Harassment prompts children’s hospitals to strip websites, threatening access to gender-affirming care
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.
