The St. Louis, Missouri, transgender clinic investigated after allegedly harming 600 children with gender transition drugs and procedures has stopped treatment for minors.
The Washington University Transgender Center announced Monday it “will no longer prescribe puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones to minors for purposes of gender transition” in accordance with a state ban that recently passed legal scrutiny.
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“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,” Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey told the Washington Examiner Tuesday. “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 launched an investigation into the Washington University gender clinic after a whistleblower signed an affidavit claiming the clinic would routinely prescribe hormone drugs to children who had only gone through minimal or virtually no mental health screening.
Jamie Reed, the clinic’s former employee who disclosed the information in an op-ed for the Free Press, also said doctors would push transgender procedures without parental consent.
At the heart of the clinic’s decision to stop pursuing childhood gender transition is that Missouri’s new law makes it easier to sue doctors for medical malpractice for having guided a child toward sex reassignment. The law’s minimum liability is $500,000.
“Missouri’s newly enacted law regarding transgender care has created a new legal claim for patients who received these medications as minors,” the university said in a statement about the clinic. “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 further said it would refer current child patients to other providers and stood by its actions, saying its medical staff has “continually provided treatment in accordance with the standard of care and with informed consent of patients and their parents or guardians.”
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Despite that, Western medicine outside the United States for several years has determined such a medical pathway is not only scientifically questionable but likely dangerous for children who do not understand the implications of the interventions.
Coming off the win in court, Bailey told the Washington Examiner that the decision, one of few successful in the nation, was a “warning shot” to an American medical establishment that heavily pushes gender interventions for children.
