ACLU subpoenas WHISTLEBLOWER who claims Missouri transgender clinic where she worked pumped vulnerable teens full of powerful hormones

The ACLU of Missouri subpoenaed a transgender clinic whistleblower and her communications with journalists as part of their lawsuit to prevent a state law that bans hormone therapy for minors.

Jamie Reed, a former employee of the Washington University Transgender Center at the St. Louis Children's Hospital, claimed doctors rushed trans-identifying kids onto harmful drugs in February last year.

Shortly after Reed's revelations, Missouri’s Republican Gov Mike Parson signed a bill into law that prohibits doctors from performing gender transition surgeries or prescribing hormone therapy or other drugs for gender transition to children under 18 years old.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri, on behalf of three families of transgender kids, filed a lawsuit against Parson, the state Attorney General and the Missouri Board of Healing Arts to block the law.

In a subpoena filed on Thursday, the ACLU demanded that Reed hand over all of her 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 journalist 

Reed, a former employee of the Washington University Transgender Center at the St. Louis Children's Hospital (pictured), claimed doctors rushed trans-identifying kids onto harmful drugs

The filing requested, 'All communications, including any documents exchanged, between you and Jessie Singal concerning Gender-Affirming Care provided at or through the Center.' 

'All communications, including any documents exchanged, concerning Gender-Affirming Care involving media or between you and any media outlet or any member of the media.'

Singal posted about the request on Twitter saying, 'Strange evening. The ACLU of Missouri subpoenaed Jamie Reed, demanding (among other stuff) all her communications w/me.'

'I emailed them saying (politely) wtf, you're the ACLU. Got a call from a lawyer there saying it was a mistake.'

In there response to Singal the ACLU said, 'The ACLU of Missouri has always been and remains committed to the freedom of press.'

'While no subpoena was issued to Mr. Singal, the subpoena that was served to a former staffer at a Missouri clinic has since been revised to exempt information from Mr. Singal and other media.'

DailyMail.com has reached out to 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 her attorneys and removed the request for communications with Singal and the press. 

'I don’t know exactly what @jessesingal said but apparently there is a glimmer of hope that journalist rights (and protecting sources) still exists,' Reed said.

Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital announced an end to gender hormone therapy after the state law was passed.

The university said that the clinic 'will no longer prescribe puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones to minors for purposes of gender transition.' 

Reed, who worked at the clinic between 2018 and 2022, told The Free Press the clinic administered a litany of irreparable treatments to minors, often times without parental consent.

Reed claimed doctors would ask questions like 'do you want a dead daughter or an alive son?' to 'bully' children's parents into going ahead with gender transitions - under the pretense that not doing so would make them suicidal.

The whistleblower said working at the center, which medically transitioned 600 children within two years, was: 'Like I was in a cult, and I had to de-program my way out of it.'

Reed, who worked at the clinic between 2018 and 2022, told The Free Press the clinic administered a litany of irreparable treatments to minors, often times without parental consent

Reed, said its practices were 'morally and medically appalling' and were 'permanently harming' children by failing to take into account 'red flag' mental health concerns.

She also claimed politicians were kept in the dark about mastectomies on adolescent girls and the age at which they could start receiving male testosterone hormones. 

Speaking in a podcast from the Gender Dysphoria Alliance, Reed said lawmakers were misled about whether breast removal procedures, or 'top surgery', were carried out on kids during legislative hearings at the Capitol in Jefferson City.

'They would go to the legislature and say there's no surgery happening with minors … and yet, I would be in clinic, and, know that they just looked at how somebody's top surgery scars are healing, who is 16 or 17,' she said.

Reed said they were also misled about the age at which trans teenage girls could start getting testosterone, a male hormone that leads to facial hair, bigger muscles, a deeper voice, and a stronger sex drive.