“Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a law that would “take children away from their parents if the parents don’t want to consent to sex changes.”
What PolitiFact found
The law gives Minnesota courts temporary jurisdiction to hear child custody cases when a child is in the state with a parent to seek gender-affirming care. It doesn't authorize the government to take custody of children.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
J.D. Vance (Ohio Republican Senator) made this claim around 7 August 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 27 August 2024, 20 days later. Its rating was “False”.
J.D. Vance has 38 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 21 of them false or fake, 16 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
- c-span.orghttps://www.c-span.org/video/?c5128370/user-clip-sen-jd-vance-makes-claim-minnesotas-tran…
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