“The transgender thing is incredible... your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation. The school decides what’s going to happen with your child.”
What PolitiFact found
Schools do not provide medical care without parental consent, let alone surgery. More generally, surgical procedures on transgender minors are rare, and involve the consent of parents, medical providers and the patient.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (Former President) made this claim around 30 August 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 5 September 2024, 6 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
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