Activists take aim at controversial St. Louis transgender clinic, but draw counterprotesters

Singal wrote that Reed “shared a copy of it with me as well.”Reed’s attorneys did not respond to an emailed request for comment. Asked about Reed’s statements, a spokeswoman for Washington University said the university was continuing to look into the allegations raised about the Transgender Center. “We take very seriously our obligation to protect the privacy of all our patients. In all areas of medicine, patients have the right to know health care employees will safeguard their private and sensitive health information,” Julie Hail Flory, vice chancellor for marketing and communications for the university, said Sunday in an emailed statement. “We continue to look into this matter to ascertain the facts, including the handling of confidential patient health information.”