While US President Donald Trump and his government are continuing their systematic attacks on transsamerican peopleactivists and uninvolved people equally target the FBI’s latest approach. The FBI wants to prosecute doctors who send transcodirable treatments to trans -youthful gender -vague treatments.
Trump government is specifically against Trans-youth
On Monday, the FBI requested information on doctors or hospitals “mutilate the treatment under the guise of the sexual -vague treatment”. Whereby it refers to surgical interventions in trans youth. But the “criminals” that the Trump government is chasing may not exist. Every great American health organization agreed that surgical interventions in children under 12 do not occur. And are extremely rare even with minors between 15 and 17. Since this reporting point is most likely to be directed against providers and programs that help trans-young people with non-invasive therapies-although the Trump government threatens to reduce funding-according to two sources familiar with the matter and a rolling stone, people with insulting and coarse comments flow into the hotline.
Reactions in social networks
The return of the Trump government to the White House is characterized by targeted attacks on trans youth and their health care. In January, Trump issued an executive arrangement that gender -affirming treatment described as the “chemical and surgical mutilation” of children. And this threatened to delete federal funds for hospitals that offer such treatments.
In April, US Justice Minister Pam Bondi-who worked as a lawyer in the first office of office against Trump-published a memo in which the Ministry of Justice stated that several existing US laws would be used to pursue providers of trans health care. Including laws against female genital mutilation. On Monday, the FBI asked to report references to doctors or practitioners that gender -affirming “surgical interventions” on children. (It does not happen by chance that this request was sent on the second day of the Pride month, which is normally dedicated to the LGBTQ+community.)
“Help the FBI to protect children,” posted the Trump-FBI-led by the Trump-loving Kash Patel and Dan Bongino-on Monday to X. “As the Justice Minister clarified, we will protect our children. And those who mutilate them under the guise of sexual care. Report information on hospitals, clinics or practicers Perform interventions on children, under 1-800-call fbi or tips.fbi.gov. “
Activist reactions and hotline crash
This presentation of trans health care as a “mutilation” diametrically contradicts the assessments of all major medical associations in the USA. Including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. According to the National Institute of Health and the Harvard School of Public Health report, there are no evidence that children under 12 receive some kind of surgical interventions. For minors between the ages of 15 and 17, almost all interventions concerned the chest area. And to a lesser extent than with cis -sex boys. However, in May the Ministry of Health published a 400-page report, which recommended treatment plans, which resembled the conversion therapy approaches.
So it didn’t take long for this social media post including contact information in the group chats of numerous LGBTQ+allied and activists.
Two sources report that various concerned citizens, activists and other people began to call the hotline immediately. Partly via anonymous VoIP connections. To let go of angry tirades. Some callers were annoyed that they obviously could not leave a voiceemail. And insulted the FBI employees at the other end of the line.
Coarse protests – but also warnings
A call said to the magazine that he called the hotline to recommend the second Trump government to “eat my whole ass.”
A Rolling Stone contains the audio file that contains a gay former federal employee who wants to remain anonymous. And that roars into the federal hotline: “Piss off, Nazi tail heads!”
Another source reports that “more than a dozen” friends and acquaintances from LGBTQ+close political circles are active to flood the FBI hotline with angry comments or protest messages. To protest against the persecution of transsamerican people and the defamation of their health care.
As understandable as the need may be to paralyze the FBI hotline with spam. Some activists and right -wing experts urgently warn against merging on a recorded federal channel. Especially in the case of a government that proceeds with exceptional legal contempt against Trump opponents. Even if there is no misconduct.
Before the target for spam
“Many people want to fill up the Petzen hotline,” says one person. “My advice: don’t say anything that could be interpreted as a threat. Speaking plain text, briefly and flush.”
The FBI did not comment on this story.
It is not the first time that the new Trump government is the goal of a massive spam wave. At the end of February, Trump’s top consultant Elon Musk asked federal employees to “respond to an email in which they should explain what they did last week”. Otherwise, “forced termination” would threaten. As Rolling Stone reported at the time, the affected government mail was expected to be flooded with jokes and sometimes “very rude” emails after the leak of the email.
The journalist Jael Holzman, who reported for this magazine about the hard trans -hostile line of the Republican Party, has already warned that attempts to target parents Translate have been prepared at the federal level. In recent years, the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been profiled as an advocate of the state approach against these families. Some members of his team are now part of the new Trump government.
Despite everything: protest counts
“For decades, established research and validated treatment standards are now defamed as a pseudoscientific, while so-called legitimate science is simply thought. But that is typical Trump government,” said Douglas C. Haldeman, Ph.D., Clinical psychologist with specialization in the care of former conversion therapy victims. “
Of course, the attempts to clog the FBI’s anti-Trans-Trans hotline will not stop the multi-layered offensive of the Trump government against trans people, medical staff and supporters. But they are not completely useless. Raquel Willis, co-founder of the Gender Liberation Movement, says Rolling Stone that a climate of resistance is important to prevent communities from getting used to the harassment by the Trump era. Especially when they come with terms such as “child protection”.
“Even if this FBI hotline and the discourse may have a harmless look for many, they still address the desire to criminalize the physical self-determination of young trans people. Just like the private decisions that they make together with parents and qualified medical staff about their care,” says Willis. “It is interesting that conservatives lead this crusade to interference in private decisions after they have said for decades not to want a state influence in everyday life. It is not really about child protection. But just about control.”