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"Gast’s experience has become a predictable new cost for doctors who treat
transgender patients. From Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in Florida to
Akron Children’s Hospital in Ohio and Vanderbilt University Medical Center in
Tennessee, health care providers and institutions are being targeted as part of
a new tactic in a larger right-wing war against LGBTQ people and communities,
as well as the people and institutions who serve them. Before doctors, many of
these same conservative online influencers and media figures targeted teachers
and librarians, branding them as pedophiles or “groomers” over books, drag
shows and Pride events, disrupting the goings-on at schools and libraries
across the country.
The campaign has increasingly begun targeting individual doctors like Gast. It
is a shift that has some health care advocates concerned about similarities to
the anti-abortion rhetoric that spurred violence against abortion providers and
clinics starting in the 1970s and continuing through recent years.
Most doctors have declined to speak after having been the targets of online
harassment campaigns. Six hospitals and two doctors declined to speak with NBC
News, citing, in part, threats of violence. UW Health has said its gender
services program continues unchanged."
Via Diane A, who wrote "Terrorism USA"
Cheers,
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
