Boston Children's Hospital (BCH) staff received "violent threats" in August 2022 after Libs of TikTok incorrectly claimed that children were receiving hysterectomies. The Children's National Hospital was also targeted in late August by Libs of TikTok, which also falsely claimed the hospital was performing hysterectomies on children. The National hospital received both bomb and death threats on social media. Both Facebook and Twitter have not suspended Libs of TikTok, despite the large volume of harassment BCH has received because of the targeting. Fox News and The Daily Caller both ran stories using the false information Libs of TikTok spread. Children's hospitals in Pittsburgh and Phoenix were also targeted. On August 30, a bomb threat caused the hospital to go into lockdown and another threat, phoned in on September 9, brought in the police to investigate. A woman from Westfield, Massachusetts was arrested on September 15 for charges of making one of the bomb threats to BCH. The FBI reported that there have been "well over a dozen" such threats made to BCH. On September 18, 2022, "Billboard Chris," an anti-LGBT activist from Canada, organized a protest of the hospital's gender affirming care program outside of BCH. Between 100 and 200 counter-protesters came to support the transgender care at the hospital, outnumbering the protesters. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Medical Association (AMA), and the Children's Hospital Association (CHA) have asked U.S. Attorney General Merrick 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."
