Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren wants to use taxpayer money to pay for a desired sex-change operation of a criminal if requested. She seems to have made a 180 on her stance on the matter.
In 2012, when a convicted murderer requested a state-funded sex-change operation she said during an interview with WTKK-FM, “I have to say, I don’t think it’s a good use of taxpayer dollars.”
Warren has become increasingly outspoken about LGBTQ rights and in advocating transgender rights. In her Securing LGBTQ + Rights and Equality plan released on Oct. 10, it says:
“I will direct the Bureau of Prisons to end the Trump Administration’s dangerous policy of imprisoning transgender people in facilities based on their sex assigned at birth and ensure that all facilities meet the needs of transgender people, including by providing medically necessary care, like transition-related surgeries, while incarcerated.”
Warren thus seeks to reverse the Trump administration policy whereby “The designation to a facility of the inmate’s identified gender would be appropriate only in rare cases,” according to updated guidance in the Transgender Offender Manual by the DOJ of May 11, 2018.
Other Democratic hopefuls shared similar opinions on the transgender issue.
At a 2019 Iowa caucus state, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden stated he would try his best to roll back the Trump area policies, promising to “undo all of the damage the President Trump has done by revoking the executive orders of our administration.” He referred to the set of executive orders Obama issued to address the issue of whether to lock up criminals with those of their biological gender or with the kind they identify with, NBC reported.
“In prison, the determination should be that your sexual identity is defined by what you say it is, not what in fact the prison says it is,” Biden said, confusing sexuality with gender identity.
In May, the California Senate approved SB 132, a bill that grants the right to inmates to be incarcerated together with those who they identify with, without any documented proof, medical test, or hormone treatment—just the stated preference of the convict—including abusers of women, murderers, and rapists.
Even staunchly feminist organizations, like the radical feminist group Women’s Liberation Front, expressed “adamant opposition,” saying the bill would “put women prisoners and women prison guards and staff, at serious increased risk of male violence,” and said that the bill was “stunning attack on incarcerated women and one of the most extreme examples of elevating men’s feelings over women’s physical and psychological safety.” The National Review reported.
