Tuesday's threat wasn't the first requiring police to be called to Wiener's home this year, nor was it the first he attributed to right-wing activist Charlie Kirk's words.
San Francisco police say a written bomb threat made Tuesday against state Sen. Scott Wiener's Castro District home that echoed the homophobic rhetoric of far-right leaders targeting him in recent weeks did"not have any merit."
"The extreme homophobic and transphobic rhetoric that has escalated on social media and right-wing media outlets has real-world impacts," Wiener said in a statement."It leads to harassment, stalking, threats and violence against our community. People are dying as a result. Responsible political leaders on the right must call it out and stop tolerating it."
Taylor Greene and Kirk falsely equated Wiener's support of gender-affirming care for transgender children as support for"mutilating children," and Kirk falsely claimed that Wiener's SB 145 indicates the senator supports"freeing pedophiles." Tuesday's threat wasn't the first requiring police to be called to Wiener's home this year, nor was it the first he attributed to Kirk's words. It also occurred less than a month after a person using the name Zamina Tataro claimed they had placed bombs at a Canadian high school due to a transgender teacher's attire.
The same account also repeatedly criticized Boston Children's Hospital for its gender-affirming care of transgender children and teenagers, leading to numerous bomb threats since August. Some of those emails are linked to the name of the user who threatened Wiener on Tuesday morning.
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