CNN News Anchor Speechless That Harris SUPPORTED Taxpayer-Funded Gender Surgery

Daily Report September 10,2024

During a recent segment, CNN host Erin Burnett appeared surprised by Vice President Kamala Harris’s previous support for “taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for detained illegal migrants,” a stance that diverges from the more centrist positions Harris has taken in her current presidential campaign.

“She actually said she supported that?” Burnett asked her colleague, Andrew Kaczynski, on her nightly show Monday. Kaczynski had earlier reported that Harris had supported progressive positions in a questionnaire by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in 2019 when she was a U.S. senator representing California.

According to CNN, the questionnaire revealed that Harris backed taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for undocumented migrants and federal prisoners. She also supported decriminalizing federal drug possession for personal use.

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“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 the 2019 questionnaire. She highlighted her record as California’s attorney general, where she “pushed the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide gender transition surgery to state inmates.”

Harris further emphasized that “transition treatment is a medical necessity, and I will direct all federal agencies responsible for providing essential medical care to deliver transition treatment.”

In addition to supporting gender transition surgeries, Harris’s 2019 responses to the ACLU questionnaire also indicated her backing for significant funding cuts to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency responsible for deporting undocumented migrants. Harris called for an “end” to immigrant detention centers, writing, “Our immigrant detention system is out of control, and I believe we must end the unfair incarceration of thousands of individuals, families, and children.”

She pledged, “As president, I will focus enforcement on increasing public safety, not tearing apart immigrant families.” Harris also mentioned being “one of the first Senators after President Trump was elected to advocate for a decrease in funding to ICE” and proposed that ICE “obtain a warrant where probable cause exists to end the use of detainers.”

The ACLU had sent the questionnaire to all Democratic and Republican candidates running for the presidency in 2020.

Harris has faced criticism for shifting her stance on several key policy questions during her current presidential run. Although she initially sought the Democratic nomination in 2019, she exited the race before the primary voting began. Former Vice President Joe Biden eventually secured the nomination and defeated President Donald Trump in the 2020 election.

Since Biden’s decision not to seek a second term, Harris has granted only one interview, essentially solidifying her position as the likely Democratic nominee. She has been criticized not only for reversing her previous policy stances but also for declining to clarify her current positions.

A Harris campaign adviser told CNN that “the vice president’s positions have been shaped by three years of effective governance as part of the Biden-Harris administration,” but did not elaborate further.