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Media Mocks Trump Over ‘Transgender Operations on Illegal Aliens’ Only to Find Out Harris Wanted the Government to Pay for Them
Isaac SchorrSep 12th, 2024, 11:48 am
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Ronald Reagan once famously quipped that “the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
Well, today’s thinly-disguised partisan press suffers from both maladies.
Donald Trump’s performance at Tuesday night’s debate was replete with misrepresentations, absurdities, and outright lies. “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating — they’re eating the pets of the people that live there,” he blurted out at one point. It was an embarrassing display.
But because so much of the press sees itself as an arm of the Democratic Party, certain outlets managed to overstate their case and embarrass themselves as well.
While assailing Vice President Kamala Harris over the radicalism of her 2020 campaign for president, Trump mused that “She did things that nobody would ever think of. Now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison. This is a radical left liberal that would do this.”
And just like that, all of the Fourth Estate’s laziest denizens sprang into action. immediately sprung into action.
Time Magazine accused Trump of “falsely” claiming that Harris “wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens.”
BET News’ Marc Lamont Hill called it “the WILDEST thing I’ve ever heard in any debate. EVER.”
“Succession literally called it,” declared Adrian Carrasquillo, sharing a screenshot of the show’s fictional right-wing news channel sporting the chyron “Gender Fluid Illegals May Be Entering The Country ‘Twice.'”
And over at the vaunted New Yorker, Susan Glasser submitted that Trump’s “line about how the Vice-President ‘wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison’ was pretty memorable, too.”
“What the hell was he talking about? No one knows, which was, of course, exactly Harris’s point,” she continued confidently.
The problem with all of the contemptuous ridicule of Trump’s accusation is that he was absolutely right.
On Monday, CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski came out with a damning report in which he noted that Harris endorsed “taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries” for both detained illegal immigrants and federal prisoners in her response to a questionnaire sent to her by the American Civil Liberties Union. From Kaczynski’s report:
Harris also wrote that she supported taxpayer funding of gender transition surgeries for detained immigrants and federal prisoners.
Harris was asked if, as president, she would use “executive authority to ensure that transgender and non-binary people who rely on the state for medical care – including those in prison and immigration detention – will have access to comprehensive treatment associated with gender transition, including all necessary surgical care.”
Harris replied, “Yes.”
“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 in a reply expanding on her answer. “That’s why, as Attorney General, I pushed the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide gender transition surgery to state inmates,” she wrote.
Harris explained that she supported granting prisoners and detainees access to “surgical care” for gender transition.
As CNN’s Erin Burnett marveled on Monday night, “these are things that, you know, it would be hard to think that you would come up with.” And remember, dear reader — it’s Kamala Harris, not Donald Trump, who came up with and championed it!
Moreover, what might have been a careless mistake at The New Yorker can now also be characterized as a lie. Both Glasser and her employer have been corrected by dozens of people online, and yet there has been no correction. It’s a staggering ethical failure for which many less privileged journalists would pay with their jobs.
Time, meanwhile, at least had the decency to remove the word “falsely,” from its report and affix a correction to the bottom of it. But the piece still reads “The former President repeated a baseless Internet rumor that migrant invaders were killing and eating pet dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio, and claimed that Harris ‘wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison.'”
Why is Trump’s allegation still being presented as if it’s preposterous? Again, the plain intention here is to deceive.
The only silver lining is that in their incompetent bid to help out Harris, they only underscored her weird brand of radicalism.
This is an opinion piece. The views expressed in this article are those of just the author.
And the MSM article on this:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trum...y?id=113584635
A look at Trump's 'transgender operations on illegal aliens' debate claim
LGBTQ issues got limited airtime on the debate stage.
ByKiara Alfonseca
September 11, 2024, 1:57 PM
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Presidential debate night: Donald Trump vs. Kamala Harris
Presidential debate night: Donald Trump vs. Kamala Harris
ABC News' Jay O’Brien reports on the presidential debate's highlights and most notable moments.
During the presidential debate Tuesday, former President Donald Trump criticized Vice President Kamala Harris on her support for taxpayer-funded medical care for transgender individuals.
“Now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison,” Trump said. “This is a radical left liberal that would do this.”
The comment was the only mention of the LGBTQ+ community on the debate stage.
Trump's comments appear to refer to a 2019 American Civil Liberties Union questionnaire filled out by then-Sen. Harris during her first presidential bid.
The questionnaire asked: “As President, will you use your executive authority to ensure that transgender and nonbinary people who rely on the state for medical care — including those in prison and immigration detention — will have access to comprehensive treatment associated with gender transition, including all necessary surgical care? If yes, how will you do so?”
In this undated stock photo, someone holds a transgender flag in the air.
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She responded yes, adding that “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.”
She noted that as the California state attorney general, she backed the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation decision to provide gender transition surgery to state inmates.
In 2015, while Harris was the attorney general, California and the Transgender Law Center reached a historic settlement to move a transgender woman inmate to a women’s correctional facility and provide her with transgender medical care that had been deemed medically necessary by several medical and mental health clinicians, according to the settlement agreement.
The case was hailed by LGBTQ activists, who said it would impact incarcerated trans people nationwide.
Harris’ response in the ACLU questionnaire continued, adding that she supported policies to allow federal inmates to obtain “medically necessary care for gender transition” while incarcerated.
“I will direct all federal agencies responsible for providing essential medical care to deliver transition treatment,” she wrote.
The Harris campaign communications director Michael Tyler told Fox News that the 2019 questionnaire is not what the vice president is proposing or part of her platform. They did not offer new details on where she currently stands on the issue.
ABC News has reached out to the Harris campaign for further comment.
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Harris and Trump policies on gender-affirming care
The Harris-Walz campaign has not officially released any policy proposals or promises concerning gender-affirming care so far. However, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed an executive order in May protecting and supporting access to gender-affirming health care for LGBTQ people in the state.
In his order, Walz notes that numerous medical organizations, including the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have said that access to gender-affirming care is essential to the health and wellness of gender diverse people.
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Studies by researchers at Boston Children Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, and published by the American Psychological Association have shown that gender-affirming care can be life-saving for transgender and nonbinary children and adolescents, promoting positive mental and physical health and well-being.
The order came amid a wave of legislation from conservative lawmakers that has led to at least 26 states implementing policies that restrict gender-affirming care for transgender youth.
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The Biden-Harris administration has also signaled support for transgender Americans, reversing a Trump-era ban on transgender military service and revising Title IX to include protections for gender identity.
In one statement to nonprofit news organization The 19th, the White House said that gender-affirming surgeries should be limited to adults -- as is typically the case -- but supports gender-affirming care for minors.
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Trump has said that he plans to ban taxpayer funding for sex-change surgeries -- which would include gender-affirming care for detainees -- and bar schools from "promoting gender transition."
He also stated that he would reverse the Title IX revisions concerning gender identity.
LGBTQ issues have been front and center on both national and state political arenas. More than 500 bills impacting the LGBTQ community have been considered in the U.S. this year, according to the ACLU.
LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD criticized the lack of attention on LGBTQ issues on the debate stage.
“The debate included only one mention of LGBTQ Americans, a smear against transgender people that went unchallenged," said GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis in a statement. "As Americans begin returning ballots and line up for early voting, reporters must remember that the next President of the United States will have a profound impact on the LGBTQ community and all marginalized people. We urge reporters to ask leaders for specific ways they will ensure we are always welcome and safe.”
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