Hospitals and doctors around the country are facing harassment and even
death threats over the medical care they offer to transgender kids. In
many cases, they have been the subject of posts by a Twitter account
called Libs of TikTok, as well as stories in conservative media outlets
casting gender-affirming care as child abuse and mutilation.

Which raises the question: where should social networks draw the line
with accounts promoting narratives that spark harassment campaigns on
their platforms and beyond?

Accusations of 'grooming' are the latest political attack — with
homophobic origins
Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C. became the most recent
target this week when Libs of TikTok posted an audio recording in which hospital staff appeared to say that gender-affirming hysterectomies had
been performed on minors. The hospital said that claim was incorrect and
that none of the people recorded deliver care to patients.

"The information in the recording is not accurate. We do not and have
never performed gender-affirming hysterectomies for anyone under the age
of 18," Children's National said in a statement to NPR. "The operator
speaking provided wrong information."

The statement continued: "Since the spreading of misinformation on
Twitter, we have been the target of a large volume of hostile and
threatening phone calls and emails."

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/26/1119634878/childrens-hospitals-are-the-latest-target-of-anti-lgbtq-harassment

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