Trump Promises to Fix Failing Schools In The Bronx By Stopping Sex Change Operations In Schools: ‘It Happens!’

Former President Donald Trump joined Fox News in New York City for the latest installment of its barbershop series and was asked by a parent how he plans to improve public schools in areas like the Bronx. Fox & Friends aired Trump’s answer on Monday morning, in which the former president repeated his widely debunked claim that schools are getting minors sex changes instead of educating them.

“Thank you. Yes, I have a five-year-old son in public school right now. I have a lot of people asking me questions as far as the failing school systems that we have here in the Bronx,” asked a man during the event, which was taped late last week.

“Yeah, they are failing,” Trump replied.

“What are we going to do to improve that in our school system?” asked the parent of the GOP nominee for president.

“Well, we’re moving them back from Washington, where you have people that don’t care about New York, frankly. You know, in Washington, I don’t know if you ever noticed that you got Department of Education, Department of Education. You got half the buildings are Department of Education. I never saw. You don’t need any of them. You know, I want one person and the secretary to just make sure they’re teaching English. Okay. Give a little English. Okay. I say reading, writing, and arithmetic,” Trump began before adding:

No transgender, no operations. You know they take your kid. There are some places your boy leaves the school, comes back a girl. Okay. Without parental consent. What is that all about? That’s like. That’s– when they talk about a threat to democracy. They’re a threat. Could you imagine without parental consent? At first, what I was told that was actually happening, I said, you know, it’s an exaggeration. No. It happens!

It happens in areas where it happens. We’re not going to let it happen, but we are going to straighten out a lot. What we’re going to really do, though, is give you a lot of jobs and a great economy, and you’re going to be able to straighten yourselves out.

Fox’s Lawrence Jones, who hosted the event, then reacted to the clip saying, “The reaction when he started talking about what’s happening to the kids. Ya’ll are parents. I’m not a parent, but there’s a lot of men that don’t like that, that they’re taking the rights of parents away and deciding to teach these kids this nonsense. And then you’re going to love your child regardless. But the school doesn’t get to make the decision to transition them to another gender. And it’s happening. And it was an authentic conversation.”

“It is happening,” agreed co-anchor Ainsley Earhardt, who added, “It’s unbelievable as a parent that you would not be notified for such a major decision.”

Trump has made these claims before, leading to a CNN fact check in September. “Trump’s claim is false. There is no evidence that US schools have sent children into gender-affirming surgeries without their parents knowing or performed gender-affirming surgeries on site; Trump’s own presidential campaign could not provide a single example of this ever happening. Even in states where gender-affirming surgery is legal for people under age 18, parental consent is required before a minor can undergo such a procedure,” noted CNN’s reporting on the issue.

NBC News also published a fact check shooting down Trump’s wild claims, noting, “About half the states ban transition-related surgery for minors, and even in states where such care is still legal, it is rare. In addition, guidelines from several major medical associations say a parent or guardian must provide consent before a minor undergoes gender-affirming care, including transition-related surgery, according to the American Association of Medical Providers.”

NBC added, that in reality, most schools need parental consent even to administer Tylenol to students. “Kate King, president of the National Association of School Nurses, said that even when it comes to administering over-the-counter medication such as Advil or Tylenol, school nurses need explicit permission from a physician and a parent,” reported the fact check.

Watch the clip above via Fox News.