The Huffington Post reports:
Donald Trump rolled out an bonkers, evidence-free claim about gender-affirming care for children during a campaign rally on Saturday.
“Can you imagine you’re a parent and your son leaves the house and you say, ‘Jimmy, I love you so much, go have a good day at school’ and your son comes back with a brutal operation,” Trump told the crowd in Mosinee, Wisconsin.
“Can you even imagine this? What the hell is wrong with our country?” The false claim arrives just over a week after the former president spewed similar talk at an event that featured anti-transgender hate hosted by the far-right group Moms for Liberty.
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Trump spoke yesterday behind bulletproof glass.
Trump’s own campaign could not find a single example of this “school secretly sends child for gender-affirming surgery without parental consent” thing having ever happened anywhere in the US. Experts say it has not and could not. It’s a lie. https://t.co/W1AKw41M1t https://t.co/dJLBqzbAon
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 7, 2024