4 People 22696 Fact-checks 7322 Articles People (4) Back to Basics Never Back Down PAC Iowans for Some Semblance of Christian Decency Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Fact-checks (22696) Viral image stated on March 01, 2021 in post on Facebook: Says 5-year-olds can “take hormones and change my sex.” By Monique Curet• March 5, 2021 Roger Marshall stated on March 01, 2021 in an op-ed: A study “suggests that even after two years of hormone therapy, biological boys still maintain significant advantages over girls, including being 12% faster on the 1.5-mile run.” By Miriam Valverde• March 9, 2021 Viral image stated on January 26, 2023 in a Facebook post: “Scientists warn eggs are causing thousands of people to ‘suddenly’ form blood clots.” By Ciara O'Rourke• January 27, 2023 Facebook posts stated on February 26, 2021 in Facebook posts: Says Rachel Levine supports “government-funded sex reassignment surgery without parental notification or authorization” for all children. By Noah Y. Kim• March 2, 2021 Facebook posts stated on November 03, 2021 in a Facebook post: “Trash bins discovered outside the Gloucester County Board of Elections containing blank ballots as well as bags of shredded ballots from Tuesday’s election!” By Samantha Putterman• November 5, 2021 Elon Musk stated on February 16, 2024 in a post: There is “clear scientific consensus” that “hormonal birth control makes you fat, doubles risk of depression and triples risk of suicide.” By Samantha Putterman• February 23, 2024 Donald Trump stated on July 26, 2024 in remarks at Turning Point USA summit: Kamala Harris “wants to forcibly compel doctors and nurses against their will to give chemical castration drugs to young children.” By Grace Abels• August 29, 2024 Facebook posts stated on April 24, 2020 in an image: “Ultraviolet Radiation is administered into the body as a disinfectant to kill bacteria and viruses and this has been used for a while now.” By Daniel Funke• April 28, 2020 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated on June 05, 2023 in a podcast: Atrazine in the water supply is contributing to "sexual dysphoria" in kids. By Grace Abels, Luiz Romero, Jill Terreri Ramos• June 28, 2023 Instagram posts stated on January 01, 2023 in an image shared on Instagram: “All ‘gender affirming care’ for children is 100% experimental. There are zero long term studies on the effects the drugs and surgeries will have on them.” By Madison Czopek• January 17, 2023 Facebook posts stated on January 18, 2023 in a Facebook post: “The average American has anywhere from 5 to 15 pounds” of stool stuck in their gut. By Madison Czopek• January 27, 2023 Mary Miller stated on April 08, 2022 in a tweet: The Biden Administration is engaging in extreme ‘woke’ politics by encouraging children to take chemical castration drugs and undergo surgeries, and they are lying to children by telling them puberty blockers are "reversible." By Analisa Trofimuk• April 17, 2022 Nancy Mace stated on February 20, 2025 in an X post: “You either have XX or XY chromosomes. Those are the options.” By Grace Abels• February 21, 2025 Tommy Tuberville stated on February 22, 2024 in at the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference: The Olympic boxing committee “decided this year that men can box against women in the Olympics.” By Grace Abels• March 1, 2024 Alexander Strenger stated on October 01, 2018 in response cited in an interactive voter guide: Says 60 percent of Austin’s "waterways are found to be contaminated with fecal matter and deemed unsafe to swim." By W. Gardner Selby• October 16, 2018 Facebook posts stated on May 26, 2020 in a Facebook post: Italy “went against the WHO's ‘law’” against COVID-19 autopsies and “discovered covid is not a virus, but a bacterium” that “clots the blood and reduces the oxygen saturation.” By Emily Venezky• May 28, 2020 Kenneth Block stated on July 15, 2014 in a radio debate: "The increase in the garbage tax that [Mayor Allan Fung] imposed in Cranston for some people has been as much as $200." By Karen Lee Ziner• July 27, 2014 X posts stated on July 17, 2021 in a tweet: Olympic Village has cardboard beds “to prevent Olympians from having sex, and thus risk spreading (COVID-19).” By Kelsey Sena Tamakloe• July 19, 2021 Amanda Nedweski stated on January 22, 2024 in Wisconsin Assembly: "We have technology and medical advancements today that can tell you if you are pregnant the day after conception." By Madeline Heim• March 8, 2024 Phil Gingrey stated on January 10, 2013 in a speech: U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin was "partly right" that a woman's body has a way of shutting down so that a pregnancy doesn't occur if she's raped. 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Which is it? By Grace Abels• December 16, 2024 What the Equality Act debate gets wrong about gender, sex By Daniel Funke, Miriam Valverde• March 4, 2021 What are peptides, and are they safe? By Grace Abels• March 6, 2026 The Supreme Court is weighing trans health bans. Here’s what to expect. By Grace Abels• December 2, 2024 The FDA removed warnings from menopause medications. What should I ask my doctor about HRT? By Grace Abels• November 19, 2025 What is chestfeeding? How it relates to trans parents and what the CDC says By Grace Abels• July 28, 2023 Whooping cough cases are rising. Know the symptoms and how to avoid infection. By Grace Abels• November 25, 2025 Florida leaders misrepresented research before ban on gender-affirming care By Yacob Reyes• December 2, 2022 What is ‘sex’? What is ‘gender’? How these terms changed and why states now want to define them By Grace Abels• March 22, 2024 Trump froze out Project 2025 in his campaign. Now its blueprint is his health care playbook. By Stephanie Armour• February 24, 2025 What Florida’s driver’s license policy change means for transgender people By Grace Abels• February 12, 2024 Ad watch: Conservative PAC claims Gary Peters would 'destroy girls’ sports' By Clara Hendrickson• September 15, 2020
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Viral image stated on March 01, 2021 in post on Facebook: Says 5-year-olds can “take hormones and change my sex.” By Monique Curet• March 5, 2021 Roger Marshall stated on March 01, 2021 in an op-ed: A study “suggests that even after two years of hormone therapy, biological boys still maintain significant advantages over girls, including being 12% faster on the 1.5-mile run.” By Miriam Valverde• March 9, 2021 Viral image stated on January 26, 2023 in a Facebook post: “Scientists warn eggs are causing thousands of people to ‘suddenly’ form blood clots.” By Ciara O'Rourke• January 27, 2023 Facebook posts stated on February 26, 2021 in Facebook posts: Says Rachel Levine supports “government-funded sex reassignment surgery without parental notification or authorization” for all children. By Noah Y. Kim• March 2, 2021 Facebook posts stated on November 03, 2021 in a Facebook post: “Trash bins discovered outside the Gloucester County Board of Elections containing blank ballots as well as bags of shredded ballots from Tuesday’s election!” By Samantha Putterman• November 5, 2021 Elon Musk stated on February 16, 2024 in a post: There is “clear scientific consensus” that “hormonal birth control makes you fat, doubles risk of depression and triples risk of suicide.” By Samantha Putterman• February 23, 2024 Donald Trump stated on July 26, 2024 in remarks at Turning Point USA summit: Kamala Harris “wants to forcibly compel doctors and nurses against their will to give chemical castration drugs to young children.” By Grace Abels• August 29, 2024 Facebook posts stated on April 24, 2020 in an image: “Ultraviolet Radiation is administered into the body as a disinfectant to kill bacteria and viruses and this has been used for a while now.” By Daniel Funke• April 28, 2020 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated on June 05, 2023 in a podcast: Atrazine in the water supply is contributing to "sexual dysphoria" in kids. By Grace Abels, Luiz Romero, Jill Terreri Ramos• June 28, 2023 Instagram posts stated on January 01, 2023 in an image shared on Instagram: “All ‘gender affirming care’ for children is 100% experimental. There are zero long term studies on the effects the drugs and surgeries will have on them.” By Madison Czopek• January 17, 2023 Facebook posts stated on January 18, 2023 in a Facebook post: “The average American has anywhere from 5 to 15 pounds” of stool stuck in their gut. By Madison Czopek• January 27, 2023 Mary Miller stated on April 08, 2022 in a tweet: The Biden Administration is engaging in extreme ‘woke’ politics by encouraging children to take chemical castration drugs and undergo surgeries, and they are lying to children by telling them puberty blockers are "reversible." By Analisa Trofimuk• April 17, 2022 Nancy Mace stated on February 20, 2025 in an X post: “You either have XX or XY chromosomes. Those are the options.” By Grace Abels• February 21, 2025 Tommy Tuberville stated on February 22, 2024 in at the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference: The Olympic boxing committee “decided this year that men can box against women in the Olympics.” By Grace Abels• March 1, 2024 Alexander Strenger stated on October 01, 2018 in response cited in an interactive voter guide: Says 60 percent of Austin’s "waterways are found to be contaminated with fecal matter and deemed unsafe to swim." By W. Gardner Selby• October 16, 2018 Facebook posts stated on May 26, 2020 in a Facebook post: Italy “went against the WHO's ‘law’” against COVID-19 autopsies and “discovered covid is not a virus, but a bacterium” that “clots the blood and reduces the oxygen saturation.” By Emily Venezky• May 28, 2020 Kenneth Block stated on July 15, 2014 in a radio debate: "The increase in the garbage tax that [Mayor Allan Fung] imposed in Cranston for some people has been as much as $200." By Karen Lee Ziner• July 27, 2014 X posts stated on July 17, 2021 in a tweet: Olympic Village has cardboard beds “to prevent Olympians from having sex, and thus risk spreading (COVID-19).” By Kelsey Sena Tamakloe• July 19, 2021 Amanda Nedweski stated on January 22, 2024 in Wisconsin Assembly: "We have technology and medical advancements today that can tell you if you are pregnant the day after conception." By Madeline Heim• March 8, 2024 Phil Gingrey stated on January 10, 2013 in a speech: U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin was "partly right" that a woman's body has a way of shutting down so that a pregnancy doesn't occur if she's raped. By Janel Davis, Eric Stirgus• January 16, 2013
Puberty blockers: The facts and the myths By Grace Abels• August 28, 2023 Transgender youth health care: A fact-checker’s look at Supreme Court oral arguments in Tenn. case By Grace Abels• December 6, 2024 Pence's point on gender-affirming care for minors ignores parental consent rules for tattoos By Grace Abels, Louis Jacobson• June 14, 2023 ‘Gender dysphoria’: What it is, what it isn’t and how history has changed its view By Grace Abels• May 22, 2023 Fact-checking 3 claims in Tucker Carlson’s show on trans health care By Grace Abels• November 15, 2023 How to ‘detox’ your body for free (Hint: It doesn’t require juice, teas or flushes) By Grace Abels• April 1, 2026 Five misleading claims from Trump’s executive order on trans youth health care By Grace Abels• February 5, 2025 The week in fact-checking: Biden's accuser, coronavirus testing By Angie Drobnic Holan• May 1, 2020 1% or 85%: Two numbers before SCOTUS purport to show trans youth ‘regret’ rates. Which is it? By Grace Abels• December 16, 2024 What the Equality Act debate gets wrong about gender, sex By Daniel Funke, Miriam Valverde• March 4, 2021 What are peptides, and are they safe? By Grace Abels• March 6, 2026 The Supreme Court is weighing trans health bans. Here’s what to expect. By Grace Abels• December 2, 2024 The FDA removed warnings from menopause medications. What should I ask my doctor about HRT? By Grace Abels• November 19, 2025 What is chestfeeding? How it relates to trans parents and what the CDC says By Grace Abels• July 28, 2023 Whooping cough cases are rising. Know the symptoms and how to avoid infection. By Grace Abels• November 25, 2025 Florida leaders misrepresented research before ban on gender-affirming care By Yacob Reyes• December 2, 2022 What is ‘sex’? What is ‘gender’? How these terms changed and why states now want to define them By Grace Abels• March 22, 2024 Trump froze out Project 2025 in his campaign. Now its blueprint is his health care playbook. By Stephanie Armour• February 24, 2025 What Florida’s driver’s license policy change means for transgender people By Grace Abels• February 12, 2024 Ad watch: Conservative PAC claims Gary Peters would 'destroy girls’ sports' By Clara Hendrickson• September 15, 2020
