Follow the Money on Trans Clinics

April 15, 2023 | Washington, D.C.

by Eagle Forum Chairman, Anne Schlafly

Suddenly, a whole lot of children are confused about their biological sex. Suddenly, a whole lot of clinics have opened to treat children with cross-sex hormones and mutilating surgeries that destroy fertility. There is money to be made in these elective procedures.

For example, the St. Louis Planned Parenthood facility, which is no longer legally allowed to perform abortions, offers “gender expansive care,” including cross-sex hormones to 16-year-olds. Their website advertises, “You don’t need to participate in therapy or provide information from a mental health provider to receive hormone therapy.”

Why would anyone want to cause permanent damage to young people? Limiting population has been a long term goal of leftists because fewer people are easier to control. Some of these children are losing their fertility even before their first sexual experience.

But, everyone has a gag point, even far-left progressives. For Jamie Reed, who worked for four years at the Pediatric Transgender Center at Washington University School of Medicine at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, her gag point was the sterilization of children. “The safety of children should not be a matter for our culture wars,” she said. Her first-hand account has revealed what is really happening at these “trans” clinics.

Jamie Reed is courageous because she has blown the whistle on “gender” ideology. Unlike the medical professionals who are pushing children to mutilate their bodies, Jamie Reed wants to “do no harm” and stop the trans wreck.

Jamie Reed has children, so she understands that no one — not even the attending physician — cares more than the parent about the health and well-being of the child. So she was alarmed that her employer, the Pediatric Transgender Clinic, did not recognize parental rights. “Doctors saw themselves as more informed decision-makers over the fate of these children,” she wrote. In her attempt to help one patient, Reed wrote to the staff therapist, “I do not ethically agree with linking a minor patient to a therapist who would be gender affirming with gender as a focus of their work without that being discussed with the parents and the parent agreeing to that kind of care.”

Reed points out that many of the patients came from unstable families and that these children had many other unaddressed problems besides gender dysphoria. These children were crying for help and instead of helping the children, the doctors experimented on them. Her boss said, “We are building the plane while we are flying it” and Reed responds: “No one should be a passenger on that kind of aircraft.”

These children, who are too young to give legal consent, were subjected to experiments that permanently altered their voice, body shape, genitalia, and fertility. Many children were sterilized before they had ever had any sexual contact. No child can possibly understand the loss of fertility. According to Reed, more than a thousand children have been treated by the St. Louis clinic. How many more thousands of children have been mutilated by physicians across the country?

Missouri and other states are currently debating bills on prohibiting cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, and surgeries to “transition” children. Let us all support this good legislation.

More information and sample legislation are available in our book: Sex, Lies, and Children, which documents the vivid testimony of survivors of this social contagion.