A whistleblower’s accusations about a Missouri transgender clinic have resulted in state and federal investigations into its practices.
Jamie Reed, a former case manager at the Pediatric Transgender Center at Washington University in St. Louis, told Missouri’s attorney general about “unethical and appalling practices” and wrote a first-person account of what she saw in The Free Press, an online newspaper.
The op-ed was headlined: “I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle.”
Reed described herself personally as a “queer woman married to a trans man” and politically as being “to the left of Bernie Sanders.” She worked at the clinic from 2018-2022 and alleged “vulnerable patients” were harmed because of a few protocols for treatment.
“I left the clinic in November of last year because I could no longer participate in what was happening there,” Reed wrote in the op-ed.
“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,” Reed continued.
“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. I am doing so knowing that I am putting myself at serious personal and professional risk.”
Reed wrote that patients falsely claimed they were suffering from disorders, including multiple personalities. Part of Reed’s job was patient intake and admissions.
“The doctors privately recognized these false self-diagnoses as a manifestation of social contagion,” Reed wrote.
“They even acknowledged that suicide has an element of social contagion. But when I said the clusters of girls streaming into our service looked as if their gender issues might be a manifestation of social contagion, the doctors said gender identity reflected something innate.”
She continued to explain that in order to start the transition process, “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 endocrinologist for a testosterone prescription.”
In an affidavit filed by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, Reed attests that she witnessed healthcare providers lying to parents and patients about treatments. The hospital does not require children to continue with mental healthcare, Reed alleged, after the prescription of transgender hormones.
“I have seen puberty blockers worsen the mental health outcomes of children,” she said. “Children who have not contemplated suicide before being put on puberty blockers have attempted suicide after.”
The 42-year-old Reed also wrote in her op-ed that young people seeking care understood little about the consequences.
“The center downplayed the negative consequences, and emphasized the need for transition,” Reed wrote, pointing to the unsubstantiated claim made by the center that, as its website said, “[l]eft untreated, gender dysphoria has any number of consequences, from self-harm to suicide” and “by allowing a child to be who he or she is, we’re noticing that goes away.”
The center’s website goes on to assert, as Reed pointed out in her op-ed, that “studies we have show these kids often wind up functioning psychosocially as well as or better than their peers,” yet she says this is false.
Instead, the empirical evidence at the center suggests the opposite is true, according to Reed.
Reed’s account prompted U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) to open an investigation.
“Starting immediately, your institutions must take steps to preserve all records, written and electronic, regarding gender-related treatments performed on minors since the opening of the Center,” Hawley wrote to Washington University Chancellor Andrew D. Martin, St. Louis Children’s Hospital President Trish M. Lollo, and Christopher Lewis and Sarah Garwood, co-directors of the hospital’s transgender center.
“Additional oversight inquiries and outreach will follow.”
In his letter, Hawley’s office requested the number of minors treated at the transgender center who have returned to identifying with their birth sex. It also asked for sources of funding the center receives for gender treatment.
Washington University released a statement after the op-ed and Hawley’s letter:
“We are alarmed by the allegations reported in the article published by The Free Press describing practices and behaviors the author says she witnessed while employed at the university’s Transgender Center,” the statement said.
“We are taking this matter very seriously and have already begun the process of looking into the situation to ascertain the facts.”
Missouri Attorney General Bailey, a Republican, said his office started an investigation last month after Reed made her accusations in the aforementioned sworn affidavit.
“We take this evidence seriously and are thoroughly investigating to make sure children are not harmed by individuals who may be more concerned with a radical social agenda than the health of children,” Bailey said in a statement.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch asked the board president of TransParent, a national advocacy group based in St. Louis, about the accusations. Susan Halla said they were a shock.
“This is not at all my experience and not the experience of my peers,” Halla told the Post-Dispatch. “We all know this person. We are heartbroken and blindsided about where this is coming from.”
Just like many doctors that Embraced the false Covid narrative that was regurgitated by the CDC and the left these so-called doctors that treat the transgender phenomenon will eventually be called on the carpet and Sued in court and put in Prison. You have been Warned!
What false narrative? Over 1 million people died from COVID. Our hospitals were full and we ran out of ventilators.
People died from other conditions concurrently with COVID. The death rates were not radically different over time than previous years, hospitals are always full, and ventilator shortage was also manipulated. That’s why we call it a false narrative! Your information came from the media, which perpetuated a false narrative.
Refuting the very things that we are false with them is a hollow argument. Use your own senses, judgement and analysis instead of blindly believing the media!
Not true. I worked for a large hospital network. I was there. I didn’t watch the media. Nice try though.
Because safe and effective early intervention therapies were denied the American people. Most of the people in America who died from Covid didn’t have to. Plus, the government required that anyone who died WITH Covid, not OF, was counted as a Covid death to falsely run up the numbers. This kept people scared. Tyrants know well that the more frightened people are, the easier they are to control. Don’t believe the reports about bodies kept in refrigerated trailers, presumably because there was no room for them at the funeral homes. The truth is that the funeral homes refused to take them for fear of getting sick themselves. The media was CAUGHT red handed using manikins in ICUs to make them LOOK full. The whole thing was a hoax.
Again, I worked for a large chain of hospitals. I saw it with my own eyes. Nice try.
Do you REALLY believe that garbage? Then watch out for that EVIL tooth fairy, and that WICKED Santa!
We never at any point ran out of ventilators, hospitals were not full and backup hospitals were never used. Far more people died from Covid in 2021 than in 2020, when you are claiming these crisises took place.
Again, untrue. See above. Our hospitals ran out of vents. True story. Patients died. I was there.
Hospitals run close to capacity. Just like any other business they have have have enough intake to cover the operating costs + % profit. Personally my wife’s friend was killed in a car accident. She died with covid. Death certificate says covid as cause of the death. I know it was a serious disease for some including the elderly. Wife was in hospital for a week on oxygen. I had 3 days of fever and felt like crap. The economic shutdown was a horrible idea. Life is risk. We each evaluate it in our own way. We do this everyday and there’s no reason we shouldn’t have been able to do it during covid.
Again, untrue. See above.
Not nearly so many. The truth is starting to come out now. Only about 25% of the “covid” deaths were actually from Covid. The rest died of something else but had Covid when they died. They were listed as Covid deaths because the hospitals were getting $37,500 per covid death.
Again, untrue. See above.
My bosses dad died of a brain aneurysm, he had been unwell since before covid. When he died they listed the number one reason as covid and that is not why he died. I know many more with the same circumstances. And leadership came out and said it and everyone ignored it. There’s video evidence.
Big FOOL!
These “medical procedures” that are being preformed on our children are not even remotely based on any scientific studies. Its a way for corporate medicine to grab millions of dollars on the backs of children who have these life-destroying procedures preformed behind their parents backs.
The entire American Medical Association is also on board with these procedures and wholeheartedly agree with this Transgender quackery.
Another aspect behind this transgender phenomenon is the Chinese based site Tiktok that promotes these kinds of procedures on their site and our children are seeing hundreds if not thousands of videos a week promoting these sex changing procedures.
Our senile president and his party support and promote these procedures under the false pretenses of care and concern for a group people that 10 years ago practically didn’t exist.
The real question should be is what made this happen, why now, the first time in the history of the human race are children wanting and are being conjured to change their sex, which is actually medically impossible.
I think you’ll find the answer in our corruption colleges and medical schools and on the evil and disgusting site tiktok.
That was a long nonsensical post. Hit that meth pipe a little longer than usual.
So exactly how many gender reassignment procedures are being performed on children under the age of 18 that it has created a money grab situation? Lol. The answer is zero.
And you really think TikTok is responsible?
You are the problem with this country. Stop trying to drag us into the dark ages.
Stop hurting our children.
Why would an intake specialist be involved in patient care? Just curious how this person had intimate knowledge of what was going on in the rooms, of treatment plans or what was said? An intake specialist generally only requires a high school diploma or GED, FYI.
It’s not the doctor’s responsibility to explain patient treatment to someone not involved in a patient’s treatment. It could actually be considered a HIPAA violation. Just saying.
Bill it’s sad people like you are so misled. So your wiew is this person is not educated enough to comment? Typical view of the left. We plebes are not smart enough to oversee our children. watch the you tube video of matt walsh last week testifying in front of Congress and asked about his education level. He puts the clowns in their place, and in effect you too.
First, I’m not a “leftist.” I know that’s hard for your to understand wing that you only see things through a polarized lens.
If you knew, even a little something, which you don’t, you would know that an intake specialist is not involved in patient care and would not know what the course of care is for a specific patient. It would be a violation of HIPAA if they started reading people’s charts.
So I guess I just put a clown like you in your place. Thanks for the “education”.
I love cucks that sit in their mom’s basement and not get laid.
Have fun continuing to be less intelligent than me. 🙂
First, I’m not a “leftist.” I know that’s hard for your to understand wing that you only see things through a polarized lens.
If you knew, even a little something, which you don’t, you would know that an intake specialist is not involved in patient care and would not know what the course of care is for a specific patient. It would be a violation of HIPAA if they started reading people’s charts.
So I guess I just put a clown like you in your place. Thanks for the “education.”
This doesn’t have to do with education or a political leaning. An intake specialist is not involved in patient care. They would mot be privy to that information unless they started reading patient charts which would be a violation of HIPAA. A doctor would never discuss patient care with the person that essentially sits at the front desk.
Thanks for the “education.”
Story headline should read “hyperbole.”
…and “moral panic”.
And let’s take note that your comment was not disliked. Likely because the DE readership doesn’t know what hyperbole means. Well played.
Most people are nothing but conformists. Now it’s gotten dangerous to children. Put an idea in people’s heads and they jump on the bandwagon like mindless morons. Tattoos and piercings are a perfect example. I had a friend from Germany walk up to my desk and say, “I’m thinking about getting pierced. Where do you think I should put it?”. I said, ” Don’t they sometimes put it at the edge of your eyebrow? ” She said, “So you think I should get one there?” I said, ” Sure. Then people can see you have another hole in your head”. She came back, “Oh *****!” (my name). I said, ” Well, you know better than to ask me that”. It’s idiotic to follow the crowd. Most people don’t have a clue. And the dems are banking on it.
Sure these doctors are “woke” idiots, but more than anything, it’s the almighty dollar. I’m sure they’re making tons of money destroying children’s lives. Same ones killing babies at 8 months or letting them die after a failed abortion. They probably tormented animals as children.
Oh, Pap Smear. Don’t you tire form these far-fetched slippery slope arguments?
And that “friend” you mention is really a co-worker. We know you don’t have any friends.
Plus, it’s not like piercings are new. Eyebrow piercings really became a trend in the 90’s. Let’s not confirm to 30 years ago! Lol.
“Jump on the bandwagon like mindless morons”? Not nice to speak about MAGA (Make America Gross Again) supporters that way.
the only doctors there should be at a “transgender clinic” are psychologists. That’s the plain and simple truth. You don’t do anybody any favors by supporting the lie and fantasy they’re living in.
I’m sure you meant psychiatrists.
I like seeing people comment on stories in a civil dialogue. It is important in that we gain insights from different people’s perspectives.
Michelle Obama is really a man.
STOP disfiguring our children and STOP filling their head with such sinfulness!! You will answer to your own maker!! 😢
Hey, DE cucks. Post my comments!
Finally!