In February, former gender-clinic employee Jamie Reed blew the whistle on the horrors she’d seen at work, only to face bitter attacks from around the media.
But now the doyenne of liberal goodthink, The New York Times, has vindicated her with an article largely substantiating her central claims.
Reed — a queer woman married to a transgender man and long employed by a gender-dysphoria clinic at St. Louis Children’s hospital — bravely came forward via The Free Press to expose the horrific practices of the doctors there.
She detailed a regime under which kids, often suffering from severe mental illness, were rushed into life-altering treatment with cross-sex hormones and even surgery.
If they later regretted having, say, their breasts removed: too bad!
Reed’s bravery soon spurred the Missouri Legislature to ban so-called “gender affirming” care for minors.
But in the meantime the national media — fully on board the progressive gender crusade — began doing everything in their power to discredit Reed.
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes slammed her at length on Twitter and implied she was lying.
New York magazine took up the attack, as did a Condé Nast online mag, them.
Lefty attack dog Media Matters for America got in on the action.
And on and on down the list.
Kudos to the Times for getting to the facts (even if the paper can’t stop itself from still editorializing against kid-gender-care restrictions as “draconian”).
Especially since gender extremists already have the Times in their crosshairs — including some from inside the paper — who’ve published not one but two open letters attacking its coverage of trans issues merely for mildly questioning the party line.
These ideologues are viciously opposed to data and reason.
Not even the rapidly growing expert consensus in Britain and Europe that no evidence supports giving cross-sex hormones and gender surgery to minors has made the slightest difference to America’s trans-cult warriors.
Any concern over the fact that kids are being fast-tracked into medical treatments that can — quite literally — ruin their lives is instantly branded as bigotry.
Mention the fact that this sometimes happens against parents’ wishes, and the pitchforks come out.
That makes Reed and others who speak up all the more admirable.
And highlights the need for continued hard scrutiny and exposure, until the needless damaging of kids in service of this ideology is ended for good.