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Boston Right Wing Extremists Make Bomb Threat

25/09/2022

LGBTQIA advocates have long argued that anti-LGBTQIA people are borderline criminal, dangerous, violent and completely unstable. Well, this week the Washington Post reports on a case in Boston, where prolific Trump donor telephoned a bomb threat to the local children’s hospital, after reading right wing lies online that the hospital performed gender affirmation surgery on under eighteen year olds. The woman involved, Catherline Leavy, faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. “The commentary and the online attention that followed was based on the incorrect statement that Boston Children’s performs genital surgeries on minors in connection with transgender care,” the hospital said. Meanwhile, the FBI field officer for Boston, Joseph Bonavolonta, reports that far right wingers are increasingly harassing health care staff over transgender health care, often making exaggerated or totally false claims. Rachael Rollins, the top federal prosecutor in Massachusetts, said “It seems that this is happening all too often, that hoaxes are used to promote personal, hateful beliefs and ideologies. We will not stand by and allow this to continue.” 

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