A White House official went on a rant about gender-affirming care at a White House press briefing, where he claimed that teachers are turning five-year-old boys into girls behind their parents’ backs, something that isn’t actually happening.

Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller said that the administration will be “coordinating with state and local law enforcement to fight child abuse in our school system.” Child abuse in schools is already illegal, so he explained that the administration wants state and local authorities to prosecute cases where teachers turn kids trans as child abuse, even though that is not happening in schools.

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“It is child abuse to change a child’s gender,” Miller said, “particularly if you do not inform the parents. In other words, if a five-year-old or a six-year-old goes to school- or a seven-year-old goes to school, and the teach tries to turn the boy into a girl or the girl into a boy, that is child abuse. And this administration is treating that as child abuse and as a gross violation of parental rights.”

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He then reiterated some of the executive orders signed by the president banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors, referring to lifesaving treatments like puberty blockers and hormone replacement therapy as “chemical castration,” “castration drugs,” “barbaric,” and “child torture.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) shared a clip of Miller’s words on X and added that “Sex change operations on children are barbaric child abuse.” Gender-affirming genital surgery is not performed on transgender minors in the U.S.