Texas Man Indicted In Boston Children's Hospital Threat

BOSTON, MA — A Texas man has been indicted on a federal charge for threatening a Boston Children's Hospital doctor who worked in a transgender health center that the right-wing social media presence Libs of TikTok targeted over the summer.

According to federal prosecutors, Matthew Jordan Lindner, 38, of Comfort, Texas, called in a threat to the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center on Aug. 31.

“You sick motherf*****s, you’re all gonna burn," Lindner said in a voicemail, according to prosecutors. "There’s a group of people on their way to handle [the doctor]. You signed your own warrant ... Castrating our children. You’ve woken up enough people. And upset enough of us. And you signed your own ticket. Sleep well, you f******, c***."

Lindner also called numbers associated with the doctor at the University of Rhode Island and a medical office, according to court records. Lindner is the owner of a gun ammunition business in Texas, and FBI agent discovered.

Linder was indicted Thursday on a charge of interstate transmission of threatening communication. He was released after a hearing at federal court in San Antonio, but is set to appear at a hearing in Boston on Dec. 22.

One other person has been charged by federal prosecutors for threatening the hospital's transgender care program: Catherine Leavy, 37, of Westfield, who called in a bomb threat and called hospital staff "sickos," according to federal officials.

In August, Libs of TikTok — which largely targets LGBTQ+ people — circulated false information about the hospital's transgender health program. The Boston Children's pediatric and adolescent transgender health program established more than a decade ago was the first of its kind in the U.S.

The hospital subsequently received a barrage of threats, including bomb threats that shut the hospital down at the end of August and in early September.