A hospital case manager who denounced confused children who rushed into opposite-sex hormones has revealed how her queer friends have criticized her for speaking out.
Jamie Reed, who lifted the lid on the ‘appalling’ treatment of young patients at a trans clinic in St. Louis, Missouri, says she lost friends and was ostracized by an LGBTQ community she once belonged to.
The reason, he says, is his revelations that doctors at his former clinic rushed trans-identifying children into medication and surgery, despite any obvious mental health issues or evidence that they were driven. by peer pressure and social media.
I have lost friends. I know, I’ve upset a lot of people,’ he said on a podcast this week.
‘I’ve been completely, I guess the word is unauthorized.’
Reed, 42, a progressive, queer mother of five who is married to a trans man, said she was especially hurt by the backlash from PROMO, a Missouri LGBTQ group she used to volunteer with.
Jamie Reed (above left), 42, in a recorded podcast, revealed all about the online attacks he suffered from the LGBTQ community after lifting the lid on dubious care for Missouri’s trans children.
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“It amazes me that this group is one of the groups that is attacking me the most online,” Reed said.
In his shocking testimony to The Free Press last month, Reed said doctors at the Washington University transgender clinic at St. Louis Children’s Hospital were rushing kids who identified as transgender to puberty blockers and hormones. no safeguards.
She gradually realized that many patients were teenage girls with autism or other mental health problems who were caught up in a dangerous fad and may well regret their irreversible procedures, she said.
On the podcast, recorded by the Gender Dysphoria AllianceReed said it has become nearly impossible to question whether affirmation-on-demand is the only treatment option available to children who say they are trans.
‘You can’t have any kind of real open dialog about [whether] this is the correct medical path. Are we doing the right thing? Is there data to back it up? Are we potentially harming children?’ she said.
We can’t even ask those questions without being completely villainous.
Worse yet, says Reed, who describes herself as “politically to the left of Bernie Sanders,” is how people reacted to her testimony saying she was being “manipulated and co-opted by the right.”
“The truth lies in a really difficult middle ground,” he said.
“While I tried to figure out how to approach this in the most ethical way, the only people who would offer support, or even represent me, as lawyers, are those who have a different political affiliation.”
Reed dropped her explosive testimony as a legally binding affidavit, represented by attorney Vernadette Broyles, president and general counsel of the Child and Parental Rights Campaign, which is leading a series of lawsuits aimed at addressing radical gender ideology.
Robert Fischer, a spokesman for PROMO, the state’s largest LGBTQ nonprofit, declined to comment on any online posts critical of Reed, saying only “we focus on real issues affecting trans youth in Missouri.” “.
Reed was responsible for admitting patients at the hospital between 2018 and November 2022.
She took the job believing she was ‘saving’ trans kids, but became disillusioned with what she describes as a conveyor belt putting teens on puberty blockers and hormones after only cursory mental health checks.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey launched a multi-agency investigation into the clinic and this week unveiled an emergency rule to lengthen the time it takes for minors to access gender-affirming care.
The trans clinic at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, part of the University of Washington, has been at the center of controversy ever since former employee Jamie Reed denounced what was happening there.
Activist attorney Vernadette Broyles, founder of the Child and Parental Rights Campaign, is also leading the case against Florida school districts for helping children change genders without their parents’ knowledge.
After four years, she says she became convinced that the clinics were causing “permanent damage” to children and their families, who often barely understood the drugs they were prescribed or their side effects.
She cited examples of a 17-year-old girl’s birth canal being ‘ripped open’ during intercourse while taking testosterone to transition into a man, unaware that the drug would cause her to bleed profusely if she had intercourse.
After Reed’s explosive revelations were published, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey launched a multi-agency investigation into the clinic. This week he unveiled an emergency rule to lengthen the time it takes for minors to access gender-affirming care.
Under the rule, boys seeking puberty blockers and other trans care will have to complete an 18-month waiting period, 15-hour therapy sessions, and treatment for any mental health issues before Missouri doctors can approve them. an intervention.
Parents of children who have received care at the clinic have since come forward and said they were satisfied with the treatment offered, including the availability of therapists and psychiatrists.
Erin Reed, a prominent female-to-male trans activist, accused Reed of having a ‘clear ideological bias‘ and ignoring the many teens who see their ‘mental and physical health improve dramatically’ thanks to trans medicine.
Gender-affirming care, as it’s known, covers everything from puberty blockers to cross-sex hormones and, in rare cases for trans minors, surgery. Trans activists, big US medical groups and the Biden administration say it can save lives among a suicide-prone group.
Opponents of trans ideology say sex is determined at birth and cannot be changed, medical groups have been hijacked by trans activists, and politicians must step in and stop parents, doctors, or therapists from permanently harming children. .
Many are alarmed by the sharp increase in teens with autism and other mental health problems seeking gender-change drugs in recent years, and by new studies linking puberty blockers to weaker bones and osteoporosis.
Trans rights activist Erin Reed (left), who accuses Jamie Reed of overlooking trans success stories, with Zooey Zephyr, trans representative for Montana House District 100, in the White House.