As you know, it was April when the Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz did a hit piece on the woman behind the Libs of TikTok account, not only naming her but including a link to her real estate license (which WaPo tried to stealth-delete) and showing up at the homes of her relatives. Lorenz is allegedly a technology journalist, which makes it so interesting that NBC News’ “tech and culture reporter” Kat Tenbarge would target Libs of TikTok.
Over the past couple of days, we’ve done tweets about videos put out by Boston Children’s Hospital in which they argue that children know they’re transgender as soon as they can form the thought in their heads, and they express this by, for example, playing with “opposite-gender” toys or trying on siblings’ clothes. We’re not sure how old they have to be for the hospital’s gender-affirming hysterectomy.
Tenbarge, unbiased reporter that she is, called out Libs of TikTok’s “hateful anti-trans and anti-queer rhetoric” targeting a children’s hospital.
Libs of TikTok has used hateful anti-trans and anti-queer rhetoric to target public schools, private individuals, libraries, small businesses and now a children’s hospital 👇 thread https://t.co/oXft37plGx
— Kat Tenbarge (@kattenbarge) August 16, 2022
“This is stochastic terrorism, full stop.” Yes, posting the hospital’s own YouTube videos on Twitter is terrorism.
I wonder how Libs of TikTok and her followers would feel if their child was at this hospital for any reason, including for life-saving care, and the hospital staff was distracted/needed elsewhere due to threats stemming from this account’s posts https://t.co/fc1i3jCFnn
— Kat Tenbarge (@kattenbarge) August 16, 2022
#journalism https://t.co/k5LYjtefR6
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) August 16, 2022
It's amazing how quickly several Lorenz clones just popped up at media companies.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) August 16, 2022
They need younger versions in case she falls and breaks a hip.
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) August 16, 2022
As a gay man, I don’t need you to lie on my behalf. Just reposting social media isn’t hateful.
— Jay Collinwood (@collinwood_j) August 16, 2022
Giving them a wider platform is harassing them?
— No one of consequence, PhD (@NobodyOfX) August 16, 2022
https://twitter.com/bbqchucken/status/1559624099802107904
How is it hateful when she just reposts what these people posted themselves? Explain in your own words
— This heaven gives me migraine (@DrVanSSteiner) August 16, 2022
She's literally just retweeting what the hospital has already made public (until they removed it once they found out the public is not ok with mutilating children).
— Megan Bush (@MeganLBush) August 16, 2022
How dare she draw attention to videos that BCH publicly posted on their web site.
— Rev. Dr. Ashanti Van Buren+ (@AshantiVanBuren) August 16, 2022
Maybe, just maybe, public schools, libraries, small business, and hospitals should not be actively calling for, enabling, and helping children mutilate their bodies before they are an adult and can make those choices for themselves.
— Nivek (@Nivek1314) August 16, 2022
I'm confused why it's hateful for them to repost people's own videos or why that should have them banned.
This militant march towards everyone must agree with me or they should be silenced is also nonsense.
If these are doctors that stand by what they're saying then do it.
— Justin Edwards (@WolvesWin2022) August 16, 2022
And you might note as a journalist that “anti-trans” Libs of TikTok only does posts on transgender issues that involve young children. She doesn’t retweet anything about trans adults unless they’re teachers talking to their students about their gender identity.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant, journalist
— JimmyJames7 (@JimmyJames720) August 16, 2022
Put Kat Tenbarge on a watch list with Taylor Lorenz as “tech” journalists with an agenda.
Related:
Here’s Boston Children’s Hospital’s informative video about ‘gender-affirming hysterectomies’ for girls https://t.co/0BDS2eqjCr
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 11, 2022
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