“Val Demings "voted to allow transgender youth sports and teaching radical gender identity without parental consent.”
What PolitiFact found
Demings supported a bill that would have allowed students nationwide to compete on sports teams based on their gender identity rather than their sex assigned at birth. The bill did not address school curriculum.
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In short
Marco Rubio (U.S. senator, R-Fla.) made this claim around 15 September 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 6 October 2022, 21 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Marco Rubio has 16 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 7 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cpXNjTJZxQ
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