Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., reportedly has written to the National Institutes of Health chief to demand an investigation into whether an agency-funded study on the effects of puberty blockers is withholding its findings due to politics.

Rubio’s letter, to NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli, drew attention to a study by Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, the medical director of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, The Daily Signal reported.

Olson-Kennedy and her team recruited 95 children nationally and gave them puberty blockers, which staved off the permanent physical changes, such as periods, breast growth, voice-deepening and facial hair growth, that could exacerbate their gender distress, known as dysphoria, The New York Times reported last week.

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