Last month, ex-New York Times columnist Bari Weiss published a melodramatic account of alleged abuses at a gender clinic in her online publication, the Free Press. The account, written by “whistleblower” Jamie Reed, a former case manager at the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, charged doctors and administrators at the center of pushing children into premature or unwarranted gender transitions and bullying parents and staffers who objected into silence or acquiescence to the allegedly abusive treatment.
