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I think the one thing I knew about Harris before the 2020 primaries was that she was particularly cruel to transwomen in her jails. Like she made a point to be, so much that it was a scandal in a country this transphobic.
The courts ordered her to provide trans health care, said it was 'cruel and unusual punishment under the 8th amendment' to deny services. She fought with every tool available, delaying and appealing to a higher court when told no. Using TERF language that trans healthcare causes irreversible damage and that inmates can wait until after they are no longer her problem. [2015]
Her explanations changed over time. From 'no comment', to 'the law is forcing me to do this', then 'it is unfortunate my staff did all this, I was actually fighting this injustice and despite being in charge was powerless to stop them'.
Wtf.... I'ven't heard of that before...
https://theappeal.org/incarcerated-transgender-womens-lives-must-matter/
(CW: transphobia)
spoiler
When Kamala Harris announced her run for president on Jan. 21, a reporter asked her about the 2015 case of Michelle-Lael Norsworthy, a trans woman incarcerated in California’s prison system who petitioned prison officials to grant her request for gender affirming surgery. In 2015, Harris was California’s attorney general and her office filed a request in federal court to halt a court ruling that ordered Norsworthy’s surgery, arguing that “there is no evidence that irreversible treatment is immediately necessary before this appeal can be heard.” Nearly four years later, Harris didn’t answer the question about Norsworthy. In response to the reporter, Harris replied “it was an office with a lot of people … and do I wish that sometimes they would have personally consulted me before they wrote the things that they wrote? Yes, I do.” Harris then added that she “worked behind the scenes to ensure that the Department of Corrections would allow transitioning inmates to receive the medical attention that they required, they needed and deserved.”pretty standard cop material![emoji top-cop top-cop](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/619d13a4-9903-4b45-ba09-6ff24883878e.png)
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/j7lo2d/collage_created_with_the_photos_of_black_males/
CW: reddit link
Collage made out of black men Kamala Harris kept in prison past legally necessary for free prison labor. I remember seeing this one float around lefty reddit before the 2020 elections
the comments talking about how she hadn't persecuted all of them, and some are repeated one jumped out at me 27 times
oh no, so just like, a lot of them then? phew
Same