The office of the Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced a multi-agency investigation into a St. Louis medical facility that focuses on caring for transgender children and teens on Friday.
Jamie Reed says she worked as a case manager at the Washington University Pediatric Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital between 2018 and 2022.
This week she made public allegations her former employer is providing substandard care. Additionally, she submitted a 23-page affidavit to the attorney general’s office outlining her concerns.
She's written The Center misleads the public and parents about the care it provides. Despite assertions psychiatry and psychology were among the four central practices at the center, she said they were, in fact rarely available. And there was an institutional failure to provide continuing or ongoing mental health evaluation or treatment for patients.
“Nearly all children who came to the Center here presented with very serious mental health problems [] the Center would not treat these mental health issue,” her affidavit stated.
She also asserts patients are almost always prescribed puberty blocking drugs or cross sex hormones.
“In more than four years working at the clinic, I witnessed only two examples of the doctors deciding not to prescribe cross-sex hormones or puberty blockers for a child”
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