Back in February, we covered the explosive allegations of Jamie Reed, a former “gender transition manager” at Missouri’s Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. Her claims about the “treatment” being given to underage patients supposedly diagnosed with gender dysphoria were being looked into by Senator Josh Hawley and Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey. But at the same time that their investigation was getting underway, St. Louis Children’s Hospital announced that it would be conducting an investigation of its own. Now, after only eight weeks, the hospital has concluded that Reed’s allegations were “unsubstantiated.” But as we’ll discuss below, this conclusion appears to be shaky at best. (NBC News)

Washington University in St. Louis said a former employee’s allegations that its pediatric and adolescent transgender clinic did not appropriately assess minors before providing them with care are unsubstantiated, according to the findings of an internal investigation released Friday…

Washington University in St. Louis, the parent institution of the Children’s Hospital, said in a statement that it was “alarmed by the allegations” and would look into Reed’s claims.

After an eight-week internal investigation, the university said in a summary of its findings that her allegations are unsubstantiated but that it would be changing some of its practices.

Consider the last sentence in the excerpt above. If the allegations are “unsubstantiated,” why would the university be “changing some of its practices?”

The defense being mounted by the university also seems to be the proverbial house made out of straw. They defend what they are doing by saying that they are following the guidelines of the American Academy of Pediatrics. But as we’ve discussed here in the past, the AAP has been hijacked by a relatively small number of doctors who are deeply embedded in the current transgender movement and they have adopted some pretty horrifying practices.

Reed also alleged that children were being given hormones and puberty blockers without the consent of their parents. The university’s report doesn’t even mention that allegation, but one of the “changes” they say they are making is that they “will require written consent from parents prior to prescribing gender-affirming medications.” But doesn’t that just verify Reed’s claims?

The report’s claims about hysterectomies and genital mutilation surgeries for children are even more of a hot mess. They first say that they haven’t provided surgical referrals for minors since 2018 when they changed their policy. But they then go on to say “a total of six surgeries were performed on minors by university physicians since 2018.” (They were all “chest surgeries for girls.) This is a direct contradiction. They conclude by saying the hospital “will no longer perform gender-affirming surgeries on minors.” When asked when this policy was adopted, they declined to comment.

We’ve already seen plenty of issues with the answers being offered by St. Louis Children’s Hospital and media outlets who are more than happy to cover for them. John dug into that aspect of the story previously, finding that some of the people publicly defending the hospital and its practices were actually key players in transgender activist groups. But the St. Louis Post-Dispatch presented them as simply “concerned parents.”

One of the other main questions that remain is what possible motivation Jamie Reed would have to lie about this. It certainly hasn’t done anything for her career. It’s also far too easy for these hospitals to conceal what they’re doing because of privacy laws involving medical records. Personally, I think we need to wait for the Attorney General’s investigation to wrap up.