Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is investigating medications used to support gender transitions and related surgeries and whether those drugs could have played a role in Wednesday’s deadly church school shooting in Minneapolis.

“We are doing those kind of studies now,” said Kennedy in reference to medications taken by the shooter, Robin Westman, and the potential impact of the drugs on the male who transitioned to female and opened fire during the school’s first Mass of the academic year. Two students were pronounced dead at the scene, and 17 other victims are in varying states of recovery.

“We are launching studies into [the drugs’] potential contribution,” Kennedy told “Fox & Friends” on Thursday. Kennedy admitted he did not have data in hand verifying what drugs Westman may have been taking throughout the transition from male to female.

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