Medical Associations Request Probe Into Gender-Affirming Care Threats
A number of major medical associations wrote to the Justice Department on Monday, requesting a probe into threats against health care providers and institutions that offer gender-affirming care to young people who are transgender.According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, and the Children’s Hospital Association, the DOJ needs to investigate the entities, individuals, and organizations who coordinate, provoke, and carry out bomb threats and threats of personal violence against children’s hospitals and physicians across the country, the groups wrote.
Boston Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts, Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee, and Akron Children’s Hospital in Ohio have received threats on social media as far-right influencers like Chaya Raichik of Libs of TikTok, and Jaimee Michell of Gays Against Groomers have condemned their gender affirmation programs.
Boston Children’s Hospital has been the target of a faux bomb threat made by a Massachusetts woman who was subsequently arrested.
Based on anti-trans conspiracy theories espoused online, Tennessee’s Republican governor has called for an investigation into Vanderbilt’s gender-affirming care program.
