Vice President Kamala Harris did not reverse or recant her position on providing gender-affirming health care for trans people who are incarcerated during a high-profile interview Wednesday with Fox News, decrying instead her opponent’s outsize focus on transgender people.
An interview Harris gave on the subject in 2019 has been the centerpiece of millions of dollars worth of advertisements from the campaign of former President Donald Trump.
Fox anchor Bret Baier pressed Harris if she would still support providing this health care to incarcerated trans people as president.
“I will follow the law,” Harris said, noting that Trump also allowed incarcerated trans people to receive gender-affirming care during his presidency, as The New York Times reported earlier on Wednesday.
Trump administration officials at the Federal Bureau of Prisons provided gender-affirming care, namely hormone replacement therapy and other non-surgical treatments, to several hundred incarcerated people…