Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Trump Administrator Proposed Gender-Affirming Prisoner Care in '18

A campaign ad released by former President Donald J. Trump in battleground states slams Vice President Harris for supporting taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for prisoners and migrants ... Trump appointees at the Bureau of Prisons, a division of the Justice Department, provided an array of gender-affirming treatments, including hormone therapy, for a small group of inmates who requested it during Mr. Trump's four years in office.

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In a February 2018 budget memo to Congress, bureau officials wrote that under federal law, they were obligated to pay for a prisoner's "surgery" if it was deemed medically necessary. Still, legal wrangling delayed the first such operation until 2022, long after Mr. Trump left office.

"Transgender offenders may require individual counseling and emotional support," officials wrote. "Medical care may include pharmaceutical interventions (e.g., cross-gender hormone therapy), hair removal and surgery (if individualized assessment indicates surgical intervention is applicable)."

The Bureau of Prisons is the only federal agency under court order to provide gender-related surgeries. But the number of inmates requesting such operations within the bureau is minuscule, with only two known surgeries approved via court action.

The amount the bureau has spent on hormone therapy was also very small - ranging from $60,000 to $95,000 a year during Mr. Trump's term, according to internal department estimates obtained by The New York Times.

The Trump ads, which have been running in several battleground states - often during events with high male viewership, like football games - focus on a response by Ms. Harris to a question about transgender care for incarcerated people on a 2019 American Civil Liberties Union candidate questionnaire.

In her answer, Ms. Harris told the group that she "pushed" the state corrections department "to provide gender transition surgery to state inmates" while serving as California attorney general from 2011 to 2017.

"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. "Transition treatment is a medical necessity, and I will direct all federal agencies responsible for providing essential medical care to deliver transition treatment."

Initially, Ms. Harris represented the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in its refusal to provide gender-affirming surgery to an offender convicted of murder who was born male.

Now you know more of the complete story, not the gaslighting version put out by Trump and his sewage-spewing campaign.

#1 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-10-22 07:58 AM

"Trump is for he/him. Kamala is for us."

Andy Ostroy
@AndyOstroy
Every #Trump supporter should watch this new @ProjectLincoln ad. He's riling you up about prison sex-change surgeries, but it was HIS administration's policy that paid for them. Watch the ad, read this NY Times article, and discover the truth...

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#2 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-10-22 08:16 AM

So when Biden/Harris took office in 2021, this was already Bureau of Prisons policy, eh?

OCU

#3 | Posted by OCUser at 2024-10-22 02:27 PM

another right wing talking point destroyed by reality.

#4 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-10-22 05:43 PM

All he has is distortions and lies. He is trying to destroy the USA with hate, lies and division, all for his own gain. So many have fallen for it which is insane. This guy is the biggest con, crook and swindler this country has ever seen. Now he is trying his best to destroy this country. The good thing is he will be done soon when he loses bigly.

#5 | Posted by NOTGOINGBACK at 2024-10-22 10:24 PM

Oopsie!

#6 | Posted by a_monson at 2024-10-23 12:09 AM

Oopsie!

#7 | Posted by a_monson at 2024-10-23 12:39 AM

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