Missouri families are pushing back against a whistleblower’sallegations of “morally and medically appalling” care at a St. Louis clinic that treats transgender youth.

Jamie Reed, 42, wrote a first-person essay in The Free Pressabout working at the The Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, accusing the center and its practitioners of ignoring children’s mental health issues and only focusing on treating gender dysphoria.