From 2018 to November 2022, Reed worked as a case manager at the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital in Missouri, where she handled patient intake for transgender youth. In this role, she observed the clinic’s operations, which involved prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to adolescents. In 2023, she blew the whistle on her employer.

In 2023, she authored a 23-page affidavit and an essay published by The Free Press, accusing the clinic of rushing minors onto irreversible medical interventions without adequate mental health screenings. Key allegations included:Doctors downplaying co-occurring conditions like depression, anxiety, autism, or peer pressure/social media influences in favor of gender dysphoria diagnoses.

• Prescribing hormones (e.g., testosterone) after minimal consultations, sometimes on the first visit, with only one parent’s consent required.
• Patients experiencing severe side effects, such as deformed genitalia, rectal bleeding, bone density loss, and infertility, with little follow-up care.
• A high rate of “detransitioners” who later regretted treatments, including one patient who attempted suicide after realizing the changes were not reversible.

What follows is a transcription of her recent video statement:

My name is Jamie Reed, and I hold a Master’s of Science in Clinical Research Management from Washington University in St Louis. I am also a lifelong Democrat, a mom of five boys, three of whom were adopted out of the foster care system. And I’m a lesbian. I am also the public whistleblower from inside a pediatric Gender Center.

I participated in transitioning nearly 1500 unique patients who ranged in age from three to 26 now I understand I participated in an industry that was based on fraud, deception, and in layman’s terms, we were running a racket. Patients were treated using unethical and deceptive informed consent practices. They were minor patients. They had significantly presenting comorbidities, some even meeting the criteria for a legal medical disability, the entire diagnosis is based on regressive stereotypes and self described feelings. For an assessment to be diagnostic, there must be a statistically significant number of patients who will not meet the diagnostic criteria, parents and the public have been deceived into believing that these assessments are diagnostic, that they’re consistent, that they’re comprehensive, and that no child is ever receiving treatment without one.

But even if this field was completing a true biopsychosocial assessment and saying no to a significant percentage of the patient population, those who would be told yes would be homosexuals, and especially the gender non-conforming homosexuals. We would still be okay to be rendered sterile, without sexual function, with destroyed endocrine systems, and be allowed to die early simply because we are gender non conforming homosexuals.

One of my patients, after her radical bilateral mastectomy at 19 called begging for her breath to be put back on. Another patient’s intellectual function was so impaired that they could not identify to me where they lived or explain what type of identification they possessed. This patient even stated that they desired to have biological children, yet they were prescribed a treatment that would ultimately render them sterile for life.

We as clinicians in the gender industry openly stated it does not matter if patients even had gender dysphoria. If a patient said they were trans, then they were trans. Parents were unaware that patients were self diagnosing, that clinicians had completely abandoned the diagnostic process entirely.

Parents who didn’t agree with our lives were isolated, abandoned by our centers. And we tore children apart from caring parents who told us no.

Imagine if children went in self-declaring that they had a malignant cancer, if that child demanded to go through chemotherapy and surgery, that the clinicians would comply. This is precisely what we were doing in the Gender Center. What finally led me to speak up is that we significantly harmed our patients. We didn’t just deceive them or their parents. I hurt the very children I was employed to protect.

Reed now serves as executive director of the LGBT Courage Coalition, a nonprofit advocating for improved standards in youth gender medicine, emphasizing mental health support and caution with interventions.

In this next video, Erin Friday lays out the economics of gender medicine, including the fact that puberty blockers, which cause irreversible damage to the reproductive system, are “handed out like candy.”

Erin Friday:

The number of kids being placed on puberty blockers is increasing at an unprecedented rate. These figures here don’t include Kaiser Permanente. They are a giant in the trans industry. I think a reasonable estimate is that in 2024 the number of kids placed on puberty blockers is close to 4000 new patients, especially in light of the admission by director of Boston Children’s, Dr Jeremy Carswell, that puberty blockers are being handed out like candy, which, in her mind, is great.

This, despite her own acknowledgement that puberty blockers are not reversible. Puberty blockers are profitable. Their drug Lupron by advi costs around $27,000 for a six month supply. A six month supply of Supprelin implant by Endo Pharmaceuticals can cost $210,000

UCSF is a leader in altering children’s sex traits. Its pediatric clinic was founded and is led by Madeline Deutsch, who also serves as president of us path, Dr Diane Aaron Saf, who also works at UCSF, teaches that two year old boys who unbutton their onesies are communicating that they’re really girls, and girls who dislike barrettes in their hair are really boys.

This screenshot is from UCSF website as of June 25 this year. It clearly states that puberty blockers are safe and fully reversible. Its consent form states otherwise. First of all, it says that children with trans identities need to have their puberty postponed, that the medication is not permanent, and that blockers treat the trauma of unwanted puberty. Next, it says the long term effects and safety of puberty blockers is not completely understood. Bone density will diminish, but is expected to return to normal. Expect it. In other words, you think so maybe, then again, we don’t know. Oh, and puberty blockers might affect fertility. This consent form directly contradicts UCSF website. This is purely and simply deceptive practices.

In this example, the child’s doctor was Steven Rosenthal, who partnered with Joanna Olson Kennedy in the NIH study that still has not released the results of puberty blockers effect on a child’s physical health. Rosenthal also contributed to the endocrine societies and pediatric society’s guidelines for Transgender Health, both of which state blockers are safe.

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Jamie Reed, responding to an accusation that she belongs in prison for what she did to children when she worked for the gender clinic:

All day Andrew has been pushing the narrative that I belong in jail and now claiming no one who is supporting me is answering him @BillboardChris @EithanHaim
@Sidewalk_Steve So I will try. These are questions about the law (I am not an attorney), but also ethics and morality and what this does for the movement.

1. Legally: I do not actually know that I broke any laws. What I did was work in a medical center and followed my job description. The hospital sanctioned what I was doing and paid me directly for my work. I was hired to work directly in a center created to medically transition children. I did not create this center, or sanction its creation.

2. Legally: I sought and obtained legal whistleblower status. This can be obtained through federal law when one has information or evidence about violations to law, information about waste of funds, gross mismanagement and- this is key- a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety. I believe that the pediatric gender center where I was working was a substantial danger to public health and safety.

3. Ethically. I understand that I was complicit in a system that perpetuated harm on children and families. I attempted internally to seek changes to the system that was perpetuating this harm. My options became- walk away (like thousands of others are doing) or do something about it. As I came to understand what I was participating in, I attempted first to understand why the hospital legal department, risk management, ethics division were all supporting this clinical practice. I was the lowest paid on the team with which I served and in essence had the lowest amount of power within the team. The reason you are even now reading this is because I didn’t walk away but became public. But these ethical violations do not mean that I personally broke the law as it stood at that time.

4. Morally. I do not believe that it is
@AndrewZywiecMD
place to judge me. I work to make amends everyday. I do not believe that it is anyones right on this earth to judge the soul of another.

I am proud of who I am. I could have made a hundred different choices along the way. I made the choice to do the best that I could when I knew better.

Whistleblowers serve as democracy’s early warning system. Without whistleblowers we would not learn about the abuses, crimes, or harms that are occurring within industries. We need people like me, people who mess up, own up, and try to make it right.