In a recent announcement from the Missouri Attorney General, Andrew Bailey, a multiagency investigation was launched into the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital because numerous employee’s alleged doctors prescribed experimental cross-sex drugs with irreversible consequences on children without having the proper psychiatric consultations for the drugs.
According to a former case manager at the center, Jamie Reed, she told the attorney general in a sworn affidavit that doctors at the clinic would rush children into the procedures with very limited psychiatric evaluation and even disregarded the parents wishes regarding their own children. The initial investigation began in January after Reed came forward and made the announcement to the public on Thursday.
“As Attorney General, I want Missouri to be the safest state in the nation for children,” the attorney general said in a press release. “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. We take this evidence seriously and are thoroughly investigating to make sure children are not harmed by individuals who may be more concerned with a radical social agenda than the health of children.”
The drugs that were prescribed can have irreversible consequences such as infertility, lacerations of the vagina, liver toxicity, pain resulting from an enlarged clitoris. Reed alleges that because the doctors would rush the procedures, the parents weren’t properly informed of the severe risks associated with the drugs.
According to Reed, the doctors at the clinic thought they knew better than the parents. In Missouri, only one parent’s permission is required for a medical transition and the doctors would often side with the parent who favored the procedure.
The acting director of the state’s Department of Social Services, Robert Knodell, has pledged to take “any necessary action” against those involved. “The Department of Social Services takes its role to investigate concerns of potential fraud, waste, or abuse in Missouri’s Medicaid program seriously. We will investigate concerns raised in order to ensure the health and safety of our Medicaid participants and to protect the integrity of the Medicaid program.”