A Texas man has been arrested and charged with making a death threat against a physician who cares for gender-nonconforming children, federal prosecutors said, as threats against health-care providers who work with LGBTQ youths have risen in recent months.
Matthew Jordan Lindner, 38, who was arrested Friday, is accused of calling the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center in Boston on Aug. 31 and leaving a voice mail that targeted a doctor affiliated with the center, the U.S. attorney’s office in Massachusetts said in aAccording to the statement, Lindner said in his message that “there’s a group of people on their way to handle” the physician and that “you signed your own warrant.
Prosecutors said the alleged threat was made in the same month the Boston Children’s Hospital, which is less than one mile away from the center, was targeted in a harassment campaign over the care it was providing for transgender patients. Inaccurate information was spreading online about the procedures it performs, authorities said.“The words used here do not amount to someone simply expressing their discontent or engaging in a heated debate,” United States Attorney Rachael S.
Lindner’s case is one of the more extreme examples of a long-running harassment campaign against medical providers who work with transgender children and adolescents, which escalated in August.On Aug. 30, one day before Lindner’s alleged threat, Boston Children’s Hospital — the first in the nation to establish its own pediatric and adolescent transgender health program — was forced by authorities to lock down after it received an anonymous bomb threat, which turned out to be fake.
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