A group of medical associations is refuting claims that questioning the ethics of performing sex change surgeries on children and teens will lead to threats against hospitals and physicians that perform such body-mutilating procedures.

Led by the American College of Pediatricians and the Catholic Medical Association, leaders of a group of medical associations sent a letter to the American Medical Association, the Children’s Hospital Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics on Friday, urging child advocates within the medical community to embrace science rather than ideology.

Other signatories included the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, the Christian Medical and Dental Associations, the Coalition for Jewish Values Healthcare Council, the Coptic Medical Association of North America, and the National Association of Catholic Nurses, USA.

The letter comes nearly a month after its intended recipients urged U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate “the organizations, individuals, and entities coordinating, provoking, and carrying out bomb threats of personal violence against children’s hospitals and physicians across the U.S.” The Oct. 3 letter to the DOJ claimed that “from Boston to Akron to Nashville to Seattle, children’s hospitals, academic health systems, and physicians are being targeted and threatened for providing evidence-based health care.”

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“Children’s National Hospital needs to provide a full accounting,” said Yehuda Mond, M.D., Chair of the CJV Healthcare Council. “The hospital must be frank about which procedures were performed, and at what ages, in the name of gender affirmation. If these did not include hysterectomies for minor girls, the hospital must explain why both its website and multiple operators repeatedly, confidently stated otherwise, and for patients under sixteen.”

On August 25, Twitter user Chaya Raichik, otherwise known as LibsofTikTok, published recordings from a phone call that she placed to Children’s National Hospital. On the recording, two operators, the latter in the surgical department, affirm that Children’s National will perform a “gender-affirming” hysterectomy for Raichik’s purported sixteen-year-old daughter. The first offers to contact the medical director of the hospital’s “Gender Development Program” to confirm, while the second repeatedly states that they perform “gender-affirming” hysterectomies on girls as young as sixteen and adds that “I have seen younger kids.”

A hospital spokesperson told Fox News that the conversation “reflects a call with hospital operators, not anyone who delivers care to our patients.” The spokesperson did not dispute the accuracy of the recordings, but stated nonetheless that “we do not provide gender-affirming surgery for anyone under the age of eighteen.” The Washington Post took similar statements at face value, asserting the recording was “erroneous information” that “falsely suggested” Children’s National performed the procedure. NPR similarly called confirmation that the hospital would perform hysterectomies “false claims.”

“We know of large numbers of cases where minors have been sterilized in the name of ‘gender affirmation’” said Miriam Grossman, M.D., a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist and member of the CJV Healthcare Council’s Executive Committee, who has warned about the dangers of gender ideology for over a decade. “Journalists should not be providing cover for the hospital in this case, but joining us to ask why the website and staff members both informed a caller that a sixteen year old could receive a ‘gender-affirming’ hysterectomy if this was not actually true.”

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