The ACLU of Missouri cited a transgender clinic whistleblower and her communications with reporters as part of its lawsuit to block a state law banning hormone therapy for minors.
Jamie Reed, a former employee of the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, claimed that doctors rushed trans-identified children onto harmful drugs in February of last year.
Shortly after Reed’s revelations, Missouri Republican Gov. Mike Parson signed a bill prohibiting doctors from performing gender transition surgeries or prescribing hormone therapy or other gender transition medications to children under 18. years.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri, on behalf of three families of transgender children, filed a lawsuit against Parson, the state Attorney General and the Missouri Board of Healing Arts to block the law.
In a subpoena filed Thursday, the ACLU demanded that Reed turn over all of his communications with journalist Jessie Singal and all other members of the media.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri subpoenaed all of whistleblower Jamie Reed’s (pictured) communications with the journalist.
Reed, a former employee of the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital (pictured), claimed that doctors rushed trans-identified children into using harmful drugs.
The submission requested: “All communications, including any documents exchanged, between you and Jessie Singal in relation to gender-affirming care provided at or through the Centre.”
‘All communications, including any documents exchanged, relating to gender-affirming care involving the media or between you and any media outlet or any member of the media.’
Singal posted about the request on Twitter saying: “Strange night.” The ACLU of Missouri subpoenaed Jamie Reed, demanding (among other things) all of his communications with me.
‘I sent them an email saying (politely) what the fuck, you’re the ACLU. I got a call from a lawyer saying it was a mistake.
In its response to Singal, the ACLU said, “The ACLU of Missouri has always been and remains committed to freedom of the press.”
“While no subpoena was issued to Mr. Singal, the subpoena served on a former employee of a Missouri clinic has since been revised to exempt information from Mr. Singal and other media.”
DailyMail.com has contacted the American Civil Liberties Union for comment.
Reed confirmed on Twitter that Lambda Legal, one of the other organizations representing the families in the lawsuit, called their attorneys and removed the request for communication with Singal and the press.
“I don’t know exactly what @jessesingal said, but apparently there is a glimmer of hope that journalists’ rights (and protection of sources) still exist,” Reed said.
Washington University’s Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital announced an end to gender hormone therapy after the state law was passed.
The university said the clinic “will no longer prescribe puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones to minors for the purposes of gender transition.”
Reed, who worked at the clinic from 2018 to 2022, told The Free Press that the clinic administered a litany of irreparable treatments to minors, often without parental consent.
Reed claimed that doctors asked questions like “do you want a dead daughter or a live son?” “bullying” children’s parents into going ahead with gender transitions, under the pretext that failure to do so would make them suicidal.
The complainant said that working at the center, which medically transitioned 600 children in two years, was: “Like I was in a cult and I had to deprogram myself to get out of it.”
Reed, who worked at the clinic from 2018 to 2022, told The Free Press that the clinic administered a litany of irreparable treatments to minors, often without parental consent.
Reed said their practices were “morally and medically atrocious” and were “permanently harming” children by failing to account for mental health concerns that are “red flags.”
He also claimed that politicians knew nothing about mastectomies in teenage girls and the age at which they could start receiving male testosterone hormones.
Speaking on a Gender Dysphoria Alliance podcast, Reed said lawmakers were misled about whether breast removal procedures or “top surgery” were performed on children during legislative hearings at the Capitol in Jefferson City.
“They would go to the legislature and say you don’t do surgeries on minors… and yet I’d be in the clinic and know that they were just watching someone’s 16 or 17-year-old upper-surgery scars heal.” years,” he said. .
Reed said they were also misled about the age at which trans teens could start receiving testosterone, a male hormone that produces facial hair, bigger muscles, a deeper voice and a stronger sex drive.