Trump falsely claims children being forced into gender transition ops at school in rambling fantasy-filled rally speech

Donald Trump falsely claimed yet again that children are the subject of “brutal” gender operations at schools across the US.

“Kamala supports states being able to take minor children and perform sex change operations, take them away from their parents, perform sex change operations, and send them back home,”Trump said in Mosinee, Wisconsin on Saturday afternoon.

“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 in school’ and your son comes back with a brutal operation,” he added. “Can you even imagine this? What the hell is wrong with our country?”

There’s no evidence this has ever happened or been planned. In states where gender-affirming surgery is legal for people under the age of 18, parental consent is required.

Trump made a similar false claim while speaking to the conservative group Moms for Liberty last week.

“The transgender thing is incredible. Think of it. Your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation. The school decides what’s going to happen with your child,” he falsely claimed.

An adolescent medicine physician at the Yale School of Medicine, Dr Meredithe McNamara, told CNN on Monday that “everything in this statement is false.”

“Of course surgery of any kind happens in a qualified medical center and not in a school. Of course, parents are the medical decision-makers for their kids, especially when it comes to gender-affirming care,” she added.

Pediatrician Michael O’Brien reacted to Trump’s rally speech on Saturday night, writing on X: “I cannot overstate this… if you are afraid that your child is going to have a gender-affirming surgery at school but you aren’t afraid they may be shot at school,