A transgender woman convicted of killing a couple to try to get money for her sex change ended up having the procedure covered by California taxpayers — thanks to radical policies backed by VP Kamala Harris.
The notorious so-called “Yacht Killer” — who was born John Jacobson Jr. and now goes by Skylar Deleon — is currently serving life without parole after initially being sentenced to death for the slaying of Thomas Hawks, 57, and his wife Jackie, 47, in 2004.
Deleon, 45, duped the couple into letting them and several associates board their 55-foot yacht and take them out on it after feigning interest in purchasing the vessel.
While out at sea somewhere between Newport Harbor and Santa Catalina, Deleon used a stun gun to incapacitate the couple and forced them to give up their bank-account information and sign over the boat’s title — before tying them to the anchor and tossing it overboard.
After the horrific crime, Deleon and the accomplices helped themselves to a few beers from the dead couple’s below-deck fridge and enjoyed an afternoon of fishing.
Last year, nearly two decades after the murders, the killer finally got a sex-change operation — courtesy of California taxpayers. She is now waiting to be transferred to a women’s prison.
“I did receive gender affirming surgery and breast augmentation on April 5th, 2023,” Deleon wrote in a letter to the Washington Free Beacon, who reached out to her for an update on the status of her transition.
California’s policy of providing hormone treatment for prison inmates who identify as transgender predated Harris’ 2010 election to state attorney general. Then during her time in office, the state’s prison system ramped up its gender-related surgical offerings to convicts, allowing the first inmate sex change in the country in 2015. --->READ MORE HERE
Harris's support for taxpayer-funded sex changes for transgender inmates has emerged as a vulnerability on the campaign trail
Sitting on death row in 2009, John Jacobson Jr., known as the "Yacht Killer," talked about murdering married couple Thomas and Jackie Hawks to obtain the money for a sex-change surgery. Five years earlier, Jacobson lured the Hawkses onto their boat off the California coast, tied them to the vessel's anchor, and threw them overboard before grabbing a beer from the fridge and starting to fish.
"I wanted the surgery, and I knew I 100 percent wanted the surgery," Jacobson told ABC News.
Last year, Jacobson’s dreams came true when California taxpayers footed the bill for his gender transition surgery, a move made possible thanks to policies and precedents set during Kamala Harris’s time as the state’s attorney general.
"I did receive gender affirming surgery and breast augmentation on April 5th 2023," Jacobson, who now goes by Skylar Deleon, wrote in a letter to the Washington Free Beacon. That letter was sent in response to a Free Beacon inquiry into the status of his transition. Jacobson said he is now awaiting transfer to a women's prison from San Quentin.
Harris's support for inmates like Jacobson emerged as a campaign issue when a CNN report revealed that she pledged in a 2019 ACLU questionnaire to support taxpayer-funded sex-change surgeries for illegal immigrants and prisoners in federal custody. But her history on the issue dates back to at least 2015, during her stint as the Golden State's top cop—a period that Harris has cited on the campaign trail as proof of her tough-on-crime approach.
California began offering hormonal treatments for prisoners who claim to be experiencing gender dysphoria before Harris was elected as California's attorney general, and Jacobson said in his letter to the Free Beacon that he started receiving hormone treatment when he arrived at San Quentin in 2009. But the state's treatment of transgender inmates changed radically during her tenure.
In 2015, Jeffrey Bryan Norsworthy, who was serving a prison sentence for murder, sued the state's prison system to compel it to pay for a sex-change operation. A federal judge ordered the state to foot the bill for the surgery, arguing it was part of the medical care the Constitution requires states to provide prisoners. --->READ MORE HERE
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