copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a law that would “take children away from their parents if the parents don’t want to consent to sex changes.” (J.D. Vance, 2024-08-07)
Evidence (2023-03-24): This legislation is meant to ensure that children undergoing gender transition procedures allowed under Minnesota law cannot be governed by child protection laws of other states. It's a direct response to neighboring South Dakota, where Republican Gov. Kristi Noem signed a law banning puberty blockers, cross-sex hormone treatments and sex-change operations for transgender individuals under the age of 18. [...] However, conservative groups and family law attorneys warn that the legislation is written in such a way as to open the door for Minnesota parents to lose custody of their children if they refuse to provide them with transgender care. "The most insidious aspect of this bill is the language that adds children who are being denied ‘gender-affirming care’ (defined as everything from therapy to hormone blockers, to transition surgery) to what amounts to the definition for a child ‘in need of protection or services’ in Minnesota, allowing the courts to take ‘emergency custody’ of the child," said Bob Roby, a licensed attorney in Minnesota with more than 30 years experience in family and juvenile court.
Claim: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a law that would “take children away from their parents if the parents don’t want to consent to sex changes.” (J.D. Vance, 2024-08-07)
Evidence (2024-08-07): In March 2023, Walz signed an executive order that directed Minnesota agencies to do whatever they could to protect and support Minnesotans seeking gender-affirming health care services. [...] The next month, he signed "trans refuge" legislation that safeguarded access to such care and another law that banned conversion therapy, a discredited practice that aims to change someone’s understanding of their gender identity or sexual orientation. [...] The measure has led some Republicans to label Walz "Tampon Tim" for his support of transgender students.
Claim: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a law that would “take children away from their parents if the parents don’t want to consent to sex changes.” (J.D. Vance, 2024-08-07)
Evidence (2024-08-13): An exchange debating whether a Minnesota law allows the state to take trans-identified children away from parents who refuse to provide them with hormonal or surgical gender interventions is reigniting a conversation about media bias, with one advocacy group accusing ABC News of engaging in "misinformation." [...] The conversation concluded with Karl pressing Vance about comments former president and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made at a rally in Montana over the weekend asserting that Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a law "letting the state kidnap children" if their parents do not provide them with gender transition interventions. [...] Vance pushed back, declaring, "Tim Walz has supported taking children from their parents if the parents don't consent to gender reassignment."
Claim: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a law that would “take children away from their parents if the parents don’t want to consent to sex changes.” (J.D. Vance, 2024-08-07)
Evidence (2023-03-08): Walz signs executive order reaffirming right to gender-affirming care in Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz hands Hildie, a trans girl who testified in support of the Trans Refuge Bill, the pen he used to sign an executive order protecting access to gender-affirming care in Minnesota. Photo by Grace Deng/Minnesota Reformer. Gov. Tim Walz on Wednesday signed a mostly symbolic executive order reaffirming the right to access gender-affirming care in Minnesota for trans and gender non-conforming people.
Claim: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a law that would “take children away from their parents if the parents don’t want to consent to sex changes.” (J.D. Vance, 2024-08-07)
Evidence (2024-08-07): Gov. Tim Walz signed an executive order Wednesday protecting the rights of LGBTQ people from Minnesota and other states to receive gender affirming health care, as he slammed the tide of other states rolling back transgender rights. [...] Advocates for LGBTQ rights say Republican-led states across the country are trying to erase the legal existence of people who are trans and to restrict the expression of those who are nonbinary, gender-fluid or who perform in drag. According to the Human Rights Campaign, more than 150 bills targeting trans rights have been introduced in other states. Walz singled out neighboring South Dakota, where Gov. Kristi Noem signed a ban on gender affirming care for minors last month. [...] Walz’s executive order parallels legislation awaiting a floor vote in the state House to make Minnesota a "trans refuge state" by protecting trans people, families and care providers from a range of legal repercussions for traveling to Minnesota for gender affirming care, which includes a wide range of social and medical interventions.
Claim: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a law that would “take children away from their parents if the parents don’t want to consent to sex changes.” (J.D. Vance, 2024-08-07)
Evidence (2024-08-12): At a campaign rally in Montana on Friday, Trump, the GOP's presidential nominee, accused Walz of signing a law "letting the state kidnap children to change their gender so that they go home." Vance, during an interview with ABC News' Jonathan Karl on This Week that aired Sunday morning, backed Trump's comments, reiterating that the policy amounts to "kidnapping." [...] In April 2023, Walz, who has been the state's governor since 2019, signed a Minnesota law aimed at protecting the rights of the LGBTQ+ community to access and receive gender-affirming health care—which can include a range of medical procedures and care such as surgery and puberty blockers—without intervention of out-of-state laws. [...] In addition, Walz banned conversion therapy for children and vulnerable adults. Twenty-three states and Washington, D.C., have banned conversion therapy. Meanwhile, half of the United States have restrictions on gender-affirming care.
Claim: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a law that would “take children away from their parents if the parents don’t want to consent to sex changes.” (J.D. Vance, 2024-08-07)
Evidence (2023-03-09): Asher Nguyen, a 6-year-old trans girl, looks up at her brother right before Gov. Tim Walz signed an executive order to protect access to gender-affirming care in Minnesota. Her father, Hao Nguyen, testified for the Trans Refuge Bill and spoke at the executive order signing. Photo by Grace Deng/Minnesota Reformer. [...] Gov. Tim Walz signed an executive order Wednesday barring Minnesota’s agencies from cooperating with other states seeking to prosecute people for traveling for gender-affirming care in Minnesota. At the signing, he called on the Legislature to add additional protections by passing the Trans Refuge Bill. He said he would even travel to other states and use his platform to advertise Minnesota as a welcoming place. [...] "HF146 takes away custody from parents or guardians who deny their children access to gender-affirming health care," said Rebecca Delahunt, assistant director of public policy for the Minnesota Family Council.
Claim: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a law that would “take children away from their parents if the parents don’t want to consent to sex changes.” (J.D. Vance, 2024-08-07)
Evidence (2024-08-08): Trump said Wednesday on Fox News Walz is "very heavy into transgender. Anything transgender he thinks is great." Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt also said Tuesday on Fox News Walz supports "gender-transition surgeries for young minors" and "putting tampons in men’s bathrooms in public schools." On Twitter, right-wing users, including former Trump advisor Stephen Miller, have tried branding Walz "Tampon Tim." The crude nickname is in reference to a law Walz signed requiring menstrual products "be available to all menstruating students in restrooms regularly used by students in grades 4 to 12" to ensure transgender students had access to the products without having to ask for them. Walz also signed a law designating Minnesota a "trans refuge" by prohibiting legal action against people who travel there for gender-affirming care from other states where it’s banned, along with the families and health care providers of trans people. Vance also accused Walz of wanting to "take children away from their parents if the parents don't agree to do sex changes." But Vance is referring to a Minnesota law Walz signed that allows courts to resolve disputes between parents who disagree whether their child should have access to gender-affirming care, though it does not allow the courts to revoke custody, The Washington Post reported.
Claim: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a law that would “take children away from their parents if the parents don’t want to consent to sex changes.” (J.D. Vance, 2024-08-07)
Evidence (2024-10-01): Vance said Walz "has not spent a day in a combat zone," which is True. On Walz’s gubernatorial record, Vance said Walz enacted a law that would "take children away from their parents if the parents don’t want to consent to sex changes." But that’s False, the law Walz signed does not do that. It amended the law governing which court could have temporary jurisdiction over child custody cases involving more than one state. Walz’s attacks on Trump’s record Walz has characterized the Trump-Vance campaign as antiunion, saying that when Trump was president, he "cut overtime benefits for millions of workers." That’s Mostly False. In 2016, former President Barack Obama’s administration set a rule that would have raised the salary threshold for overtime pay. But a judge struck it down before it took effect, and the incoming Trump administration dropped a challenge against the ruling. The Trump administration set its own rule to raise the salary threshold for overtime pay, which was lower than the Obama-era policy. The Trump rule did not amount to a "cut." Walz has also blamed Trump for racking up the federal government’s debt, saying Trump "added more to the national debt than any other president."
Claim: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a law that would “take children away from their parents if the parents don’t want to consent to sex changes.” (J.D. Vance, 2024-08-07)
Evidence (2024-08-26): A myth, in the sense of a falsehood, that we commonly hear from the anti-trans movement these days is that the state takes queer kids from their parents and forcibly changes the kids’ genders against the parents’ wishes. [...] On August 9, Donald Trump falsely said that Kamala Harris’s running mate, Tim Walz, as governor of Minnesota, signed "a law letting the state kidnap children to change their gender." Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, repeated Trump’s false claim when he was interviewed shortly afterward. Vance alleged that Walz "supported taking children away from their parents if the parents don’t consent to gender reassignment." The interviewer, Jonathan Karl, co-anchor of ABC’s This Week, to his credit replied: "That’s crazy, come on." (Hey, it’s surprisingly easy to challenge transphobia that makes no sense!) That interview aired on August 11.
Claim: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a law that would “take children away from their parents if the parents don’t want to consent to sex changes.” (J.D. Vance, 2024-08-07)
Evidence (2024-08-11): In a contentious sitdown on Sunday, Ohio Sen. JD Vance falsely claimed that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, supports the government taking children away from their parents if the parents don’t consent to gender transition treatments, describing the Democrat as supporting "kidnapping." [...] "What President Trump said, Jon, is that Tim Walz has supported taking children from their parents if the parents don't consent to gender reassignment, that is crazy," Vance said. "Tim Walz gets on his high horse about ‘mind your own damn business.’ One way of minding your own damn business, Jon, is to not try to take my children away from me." [...] Walz has never signed any legislation, nor expressed support for legislation, that would allow the state to remove children from their parent’s custody if they didn’t consent to gender transition treatment. Walz has come under attack from Republicans for an April 2023 law he signed that protects transgender patients, parents and healthcare providers from out-of-state laws that would punish them for receiving care. Among other provisions, the law gives "temporary emergency jurisdiction" to state courts to arbitrate custody disputes that cross state lines and involve a debate between parents over the care in question. It does not give the state the authority to remove children from their parents’ custody for declining to pursue gender transition care, a Minnesota LGBTQ advocacy organization director told the Washington Post.
Claim: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a law that would “take children away from their parents if the parents don’t want to consent to sex changes.” (J.D. Vance, 2024-08-07)
Evidence (2024-08-09): Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, signed legislation allowing Minnesota courts to take "temporary emergency jurisdiction" in a child custody case involving "gender-affirming" care. [...] The law enables Minnesota to take temporary jurisdiction in a child custody dispute between parents in another state if one wants a child to obtain gender-affirming care in Minnesota. [...] A spokesperson for Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance cited the Minnesota law to back Vance’s claim Aug. 7, 2024, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, that Walz supports removing custody from parents who "don’t want to consent to sex changes."
Claim: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a law that would “take children away from their parents if the parents don’t want to consent to sex changes.” (J.D. Vance, 2024-08-07)
Evidence (2024-08-16): In an interview with ABC News on Sunday, JD Vance claimed that Minnesota Governor and Harris VP running mate Tim Walz signed a bill allowing the state to kidnap a transgender child if their parents did not approve of their transition. However, the bill Vance referenced actually provides refuge for transgender youth and their parents fleeing unsafe states where their care is criminalized. The legislation contains no provision allowing the state to "kidnap" children when their parents do not support their gender transition. These claims arise from an intentional misinterpretation of a provision that specifically applies to custody disputes between parents in different states. [...] Vance: "What President Trump said, Jon, is that Tim Walz has supported taking children from their parents if the parents don't consent to gender reassignment, that is crazy…Tim Walz gets on his high horse about ‘mind your own damn business.’ One way of minding your own damn business, Jon, is to not try to take my children away from me."
Claim: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a law that would “take children away from their parents if the parents don’t want to consent to sex changes.” (J.D. Vance, 2024-08-07)
Evidence (2024-08-26): Last year, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) signed so-called "trans refuge" legislation, joining California and several other states in passing measures that harm vulnerable youth. The Washington Post recently came to Walz’s defense, claiming that "conservatives" were "falsely accusing him of allowing the state to terminate parental custody if parents prevent their trans children from receiving gender-affirming care." [...] Let’s not forget, just weeks before signing the law, Walz issued an executive order declaring that Minnesota is "committed to protecting access to" and establishing the state as "a refuge for those who seek and provide" transition drugs and surgeries that growing international evidence confirms cause irreversible harm to a child’s body and brain development. [...] What the Minnesota law and others like it really do is deprive our children of the one true shield and refuge against pervasive, damaging gender ideology: namely, parents. Parents love and know their children best. They alone have the right and responsibility to raise their children and protect them from harm.
Claim: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a law that would “take children away from their parents if the parents don’t want to consent to sex changes.” (J.D. Vance, 2024-08-07)
Evidence (2024-08-07): Walz entered his second term as governor in 2023 after Minnesota voters elected a dozen state lawmakers who identified as LGBTQ+ — the most in state history. The Democratic legislators formed a "queer caucus" that prioritized passing a trans refuge bill designed to prevent the state from enforcing court orders from other states to remove children from parents who approve gender-affirming care. [...] Jeff Evans, president and CEO of the Minnesota Family Council, a Christian organization, condemned "the so-called Trans Refuge bill which could take children away from their parents if parents do not provide access to harmful ‘gender-affirming care,’" in an X post after Harris tapped Walz as her running mate. Conservative radio host Megyn Kelly falsely accused Walz of signing a bill that lets the state take away children from parents who do not agree to "sterilize them & chop off their body parts in the name of ‘gender affirming care.’"
Claim: Financial advisory company Austin Private Wealth shorted 12 million shares of Trump Media July 12, the day before former President Donald Trump’s attempted assassination. (Instagram posts, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-07-18): Austin Private Wealth, an investment adviser, said the amount of shorted Trump Media shares reported in its July 12 filing was incorrect. The accurate holding amount was 1,200 shares, not 12 million.
Claim: Financial advisory company Austin Private Wealth shorted 12 million shares of Trump Media July 12, the day before former President Donald Trump’s attempted assassination. (Instagram posts, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-07-23): Meanwhile, an Austin, Texas firm is scrambling to explain how on July 12, via a put option, the financial services company reportedly shorted 12 million shares of Trump Media (NASDAQ: DJT) stock, according to an SEC filing. [...] Austin Private Wealth on July 17 released the following statement:"The SEC filing which showed that Austin Private Wealth shorted a large number of shares of Trump Media & Technology Group Corp (DJT) was incorrect and we immediately amended it as soon as we learned of the error. [...] A company called Austin Private Wealth LLC shorted 12,000,000 shares of $DJT via a put option. The filing date is July 12th, the day before the assassination attempt. They have around $1 Billion in assets under management and this is by far the largest put placed.… pic.twitter.com/9ZehBexdFK — Champagne Joshi (@JoshWalkos) July 17, 2024
Claim: Financial advisory company Austin Private Wealth shorted 12 million shares of Trump Media July 12, the day before former President Donald Trump’s attempted assassination. (Instagram posts, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-07-18): Investors in Trump Media ($DJT) believe that they can prove who had inside knowledge of the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump. [...] The claim that people heavily shorted $DJT before the Trump assassination attempt floated around X. Posters claimed that traders placed shorts on Friday, June 12—the day before the attempt. [...] Trump Media stock jumped up 30% on Monday, the first day markets opened after the assassination attempt. Since then they’ve declined a little bit, but are still above what they were last week.
Claim: Financial advisory company Austin Private Wealth shorted 12 million shares of Trump Media July 12, the day before former President Donald Trump’s attempted assassination. (Instagram posts, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-07-18): One trend highlighted on social media involved an "extreme disparity" in trading volume regarding the Trump Media & Technology Group Corp stock (DJT) on the Friday before the assassination attempt compared to the previous day, with shares traded increasing from 3.9 million to 35.6 million. [...] After an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, which sent shockwaves through the U.S. political landscape, Trump Media (NASDAQ: DJT) shares surged more than 60% in the early trading hour on Monday before retracing by 20% to the valuation of $36.89 at the latest close on July 16. [...] So, on July 12th, a day before the assassination attempt, Austin Private Wealth reported a short position nominally equivalent to 12 million shares. It is huge: it represents approximately one-seventh of Trump’s ownership in the same company, or 16% of all available stock float not held by major insiders.
Claim: Financial advisory company Austin Private Wealth shorted 12 million shares of Trump Media July 12, the day before former President Donald Trump’s attempted assassination. (Instagram posts, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-07-19): In an event starkly reminiscent of strange trading activity just before the 9/11 attacks in 2001, reports of an asset manager taking a massive short position of 12 million shares of Trump Media (NASDAQ: DJT) shortly before the attack. [...] Finally, on July 18 as the media storm surrounding the short position was growing out of control, Austin Private Wealth LLC – the company who placed the bet – came out claiming it was all a clerical error. [...] Austin Private Wealth also clarified that the trade was made on June 28, disclosed on July 12, and then modified after the error was caught on July 16 – an event that itself ignited suspicion prior to the statement’s release.
Claim: Financial advisory company Austin Private Wealth shorted 12 million shares of Trump Media July 12, the day before former President Donald Trump’s attempted assassination. (Instagram posts, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-07-19): It has emerged that Austin Private Wealth, a financial services company, executed a massive short sale of millions of shares of Rumble (NASDAQ: RUM), raising questions about a possible conflict of interest. Notably, Rumble is backed by Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance. [...] Picks for you "Fascinating how Austin Private Wealth, the company that shorted 12 million shares of $DJT and 34 million shares of Rumble stock ($RUM) says they accidentally added SIX orders of magnitude to the size of their order, and it was a mistake," Health Ranger said. [...] The purchase just before the assassination attempt casts doubt on the transparency of Austin Private Wealth’s operations. If the assassination attempt had been successful, the transaction could have yielded the firm hundreds of millions of dollars.
Claim: Financial advisory company Austin Private Wealth shorted 12 million shares of Trump Media July 12, the day before former President Donald Trump’s attempted assassination. (Instagram posts, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-07-15): The value of former President Donald Trump’s social media company spiked Monday after he was injured in an attempted assassination over the weekend. [...] At current prices, Trump’s 114.75 million shares in Trump Media are worth nearly $5 billion. That’s up from $3.5 billion on Friday, the day before Trump was shot at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. [...] Experts have said Trump Media is a meme stock: trading on momentum and hype, not fundamentals.