ST. LOUIS — The whistleblower who accused a transgender clinic of harming its young patients is standing firm in her claims of medical negligence after an internal review by Washington University found them to be unsubstantiated.
In a pair of statements on April 22, ex-employee Jamie Reed’s legal team called the oversight committee’s summary of conclusions, released the day before, “little more than the expected self-serving finding.”
Reed, a former case manager, put the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital in the hot seat in early February with a first-person narrative in The Free Press, an online publication.
In it, she claimed that families were rushed to treatment, mental health issues were ignored and side effects of hormone therapy glossed over. Reed expanded on the allegations in a sworn affidavit provided to Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, who began an investigation. Sen. Josh Hawley also launched an inquiry. Washington University said it has provided documents to both politicians.
The statements from Reed’s lawyers, Ernie Trakas and Vernadette Broyles, cast doubt on the university’s accounting of how many people have sought treatment at the clinic. The university noted that, since June 2018, medical records have been started for 1,165 patients.
Reed’s lawyers say she has kept data that shows that more patient charts — 1,315 — were created in a time period about half as long as the one WU reported. Reed declined to...
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