PolitiFact writers Grace Abels and Loreben Tuquero took after Sen. J.D. Vance on Tuesday, with a subhead claiming he “misrepresents Minnesota law on kids seeking “gender-affirming care.” The fact-defying term appears 18 times in the PolitiFact copy (include the subhead and a caption).
Their “Truth-o-Meter” ruling was “False.” But it’s not as False as claiming breast and genital amputations and hormone-blockers and the like are “gender-affirming.”
This was the bulletin-board Vance quote. as he mocked what Minnesota Democrats called the “Trans Refuge Act.”
“I think it’s pretty weird to try to take children away from their parents if the parents don’t want to consent to sex changes,” Vance said Aug. 7 at a campaign event in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. “That’s something that Tim Walz did.”
PolitiFact conceded, yes, “Walz has taken action to support access…
