Whistleblower claims gender affirming care is being abused / protest against NYT

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Recently a medical professional has become a whistleblower claiming they witnessed gender affirming care being misused to treat minors with gender dysphoria.

here is the article: 

https://www.thefp.com/p/i-thought-i-was-saving-trans-kids

Here is an interview she conducted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6sPG7gleOs

Missouri’s attorney general has launched an investigation into the clinic:

 

Here is the whistleblower’s sworn affidavit detailing the accusations: https://ago.mo.gov/docs/default-source/press-releases/2-07-2023-reed-affidavit---signed.pdf?sfvrsn=6a64d339_2

some of the accusations:

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Medical transition practice for children and adolescents is based on a study from the Netherlands. That study, the “Dutch study,” excluded participants who presented underlying mental health issues.
14. But nearly all children who came to the Center here presented with very serious mental health problems. Despite claiming to be a place where children could receive multidisciplinary care, the Center would not treat these mental health issues. Instead, children were automatically given puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones even though the Dutch study excluded persons experiencing mental health issues.
15. One patient came to the Center identifying as a “communist, attack helicopter, human, female, maybe non binary.” The child was in very poor mental health and early on reported that they had no idea their gender identity. Rather than treat the child for their serious mental health problems, the Center put the child on cross-sex hormones and ignored the child’s obvious mental health problems. The child subsequently reported that their mental health actually was worsening once they started the cross-sex hormones.
16. Most children who come into the Center were assigned female at birth. Nearly all of them have serious comorbidities including, autism, ADHD, depression, anxiety, PTSD, trauma histories, OCD, and serious eating disorders. Rather than treat these conditions, the
doctors prescribe puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones. Some examples include: 4

a. Patient was in a residential sex offender treatment facility in state custody. Patient had previously sexually abused animals and had stated when they were released that they would do so again. There were questions about consistency of gender history. The Center did not treat this underlying condition, but instead started the patient on hormones.
b. Patient who has severe Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and had threatened to self-harm their genitals. The Patient did not have a trans or other incongruent gender identity. The patient was placed on hormones not even to treat any gender dysphoria but to chemically reduce libido and sexual arousal.
c. Patient had history of sexual abuse and notified the psychologist of this. It was even documented in the letter of support that the patient had concerns about the changes that testosterone would cause to their genitals. Instead of treating the underlying trauma the patient was started on testosterone.
d. Patient had serious mental health concerns and was prescribed mental health medications directly before being prescribed hormones, yet didn’t take the mental health medications. Nevertheless, the patient was placed on hormones.
e. Patient had significant autism with unrealistic expectations, struggled to answer questions, and wanted questions to be provided ahead of time. Yet the patient was started on feminizing hormones.
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f. Patient had a mental health history that included being violent. In addition, the parent was forcing the patient to cross dress. The patient was put on feminizing hormones.

At the same time GLAAD is launching a protest against the New York Times claiming they have been reporting with an anti trans bias

 

Over 100 NYT contributors have signed a letter calling on them to stop reporting with an anti Trans bias, read the letter here: https://nytletter.com/

here is a Q and A with the organizers: https://hellgatenyc.com/new-york-times-writers-call-out-the-papers-anti-trans-onslaught

here is the New York Times response:

Thoughts?