Children's Hospital in D.C. Under Attack Over Gender-Affirming Care
A children’s hospital in Washington, D.C., has become the most recent victim of an online movement to vilify medical institutions that provide gender-affirming care to trans youth.
Children’s National Hospital has been under fire from far-right extremists after the far-right Twitter account Libs of TikTok posted an audio recording that features a staff member appearing to say that the hospital provides hysterectomies to minors, according to the Associated Press.Since the Libs of TikTok posted the recording, the hospital has faced "a large volume of hostile and threatening phone calls and emails,” a hospital spokesperson told the news wire.
The exposed host of the account, real estate broker and transphobe Chaya Raichik, posed as a mother seeking care for her 16-year-old transgender son.After asking her son’s age, a supposed staff member informs Raichik her son is “in the clear” for a hysterectomy.
Another worker later tells her that the hospital has performed hysterectomies on children “younger than your child's age.” Raichik posted the call, which has since received more than one million views, sparking misinformed stories on Fox News and the Daily Mail.A spokesperson for Children’s National reiterated to the AP that, in accordance with D.C.
