Whistleblower Jamie Reed's claims that a pediatric gender clinic in St. Louis is "permanently harming" children by rushing to prescribe puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones has been met with pushback from a former co-worker and previous patients at the clinic.
Reed, a former case manager at Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital from 2018 to November 2022, stated in a sworn affidavit last month that she witnessed healthcare providers lying to parents about the side effects of taking drugs to transition. She also alleged that the clinic did not track the adverse outcomes patients experienced after leaving the center and that it initiated medical transitions for more than 600 kids from 2020 to 2022.
In response, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced a probe into Reed's allegations that the clinic pushed medical interventions on children, sometimes without their parents' consent. He even requested a moratorium on the clinic's transition services, but the clinic continues to provide services.
Jess Jones, who worked alongside Reed for two years while employed as the center's educational coordinator until 2020, argued that parents with children expressing a desire to transition had raised "red flags" about Reed.
"So I really wish the center had listened to trans people," Jones told The Missouri Independent. "We said: 'This is a person who isn't safe for us.'"
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