Missouri transgender clinic halts child interventions due to new ban.
The St. Louis Transgender Clinic Halts Treatment for Minors
The transgender clinic in St. Louis, Missouri, which was under investigation for allegedly harming 600 children with gender transition drugs and procedures, has made the decision to stop providing treatment for minors.
The Washington University Transgender Center, in compliance with a recently passed state ban, announced on Monday that they “will no longer prescribe puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones to minors for purposes of gender transition.”
Missouri Attorney General Leads the Effort
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, who successfully defended the law in court, expressed his satisfaction with the outcome. He stated, “After a law that my office successfully defended in court went into effect two weeks ago, Washington University has ceased all prescription of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children. I’m proud to have led the effort to expose the lack of science supporting these procedures and I’ll never back down in the fight to protect children.”
In February, Bailey initiated an investigation into the gender clinic following a whistleblower’s affidavit. The whistleblower, Jamie Reed, revealed in an op-ed for the Free Press that the clinic would often prescribe hormone drugs to children without proper mental health screening and even push transgender procedures without parental consent.
Missouri’s New Law and the Clinic’s Decision
The clinic’s decision to discontinue childhood gender transition treatment is primarily influenced by Missouri’s new law, which allows doctors to be sued for medical malpractice if they guide a child towards sex reassignment. The minimum liability under this law is $500,000.
The university stated, “Missouri’s newly enacted law regarding transgender care has created a new legal claim for patients who received these medications as minors. This legal claim creates unsustainable liability for healthcare professionals and makes it untenable for us to continue to provide comprehensive transgender care for minor patients without subjecting the university and our providers to an unacceptable level of liability.”
The clinic will now refer current child patients to other providers but maintains that their medical staff has always followed the standard of care and obtained informed consent from patients and their parents or guardians.
Questioning the Medical Pathway
Despite the clinic’s stance, Western medicine outside the United States has long questioned the scientific validity and potential dangers of such interventions for children who may not fully comprehend the implications.
Attorney General Bailey sees this victory as a “warning shot” to the American medical establishment, which heavily promotes gender interventions for children. It stands as one of the few successful challenges to this prevailing trend.
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