Post by fearnot on Feb 13, 2023 20:49:26 GMT -5
Transgender Clinic Under Investigation
for Using Experimental Drugs on Kids,
Medicaid Fraud
whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble,
it is better for him that a heavy millstone be hung around his neck,
and that he be drowned in the depth of the sea
Matthew 18:6
The Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.
“We have received disturbing allegations
that individuals at the Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital
have been harming hundreds of children each year,
including by using experimental drugs on them,”
said Bailey, citing an affidavit from a former employee...
The whistleblower, Jamie Reed, describes herself as “a 42-year-old St. Louis native,
a queer woman, and politically to the left of Bernie Sanders.”
She says she is married to a woman who identifies as a male and affirms,
“I support trans rights.”
she left convinced the center’s actions are “morally and medically appalling” —
and is likely a systemic problem in the nation’s 100 pediatric gender clinics.
“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,’” she wrote.
Reed states the center provides outside psychiatrists with a “template” form letter attesting that a child identifies as transgender.
If the analyst will not sign it, the center uses in-house psychiatrists,
Dr. Dr. Alex Maixner and Dr. Sarah Girresch-Ward,
to confirm a child’s “gender dysphoria” after a one-to-two-hour consultation,
rather than a full 10-12 hour assessment.
The experimental nature of many of these drugs set children up for a lifetime of infertility,
early menopause, bone thinning, and —
contrary to their advertisements —
worsened mental health.
“I witnessed the Center cause permanent harm to many of the patients,” said Reed.
“I doubt that any parent who’s ever consented to give their kid testosterone (a lifelong treatment)
knows that they’re also possibly signing their kid up for blood pressure medication,
cholesterol medication, and perhaps sleep apnea and diabetes.”
She added “clinics like the one where I worked
are creating a whole cohort of kids with atypical genitals.”
The center’s actions often lead to lifelong regret,
Reed noted. A black teenager from a troubled family began receiving hormones
at the facility at age 16
and had a double mastectomy at age 18.
Three months later, she told the surgeon she would return to her birth gender, adding,
“I want my breasts back” and asked a surgeon to have them “put back on.” Reed wrote
( I have heard of other girls ask the same thing,
this is not the only time the girl did not understand that it is a permanent surgery!)
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