Exclusive | Trump campaign skewers Harris over govt-funded trans surgery for migrants: Kamala is for they/them
They’re going at it.In a new attack ad, the Trump campaign blasted Vice President Kamala Harris over her past support for government-guaranteed transgender surgeries for prison inmates and migrants held in detention facilities.“Kamala supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners,” a narrator began in the spot titled, “Nonsense.” “Even the liberal media was shocked Kamala supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners and illegal aliens.”“Kamala’s for they/them.
President Trump is for you.”Earlier this month, just before the debate between former President Donald Trump and Harris, CNN unearthed a past 2020 campaign-era questionnaire from the American Civil Liberties Union, in which the future VP expressed support for government-guaranteed transgender surgeries.She affirmed that as president, she would use her executive powers to “ensure that transgender and nonbinary people who rely on the state for medical care — including those in prison and immigration detention” would get access to “all necessary surgical care.”“I support policies ensuring that federal prisoners and detainees are able to obtain medically necessary care for gender transition, including surgical care, while incarcerated or detained,” she wrote in response.“Transition treatment is a medical necessity, and I will direct all federal agencies responsible for providing essential medical care to deliver transition treatment.”In an interview with the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) Action Fund during the 2020 election cycle, Harris doubled down on that stance.She claimed that when she served as attorney general of California, she “worked behind the scenes” to ensure that the state’s Department of Corrections changed its policy “so that every transgender inmate in the prison system would have access to the medical care that they desire and need.”The Trump campaign spot highlights Harris’ comments in that interview with NCTE and...