On Saturday afternoon, Donald Trump Meeting in Mosinee, WisconsinHe repeated his claim He made it first At an event hosted by the anti-transgender school committee group Moms for Liberty, it was alleged that young people are undergoing sex reassignment surgery at school and being sent home as a different gender. This claim is completely false. Schools do not have the resources, doctors or legal authority to provide medical gender reassignment care, let alone gender reassignment surgery. When asked about the claim, Moms for Liberty founder Tiffany Justice said: I admitted that it was a lieBut she said she was grateful to Trump for promoting it.
At the rally, Trump spoke about transgender issues, claiming, “Kamala supports states being able to take minor children, give them sex reassignment surgery, take them away from their parents, give them sex reassignment surgery and send them home…Can you imagine being a parent and saying to your son as he leaves the house, ‘Jimmy, I love you. Have a good day at school,’ and then he comes home having a brutal operation? Can you imagine that? What on earth has gone wrong in this country?”
His latest false claims can be seen here:
This isn’t the first time Trump has made such a claim. A week ago, while speaking with Tiffany Justice at the Moms for Liberty conference, Trump spoke for 20 minutes about transgender issues, Cisgender Olympian Imane Khelif He then falsely claimed she had had a sex change. In the same speech, he repeated the claim that people are forced to undergo surgery at schools so they become the wrong gender and are sent home.
This claim is easily disprovable, yet it seems to be a point Trump is sticking to: transgender youth cannot have surgery at school. These facilities lack the medical equipment, specialists, and legal authority required for such surgery. Moreover, many schools in the United States There are staffing shortages, with not enough school nurses and counselors. 21% of universities are unable to adequately support students, and 21% have no nurses on staff. The allegations were confirmed to be false.and even Tiffany Justice of Moms for Liberty acknowledge that’s a lie.
Tiffany Justice In response to a question from CNNsaid she was happy Trump lied about gender-affirming care in schools, but
“Are kids being operated on at school? No they’re not.” But she added that she was still “grateful” for Trump making the point because, she said, his comments drew attention to an important issue: schools facilitating the social transition of children without parental consent.
“It’s been brought to your attention and we’re now talking about it, which I’m very pleased about,” Justice said of Trump’s allegations.
Gender-affirming care for transgender youth is currently prohibited. About half Most US states recognize transgender rights, but most of the remaining states are moving to protect access. Often waiting years To undergo surgery, multiple letters of recommendation are required and medical costs are often high and not covered by insurance. Very small number Many of these surgeries are performed on older transgender youth, usually between the ages of 16 and 18, and most are “top surgeries.” In these cases, the youth must obtain parental permission and typically face strict approval criteria, such as older teenage transgender boys who are stable in their gender identity and would be uncomfortable with long-term commitments. In all cases, care is provided by accredited facilities and physicians in the United States, never through schools and certainly never without parental consent.
Nevertheless, lies about gender affirming care continue to spread through far-right social media networks and often become rallying points for future anti-trans legislation. It’s a rumor that trash cans are in classroomsIt is still cited, for example, as a justification for passing anti-transgender laws. Leaders of anti-transgender groups rarely admit that they know they are spreading lies. In doing so, Justice inadvertently exposed a broader strategy shared by many anti-transgender groups: that their policies targeting transgender people are underpinned not by fact but by deliberate fabrication.
This article was originally published on Erin in the Morning.
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