Throughout his campaign to reenter the White House, The Orange Felon slammed Vice President Harris for supporting taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for prisoners and migrants, concluding: “Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you.”
But, in a recent report published by The New York Times, guess what administration also supported gender affirming care for federal prisoners?
he Trump administration’s record on providing services for transgender people in the sprawling federal prison system, which houses thousands of undocumented immigrants awaiting trial or deportation, is more nuanced than the 30-second spot suggests.
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.
“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 under Trump spent between $60,000 to $95,000 per year on hormone therapy for inmates, and there were two known surgeries approved via court action during his four years in office.
