Bari’s favorite “whistleblower” takes another massive L

Yet another deeply reported investigation and an internal report later, we still have no collaboration for Jamie Reed’s implausible and obviously TERF-motivated bare assertions, but we now have substantially more countervailing evidence:

Washington University in St. Louis, the parent institution of the St. Louis Children’s Hospital, released the findings of an internal investigation into the Transgender Center on Friday. It found that “allegations of substandard care causing adverse outcomes for patients at the Center are unsubstantiated.”

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Over the last two months, NBC News has requested interviews with nearly 40 people currently or formerly associated with the Transgender Center — including parents of children treated at the center, current and former patients and former employees — as well as local mental health providers and providers at other gender clinics. NBC News has also reached out to local and national groups that both support and oppose transition-related care for minors.

The more than two dozen people who agreed to interviews said Reed’s allegations don’t reflect their experiences at the center.

Sixteen parents, two current patients and two former patients of the center said the care they received was thorough and slow. The shortest amount of time that a parent said their child waited between their first appointment at the center and when their child started a puberty blocker was about six months. Five parents said their children waited more than a year between their first appointments at the center and their children beginning medical transition.

Admittedly, the report does seem to confirm Reed’s real central complaint — that anti-trans administrative staff were not given veto power over the treatment decisions made by trained medical professionals in collaboration with children and the parents who had custody over them. Whether this is a bad thing I will leave to the judgment of the reader.