(LifeSiteNews) — Former Vice President Kamala Harris stands by her support for taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for gender-confused prisoners, according to her new book.
The book, titled “107 Days,” covers the time from when she became the Democratic Party presidential nominee in July 2024 through her historic election loss to President Donald Trump in November.
In her book, she said she still supports forcing taxpayers to pay for surgeries to remove healthy breasts or testicles from gender-confused prisoners.
“I do not regret my decision to follow my protective instincts,” Harris wrote in her book, according to the Washington Free Beacon. “I do regret not giving even more attention to how we might mitigate Trump’s attacks.”
She reportedly has an entire chapter on the controversy in her book.
President Trump won in November partially based on his sharp criticism of Vice President Harris’ support for gender ideology, including letting gender-confused males dominate in women’s sports.
One ad included a clip of Harris telling an LGBT activist she supported the surgeries along with a second clip of popular black commentator Charlamagne Tha God stating, “Kamala supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners.”
The ad includes Harris telling a gender-confused male how, as attorney general of California, she supported the policy.
“Hell, no, I don’t want my taxpayer dollars going to that,” Charlamagne says, with a second commentator backing his comments.
The ad ends with a hulking gender-confused male in a basketball uniform playing on a team with females.
“Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you,” the ad ends.
The messaging is widely considered to be one reason Harris lost. But the Free Beacon reported that Harris denies this.
The conservative news outlet reported:
Harris concedes that the Trump campaign was right to think they had “landed on a winning message,” but she doesn’t think the ad was a “knockout punch” that propelled Trump to victory. This was merely the “conventional wisdom” among pundits and “middle-aged men” who “watch a lot of sports,” she writes, describing a huge chunk of the American electorate that Democrats have deliberately ignored for years.
“There was no way I was going to go against my very nature and turn on transgender people right when they were being so intensely and intentionally vilified,” Harris also wrote. “I was aware of the weight of my voice and had no intention of adding to their burden.”
Harris says men have advantage in sports, offers no solution
Harris also became the latest Democrat to make a statement suggesting she opposes gender-confused men playing in girls’ sports without actually changing her position.
“I agree with the concerns expressed by parents and players that we have to take into account biological factors such as muscle mass and unfair athletic advantage when we determine who plays on which teams, especially in contact sports,” Harris wrote in her book.
“With goodwill and common sense, I believe we can come up with ways (to achieve fairness), without vilifying and demonizing children,” she wrote.
Other Democratic politicians have made similar statements.
After the 2024 election, several elected Democratic officials, including Democrat Reps. Tom Suozzi of New York and Seth Moulton of Massachusetts said they were concerned about men in girls’ sports. But soon after, they voted against Congressional legislation to prohibit men in girls’ sports.
Likewise, California Gov. Gavin Newsom told the late Charlie Kirk that it is an issue of “fairness” when men compete against girls. However, he took no action to stop a male high school track athlete from dominating state championships in California. He also quickly qualified his condemnation by claiming gender-confused students would kill themselves if they were required to compete against their own sex.
Newsom told Kirk on the first episode of the governor’s podcast in March:
I think it’s an issue of fairness. I completely agree with you on that. It is an issue of fairness. It’s deeply unfair,” he said. “I’m not wrestling with the fairness issue. I totally agree with you … I revere sports. And so the issue of fairness is completely legit. There’s also a humility and a grace, that these poor people are more likely to commit suicide, have anxiety and depression. So both things I can hold in my hand. How can we address this issue with the kind of decency that I think is inherent in you but not always expressed on the issue, but at the same time deal with the unfairness.
Similarly, Rahm Emanuel, a former ambassador to Japan and mayor of Chicago, told Megyn Kelly he does not think men can become women.
However, he said he supports parents who want to take their kids in for transgender drugs and surgeries.