Tonight, local and state investigations are underway at one of our region's premier hospital

systems.

Washington University's Transgender Clinic at Children's Hospital is at the center

of a whistleblower investigation.

This woman claims children are being harmed.

In this 23-page sworn affidavit, she outlines practices by doctors and medical professionals at the center that many

are calling disturbing and more seriously calling acts of child abuse, including...

In early 2023, a woman named Jamie Reed made headlines when she filed an affidavit

with the Missouri Attorney General's Office.

She had been a case manager at one of the only youth gender clinics in the state,

the Washington University Transgender Center.

And in her affidavit, she made a number of explosive claims about the care kids were getting there.

Two days later, a first-person account of her experience was published in the free press, and she gave them an interview where she laid out some of her claims. At the very

beginning, I immediately could see that there were a lot of gaps. So in medicine, most places will have standard operating

procedures, they'll have policies. Jamie described a clinic totally unprepared for the moment.

None of those existed for this. She said when she started in 2018, the clinic had just opened

and had no formal guidelines for how it should operate.

Soon, it was facing the same increase in patients as so many other clinics.

Often, she said, those patients had severe psychological issues.

In her affidavit, Jamie wrote about kids struggling with schizophrenia,

obsessive-compulsive disorder, PTSD.

There is absolutely no way that these patients were in the right mental place to be able to make any long-term decisions about their health, let alone decisions about gender transitioning as a child.

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