Trump brings back his 2024 lie that schools are secretly sending kids to hospitals for gender surgery
In the final months of the 2024 presidential campaign, President Donald Trump told an outlandish lie that schools in parts of the US were sending children for gender surgeries without the knowledge of their parents.
Trump has now revived the lie for the final weeks of the 2026 midterm campaign.
At a rally in Georgia on Friday, he said, "We got critical race theory and transgender mutilization (sic) insanity out of our schools. I mean, we have five states where your child goes off to school as Tim and comes back as Tammy, three or four days later. It's true. And teachers make – somebody makes a decision. Can you imagine? 'Goodbye, Timmy. I love you so much. I'll see you later.' And you say, 'Where's my son? My son is in the hospital.' Can you imagine? Can you imagine? They don't even need approval. It's sick. You'll have five – I think Minnesota and some others – I think it's five or six states. You know that, right?"
That's all nonsense.
There is no state in which schools would not need parental approval to send a child to a hospital for elective surgery. And just like in 2024, experts in gender identity care told CNN that they do not know of a single case in which a US school had secretly sent a child away for gender surgery.
The White House itself couldn't provide one example proving Trump's claim. Five conservative organizations we contacted in search of any examples did not respond.
A spokesperson for Minnesota's education department, Anna Arkin, called Trump's claim "unequivocally false." And the president of the National Association of School Nurses board of directors, Lynn Nelson, noted Monday that "even giving a student Tylenol typically requires written parent or guardian permission and, in many jurisdictions, an order from a licensed health care provider." Nelson said Trump's claims about schools sending children off for secret gender surgeries are "false" and "misrepresent the care school nurses provide."
"There are no documented cases of schools taking children to hospitals for gender-affirming surgery," said Landon Hughes, an instructor at Harvard Medical School who has published studies on the prevalence of gender care among US minors. "This claim is not only entirely unsupported by evidence but also reflects a fundamental misunderstandi ng of the legal and medical consent requirements governing surgical care for minors."
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