SW News: Missouri lawmakers have launched at least two formal investigations into the St. Louis children's transgender clinic after a whistleblower disclosed on Thursday that she witnessed doctors provide puberty-blocking drugs to minors without parental consent.
Former employee Jamie Reed of the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital said in a blog post dated February 10 that she left the company in November 2022 because she thought it was "permanently harming the fragile youngsters in our care."
While this was going on, Washington University in St. Louis released the following statement: "We are alarmed by the allegations reported in the article published by The Free Press describing practices and behaviors the author claims she witnessed while employed at the university's transgender center." Furthermore, they noted that they were treating the problem seriously and had already started their investigation to gather information.
In the four years Reed worked at the clinic, she witnessed a notably larger number of young girls who wanted to "transition," or turn into men, according to Reed's blog post on thefp.com.
After arriving at the Transgender Center, she was surprised to find that there were no clear treatment guidelines in place and that the center's medical co-directors held almost all the power.
In her blog, Reed claimed that all the hospital needed to start the gender change process was a note from a therapist. It was obvious from the adverse effects of the medications they were taking that the transitioning teens were unaware of how dramatically their bodies would change.
According to Reed, one physician was giving patients the anti-cancer drug bicalutamide, which is known to induce liver damage. She also pointed out that "there are no defined standards of care for taking this medicine for gender transitions" since there has been no clinical research on its use for that purpose.  Reuters reported the number of gender clinics that treat young people in the US has increased from zero to more than 100 in the last 15 years.