Jonathan Allen is a senior national politics reporter for NBC News.
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign is betting millions of dollars that most sports fans don’t want their taxes spent on providing gender-affirming surgeries for prisoners, including undocumented immigrants. Viewers tuning into NFL and college football games in recent weeks have been bombarded with two Trump ads — running both for national broadcast and locally in swing states — that take issue with Vice President Kamala Harris’ past support for taxpayer-funded gender-affirming treatments.
' She further explained that she had backed such efforts in her home state as California's attorney general because 'it is important that transgender individuals who rely on the state for care receive the treatment they need.' In 2015, while serving as California's attorney general, she tried to block a trans woman from receiving gender-affirming surgery in prison.
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