Trump Ad Attacks Harris for Support of Trans Health Care in Prisons
Nonsense,” features clips of Harris speaking about her record as California’s attorney general with Mara Keisling, former executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality.
Harris discusses whether transgender inmates would be allowed to receive treatments for gender dysphoria that their doctors had classified as “medically necessary.”“Kamala supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners,” a narrator intones. “Even the liberal media was shocked Kamala supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners and illegal aliens.“Kamala’s for they/them,” the narrator continues. “President Trump is for you.”The ad builds on a line of attack that former President Donald Trump deployed against Harris in their televised September 10 debate, based on a 2019 ACLU questionnaire in which she supported allowing transgender inmates to access medically necessary gender-affirming care.“It is important that transgender individuals who rely on the state for care receive the treatment they need, which includes access to treatment associated with gender transition,” Harris wrote. “That’s why, as Attorney General, I pushed the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide gender transition surgery to state inmates….
Transition treatment is a medical necessity, and I will direct all federal agencies responsible for providing essential medical care to deliver transition treatment.”In the debate, Trump asserted that Harris “wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison.” The charge, which seemed pre-rehearsed, was one of those election-year references that only speaks to Beltway insiders and the political consultant class, but flies over the head of most voters.
