September 12, 2024
More than 24 hours have passed since the New Yorker published a post-debate column that states "no one knows" what Donald Trump meant when he referred to Vice President Kamala Harris’s support for taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for illegal immigrants.
The column from staff writer Susan Glasser led the magazine’s website after Tuesday evening’s debate. It argues that the president said a number of "crazy and unhinged" things during the 90-minute affair including that "the Vice-President ‘wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison.’"
"What the hell was he talking about?" Glasser wrote. "No one knows, which was, of course, exactly Harris’s point."
But, as CNN reported Monday, Harris explicitly endorsed using "executive authority to ensure that transgender and non-binary people who rely on the state for medical care—including those in prison and immigration detention—will have access to comprehensive treatment associated with gender transition, including all necessary surgical care." Unlike some of her other left-wing positions, neither Harris nor her campaign has disavowed that view, which was first articulated in a 2019 questionnaire from the American Civil Liberties Union.
Users on X, where Glasser posted the column, added a community note to provide "context."
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