“They are literally chopping off the private parts of young kids.”
What PolitiFact found
Medical transitioning is not recommended for prepubescent children, as DeSantis suggested. Experts say transition-related surgery is rare for minors and isn’t typically recommended.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ron DeSantis (Governor of Florida) made this claim around 5 August 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 11 August 2022, 6 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Ron DeSantis has 64 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 38 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGUIRZC4Lfc
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