Missouri families are pushing back against a whistleblower’s allegations of “morally and medically appalling” care at a St. Louis clinic that treats transgender youth.
Jamie Reed, 42, wrote a first-person essay in The Free Press about working at the The Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, accusing the center and its practitioners of ignoring children’s mental health issues and only focusing on treating gender dysphoria.
In the piece, titled “I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle,” Reed claims that transgender children were hurried into medical treatment without understanding side effects or long-term outcomes.
But patients at the clinic and their parents say the allegations by Reed, who was a case manager at the clinic and does not have a medical degree, don’t align with their experiences, according to two reports published Wednesday.
“The idea that nobody got information, that everybody was pushed toward treatment, is just not true. It’s devastating,” Kim Hutton, whose son was a patient at the center, told the St. Louis Dispatch. “I’m baffled by it.”
Almost two dozen parents of children who went to the clinic spoke to the Dispatch and challenged Reed’s assertions.
The parents said despite working at the center, Reed had no medical or managerial role and wasn’t in appointments where doctors saw patients.
They said Reed’s role was restricted to making appointments, doing patient intake and informing families...
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