{"id":118849,"date":"2024-10-27T06:10:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T23:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118849"},"modified":"2024-10-27T06:10:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T23:10:46","slug":"fact-check-trump-revives-his-lie-that-schools-are-secretly-sending-children-for-gender-affirming-surgeries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118849","title":{"rendered":"Fact check: Trump revives his lie that schools are secretly sending children for gender-affirming surgeries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p>\n    <cite class=\"source__cite\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__location\" data-editable=\"location\"\/><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__text\" data-editable=\"source\">CNN<\/span><br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<br \/>\n    <\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qls56n003e25qo6a9y6u9r@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Former President Donald Trump continues to repeat his lie that US schools are sending children for gender-affirming surgeries without their parents\u2019 consent \u2014 even though his own presidential campaign could not find a single example of this having happened.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qmznxi000v3b6n414j3qd1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump debuted the tale in late August. It was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/04\/politics\/donald-trump-fact-check-children-gender-affirming-surgery\/index.html\">debunked by CNN<\/a>\u00a0and others in early September. But Trump, whose campaign has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/18\/politics\/trump-transgender-attack-ads-harris\/index.html\">spent tens of millions of dollars<\/a>\u00a0on late-campaign attack ads related to transgender people, has revived the story in October as Election Day draws near.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qmznxi000w3b6noi1sibpe@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeSington\/status\/1848387054566072397\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made the claim again<\/a>\u00a0last week while discussing education policy during a New York City barbershop discussion filmed by Fox News: \u201cNo transgender, no operations \u2014 you know, they take your kid \u2014 there are some places, your boy leaves for school, comes back a girl. Okay? Without parental consent.\u201d He added, \u201cAt first, when I was told that was actually happening, I said, you know, it\u2019s an exaggeration. No: it happens. It happens. There are areas where it happens.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qmznxi000x3b6ncrdp7g2l@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump didn\u2019t name these supposed \u201careas.\u201d But he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Acyn\/status\/1850064118994415885\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made the claim once more<\/a>\u00a0during his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/26\/politics\/trump-joe-rogan-podcast-income-tax-tariffs\/index.html\">Friday interview<\/a>\u00a0with prominent podcast host Joe Rogan: \u201cWho would want to have \u2014 there\u2019s so many \u2014 the transgender operations: where they\u2019re allowed to take your child when he goes to school and turn him into a male \u2014 to a female \u2014 without parental consent.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qmznxi000y3b6nnao1qow8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <strong>Facts First<\/strong>:\u00a0<em>Trump\u2019s claim<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>remains<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>false. There is no evidence that schools<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>in any part of the United States<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>have sent children for gender-affirming surgeries without their parents\u2019 approval, or performed unapproved gender-affirming surgeries on site;<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>none of that is \u201callowed\u201d anywhere in the country<\/em><em>. Even in the states where\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/08\/23\/health\/gender-affirming-surgery-study\/index.html\"><em>gender-affirming surgery<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<em>is legal for people under age 18, parental consent<\/em>\u00a0<em>is required before a minor can undergo such a procedure.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qmznxi000z3b6nk6yzr15s@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <em>Trump\u2019s campaign and four conservative groups contacted by CNN in September about Trump\u2019s claim were unable to find any evidence for it. Experts on health care for transgender people said the situation Trump described simply does not happen in this country.<\/em>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qmznxi00103b6npxphbm5n@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsph.harvard.edu\/sogie\/sogie-team\/landon-hughes-phd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Landon\u00a0Hughes<\/a>, a\u00a0postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\u00a0and a co-author of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2820437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent study<\/a>\u00a0on the prevalence of gender-affirming surgery in the US, said in a\u00a0September\u00a0email: \u201cThere are no instances of children receiving surgeries or access to surgeries from their schools.\u201d Hughes added: \u201cNo provider in the US would perform surgery on a minor under the direction of a school, let alone without parental\u00a0consent.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qmznxi00113b6nloxcqm2m@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cOf course everything in this statement is false,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.yale.edu\/profile\/meredithe-mcnamara\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Meredithe McNamara<\/a>, an adolescent medicine physician at the Yale School of Medicine, said in a\u00a0September\u00a0email. \u201cOf course surgery of any kind happens in a qualified medical center and not in a school. Of course parents are the medical decision-makers for their kids, especially when it comes to gender-affirming care.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qmznxi00123b6njbw5oigo@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            For minors, parental consent is also required in the US for non-surgical gender-affirming medical treatments such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy. Various guidelines and standards for medical care of transgender adolescents from entities including the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publications.aap.org\/pediatrics\/article\/142\/4\/e20182162\/37381\/Ensuring-Comprehensive-Care-and-Support-for?autologincheck=redirected\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Academy of Pediatrics<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpath.org\/media\/cms\/Documents\/SOC%20v7\/SOC%20V7_English.pdf,\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Professional Association for Transgender Health<\/a> explain that parental consent is needed.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qmznxi00133b6nalfsf6z9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cAny gender-affirming medical care or surgical care would legally require the consent of (both) parents\/legal guardians and assent of an adolescent under 18,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.keckmedicine.org\/provider\/laura-b-taylor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Laura Taylor<\/a>,\u00a0medical director of the gender-affirming care program at the University of Southern California, said in a\u00a0September\u00a0email.\u00a0\u201cThis includes puberty blockers, hormones, and surgery.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qmznxi00143b6np52k995e@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            There are no definitive national figures on the number of minors who receive\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/08\/23\/health\/gender-affirming-surgery-study\/index.html\">gender-affirming surgeries<\/a>, which include\u00a0breast or chest procedures, often called \u201ctop surgery,\u201d and genital reconstructive procedures, often called \u201cbottom surgery.\u201d\u00a0But the limited available data makes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/08\/23\/health\/gender-affirming-surgery-study\/index.html\">it<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2820437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clear<\/a>\u00a0that the vast majority of such surgeries occur among adults.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qmznxi00153b6ny1jxph9e@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Taylor outlined a lengthy process before a minor might undergo a gender-affirming surgery.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qmznxi00163b6ntgvcr2kd@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cIn adolescents, the decision to start hormones and\/or have surgery would happen\u00a0<strong>after\u00a0<\/strong>consultation\u00a0with an interdisciplinary team for a psychosocial assessment,\u201d she said, the bold type hers. \u201cThe assessment includes understanding the dysphoria related to gender incongruence (the distress caused by the physical characteristics that do not match the person\u2019s identity), how long it has been present, excluding other reasons to account for the dysphoria, and making sure the adolescent and family can provide informed\u00a0consent.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qmznxi00173b6nvnq06duq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Asked in September for any evidence for Trump\u2019s claim that schools are secretly obtaining gender-affirming surgeries for children, Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt provided none. 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