Boston Children's Hospital is home to the country's first pediatric and adolescent transgender health program, according to the Associated Press. After sharing an informational YouTube video explaining the program's surgical options for transgender patients, the hospital was inundated with threats of violence and online harassment.
Several social media users began spreading misinformation regarding one of the video's topics in particular.
An Aug. 11 Facebook post shared by Libs of TikTok shows Dr. Frances Grimstad, a gynecologist at the hospital, discussing what the hospital calls a "gender affirming hysterectomy" procedure.
"Boston Children’s Hospital is now offering 'gender affirming hysterectomies' for young girls, and it gets much worse," reads the post's caption. The post then links to an article published by the Post Millennial titled, "Boston Children's Hospital gleefully encourages surgical, pharmaceutical 'gender transition' for teens."
The post accumulated more than 10,000 views in a week on Libs of TikTok, a well-known social media account that the Washington Post says regularly targets members of the LGBTQ+ community and utilizes "incendiary framing designed to generate outrage." Similar viral iterations have been shared on Facebook and Twitter.
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