‘Horrible Timing. Horrible Speaker’: Fauci To Deliver Speech at Med School With Transgender Center Under Investigation for Abuse

The announcement comes one week after whistleblower exposé of Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital Former White House COVID czar Anthony Fauci / Reuters

Washington University School of Medicine will host the May commencement address by Dr. Anthony Fauci. This is where the Washington University Youth Transgender Center is located. under investigation For malpractice and abuse.

Missouri attorney general Andrew Bailey’s (R.) investigation into the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital came after whistleblower Jamie Reed, a former case worker at the center, filed an affidavit alleging that the center rushed to give children harmful hormone treatments, ignored the serious mental health needs of patients, and bullied parents into giving consent. A week after Reed published her exposé, the school announced that the White House’s former COVID czar would address its graduates in May.

“The idea that an institute of supposedly higher education would bring in an individual that is probably more famous for misleading people than anything else is, I think, atrocious,” Jay Ashcroft, Missouri secretary of State (R.  Fauci. “It’s not that he’s polarizing. It’s that he’s a proven liar.”

Fauci faces continued criticism for his handling of the pandemic as director of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Recent Report Fauci’s team was found to have made grave errors in overseeing the coronavirus research in Wuhan (China) by the inspector general at NIH. Republican lawmakers accused Fauci of lying after he denied that his agency had funded research at Wuhan Institute of Virology.

“For a research medical school where you assume everyone is smart, [Washington University] is politically stupid and leadership has no common sense,” James Harris is a Missouri-based political strategist Tweet Friday. “Horrible timing. Horrible speaker.”

In the university’s An announcement last Thursday, Washington executive vice chancellor for medical affairs Dr. David Perlmutter said Fauci is “the quintessential role model for physician-scientists and exemplifies all the virtues that science has contributed to improving health in our society.”

“We are honored that he will share his wisdom with our school and our graduates on this special day,” Perlmutter stated.

“I’ll take ‘out-of-touch bubble of academia’ for $500, Alex,” Sen. Eric Schmitt (R., Mo.) Tweet In response.

Leaders at the university’s transgender centre met last week rejected Bailey called for a moratorium of hormone treatments and blockers for puberty for new patients. However, they insist that they will cooperate with the investigation.