Californians will soon elect a new governor. Voters might ask candidates where they stand on the use of taxpayer dollars to fund “sex-reassignment surgery” for gender dysphoria among illegal aliens and homeless people.

The state has already been funding such surgeries for convicted felons, for several years.

In 2017, convicted murderer Rodney Quine received “sex-reassignment” surgery funded by California taxpayers, the first such case in the nation.

According to Christopher Rufo of the Manhattan Institute and Jonathan Choe of the Discovery Institute, those procedures now continue on a wider scale, in the state’s program for the homeless.

Last month, Rufo and Choe checked out a tip that California had opened its homeless shelters to “illegal aliens,” but there was more to it.

As the authors discovered, the shelters were housing “a population of male-to-female ‘transgender’ illegal aliens, who had hoped to obtain ‘gender-affirming care.’ To their shock, “state and local governments........

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