- A Missouri clinic that pressured parents into allowing their children to undergo risky sex change procedures has closed.
- Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey praised the closure of the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital as a ‘huge win’ for child safety.
- The clinic faced backlash for allegedly pushing puberty blockers and irreversible gender-swapping drugs on minors.
- The clinic’s former case manager, Jamie Reed, blew the whistle on the rushed prescriptions of hormones to teens with psychiatric problems.
- Advocates believe gender-affirming care saves lives, while critics argue that kids are too young to make life-altering decisions about their health.
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Psychiatry & Mental Health, Pediatrics, Transplantation