One of the most important news articles of this year was just published; not in the mainstream press, but in Bari Weiss’s publication, The Free Press.
Weiss resigned from The New York Times in 2020, and The Free Press is her attempt to publish the stories that the Times once would have published because of their quality, but will not publish now because of politics. The explosive article by Jamie Reed is an example.
Until her resignation a few months ago, Reed, who describes herself as a “42-year-old St. Louis native, a queer woman, and politically to the left of Bernie Sanders,” had been working at the Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. In a lengthy exposé, she alleges that instead of “First, do no harm,” the center instead rushed to do harm to children suffering from gender dysphoria.
Reed says there were no evidence-based protocols upon which treatment was based. Rather, the practice was to fast-track the children — the overwhelming majority of whom were girls — into hormone treatment:
“To begin transitioning, the girls needed a letter of support from a therapist — usually one we recommended — who they had to see only once or twice for the green light. To make it more efficient for the therapists, we offered them a template for how to write a letter in support of transition. The next stop was a single visit to the...
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