In an interview with the right-wing news network OANN, the founder of Gays Against Groomers, compared doctors who practice gender-affirming health care to Nazis.“Anti-indoctrination“ pundit Jaimee Michell said on a recent show that today’s doctors performing gender-affirming care would shame Josef Mengele.“What's happening now would make you know, I think Josef Mengele, I believe that was his name, you know, the Nazi doctor.
He, you know, this puts him to shame,” Michell said.Mengele conducted horrific experiments on thousands of Jewish prisoners held at Auschwitz during the Holocaust.
In the interview, Michell falsely claimed that the LGBTQ+ community treats children like lab rats, Media Matters reports.Transgender teenagers cannot undergo gender reassignment surgery in the United States until they are at least 18 years old.
Instead, they are given puberty blockers with the consent and guidance of their parents.“Mengele was known as the 'angel of death' at Auschwitz.