“U.S. tax dollars “have gone to promote transgenderism in Bangladesh.”
What PolitiFact found
The Bangladeshi population has long included communities of people who identify as "third-gender." Since 2018, U.S. foreign aid has gone to local nongovernmental organizations that work with the LGBTQ+ community.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ron DeSantis (Florida Governor) made this claim around 15 December 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 18 January 2024, 34 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
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.
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