A whistleblower in a Missouri gender clinic came forward this week with shocking allegations about youth gender care, both publicly in this article and to the state’s Attorney-General, who is now investigating the matter.
According to A-G Andrew Bailey: “The sworn affidavit asserts that individuals at the Center are using experimental drugs on children, distributing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones without individualized assessment, and even giving children these life-altering drugs without parental consent. The whistleblower says that the Center’s actions have led children to attempt suicide and that the Center never discontinues prescribing cross-sex hormones, no matter how much those drugs are harming the child.”
Below you will find other key allegations of the whistleblower and the full affidavit.
As you can see, these are very serious allegations, including lying to and disregarding parental concerns, ignoring suicide attempts brought on after treatment started, not tracking detransitioners, nearly always continuing children from puberty blockers on to cross-sex hormones, and much more.
Canadian Gender Clinics Routinely Disregard Parent Concerns
We know the same things are happening in Canadian youth gender clinics, because parents have come forward with their stories:
- This dad explains what happened when he brought his gender-questioning daughter to Sick Kids Transgender Clinic: little assessment and parental concerns ignored.
- This mother documents her daughter’s experience at another unnamed Canadian children’s hospital’s gender clinic: comorbidities, struggling with feelings of being gay, and eventual desistance all ignored.
- This mother documents how her 13-year-old daughter was being influenced into believing that she was transgender by a trusted therapist. The evidence is plain to see in the text messages between the therapist and child (texting late at night which, regardless of the need for therapy, also transgresses appropriate boundaries between therapist and this young client).
Canada needs a brave whistleblower in a youth gender clinic to come forward to corroborate these stories we know are happening. If you are such a person, please contact Canadian Gender Report for assistance.
At this juncture silence is complicity. There is now a tsunami of international evidence that indicates an urgent course correction is required in Canada to best help our gender-questioning youth.
Key Allegations of Harm
Here is the full Missouri affidavit, and summarized below are its key allegations:
“On several occasions, the doctors have continued prescribing medical transition even when a parent stated that they were revoking consent.”
“The Center does not require children to continue with mental health care after they prescribe cross-sex hormones or puberty blockers and even continues those medications when the patients directly report worsening mental health after initiating those medications.”
“I have seen puberty blockers worsen the mental health outcomes of children. Children who have not contemplated suicide before being put on puberty blockers have attempted suicide after.”
“It is my belief that the Center does not track these outcomes because they do not want to have to report them to new patients and because they do not want to discontinue cross-sex hormone prescriptions. The Center never discontinues cross-sex hormones, no matter the outcome.”
“During my time at the Center, I personally witnessed Center healthcare 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.”
“… The Center routinely gives out the names and contact information of surgeons to those under the age of 18. At least one gender transition surgery was performed by Dr. Allison Snyder-Warwick at St. Louis Children’s Hospital in the last few years.”
“The Center tells the public and parents of patients that the point of puberty blockers is to give children time to figure out their gender identity. But the Center does not use puberty blockers for this purpose. Instead, the Center uses puberty blockers just until children are old enough to be put on cross-sex hormones. Doctors at the Center always prescribe cross-sex hormones for children who have been taking puberty blockers.”
“On another occasion, a patient had their breasts removed. This surgery was performed at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. Three months later, the patient contacted the surgeon and asked for their breasts to be ‘put back on.’ Had a requisite and adequate assessment been performed before the procedure, the doctors could have prevented this patient from undergoing irreversible surgical change.”
“It is my belief that the Center does not track these outcomes because they do not want to have to report them to new patients and because they do not want to discontinue cross-sex hormone prescriptions. The Center never discontinues cross-sex hormones, no matter the outcome.”
“In just a two-year period from 2020 to 2022, the Center initiated medical transition for more than 600 children. About 74% of these children were assigned female at birth.”
