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President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address was long and, unsurprisingly, full of lies. One of his party’s favorite topics to spout falsehoods about came up halfway through his speech: health care for transgender kids.
Trump denounced gender-affirming care for transgender minors and claimed blue states are encouraging kids to transition their gender without parental consent. In a truly ironic moment, he equated the protections blue states offer to minors who access trans health care to ripping children from their parents — while ignoring the fact that his immigration policy routinely takes kids from their families.
The president shouted out a young person named Sage, who was in attendance. Trump claimed Virginia school officials “sought to socially transition” Sage to a new gender, “treating her as a boy and hiding it from her parents.” When Sage ran away from home, a Maryland judge ruled the minor did not have to return.
“Surely we can all agree, no state can be allowed to rip children from their parents’ arms and transition them to a new gender against the parents’ will,” the president said triumphantly. “We must ban it, and we must ban it immediately.”
Some schools may not require parental consent to use a name or pronoun for a student that doesn’t match their biological sex — often because trans youth may not feel safe coming out to their families — but no states are removing kids from their homes to “transition them to a new gender.”
The contradiction between what Trump described as family separation and how his immigration policy is systemically ripping immigrant families apart was impossible to ignore.
The administration’s immigration crackdown has led to an unprecedented number of families being separated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. During Trump’s first administration, thousands of migrant families were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. Now, ICE is also detaining longtime U.S. residents on their way to work or while picking their kids up from school. Most are then forced out of the country within days, leaving their children and family members completely unaware that they were taken.
The practice is a new form of forcible family separation, and it means the administration is not complying with its own directives on detaining parents or caregivers, advocates previously told HuffPost. Once someone is deported without their child, the process for reunification is nearly impossible. Of the 2,700 children who were separated from their parents under the first Trump administration, more than 1,300 have still not been reunited with their parents, according to a 2024 government report.
Hundreds of children are also being detained without their parents. Legal advocacy groups Democracy Forward and National Center for Youth Law recently filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration to stop separating kids from their family sponsors. The four named plaintiffs in the suit range in age from 14 to 17 years old.
“This cruel new form of family separation causes tremendous, long-lasting harm,” Mishan Wroe, NYCL attorney, said this week. “Children who were living with safe, vetted family members are now being held in prolonged detention – missing school and far away from their loved ones – all because the government is prioritizing arrest quotas over children’s safety.”