evidence: In a contentious sitdown on Sunday, Ohio Sen. JD Vance falsely claimed that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, supports the government taking children away from their parents if the parents don’t consent to gender transition treatments, describing the Democrat as supporting "kidnapping." [...] "What President Trump said, Jon, is that Tim Walz has supported taking children from their parents if the parents don't consent to gender reassignment, that is crazy," Vance said. "Tim Walz gets on his high horse about ‘mind your own damn business.’ One way of minding your own damn business, Jon, is to not try to take my children away from me." [...] Walz has never signed any legislation, nor expressed support for legislation, that would allow the state to remove children from their parent’s custody if they didn’t consent to gender transition treatment. Walz has come under attack from Republicans for an April 2023 law he signed that protects transgender patients, parents and healthcare providers from out-of-state laws that would punish them for receiving care. Among other provisions, the law gives "temporary emergency jurisdiction" to state courts to arbitrate custody disputes that cross state lines and involve a debate between parents over the care in question. It does not give the state the authority to remove children from their parents’ custody for declining to pursue gender transition care, a Minnesota LGBTQ advocacy organization director told the Washington Post.