Jamie Reed didn’t want to speak up. After all, she understood the possible career ramifications for exposing the malpractice at the pediatric “transgender” clinic for which she once worked. She also knew that what gave her revelations added credibility wouldn’t protect her. To wit: Reed describes herself as a “queer,” 42-year-old woman who’s “married” to a “transman” (a female masquerading as male). But she finally felt compelled to blow the whistle because her former employer’s medical practices are, as she puts it, “morally and medically appalling.”
In fact, the doctors at the Washington University Transgender Center (WUTC) at St. Louis Children’s Hospital tacitly acknowledged that they were experimenting on kids, even as they admonished Reed to cease questioning the “medicine and the science.” As those physicians put it, frequently, “We are building the plane while we are flying it.”