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Christopher Wiggins at The Advocate:

While the American people are worried about their daily lives, former President Donald Trump has launched yet another attack against Vice President Kamala Harris using one of the most vulnerable groups in America — transgender people. On Sunday, Trump posted a new ad on X (formerly Twitter), using inflammatory and misleading claims about Harris’s support for health care access for trans prisoners. The ad begins with a narrator making an incendiary claim: “He murdered a father of three; sentenced to life in prison. Kamala Harris pushed to use tax dollars to pay for his sex change.” As the ad continues, video clips of Harris speaking are merged to emphasize her compassion for incarcerated transgender individuals. “I made sure that they changed the policy so that every transgender inmate would have access,” the ad features Harris saying, followed by the narrator’s comment, “It sounds insane because it is insane.” But the ad does not stop there. It further distorts Harris’s words by playing another clip of her saying, “The power that I had, I used it in a way that was about pushing for the movement, frankly; and the agenda,” as the narrator ominously declares, “Kamala’s agenda is they/them, not you.”

The ad splices together two separate moments from a 2019 interview with Mara Keisling, then executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality Action Fund, where Harris discussed her commitment to transgender rights and access to health care for incarcerated individuals. In the full context of her remarks, Harris explained that, as California attorney general, she worked behind the scenes to ensure that transgender inmates received the medical care they needed, including gender-affirming care. “I have a long-standing commitment to fighting for the rights of transgender people, for the dignity of transgender people,” Harris said in the interview. “When I was attorney general, I learned that the California Department of Corrections was standing in the way of surgery for prisoners. And when I learned about the case, I worked behind the scenes to not only make sure that that transgender woman got the services she was deserving, but also that the policy was changed so that every transgender inmate in the prison system would have access to the medical care that they desired and need.”

The case the ad refers to involved Shiloh Heavenly Quine, a transgender woman who became the first inmate in the United States to receive state-financed gender-affirming surgery following a legal battle. The ad misgenders Quine and distorts the facts surrounding her case to paint Harris as radically out of step with mainstream views. In reality, Harris’s efforts were part of a broader push to ensure transgender inmates received constitutionally mandated medical care — a fundamental right for all incarcerated individuals.

[...] While Trump continues to sensationalize transgender health care, he has repeatedly failed to mention that the Constitution requires prisons to provide necessary medical care to all inmates. Gender-affirming care falls under this category, as supported by medical experts and courts. Orr emphasized, “It is both irresponsible and misleading for anti-trans politicians, such as former President Trump, to claim that providing lawful and dignified healthcare is somehow wrong.” Trump’s Department of Justice submitted a 2019 budget memo for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, showing that about 345 inmates identified as transgender at the time, and the number was expected to grow, along with the demand for necessary resources. The budget outlines how transgender inmates face unique challenges, including higher rates of victimization and mental health issues, which can be exacerbated by political attacks that further stigmatize their identity. The report highlights the bureau’s responsibility to provide appropriate medical care as mandated by law, noting that transgender inmates may require hormone therapy, counseling, and, in some cases, surgery to align with their gender identity.

In addition to the medical challenges, transgender inmates are often housed based on their gender identity, as per the bureau’s manual, to ensure their safety. Failure to provide such protections could result in serious harm, including violence and discrimination from both staff and other inmates. These realities, starkly different from the inflammatory claims in Trump’s ad, are part of a broader struggle faced by transgender individuals both within and outside of the prison system. Trump’s misleading attack is part of a broader strategy seen in the Republican playbook: using transgender rights as a wedge issue. Yet this strategy has failed to gain traction in several key races.

Donald Trump digs an even deeper hole for himself, as he continues to punch down on trans people in a hateful ad attacking Kamala Harris for supporting gender-affirming care for trans prisoners even though his administration permitted gender-affirming care services in federal prisons.

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California Killer Is First U.S. Inmate To Have State-Funded Gender Confirmation Surgery

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Idaho appeals ruling ordering surgery for transgender inmate

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BOISE, Idaho — Idaho said Wednesday it will appeal a recent court ruling ordering the state to provide gender confirmation surgery to a transgender inmate.

The Idaho Department of Correction filed a notice advising U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill that the state will appeal his ruling to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The inmate would be the first in Idaho to get the procedure while in state custody and only the second inmate in the nation to receive the surgery.

“The hard working taxpayers of Idaho should not be forced to pay for a prisoner’s gender reassignment surgery when individual insurance plans won’t even cover it,” Republican Gov. Brad Little said in a prepared statement.

Winmill in December ordered the state to provide Adree Edmo with the gender confirmation surgery within six months. The judge said the state’s refusal to provide Edmo the surgery puts her at risk of irreparable harm, and said the surgery was needed to treat Edmo’s gender dysphoria.

“For more than forty years, the Supreme Court has consistently held that consciously ignoring a prisoner’s serious medical needs amounts to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment,” Winmill wrote in his ruling.

Edmo, who was sentenced in 2012 after being convicted of sexual abuse of a child younger than 16, is scheduled to be released in July 2021. According to her lawsuit, she had previously been denied parole because of disciplinary reports she received after trying to modify her prison-issued undergarments and style her hair so that her appearance matched her feminine identity.

She has undergone some treatment including long-term hormone therapy for gender dysphoria, which occurs when the incongruity between a person’s assigned gender and their gender identity is so severe that it impairs their ability to function, the lawsuit said. Still, Edmo’s gender dysphoria was so severe that twice she tried to castrate herself in prison, using a disposable razor blade.

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The Idaho Board of Correction Chairman, Dr. David McClusky, said the judge confused its opinion with medical consensus.

“If Ms. Edmo had a broken arm, we’d all agree it should be treated,” McClusky, a surgeon, said in a statement. “But disagreement among medical professionals in this case does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment.”

The National Center for Lesbian Rights is representing Edmo in the case. NCLR attorney Amy Whelan said after the December ruling that the gender confirmation surgery is life-saving care and necessary for some transgender inmates, but it is almost universally denied by prisons across the country.

The first inmate to receive the surgery was Shiloh Heavenly Quine, who is serving a life sentence for first-degree murder in California. Prison officials there agreed in 2015 to pay for the procedure to settle a lawsuit brought by Quine and other transgender inmates.

The case also led California to become the first state to set standards that will allow other transgender inmate to apply for the surgery, and prompted a federal magistrate to require California to provide transgender female inmates housed in men’s facilities with more female-oriented items like scarves and necklaces.

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Transgender Prisoners: What an Inmate’s Surgery Means for Trans Rights Awesome Black Metal Stuff! On August 7th, 2015, Shiloh Heavenly Quine's 56th birthday, she and her longtime partner were hanging out in the day room at Mule Creek State Prison, a men's facility in Ione, California.

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Transgender Prisoners: What an Inmate's Surgery Means for Trans Rights

On August 7th, 2015, Shiloh Heavenly Quine's 56th birthday, she and her longtime partner were hanging out in the day room at Mule Creek State Prison, a men's facility in Ione, California. All of a sudden, Quine – a transgender woman with dirty blond hair and an infectious smile – was summoned to the program office over the loudspeaker. "I wonder what they want," Quine remembers thinking.

This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Transgender Prisoners: What an Inmate's Surgery Means for Trans Rights

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Prominent Democrat says sex changes are impossible

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Shiloh Heavenly Quine in June 2015. Her case led California to set standards for allowing transgender inmates to apply for sex-reassignment surgery.

What Feminist Camille Paglia Says About Transgenderism

Katrina Willis / June 16, 2017

Feminist and Bernie Sanders supporter Camille Paglia isn’t toeing the liberal party line when it comes to transgenderism.

“The cold biological truth is that sex changes are impossible. Every single cell of the human body remains coded with one’s birth gender for life,” she told The Weekly Standard in an interview published June 15.

The author of “Sexual Personae”, Paglia identifies herself as “a registered Democrat who voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 primary and for Jill Stein in the general election.”

“It is certainly ironic how liberals who posture as defenders of science when it comes to global warming (a sentimental myth unsupported by evidence) flee all reference to biology when it comes to gender,” said Paglia.

Ryan Anderson, a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation, agrees about the importance of biology to the discussion.

“The best biology, psychology, and philosophy all support an understanding of sex as a bodily reality, and of gender as a social manifestation of bodily sex. Biology isn’t bigotry, and we need a sober and honest assessment of the human costs of getting human nature wrong,” said Anderson, author of the forthcoming book on transgenderism, “When Harry Became Sally.”

Paglia also condemned calls for “special rights, protections, or privileges” for  transgender men and women:

In a democracy, everyone, no matter how nonconformist or eccentric, should be free from harassment and abuse. But at the same time, no one deserves special rights, protections, or privileges on the basis of their eccentricity. The categories ‘trans-man’ and ‘trans-woman’ are highly accurate and deserving of respect.

But like Germaine Greer and Sheila Jeffreys, I reject state-sponsored coercion to call someone a ’woman’ or a ‘man’ simply on the basis of his or her subjective feeling about it. We may well take the path of good will and defer to courtesy on such occasions, but it is our choice alone.

Paglia, the daughter of Italian immigrants, is a professor at The University of Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has authored several cultural critique books such as “Sexual Personae” and “Free Men, Free Women”.

She holds an undergraduate degree from Binghamton University and a graduate degree from Yale University where she claims she was the only openly gay student. An enduring figure in academia, she has not shied away from criticizing Democrats, including comparing Bill Clinton to Bill Cosby.

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Rodney Quine, a man who identifies as a woman named Shiloh Heavenly, is a convicted murderer who became the first U.S. inmate to receive taxpayer-funded sex reassignment surgery (“SRS”) in January, 2017.  Quine was subsequently transferred to the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, CA which he recently referred to as a “torture unit” in a federal court filing.  He claims his…

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TRANS INMATE GETS HUGE DOSE OF REALITY AFTER SWAPPING GENDERS

TRANS INMATE GETS HUGE DOSE OF REALITY AFTER SWAPPING GENDERS

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The issue of transgender rights has become a major social issue in America over the past few years, and now that there is a new administration in the White House, one that wants to let states decide on this issue for themselves, it has become even more controversial.

In yet another bizarre case involving a transgendered person, California inmate Shiloh Heavenly Quine has filed…

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Transgender Prisoners: What an Inmate's Surgery Means for Trans Rights

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On August 7th, 2015, Shiloh Heavenly Quine's 56th birthday, she and her longtime partner were hanging out in the day room at Mule Creek State Prison, a men's facility in Ione, California. All of a sudden, Quine – a transgender woman with dirty blond hair and an infectious smile – was summoned to the program office over the loudspeaker. "I wonder what they want," Quine remembers thinking.

This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Transgender Prisoners: What an Inmate's Surgery Means for Trans Rights

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California Inmate Moved To Women’s Prison After State-Funded Sex Change

California Inmate Moved To Women’s Prison After State-Funded Sex Change

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Officials say the first U.S. inmate to receive state-funded sex-reassignment surgery has been moved to a women’s prison.

California corrections department spokeswoman Terry Thornton said 57-year-old Shiloh Heavenly Quine was admitted to the Central California Women’s Facility on Wednesday.

The prison northwest of Fresno holds about 2,900 women.

Quine previously was at a…

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Shiloh Heavenly Quine in June 2015. Her case led California to set standards for allowing transgender inmates to apply for sex-reassignment surgery.

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This Feb. 1, 2017 photo from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows inmate Shiloh Heavenly Quine. Officials said Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, that Quine, 57, the first U.S. inmate to receive state-funded sex-reassignment surgery, has been moved to a women's prison. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP) (The Associated Press) (more…)

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In August 2015, California prison officials agreed to pay for Shiloh Heavenly Quine’s sex-reassignment surgery. The 57-year-old inmate was convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping, and robbery for ransom with no possibility of parole. According to the Associated Press, Quine underwent surgery last Friday. Her case has set precedent for transgender inmates across the country and is giving hope…