A children’s hospital has been met with a wave of death threats and abuse after a “misinformation” campaign by right-wing media and Libs of TikTok.

On 10 August, The Post Millenial reported that the Center Gender Surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital “gleefully encourages surgical, pharmaceutical ‘gender transition’ for teens”.

Libs of Tiktok, which reposts LGBTQ+ content with cruel comments and often, claimed on 11 August: “Boston Children’s Hospital is now offering ‘gender-affirming hysterectomies’ for young girls.”

Both included a video of an attending physician at the pediatric centre describing gender-affirming hysterectomies, which see a person’s uterus, cervix and fallopian tubes removed. The video has since been made private.

Libs of TikTok has since sought to “spread the horrors of what doctors are doing to young, confused individuals”, it said in a newsletter sent Tuesday (16 August).

The account, run by Brooklyn real estate agent Chaya Raichik, tweeted and retweeted more than a dozen times about the centre. Many fired back against fack-checkers that stressed that, no, the Boston Children’s Hospital does not offer such treatments to young trans people.

Because facts are meaningless in the anti-trans world, the trumped-up claims were unsurprisingly pushed by a who’s who of conservative influencers and single-issue activists.

They included Chris Elston, who spends his days wearing sandwich boards bearing anti-trans slogans, and The Daily Wire‘s Matt Walsh.

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