New whistleblower reports are further confirming that the current “affirmative” approach to treating transgender-identifying youth can be disastrous. In light of numerous scandals abroad, Canada should investigate its own practices and proactively implement stronger guardrails that protect confused children from irreversible harm.
Notably, whistleblowers are increasingly coming from a leftist or politically neutral background, which repudiates the narrative that this issue is simply conservative fear-mongering.
Earlier this month, Jamie Reed, a former staffer of a Washington-based transgender clinic for youth, wrote a scathing exposé alleging that vulnerable patients were being permanently harmed by a “morally and medically appalling” system.
Reed began her article by stating that she is a queer woman who identifies with the far left and is married to a transman. When she first began working at the aforementioned clinic in 2018, she was driven by an earnest desire to protect trans youth and save trans lives.
Over the next four years, her experiences as a case manager were so unsettling that she felt compelled to quit last November. According to Reed, many patients had deeply concerning mental health problems, such as depression, eating disorders, ADHD and schizophrenia. A significant portion had also been diagnosed with autism or had symptoms of autism.
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