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Missouri Whistleblower Is The Beginning Of The End For The Cult Of The 'Trans Child'

An all-American medical scandal with global impact

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Matt Osborne
Feb 10, 2023
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The Missouri state legislature

Jamie Reed was always going to happen.

Someone like her was always going to be the one who made history, who set the terms of what the right side of history will be.

So many liberal, progressive Americans have been scorned as “terfs” and “transphobes” for questioning the wisdom of sterilizing children that someone like Reed was inevitably going to come forward.

Justice would eventually rain like waters.

Married to a trans man, Reed is “left of Bernie” in her own words. She became a case manager at the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital because she genuinely cared about “trans kids.” Yesterday, she published her story at the Free Press, owned by journalist Bari Weiss.

“The way the American medical system is treating these patients is the opposite of the promise we make to ‘do no harm,’” she wrote. “Instead, we are permanently harming the vulnerable patients in our care.”

A few hours later, there was an announcement from …

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