{"id":2356619,"date":"2024-10-18T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-endorsed-trans-operations-for-prisoners-in-fox-interview\/"},"modified":"2024-10-18T09:41:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T13:41:18","slug":"harris-endorsed-trans-operations-for-prisoners-in-fox-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-endorsed-trans-operations-for-prisoners-in-fox-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris Endorsed Trans Operations For Prisoners In Fox Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fharris-endorsed-trans-operations-for-prisoners-in-fox-interview%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2356619&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Vice President Kamala Harris \u200drecently spoke to Fox News \u200bhost Bret \u2062Baier about\u2064 her administration&#8217;s support for sex change surgeries for\u200b transgender prisoners, confirming that\u200d she would &#8220;follow the law&#8221; regarding the use of taxpayer funds \u200cfor these\u2064 procedures. During \u200dtheir interview, Baier \u200bpresented an ad from Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign that highlighted Harris&#8217;s past support for such surgeries when she was the\u200b attorney general of California. Harris noted that she implemented policies \u200densuring transgender inmates had access to \u200cnecessary medical care, including surgical procedures.<\/p>\n<p>Baier questioned Harris about taxpayer funding for\u200c gender\u200d transition surgeries, to\u200d which she \u2062reiterated her commitment to follow legal\u200c guidelines, referencing past practices during Trump&#8217;s administration. \u2064However, Baier countered that no gender \u2063transition surgeries \u2062were authorized under Trump&#8217;s presidency. Harris maintained \u200bthat under\u200b her administration,\u200c following the law would indeed imply support for taxpayer-funded \u200bsurgeries.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s legal approach led to a notable case involving an\u2064 Illinois inmate,\u2063 Cristina Nichole Iglesias,\u2064 who\u2064 became\u200c the first federal \u200dprisoner to receive approval for a taxpayer-funded sex reassignment surgery. The settlement for Iglesias&#8217;s lawsuit occurred in 2022, revealing a commitment \u200dfrom the Bureau\u2063 of Prisons to cover any related medical expenses, even \u200dif she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/migrant-children-released-into-united-states-by-biden-admin-are-being-put-to-work-lawmakers-say\/\" title=\"Biden&#039;s admin releases migrant kids, lawmakers claim they&#039;re made to work.\">left federal custody<\/a>. Critics of Harris pointed out inaccuracies in her \u200bclaims regarding surgery policies during Trump&#8217;s term, \u2063highlighting that \u200cher administration paved the way for such surgeries, including a case involving a death row inmate, Skylar DeLeon, who underwent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gender-nullification-surgery-enables-non-binary-patients-to-achieve-smooth-genital-area\/\" title=\"\u2018Gender Nullification Surgery\u2019 Enables \u2018Non-Binary\u2019 Patients To Achieve \u2018Smooth Genital Area\u2019\">gender affirming surgery<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris told Fox News host Bret Baier she would &ldquo;follow the law&rdquo; when asked about her support for prisoner &ldquo;sex change&rdquo; surgeries. According to the law under the Biden-Harris administration, trans-identifying prisoners could be entitled to taxpayer dollars for the procedures.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Baier presented Harris with an ad from former President Donald Trump&rsquo;s campaign airing the then-California senator&rsquo;s endorsement of trans surgeries for prison inmates. During a sit-down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ORWUPA-OwCQ&amp;t=340s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interview<\/a> with the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) in 2019, Harris spoke about her time as attorney general when she &ldquo;made sure that they changed the policy in the state of California so that every transgender inmate in the prison system would have access to the medical care that they desired and need,&rdquo; including requested surgery.<\/p>\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lhnHt1NB0M0?si=DnU3K21NxfEQsxvG&amp;enablejsapi=1\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>    <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Are you still in support of using taxpayer dollars to help prison inmates or detained illegal aliens to transition to another gender?&rdquo; Baier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rev.com\/blog\/transcripts\/kamala-harris-interview-on-fox-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asked<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I will follow the law,&rdquo; she said, &ldquo;and it&rsquo;s a law that Donald Trump actually followed.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Trump aides say that he never advocated for that prison policy,&rdquo; Baier said, &ldquo;and no gender transition surgeries happened during his presidency.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Well, you got to take responsible for what happened in your administration,&rdquo; the vice president said. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Yeah, no surgeries happened in his presidency,&rdquo; Baier responded. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s in black and white,&rdquo; said Harris. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Would you still advocate for using taxpayer dollars for gender reassignment surgeries?&rdquo; Baier asked. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I would follow the law,&rdquo; she said. <\/p>\n<p>To &ldquo;follow the law&rdquo; under Harris&rsquo; administration means yes.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, the Department of Justice (DOJ) under the Biden-Harris administration struck a settlement with an Illinois inmate who became the first federal prisoner to receive approval for a tax-funded surgery while federally incarcerated.<\/p>\n<p>Cristina Nichole Iglesias&rsquo; three-year lawsuit against the Bureau of Prisons <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/us\/politics\/2024\/10\/17\/trump-signed-off-trans-prisoner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">concluded<\/a> under the Biden-Harris administration in 2022 with Iglesias receiving a procedure last year. Iglesias filed the lawsuit in September 2020, when Trump was still in office, but did not settle with the government until Harris was vice president.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The settlement and court order even required BOP to pay for any agreed-upon surgeries and post-operative care if Ms. Iglesias left federal custody,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu-il.org\/en\/cases\/iglesias-v-federal-bureau-prisons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a> to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which represented the plaintiff.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Of the many falsehoods, obfuscations, and pivots by Kamala last night,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/julie_kelly2\/status\/1846898148700013013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> conservative journalist Julie Kelly on X, &ldquo;her claim that transgender surgeries at federal prisons started during the Trump administration [is] a full-blown lie.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/yacht-killer-got-taxpayer-funded-sex-change-while-death-row-after-harris-behind-scenes-policy-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> on the case of a death row inmate in California, who also received a tax-funded &ldquo;sex change&rdquo; surgery credited to the work of Harris. Now identifying as a female, 45-year-old Skylar DeLeon, who was given a death sentence in 2009, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/SmWfk\">wr<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/SmWfk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">o<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/SmWfk\">te<\/a> in a letter to the Washington Free Beacon published this week that he underwent a &ldquo;gender affirming surgery and breast augmentation&rdquo; in April last year. DeLeon had previously gone by the name John Jacobson Jr., and is known as the &ldquo;Yacht Killer&rdquo; for his crimes.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;California began offering hormonal treatments for prisoners who claim to be experiencing gender dysphoria before Harris was elected as California&rsquo;s attorney general,&rdquo; the Free Beacon reported, &ldquo;and Jacobson said in his letter to the Free Beacon that he started receiving hormone treatment when he arrived at San Quentin in 2009. But the state&rsquo;s treatment of transgender inmates changed radically during her tenure.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Harris has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-endorsed-inmate-sex-changes-in-bret-baiers-fox-interview\/\" title=\"Harris Endorsed Inmate &#039;Sex Changes&#039; In Bret Baier&#039;s Fox Interview\">endorsed providing taxpayer-funded surgeries<\/a> for illegal migrants to attempt a gender change. In 2019, Harris about the issue in an ACLU <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.aclu.org\/live\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Harris-ACLU-Candidate-Questionnaire.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">questionnaire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As President will you use your executive authority to ensure that transgender and non-binary people who rely on the state for medical care &mdash; including those in prison and immigration detention &mdash; will have access to comprehensive treatment associated with gender transition, including all necessary surgical care? If yes, how will you do so?&rdquo; the question read. <\/p>\n<p>Harris said, &ldquo;yes.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is important that transgender individual who rely on the state for care receive the treatment they need, which includes access to treatment associated with gender transition,&rdquo; she wrote. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris stated she would &#8220;follow the law&#8221; regarding taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries for prisoners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2356620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Harris-on-Fox.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4021,41697,35159],"class_list":["post-2356619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-harris","tag-prison-reform","tag-transgender-rights"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Harris-on-Fox.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2356619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2356620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2356619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2356619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2356619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}