The right-leaning social-media account “Libs of TikTok” said it has been suspended by Facebook after staffers at Boston Children’s Hospital reportedly got threats following a post that alleged the hospital was providing hysterectomies to minors.
“Facebook just suspended our account. No reason given,” Libs of TikTok tweeted on Wednesday, sharing a screenshot indicating that the account “didn’t follow our Community Standards.”
The Post has reached out to Libs of TikTok, Facebook’s parent company, Meta, and Boston Children’s Hospital seeking comment.
On Aug. 11, Libs of TikTok shared a video showing Dr. Frances Grimstad, a gynecologist and obstetrician at Boston Children’s Hospital, speaking about “gender-affirming hysterectomies.”
In the promotional half-minute video, Grimstad describes the procedure, which is “the removal of the uterus, cervix, and fallopian tubes” as well as, in some cases, the removal of ovaries.
Boston Children’s Hospital touts itself as the nation’s first pediatric hospital that established an adolescent transgender health program. The medical community has come under fire from conservatives over gender-affirming care provided to young people.
The tweet by Libs of TikTok accused the hospital of offering up these procedures for “young girls” — which many on Twitter assumed to mean minors.
In a post on its Substack blog, Libs of TikTok claimed that the hospital “supports castrating kids and I have evidence,” adding that it “had a full menu of castration and mutilation options for minors to choose from.”
Libs ofTikTok also shared a link to a story from conservative media outlets accusing the hospital of “promoting surgeries to youth on their YouTube page,” including “vaginoplasty on 17 year olds” and possibly younger girls as well.
Libs of TikTok’s Twitter followers responded with outrage.
“This is monstrous,” Stephen Miller, the former Trump administration adviser, tweeted.
“How does anyone involved in this still have a medical license?”
Since the post by Libs of TikTok, doctors and staffers at Boston Children’s Hospital have reportedly been deluged with threats, according to The Boston Globe.
The hospital told the Globe that it “has been the target of a large volume of hostile internet activity, phone calls, and harassing emails including threats of violence toward our clinicians and staff.”
“We are deeply concerned by these attacks on our clinicians and staff fueled by misinformation and a lack of understanding and respect for our transgender community,” the hospital said in a statement.
Libs of TikTok was also accused of promoting a false claim — that the hospital was performing hysterectomies on minors.
The hospital said on its website that operations involving the removal of sex organs isn’t done on patients younger than 18 years of age.
According to the hospital, those who suffer from “persistent, well-documented, gender dysphoria” must be at least 18 years of age and have a letter from a doctor in order to qualify for the surgery.
In a subsequent post, Libs of TikTok accused the hospital of updating their website and increasing the age at which they are subjected to gender-affirming surgeries to 18 from 17.
“They suspended our account and we immediately appealed,” the social-media account said of Wednesday’s actions by Facebook. “Within 2 minutes they answered that we’re suspended for good. I’m sure we totally got a full and fair review.”
The Libs of TikTok, which is run by Brooklyn real estate agent Chaya Raichik, then announced to her more than 1.3 million followers on Twitter that while the Facebook page was live she was denied the ability to post.
“Our page is back up on Facebook but we are still locked out and were last told that it’s permanent,” the tweet read.
“Perhaps it was just an ‘error.’ Will update you all.”