UPTOWN — Westboro Baptist Church has announced plans to protest at Weiss Memorial Hospital and the University of Chicago this Friday.
According to its website, the group will be at Weiss Hospital, 4646 N. Marine Dr., from 10:30 a.m. - 11 a.m. Friday to protest a Transmale Genital Surgery Cadaver Lab that the hospital is hosting for medical professionals this week.
The church called the procedure, considered a form of gender confirmation surgery, "voodoo insanity" practied by "witch doctors" acting "in defiance of the Lord" on the group's website.
The Uptown hospital is home to the Center for Gender Confirmation Surgery, which offers the full spectrum of male to female and female to male procedures in accordance to guidelines established by the World Professional Association of Transgender Health, according to its website.
Following the protest at Weiss, the group will head to the University of Chicago, 5801 S. Ellis Ave., which they accuse of "catering to the transgender" by providing gender neutral housing and bathrooms, according to the church's website.
The South Side college has gender-neutral and single-user restrooms on campus. It also employs an Open Housing or Gender-Neutral Housing system "to create an environment that is welcoming, inclusive and supportive of our students," according to its website.
"The Open Housing option allows second-, third- and fourth-year College students the choice of living with other second-, third- or fourth-year students, regardless of gender," the school's website said.
Westboro Baptist Church, located in Kansas, has become known for its anti-LGBTQ protests at public events, including military funerals. According to the church's website, it "engages in daily peaceful sidewalk demonstrations opposing the homosexual lifestyle."
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