Samuel Case, FISM News
The American Medical Association is asking Attorney General Merrick Garland to target critics of childhood transgender treatment.
The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association have also joined the request that looks to silence social media accounts that seek to expose hospitals and clinics around the country that are practicing gender-altering surgeries and treatments on minors.
In a letter to the AG, shared by senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute Chris Rufo, the groups urge Garland “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.”
The letter continues, “From Boston to Akron to Nashville to Seattle, children’s hospitals, academic health systems, and physicians are being targeted and threatened for providing evidence-based health care.”
The groups later claim “families, patients, and staff” are facing “increased threats via social media,” in addition to “harassing emails, phone calls, and protestors at health care sites.”
Rufo highlighted the following:
These coordinated attacks threaten federally protected rights to health care for patients and their families. 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. Our organizations have called on technology companies to do more to prevent this practice on digital platforms, and we now urge your office to take swift action to investigate and prosecute all organizations, individuals, and entities responsible.
The letter comes amid increased public scrutiny over transgender treatment for minors by major medical institutions.
Rufo compared the letter to last year’s controversy surrounding the Department of Justice and the National School Board Association, where the NSBA asked the DOJ to crack down on parents t voicing concerns over school curriculum at school board meetings – comparing them to domestic terrorists.”
This is now the Left's playbook: last year, the National School Board Association, Department of Justice, and F.B.I. worked together to label parents who opposed critical race theory "domestic terrorists." They want to stifle dissent, suppress speech, and criminalize opposition.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 3, 2022
“This is a reckless move designed to criminalize dissent,” Rufo told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, later saying there is nothing Garland can do to stop journalists from reporting on “radical gender surgeries on minors.”