Medical Establishment Wants Less Free Speech, More Mutilated Children
If its appeal for state-Big Tech action against critics is any indication, the Woke medical establishment now not only seeks to encourage interventions up to the mutilation of children's' bodies, but with it the mutilation of Americans' free speech rights in service of its lucrative "gender-affirming care" enterprise.
The American Medical Association (AMA), joined by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association, recently delivered a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland calling for him to unleash the Justice Department on foes of efforts to transition children.
In so doing, the AMA et al. took a page out of the notorious National School Board Association (NSBA) playbook. The play goes like this: When journalists and activists expose an institution's radical positions, spurring a damaging backlash, claim that the costly revelations constitute disinformation, that the disinformation is inciting dangerous acts, and that therefore public and private authorities ought to pursue the "disinformers."
The play is made more effective when the authorities to whom the institution is appealing are already on the institution's side, as was the case with the NSBA and the Biden administration.
The AMA and its co-signers made their play by arguing that the doctors they represent and the facilities where the doctors work are facing:
coordinated attacks threaten[ing] federally protected rights to health care for patients and their families. The attacks are rooted in an intentional campaign of disinformation, where a few high-profile users on social media share false and misleading information targeting individual physicians and hospitals, resulting in a rapid escalation of threats, harassment, and disruption of care across multiple jurisdictions.
Therefore, the parties added, "Our organizations have called on technology companies to do more to prevent this practice on digital platforms, and we now urge your office to take swift action to investigate and prosecute all organizations, individuals, and entities responsible."
Wisely, unlike the NSBA, the medical organizations were vaguer about the threats their members and medical facilities are purportedly facing, and the extent of the gender-affirming jihad they want the government to launch against critics.
The drafters referenced a single bomb threat, noted that children's hospitals have been beefing up security, and said that social media threats and other "harassing" communications, along with "protestors at health care sites," are creating an "elevated and justifiable fear among families, patients, and staff." Unlike the NSBA, they did not cite a list of specific threatening acts that when examined would fall apart, undermining their argument. Less specificity makes it harder to scrutinize the claims...
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