Jamie Reed is “a queer woman, and politically to the left of Bernie Sanders.” She’s “married to a transman” with whom she is raising her “two biological … and three foster children.” In November, she left her job as a case manager at the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.
Yesterday, Reed published her story of how she went from advocate to whistleblower in the online publication The Free Press, in a piece titled, “I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle.”
The center’s working assumption was that the earlier you treat kids with gender dysphoria, the more anguish you can prevent later on. This premise was shared by the center’s doctors and therapists. Given their expertise, I assumed that abundant evidence backed this consensus.
During the four years I worked at the clinic as a case manager … around a thousand distressed young people came through our doors. The majority of them received hormone prescriptions that can have life-altering consequences—including sterility.
I left the clinic in November of last year. … By the time I departed, I was certain that the way the American medical system is treating these patients is the opposite of the promise we make to “do no harm.” Instead, we are permanently harming the vulnerable patients in our care.
Today I am speaking out. I am doing so knowing how toxic the public conversation is around this highly contentious issue—and the ways that my testimony might be misused....
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