Following exposé, major children's hospital denies it performs LGBT hysterectomies on young patients

A major children's hospital this week pushed back against claims that it will perform hysterectomies on female patients younger than 16 years old after shocking audio—and documentation from the hospital itself—appeared to suggest as much. 

Children's National Hospital, in Washington, D.C., was put in the center of controversy on Thursday after Chaya Raichik, known for the conservative Internet brand "Libs of Tik Tok," posted audio of an exchange she said was with an administrator of the medical facility. 

Posing as a parent seeking a hysterectomy for her transgender-identifying child, Raichik spoke to two different hospital administrators who indicated that they would perform such a procedure on a 16-year-old child; one of the workers suggested that the hospital has done surgeries on children even younger than that. 

Following backlash to the audio, Children's National Hospital posted a response on Twitter in which it claimed that the hospital "do[es] not provide gender-affirming surgery for anyone under the age of 18." 

Raichik subsequently criticized the hospital for what appeared to be the scrubbing of a webpage that indicated the hospital would provide "gender-affirming medical care" for very young patients. 

A hospital representative, meanwhile, told Fox News that the documentation cited by Raichik was "a flaw in the design of our website."