Big Medicine joins the conservative censorship campaign – Washington Examiner

Youve heard of Big Tech censoring or quashing orthodox views on hot-button issues such as abortion and radical gender theory, but what about Big Medicine?

In a bold plea for censorship, the American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Childrens Hospital Association sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland this week, asking him "to investigate the increasing threats of violence against physicians, hospitals and families of children for providing and seeking evidence-based gender-affirming care," per their news release.

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The letter specifically urged the Justice Department to "investigate the organizations, individuals, and entities coordinating" the flow of information, including social media posts, that questions or contradicts what the health organizations called "evidence-based gender-affirming care." They also asked technology platforms and large social media companies including Twitter, TikTok, and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram to help censor similar "rhetoric that often incites threats or acts of violence."

Asking the Justice Department to tag-team with Big Tech to investigate and deplatform citizens, journalists, and others is profoundly unethical. The letter is written under the guise of safety concerns, citing previous threats of violence toward a few childrens hospitals. Those threats occurred after researcher Chris Rufo exposed their performing of sex-change surgeries on minors.

To be clear: No one, Rufo certainly included, would deliberately instigate or condone any threat or act of violence toward a hospital for any reason. But exposing concerns over gender-related sex-change surgeries on minors is not violence. It is journalism and research.

In turn, if the procedures are not harmful to children, let these healthcare organizations stand by their medical decisions and move forward. Yet by calling for an end to any criticism, these organizations suggest they are not as sure about their medical decisions as they purport to be. Put simply, Big Medicine doth protest too much, methinks.

Again, no hospital should be threatened with violence. Still, a concerned parent, teacher, journalist, or physician has the right to call into question unorthodox treatments of minors.

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Nicole Russell is a contributor to the Washington Examiner's Beltway Confidential blog. She is a journalist in Washington, D.C., who previously worked in Republican politics in Minnesota. She is an opinion columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

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