copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: A bill would revoke custody from parents who refused gender-affirming care (Viral Post, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2023-09-23): Assembly Bill 957 would have adjusted California law to instruct judges to consider, among other factors, a parent’s affirmation of a child’s gender identity or expression when determining custody or visitation rights. [...] "I’ve been disheartened over the last few years as I watched the rising hate and heard the vitriol towards the trans community," Wilson said. "My intent with this bill was to give them a voice, particularly in the family court system where a non-affirming parent could have a detrimental impact on the mental health and well-being of a child." [...] The bill has drawn criticism and sparked controversy, including among conservatives who claimed it would force parents who do not support their child’s gender identity to give up custody rights.
Claim: A bill would revoke custody from parents who refused gender-affirming care (Viral Post, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2023-01-31): If passed, it would change state custody statutes to include access to gender-affirming care as a consideration, giving Minnesota courts jurisdiction over certain cases. [...] At the hearing, several parents of trans youth spoke in support of the bill. Attorney Hao Nguyen, a Vietnamese immigrant and parent to a trans child, said Minnesota has a responsibility to be a leader when it comes to protecting gender-affirming care. [...] "HF 146 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: A bill would revoke custody from parents who refused gender-affirming care (Viral Post, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2024-08-07): Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has ignited a firestorm of controversy by signing a new bill that permits the state to take custody of children if their parents refuse to consent to gender-affirming care, including hormone therapy and surgeries. This landmark legislation has sharply divided public opinion, with critics decrying it as an overreach into parental rights and supporters hailing it as a crucial measure for the protection of transgender youth. The bill, which passed through the Minnesota legislature with significant debate, aims to ensure that minors have access to gender-affirming healthcare, regardless of parental consent. Proponents argue that this law is essential for safeguarding the mental and physical well-being of transgender children, who often face significant barriers to accessing appropriate medical care. They believe that the state’s intervention is justified to prevent harm to these vulnerable individuals. [...] However, the legislation has not been without its detractors. Critics argue that allowing the state to take custody of children over parental refusals for gender-affirming care is a dangerous precedent. They claim it undermines the fundamental rights of parents to make medical decisions for their children and could lead to irreversible medical interventions on minors. Opponents also express concerns about the long-term implications of such treatments and the potential for regret among individuals who undergo gender-affirming surgeries at a young age.
Claim: A bill would revoke custody from parents who refused gender-affirming care (Viral Post, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2024-07-08): Foregoing gender-affirming care can have tragic consequences. Transgender youth experience disproportionate levels of violence and bullying. Transgender youth are also more likely to feel less safe at school than cisgender youth, that is youth whose gender identity is consistent with their assigned sex at birth (Day et al., 2018). [...] Decisions about whether to seek gender-affirming care, and what specific services to utilize, must be made between a provider, patient, and the patient’s parents or guardians. Such decisions are relative to the youth’s individual clinical situation. Gender affirming care typically includes steps toward social transition, potentially treatments to temporarily postpone puberty, and in some instances, hormone replacement therapy (Coleman et al., 2012). Rather than allow flexibility to account for the varying needs of individuals, this bill adopts a "one size fits all" approach by categorically criminalizing the recommendation or provision of appropriate gender-affirming care. [...] Criminalizing Gender Affirmative Care with Minors: Suggested Discussion Points with Resources to Oppose Transgender Exclusion Bills (PDF, 54KB)
Claim: A bill would revoke custody from parents who refused gender-affirming care (Viral Post, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2023-05-23): Earlier this month, the Florida Legislature passed a bill restricting access to gender-affirming care to people under 18, yet another measure from state legislators and Gov. Ron DeSantis that targets the state's LGBTQ+ population. [...] In other words, parents who help their children access gender-affirming care can temporarily lose custody. [...] The law is unclear as to how the state could take custody of a child seeking gender-affirming care in another state even with both parents' consent.
Claim: A bill would revoke custody from parents who refused gender-affirming care (Viral Post, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2024-08-07): Other conservatives made similar claims. Fox News host Jesse Watters said the law Walz supported "removes a child from their parents’ home if the parents don’t want to castrate them." Political commentator Megyn Kelly wrote on X that the law "lets the state take away (your) kids" if you don’t agree to gender-affirming care. [...] When PolitiFact contacted Vance’s team for comment, spokesperson Luke Schroeder said, "The letter of this law is clear: a parent who dissents from their child receiving so-called 'gender-affirming care' can lose custody." [...] The law would neither "take away" a parent’s custody rights, nor would it authorize the government to take custody of a child just because a parent objects to gender-affirming care.
Claim: A bill would revoke custody from parents who refused gender-affirming care (Viral Post, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2023-06-18): "New California Bill Charges Parents with Child Abuse for Refusing to ‘Affirm’ Their Kid’s Gender Identity," reads the on-screen text in a video shared June 18 on Facebook. The video and its near-identical caption echo recent headlines by conservative news sites. [...] A Facebook post says a "new California bill chargesparents with child abuse for refusing to ‘affirm’ their kid’s gender identity." [...] The Daily Signal, "California Bill Would Classify 'Not Affirming Child's Gender' as Child Abuse," June 9, 2023
Claim: A bill would revoke custody from parents who refused gender-affirming care (Viral Post, 2023-04-10)
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. [...] 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." [...] Minnesota House of Representatives: Gender-Affirming Health Care; Subpoenas, Warrants, and Child Custody
Claim: A bill would revoke custody from parents who refused gender-affirming care (Viral Post, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2022-09-29): "Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 107 into law. In the state of California, your child can now be taken from your custody if you do not affirm gender-reassignment surgery." [...] DiBella told PolitiFact the California Legislative Counsel’s summary of the law backs up his reasoning. He pointed specifically to a passage of the summary at the top of bill’s text that reads, "The bill would authorize a court to take temporary jurisdiction because a child has been unable to obtain gender-affirming health care." [...] Wendy Seiden, a visiting professor at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law, said there is nothing in the law that would allow California to take custody of a child. But it does allow California to resist another state’s attempt to remove a parent’s custody if the proposed removal is based on that parent’s efforts to get gender-affirming care for their child.
Claim: A bill would revoke custody from parents who refused gender-affirming care (Viral Post, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2024-01-31): - criminalize or impose/permit professional disciplinary action (e.g. revoking or suspending licensure) on health professionals providing gender-affirming care to minors, in some cases labeling such services as child abuse - penalize parents aiding in youth accessing gender-affirming care - permit individuals to file for damages against providers who violate such laws - limit insurance coverage or payment for gender affirming services or prohibit the use of state funds for such services [...] Parents: In several states with bills under consideration, parents who facilitate access to evidence-based and potentially lifesaving gender affirming services for their children could face penalties. Under the Texas directive, because it is defined as child abuse, parents who facilitate access to gender affirming care for their children, could be subject to penalties, including losing custody of their children. This may place parents in the position of either supporting their children in accessing care supported by medical evidence and facing penalties or denying their children access in an effort not to make their family vulnerable to investigation and potential separation. Each option for parents in this scenario has the potential to be traumatic for the family, and for youth in particular.
Claim: A bill would revoke custody from parents who refused gender-affirming care (Viral Post, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2023-06-29): I would say tho good luck getting cops and cps to actually enforce this on a wide scale tho once parents start shooting at them. In all seriousness tho no way in hell this actually gets put into law at least not anytime soon. You guys got to keep in mind the left doesnt actually give a crap about trans kids they just wanna use it as political ammo thats all. [...] Shit, make the bill go further. It says anti-LGBT. If your parents are any kind of bigot or Nazi or any of that shit terminate their parental rights and garnish their wages to pay for their kid's care. If they don't like it they can go somewhere else.
Claim: A bill would revoke custody from parents who refused gender-affirming care (Viral Post, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2023-04-04): Tallahassee, Florida – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, condemns the Florida Senate for advancing Senate Bill 254, an extreme, unprecedented attack on transgender people, their health care, and the families and health care providers who care for them. The bill is a gender-affirming care ban that would also strip parental rights from parents who support their transgender children. This bill would penalize providers by inflicting criminal penalties (including felony penalties) on providers who give gender-affirming care; it would take licenses away from those providers; and it would prohibit Medicare from covering gender-affirming care for transgender youth or adults. It would also forbid public funds, including those of a public university, public hospital, city, or county, and Medicare, from being used to provide benefits that include gender-affirming care - for transgender people of all ages. And - uniquely - it allows the state to remove trans children from their parents if they are receiving transition care by purporting to give Florida family courts jurisdiction to set aside another state’s custody determination for a young person if their parents have authorized or might authorize best practice, age-appropriate gender-affirming health care.
Claim: A bill would revoke custody from parents who refused gender-affirming care (Viral Post, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2023-03-24): TRANSGENDER WOMAN FINISHES IN FIRST PLACE AT NEW YORK CITY CYCLING EVENT, SPARKS OUTRAGE "Gender-affirming care is life-saving health care," Finke told reporters ahead of debate on the bill. "Withholding or delaying gender-affirming care can have a dramatic impact on the mental health of any individual who needs it. Rates of depression, suicide, substance abuse are dramatically higher in transgender and gender-expansive individuals who lack access to 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. [...] "This kind of court power has a long-standing precedent in Minnesota for keeping children safe. When a child is at risk of being harmed by a parent or custodian, the state has immediate authority to remove and protect the child from harm. Without this, there would be no way to protect children in those situations," Roby told Fox News Digital in an email. "To add children who are being denied ‘gender affirming care’ to the definition of children in need of this kind of drastic emergency action is obviously unwarranted."
Claim: A bill would revoke custody from parents who refused gender-affirming care (Viral Post, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2023-06-11): Proposed California bill would brand parents abusive if they refuse to affirm their transgender children's identity - and let social workers take youngsters into care - Assembly Bill 957 would classify not affirming a child's gender as 'abuse' [...] A proposed amendment to a bill in California would classify parents who refuse to affirm their child's gender as abusive and could result in revoked custody. [...] A proposed amendment to a bill in California would classify parents who refuse to affirm their child's gender as abusive and could result in revoked custody
Claim: A bill would revoke custody from parents who refused gender-affirming care (Viral Post, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2024-01-03): The law allows judges in CA to terminate custody of parents living in their states if the parent’s child shows up in CA seeking gender transition treatments without parental knowledge or consent. [...] Even more insidiously, the bill empowers California judges to remove custody from the child’s parents. [...] A minor who runs away from home in Texas and gets a ride to California could go through transition surgery without parental knowledge or consent, and the parents could lose custody of the child completely. Any non-parent could easily use the law to transport a child to California, have them surgically transitioned without parental knowledge or consent, and then win custody of the child.
Claim: A bill would revoke custody from parents who refused gender-affirming care (Viral Post, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2023-05-09): Those who oppose gender-affirming care raise fears about the long-term effects treatments have on teens, argue research is limited and focus particularly on irreversible procedures such as genital surgery or mastectomies. Yet those operations are rarely performed on minors. Doctors typically guide kids toward therapy or voice coaching long before medical intervention. Puberty blockers, anti-androgens that block the effects of testosterone, and hormone treatments are far more common than surgery. They have been available in the U.S. for more than a decade and are standard treatments backed by major doctors’ organizations, including the American Medical Association. In Washington, local Republican lawmakers have spent weeks railing against the legislation signed into law Tuesday. Senate GOP leader John Braun said in March that it would drive "a wedge between vulnerable kids and their parents." Online, some users have twisted the content of the measure to suggest it will see the state ripping children from their homes. But those claims misrepresented the legislation, which is intended to keep estranged young people housed, according to experts and the lawmaker sponsoring the bill. The bill does not address custody and would not result in the state taking children away from their homes and parents.
Claim: A bill would revoke custody from parents who refused gender-affirming care (Viral Post, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2023-05-03): A bill in the state of Washington that would allow licensed youth and homeless shelters to notify the state’s child services department in lieu of a parent in cases where a minor has left home in order to pursue gender-affirming or reproductive care is moving toward passage. [...] For example, Donald Trump Jr. wrote on Twitter, "Washington passes bill allowing the state to TAKE CHILDREN AWAY FROM PARENTS that do not consent to their child’s gender transition surgeries…" And the conservative website 100 Percent Fed Up posted a headline claiming: "BREAKING: State of Washington Passes Bill Allowing Government to Take Minor Children Away From Parents If They Refuse To Agree to Gender Transition Surgery." The site shared that story with its 1.5 million Facebook followers.
Claim: A bill would revoke custody from parents who refused gender-affirming care (Viral Post, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2019-01-15): Last year in Ohio, a judge removed a biological girl from her parents’ custody after they declined to help her "transition" to male with testosterone supplements. The Cincinnati Children’s gender clinic recommended these treatments for gender dysphoria (the condition of being distressed with one’s biological sex). [...] Politicizing the medical treatment of gender dysphoria could lead to more prosecutions against parents who refuse to aid in the sterilization of their children. As more doctors recommend that children take puberty blockers at age 11, cross-sex hormones at 16, and undergo "sex-reassignment" surgeries at 18, parents who resist could face charges of child abuse and lose custody of their children. [...] Transgender activists and pro-trans physicians often seek to exclude parents from the process of medical decision-making. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital’s Transgender Health Clinic says parents may be excluded from interviews because they might make their children feel uncomfortable asking questions.
Claim: A bill would revoke custody from parents who refused gender-affirming care (Viral Post, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2023-03-08): The order also directs state agencies to refuse approval of health plans that do not cover gender-affirming care and to investigate any complaints about denial of gender-affirming care. The executive order comes amid a slew of legislation in GOP-controlled states barring access to gender-affirming care for trans and gender non-conforming people, especially minors. In Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order in 2022 to investigate families for child abuse if they helped their their trans children receive care. In Florida, a recently introduced policy would allow courts to remove children from a parent’s custody if they are "at-risk" of receiving gender-affirming care. [...] Walz called on the Legislature to pass Finke’s "Trans Refuge Bill," which would seek to protect people who travel to Minnesota seeking gender-affirming care from legal repercussions in the state they traveled from.
Claim: A bill would revoke custody from parents who refused gender-affirming care (Viral Post, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2023-09-13): But critics online are claiming that the measure goes much further, and means any parent who doesn’t support their kid’s desire to pursue gender-affirming surgery will lose custody. [...] CLAIM: A California bill, AB-957, would "require parents to ‘affirm’ the ‘gender transition’ of any child," including surgery, or else lose custody. [...] "Breaking: California Senate has PASSED #AB957, the most dangerous law facing California parents in decades, which will require parents to ‘affirm’ the ‘gender transition’ of any child—any age, any gender, every family, every time, social or medical transition, no limits—or else lose custody," reads one post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, shared across platforms. It adds: "Non-affirming parents will be deemed UNSAFE."
Claim: A bill would revoke custody from parents who refused gender-affirming care (Viral Post, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2023-04-19): The claim: California bill could strip custody from parents who refuse gender-affirming surgery [...] "CA bill seeks to remove custody from parents and provide 'gender affirming' therapy to children without parental consent," reads text featured below the image of the bill. Part of the post’s caption reads, "If the bill becomes law; children who wish to seek ‘gender affirming’ surgery who have parents that will not permit such mutilations, will be able to be removed from the custody of their parents."
Claim: A bill would revoke custody from parents who refused gender-affirming care (Viral Post, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2024-08-07): The Minnesota law allows courts to have "temporary emergency jurisdiction" during custody disputes crossing state lines if a child has been unable to obtain gender-affirming care. Kat Rohn, executive director of OutFront, an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization in St. Paul, Minn., said the law gives courts the ability to resolve conflicts when parents disagree on whether their child should receive gender-affirming care; it does not remove custody from parents who decline such 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: A bill would revoke custody from parents who refused gender-affirming care (Viral Post, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2023-04-27): An act relating to children; preventing the use of subpoenas to gather information for out-of-state laws interfering in the use of gender-affirming health care; amending child custody and child welfare provisions related to out-of-state laws interfering in the use of gender-affirming health care; amending provisions related to warrants, arrests, and extraditions related to out-of-state laws on gender-affirming health care; [...] new text begin A law of another state that authorizes a state agency to remove a child from the child's parent or guardian because the parent or guardian allowed the child to receive gender-affirming health care, as defined in section 543.23, paragraph (b), is against the public policy of this state and must not be enforced or applied in a case pending in a court in this state. A court order for the removal of a child issued in another state because the child's parent or guardian assisted the child in receiving gender-affirming care in this state must not be enforced in this state. new text end new text begin This section is effective the day following final enactment. new text end (a) Except as otherwise provided in section 518D.204, a court of this state has jurisdiction to make an initial child custody determination only if:
Claim: claims that playwright William Shakespeare once stated, "Expectation is the root of all heartache." (Viral quote, 2019-08-25)
Evidence (2019-08-25): The saying does not appear in any of Shakespeare’s work.