Trying to get to the bottom of Kamala Harris's position on gender identity ideology is hard work based on what people are saying now. There's so much spin and disinformation that anyone will struggle to work out what the facts are.
To get a clearer picture, you have to go back to reporting that's much closer to the events in question:
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2019/11/20/despite-harris-deal-few-surgeries-granted-to-trans-inmates-in-california/
For example:
“I was, as you are rightly pointing out, the attorney general of California for two terms and I had a host of clients that I was obligated to defend and represent and I couldn’t fire my clients, and there are unfortunately situations that occurred where my clients took positions that were contrary to my beliefs,” Harris said.
Harris's beliefs there were that gender reassignment surgery should be open to transwomen in prison. So what did Harris do about the conflict?
“I did it quietly, because I actually disagreed with my client initially, when they had the policy, and so I did it behind the scenes,” Harris told the Los Angeles Blade. “I helped to resolve and change the policy. The issue for me was to make sure the right thing would happen.”
As a result of Harris's changes, the policy became much more open to gender reassignment surgery being available to transwomen in prisons in California:
“I made sure that they changed the policy in the state of California so that every transgender inmate in the prison system would have access to the medical care that they desired and need,” Harris said. “I know it was historic in California, but I believe, actually, it may have been one of the first if not the first in the country where I pushed for that policy in a Department of Corrections.”
This was one consequence:
“Members of the LGBT community, especially those who are transgender, are too often subjected to discrimination and forced to live on the margins of our society,” Harris said at the time. “In a groundbreaking settlement, the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation has agreed to evaluate and provide sex-reassignment surgery if recommended to Shiloh Quine, a transgender inmate. This is an important step forward in the ongoing effort to protect transgender rights in California.”