As I read “Report on St. Louis transgender center could propel measures limiting treatments” (Feb. 11), I thought that accusations from a progressive queer woman married to a trans man should be taken seriously and investigated. But then my doubts about the truthfulness and motivations of the whistleblower were confirmed by the company she keeps. Her attorneys are a Republican St. Louis County council member and a general counsel of the Child & Parental Rights Campaign, which says it exists to respond to a “radical new ideology” leading children to believe they could be “born in the wrong body.”
These are the attorneys she chooses if she supports transgender rights? Attorneys who appear to want to take away transgender rights? It makes me believe there are other motivations for blowing the whistle.
John Carlson • Edwardsville
The Republican response to allegations of abuse and medical neglect at Children’s Hospital’s Transgender Center (“Report on St. Louis transgender center could propel measures limiting treatments,” Feb. 11) reveals what I believe are the motives behind the probe. The fact that the Republican legislators’ response is to use the allegations to justify outlawing such therapy — instead of improving it — demonstrates that they consider any such therapy abusive. If they were truly interested in protecting this small and vulnerable population of children, they would be calling for oversight and...
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