“New Washington state law allows “government to take away minors from parents if they refuse to agree to gender-transition surgery.”
What PolitiFact found
The law is aimed at providing shelter for homeless youths seeking gender-affirming care. The law does not allow the government to remove minors from their parents if the parents refuse to allow them to get such care.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
The Gateway Pundit (Conservative website) made this claim around 10 May 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 17 May 2023, 7 days later. Its rating was “False”.
The Gateway Pundit has 10 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 8 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/carol.bottoms.9/posts/pfbid0VVHN5xaodYaBdD9VNqxRP4B7ryNPzPAvDJW2…
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