Children’s hospitals harassed over transgender care programs

BOSTON (AP) — Doctors and other staffers at Boston Children’s Hospital are being threatened with violence over its surgical program for transgender youths. Other U.S. children’s hospitals are also being harassed online. Boston Children’s is home to the first U.S. pediatric and adolescent transgender health program. It became the focus of far-right social media accounts, news outlets and bloggers last week after they found informational videos published by the hospital weeks ago about surgical offerings for transgender patients. The hospital removed the videos and is now working with law enforcement. Some of the same social media accounts are now targeting similar gender care programs in Pittsburgh and Phoenix.