Fox News’ Tucker Carlson is helping stoke death threats against children’s hospitals
LGBTQ Nation
LGBTQ Nation
Quote:Fox News has helped amplify transphobic right-wingers spreading misinformation about children’s hospitals that provide gender-affirming care to transgender kids, a new Media Matters study has found. These hospitals have received bombing and death threats over these lies.
Between August 18 and 31, Fox News host Tucker Carlson interviewed anti-trans extremists Chris Elston, Chaya Raichik, and Chris Rufo, giving the three a platform to misinform viewers about the hospitals.
The August 18 installment of Carlson’s show featured Elston, “a Canadian anti-trans extremist whose tweet kicked off the attacks on Boston Children’s Hospital,” Media Matters wrote. On the show, Elston called gender-affirming care “the biggest child abuse scandal in modern medicine history.” Carlson agreed, calling gender-affirming health care “sexual mutilation of children.”
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