Three medical organizations are calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate the origins of a recent spate of threats against physicians and hospitals providing pediatric transgender care.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Medical Association (AMA), and the Children's Hospital Association (CHA) sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland urging him to "investigate the organizations, individuals, and entities coordinating, provoking, and carrying out bomb threats and threats of personal violence against children's hospitals and physicians across the U.S."
They also called on social media platforms to do more to stop the rhetoric that incites these threats, as several of the campaigns have been incited by posts from the social media user LibsofTikTok.
"The attacks are rooted in an intentional campaign of disinformation, where a few high-profile users on social media share false and misleading information targeting individual physicians and hospitals, resulting in a rapid escalation of threats, harassment, and disruption of care across multiple jurisdictions," the groups wrote in the letter to Garland.
Children's hospitals in several cities -- including Boston; Washington, D.C.; Chicago; Nashville; Seattle; Portland, Oregon; and Akron, Ohio -- have recently been targeted for offering transgender care services.
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