“Your minor child can go to California without your knowledge or without your consent, and get hormone therapy, puberty blockers and a sex change operation.”
What PolitiFact found
Children younger than 18 in California require parental consent to receive gender-affirming medical care. Under narrow circumstances, a child might be able to get care without one parent’s knowledge, but it is unlikely.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ron DeSantis (Florida Governor) made this claim around 30 November 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 12 December 2023, 12 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.
This check was done by PolitiFact, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.