{"id":32131,"date":"2022-08-17T13:11:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T17:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=32131"},"modified":"2022-08-17T13:13:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T17:13:53","slug":"fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=32131","title":{"rendered":"Fascism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boston Children\u2019s Hospital<\/a> has warned employees about mounting threats and is coordinating with law enforcement after far-right activists on social media began targeting the hospital with false claims about its treatment of young transgender people.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the most recent in a series of attempts to target hospitals for their work with trans youth, adding to an ongoing wave of anti-LGBTQ sentiment that has hit libraries, schools and even a trans-inclusive Los Angeles spa.<\/p>\n

The public relations office of Boston Children\u2019s Hospital sent an email to employees with guidance on how to respond to harassment and threats earlier this week, citing an \u201cincrease of threatening and aggressive\u201d phone calls and emails sent to the hospital commenting on treatment of transgender patients.\u201d The email was confirmed to NBC News by a current employee. <\/p>\n

Boston Children\u2019s Hospital first became the target of activists in recent weeks, when well-followed social media accounts such as LibsofTikTok, which has often promoted \u201cgroomer\u201d discourse that falsely linked LGBTQ teachers and parents to pedophilia, began to make a variety of false claims. One allegation said that the hospital offered gender-affirming hysterectomies to children under 18 years old. <\/p>\n

Conservative influencers with millions of followers pushed similar false talking points and fanned the flames further. David J Harris, a podcaster and supplement seller, and single-issue activists including Chris Elston, who goes by \u201cBillboard Chris\u201d for the anti-trans statements he wears on sandwich boards, are among the right-wing social media stars who have spread the allegations online. <\/p>\n

Last week, fact-checking organizations debunked the claims from right-wing accounts, but many of the same accounts continued to spread the false allegations this week. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But wait... it gets worse!<\/p>\n

\u201cLong past time<\/a> to start executing these \u2018doctors,\u2019\u201d a member of a pro-Trump message board formerly known as TheDonald, wrote under a copy of a video featuring a doctor from the hospital. This message board is the same one whose members last week doxed and made violent threats against the judge who signed the search warrant that allowed the FBI to search the home of former President Donald Trump.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boston Children\u2019s Hospital has warned employees about mounting threats and is coordinating with law enforcement after far-right activists on social media began targeting the hospital with false claims about its treatment of young transgender people. It\u2019s the most recent in a series of attempts to target hospitals for their work with trans youth, adding to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32133,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32131\/revisions\/32133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}