Kamala Harris expected to expand Biden’s child gender transition agenda if elected

Gender ideology activists expect Vice President Kamala Harris to expand on the Biden administration‘s child gender transition agenda if elected president in November.

After President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race on Sunday, gay and transgender activist groups and outlets quickly endorsed Harris for president. Many of the groups touted Harris’s past as a prosecutor in San Francisco, one of the nation’s foremost gay cities.

“A Harris Administration would not only uphold but also expand upon the protections for transgender Americans established by the Biden Administration,” Advocates for Trans Equality said in a statement endorsing Harris for president. “Her leadership promises to fortify and enhance the efforts to address and meet the needs of transgender people, ensuring continued progress in our nation’s history of civil rights.”

The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest and most powerful gay lobby, also threw their support behind Harris saying she would be a trusted activist for their priorities in office.

The White House has been a top national advocate for irreversible gender transition procedures and drugs for children in the country, despite the fact that there is little evidence the interventions work, and a growing amount of evidence that they are actually harmful.

“The intersection on the issue of reproductive care and trans care, and the ability of families to be able to have care for their children and their families, is really, again, an intersection around attacks that are on an identity,” Harris told the Advocate in 2023, speaking about the “significant overlap” between gender transitions and abortion.

Earlier this month, the White House came under fire from transgender activists after a spokesperson told The 19th that the administration opposes gender transition surgeries for children.

“We continue to fight state and national bans on gender-affirming care, which represents a continuum of care, and respect the role of parents, families, and doctors — not politicians — in these decisions. Gender-affirming surgeries are typically reserved for adults, and we believe they should be,” White House Domestic Policy Council director Neera Tanden said at first.

After the backlash from the HRC demanding affirmation of gender transitions for children, the Biden administration backpedaled and clarified that it did, in fact, support the invasive surgeries for children. Tanden issued a statement saying the administration would fight laws barring the surgeries for children and reiterating that governments should not be in the position to block them if parents and doctors agree it is the correct course of action, despite the dearth of medical evidence.

The White House and Harris typically post a supportive message on social media for transitions on “Transgender Day of Visibility.”

On that day in 2022, Harris, her husband Douglas Emhoff, and female-identifying biological male Admiral Rachel Levine, Assistant Secretary for Health of the Department of Health and Human Services, welcomed children claiming transgender identity to the White House and vowed support for medical interventions.

“Deeply impactful to speak to some amazing trans kids at the White House. Gender affirming care is the medical standard and allows these kids to be themselves and live a normal life,” Levine posted to social media. “To all trans kids: we see and support you. We have your back.”

The same year, in the Biden administration’s proclamation for the day, the White House posted a message from Biden, Harris, and their spouses saying in part, “Efforts to criminalize supportive medical care for transgender kids, to ban transgender children from playing sports, and to outlaw discussing LGBTQI+ people in schools undermine their humanity and corrode our Nation’s values.”

Harris has been criticized in the past for denying a gender transition for a biological male inmate in a California prison when she was attorney general of the state, saying at the time inmate Michelle Lael-Norsworthy “has been receiving hormone therapy for her gender dysphoria since 2000 and continues to receive hormone therapy and other forms of treatment… there is no evidence that Norsworthy is in serious, immediate physical or emotional danger.” 

However, when pressed on the issue during the 2019 presidential primary, Harris apologized, syaing, “I was, as you are rightly pointing out, the attorney general of California for two terms and I had a host of clients that I was obligated to defend and represent and I couldn’t fire my clients, and there are unfortunately situations that occurred where my clients took positions that were contrary to my beliefs.”

While attorney general, Harris also refused to enforce Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that outlawed gay marriage that passed with over 52% of the vote.