Children's gender clinic whistleblower tells Dr Phil patients were begging 'to ... trends now
Bosses at one of America's most controversial gender clinics warned staff to stay quiet when distraught teenage girls returned begging to have their amputated breasts re-attached, its former case manager has claimed.
The Washington University Transgender Center in Missouri would prescribe irreversible gender changing drugs to children as young as 12 after seeing them just twice, according to the whistleblower who worked there for four years.
Jamie Reed, who is gay and married to a transgender person herself, told Dr Phil Primetime that classmates would arrive together demanding to transition as the fad swept through their schools.
'I saw a young person who was begging to have their breasts put back on after having surgery,' she told the program.
'We were encouraged not to make a big deal out of it and definitely not to tell other families. I couldn't continue to be silent on it.'
Former gender clinic case manager Jamie Reed said she saw young people begging to have their amputated body parts re-attached after sex-change surgery
Jamie Reed worked at The Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital between 2018 and November 2022
Missouri Governor Mike Parsons outlawed puberty blockers for under-18's in the state in response to Reed's revelations last year
Reed worked at the clinic in St Louis Children's Hospital between 2018 and 2022 and helped force a change in Missouri law when she blew the whistle on its 'morally and medically appalling' programs last year.
'There were very few written protocols or guidelines,' she revealed today.
'One of the providers even said 'we were flying the plane as we built it.
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'Doctors are acting like they're God when it comes to medically transitioning children.'
An internal investigation into the center in April last year found that 531 of the 1,165 children who sought help after 2018 received 'cross-sex hormones' and puberty blockers.
But Reed pointed out that hormone prescriptions can have irreversible and life-altering consequences, such as sterility.
'You're telling me that a 12- or 13-year-old, who can't decide which pajamas to wear, can come in and say, 'I've decided that I want to transition?' demanded Dr Phil.
'And with no more than two visits, not even a couple of hours, they say 'Okay, start taking this, start doing this,' which alters their biochemistry in a way that you can't come back from?'
'Correct,' Reed replied.
Sexual-reassignment operations, like this one in France, are fraught with difficulties. A complete head-to-toe package can cost more than $100,000 in the US
'The thing that kept
