding a multi-site study on “the use of puberty blockers on transgender adolescents” and whether an eight-year-old developed “significant osteopenia:”

The story includes some information related to the big N.I.H. multi-site study on blockers and hormone treatment. It says: in a 2014 funding proposal to the National Institutes of Health, four prominent American gender clinics pointed out that the United States had never produced data on the physiological and mental health impact, safety and tolerability of the drugs, particularly among transgender patients under 12, leaving a “gap in evidence for this practice.”

EXCLUSIVE: Docs Knew Gender Science Was ‘Shoddy,’ But Pushed Chemical Sex Changes On Kids Anyway https://t.co/XuQ9pAYH8O via @dailycaller and @JudicialWatch

— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) October 8, 2025

Awarded nearly 8 million dollars to examine the effects of blockers and sex hormones, the investigators have yet to report on key outcomes of treatment.

The documents reveal that hormonal drugs were administered to minors on numerous occasions.

„Within the CSH cohort, 311 participants have been enrolled across all study sites. Participants range in age from 11 to 20 years old, with a mean age of 16 +/- 1.9 years. Participants aged 13 and older made up 98% of the CSH cohort. The single 11-year-old who enrolled in the study was receiving cross-sex hormones in order to support bone health due to significant osteopenia,”

– the study shows.

“Normal people know that introducing permanent sex changes for nine-year-olds is sick. That’s why these people tried so hard to hide the information. Thanks to our partners at Judicial Watch, Americans can finally see what they were up to. People deserve the truth,”

– said Neil Patel, chairman of the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“There is something rotten in the state of California: UCSF and LA Children’s Hospital were conducting transgender drug and surgical experiments on little children – and trying to cover it up,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

BREAKING: Judicial Watch received 2,491 pages of records in a California Public Records Act lawsuit on behalf of @DailyCaller that show top doctors in University of California San Francisco gave puberty blockers to children as young as age nine (1/3).https://t.co/70Cip4aIs7

— Judicial Watch ⚖️ (@JudicialWatch) October 1, 2025