Hospitals

Hospitals are being harassed and threatened including those who are in Connecticut because they treat us,

Harassment prompts children’s hospitals to strip websites, threatening access to gender-affirming care
Stat News
By Tara Bannow and Kate Sheridan
October 3, 2022


Children’s hospitals that have been targeted on social media for providing gender-affirming care — and even some that haven’t — are stripping information about those services from their websites. Advocates fear the changes could make it even harder for transgender adolescents to get care.

Though the harassment has been most pronounced at Boston Children’s Hospital, right-wing pundits have singled out at least 20 other children’s hospitals on social media. All but three have modified the information that’s available about gender-affirming care for their patients, often by removing information about physicians or the services offered, according to a STAT analysis of their websites.

Doctors and advocates say they’re concerned the changes will prevent some transgender adolescents from learning about the care that’s available locally. Though advocates speculated that hospitals might be taking down information to keep their employees safe, they also said the effect is to eliminate reputable sources of information about gender-affirming care in an internet landscape where misinformation runs rampant.

And they mention a hospital here in Connecticut,

“Those types of attacks send messages to young people everywhere, not just specifically where they’re happening, that they’re not safe,” said Meredithe McNamara, a pediatrician and assistant professor of pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine. “That they’re not welcome and that there are people out there that hate that they exist. That sends such dangerous messages at such a pivotal period in one’s cognitive and social development.”

Their goals?

To create fear so the hospitals stop treating us and they create fear in the patients so they are afraid to get te proper healthcare. So hospitals are self censoring trying to keep out of the sight to the right-wing agitators.

But experts say the material found on hospitals’ websites can actually influence whether someone feels comfortable seeking care that they need in the first place. And hospitals’ gender program websites are important sources of information for people who need services, so removing information logically poses a barrier to access, said Joshua Safer, executive director of the Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery.

Safer, an endocrinologist, said he’s especially worried about transgender youth who don’t yet feel safe at home and search the internet for credible resources.

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But experts say the material found on hospitals’ websites can actually influence whether someone feels comfortable seeking care that they need in the first place. And hospitals’ gender program websites are important sources of information for people who need services, so removing information logically poses a barrier to access, said Joshua Safer, executive director of the Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery.

Safer, an endocrinologist, said he’s especially worried about transgender youth who don’t yet feel safe at home and search the internet for credible resources.

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Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, for example, dismantled the web page for its Clinic for Transgender Health following a cable news segment and social media posts that cast the program in a negative light. (VUMC has since stated that the segment and posts misrepresent facts about the care it provides.) As of Thursday evening, the page was back up.

The Republicans has given the green light to crawl out of the swamp.

“It feels as if in some ways a door has been opened to attack health care providers,” she said, “whether it’s for providing reproductive health care or gender-informed health care.”

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And the flood of legislation against us has given the green light…

Tennessee GOP tells hospital to stop providing gender-affirming surgeries, says legislature must act ‘immediately’
State lawmakers in a letter to Vanderbilt University Medical Center leadership said gender-affirming procedures performed at the hospital’s Pediatric Transgender Clinic qualify as “nothing less than abuse.”
The Hill
By Brooke Migdon
October 3, 2022


Story at a glance

• Dozens of Tennessee House Republicans are calling on Vanderbilt University Medical Center to stop providing gender-affirming surgeries to minors.
• In a letter sent to hospital leadership last week, lawmakers said they were alarmed by reporting from the Daily Wire, a conservative news site, that detailed “surgical mutilations” at the hospital’s Pediatric Transgender Clinic.
• The hospital in a statement said the outlet’s reporting had misrepresented facts about the care provided to young transgender patients.

More than 60 Tennessee House Republicans have signed onto a letter demanding that Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) halt all gender-affirming surgical procedures for transgender youth younger than 18.

In a letter sent last week to the hospital’s president and board of directors, lawmakers wrote that they have been “alarmed” by recent reports from the Daily Wire, a conservative news site, that detail the “surgical mutilations” of children at VUMC’s Pediatric Transgender Clinic.

“Tennesseans across the state have demanded a swift response and a call to action. We agree that these revelations require the legislature to act immediately,” lawmakers wrote, adding that the clinic’s practices qualify as “nothing less than abuse.”

The group called on the hospital’s board to “take immediate action” by halting all “permanent gender transitioning surgeries being performed on minor children.”

The Vultures are sitting rubbing their hands waiting for the self-harm to begin. The damage to the children who do not get lifesaving medical treatment.

They do not even know what they are banning they push the lie that surgeries are performed on children “surgical mutilations” they push the lie because they know that their base eats it up.

Meanwhile the Republicans in Congress are also jumping on the bandwagon.

In August, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) introduced federal legislation that would make it a felony — punishable by up to 25 years in prison — to provide gender-affirming health care to a minor.

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) last week attempted to introduce an amendment to Congress’ short-term government funding bill to prevent tax dollars from being used to fund gender-affirming care for youth under 18, but the amendment was blocked from consideration by Democrats.

VOTE Democratic! Your life and the lives of other trans people are at stake!