‘Clusters of girls’
Reed describes herself as a “queer woman” who supports “trans rights.” She says she worked as a case manager at the pediatric transgender clinic — which opened in 2017 — for four years, during which time she raised concerns to the hospital’s management about what she was witnessing.
“During my time at the center, I personally witnessed center health care providers lie to the public and to parents of patients about the treatment, or lack of treatment, and the effects of treatment provided to children at the center,” Reed wrote in her affidavit.
“I witnessed staff at the center provide puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children without complete informed parental consent and without an appropriate or accurate assessment of the needs of the child. I witnessed children experience shocking injuries from the medication the center prescribed. And I saw the center make no attempt or effort to track adverse outcomes of patients after they left the center.”
In her blog post at the website thefp.com, Reed said over the four years she was at the clinic she observed a notable increase in the number of teenage girls wishing to “transition” and become boys.
“When I started there were probably 10 such calls a month. When I left there were 50, and about 70% of the new patients were girls. Sometimes clusters of girls arrived from the same high school,” she wrote in her blog post.
“The girls who came to us had many comorbidities: depression, anxiety, ADHD, eating disorders, obesity. Many were diagnosed with autism, or had autism-like symptoms.”
To begin the gender transition process, the hospital required only a letter of support from a therapist, Reed said. Reed said it was clear to her that the minors undergoing transition had no idea how drastic the changes to their bodies would be, especially due to side effects of the medications they were taking.
“When a female takes testosterone, the profound and permanent effects of the hormone can be seen in a matter of months. Voices drop, beards sprout, body fat is redistributed. Sexual interest explodes, aggression increases, and mood can be unpredictable,” Reed noted.
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“Our patients were told about some side effects, including sterility. But after working at the center, I came to believe that teenagers are simply not capable of fully grasping what it means to make the decision to become infertile while still a minor.”
One doctor, Reed claimed, was giving patients an anti-cancer drug called bicalutamide, which can poison the liver.
“There are no clinical studies for using this drug for gender transitions, and there are no established standards of care for using this drug,” she noted.
Reed said she witnessed doctors continuing transition treatments even after parents, in writing, revoked their consent.
“I doubt that any parent who’s ever consented to give their kid testosterone (a lifelong treatment) knows that they’re also possibly signing their kid up for blood pressure medication, cholesterol medication, and perhaps sleep apnea and diabetes.”
The clinic claimed, Reed said, that a gender “transition” would make it less likely that the patient would commit suicide and appeared eager to suggest gender transition as the response for almost any mental health issue that patients presented.