Fox Business host pushes false claim that schools are ushering students into transgender surgery
Maria Bartiromo: “It's a real thing”
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Citation From the October 9, 2024, edition of Fox News' Mornings with Maria Bartiromo
MARIA BARTIROMO (HOST): Just recently there were concerns about school boards telling kids, "Look, if you want to have transgender operations, just don't tell your parents."
LEE CARTER (GUEST): Well, it's a real thing.
BARTIROMO: It's a real thing, yeah.
CARTER: One of my daughter's very close friends, her older sister is in first grade, and they were read a book in school about crayons. Now, that sounds like nothing to be concerned about, except it was a red crayon who felt it was blue on the inside —
BARTIROMO: The crayon.
CARTER: The crayon. And it was okay that it was really a blue crayon even though on the outside, its label, was red. The answer was to go tell your teacher. Not to tell your parents. And this is what they're being read in school in first grade in a public school in Westchester County in New York. And that that scares me. I don't want the answer to be go to the teacher to have that conversation, I love teachers. I love my daughter's teacher. But I don't want her to be the one to have that kind of a conversation with my if daughter in the first grade.
BARTIROMO: You've got to be the last line of defense. The mother.
CARTER: Yeah. Absolutely. And that really, really does terrify me. And my husband and I have had conversations about this. If it ever gets to that point, would we keep them in public school, and that's, that's a terrifying thought because I believe in the public school system. I believe in public education. I believe in all of these, you know, access to opportunity for all. But I am very, very afraid that I'm not going to have the -- our family isn't going to have the decision making on how she's raised.