When I was AG in 2015, a state prisoner sued to get gender-affirming surgery. My client was the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and, as its lawyer, I was required to support the case against that inmate, which we settled in the inmate’s favor. In 2017 a transgender prisoner in California was the first to get gender-affirming surgery based on that case, and twenty-two others have followed in California. That’s the law. But because I’d been on the opposing side of the case, a cry went up: Kamala doesn’t care about trans people. That wasn’t true. I wanted to rebut that
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