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"One Saturday morning in September 2022, Terrence Steyer, the dean of the
College of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina, placed an
urgent call to a student. Just a year prior, the medical student, Thomas
Agostini, had won first place at a university-sponsored event for his graduate
research on transgender pediatric patients. He also had been featured in a
video on MUSC’s website highlighting resources that support the LGBTQ+
community.
Now, Agostini and his once-lauded study had set off a political firestorm.
Conservative activists seized on one line in particular in the study’s summary
— a parenthetical noting the youngest transgender patient to visit MUSC’s
pediatric endocrinology clinic was 4 years old — and inaccurately claimed that
children that young were prescribed hormones as part of a gender transition.
Elon Musk amplified the false claim, tweeting, “Is it really true that
four-year-olds are receiving hormone treatment?” That led federal and state
lawmakers to frantically ask top MUSC leaders whether the public hospital was
in fact helping young children medically transition. The hospital was not; its
pediatric transgender patients did not receive hormone therapy before puberty,
nor does it offer surgical options to minors.
The dean’s call went to voicemail. A person familiar with the call shared the
voice message with ProPublica."
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