Insider Blows the Whistle on Pediatric Gender Clinic

A former case manager at a Missouri pediatric transgender clinic is blowing the whistle on the “morally and medically appalling” treatment resulting in “permanent harm” done to children. 

Jamie Reed, a self-described “queer” leftist woman married to a transgender man, worked as a case manager handling intake of patients at the Pediatric Transgender Center at Washington University School of Medicine at St. Louis Children’s Hospital for more than four years. In an exposé for The Free Press, Reed confirmed all of the fears that have been raised in recent years about the fast-tracking of children into irreversible medical treatments.

“I left the clinic in November of last year because I could no longer participate in what was happening there,” said Reed. “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.”

Reed, a St. Louis native who describes herself as “politically to the Left of Bernie Sanders,” took a job at the Transgender Center in the summer of 2018, where she was a case manager responsible for patient intake and oversight. “Soon after my arrival at the Transgender Center, I was struck by the lack of formal protocols for treatment,” said Reed. “The center’s physician co-directors were essentially the sole authority.”