Vindication of transgender whistleblower exposes media bias yet again
After months of reckless gaslighting, the nationwide media is backpedaling and at last exonerating Jamie Reed, the whistleblower who uncovered the sloppy, rushed therapy of youngsters struggling gender dysphoria. It’s too little, too late.
Reed, a self-described homosexual lady who’s married to a transgender man, for almost 4 years managed circumstances at a gender dysphoria clinic at St. Louis Youngsters’s Hospital.
The nationwide media slammed Reed after she bravely got here ahead in February in a Free Press essay exposing the mistreatment and botched dealing with of youngsters with gender dysphoria, together with youngsters who regretted getting surgical procedures or hormone injections.
Reed instructed of a kid with schizophrenia who stopped their meds whereas receiving hormonal injections, which is extraordinarily harmful, in line with physicians.
Reed additionally reported a 17-year-old lady’s beginning canal allegedly being ripping open throughout intercourse, unaware that taking testosterone (as a part of a female-to-male transition) would trigger her to bleed extensively.
Regardless of Reed’s horrifying report, taken significantly by Missouri lawmakers and leading to wanted legislative adjustments, the nationwide media turned a blind eye.
MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes wrote a prolonged thread on Twitter, now referred to as X, excoriating Reed, claiming “a number of different shops have performed dozens and dozens of interviews with mother and father, workers, and sufferers and located no corroboration.”
New York journal ran an early March article slamming Reed’s claims and highlighting damaging articles from the St. Louis Put up Dispatch and the Missouri Unbiased.
It’s solely now some six months later that The New York Instances does the accountable factor and truly verifies the horrific claims that Reed uncovered.
The Instances famous that even secular Europe is backing away from minor medical transgenderism as a result of reported well being risks.
However don’t count on the Instances to be too honest.
Despite the fact that the article is amongst its reporting pages, it editorializes and labels as “draconian” the commonsense strikes by lawmakers in additional than 20 states to ban or severely limit gender remedies for minors.
Free Press founder Bari Weiss rightfully referred to as out Hayes for his irresponsibility, noting the Instances largely confirmed Reed’s account.
This woke method to gender dysphoria is hurting lives.
The media gave scant consideration when final yr, the FDA slapped a warning on puberty blockers as a result of a number of minors on the medication skilled tumor-like plenty within the mind, together with visible disturbances, headache or vomiting, swelling of the optic nerve, elevated blood strain, and eye paralysis.
Hayes and his compatriots omit reporting that the UK Nationwide Well being Service lists the next potential unintended effects of cross-sex hormones: blood clots, gallstones, weight acquire, zits, irregular ranges of fats within the blood, elevated liver enzymes, and hair loss.
Of their rush to sentence Reed, nationwide reporting additionally omitted the dangers of reassignment surgical procedure, together with surgical problems and infections.
People deserve the reality, however we’re holding our breath to kind out the following pack of lies.
Carrie Sheffield is a senior coverage analyst at Unbiased Ladies’s Voice.
