Trans killer gets taxpayer-funded sex change after murdering couple to get money for procedures

Under policies and precedents set under then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris, a trans-identified male murderer who in 2004 killed a married couple in an attempt to obtain money for a sex-change surgery has succeeded at achieving such procedures at the taxpayers’ expense.

On November 15, 2004, Thomas and Jackie Hawks boarded their yacht with John Jacobson Jr, who now goes by Skylar Deleon. Jacobson had reached out to the married couple to purchase their boat, according to the Washington Free Beacon. The ship left a dock on the California coast, after which Jacobson attacked the couple using a stun gun. Jacobson tied the couple to the ship’s anchor and forced them to sign over their bank account information and title to the boat.

After receiving the documents, Jacobson, as well as accomplices, threw the couple overboard. Jacobson and accomplices fished and drank beer from the boat before returning to port. The brutal murder of the Hawkses gave Jacobson the nickname "Yacht Killer." Jacobson was convicted in 2008 for the killings of the Hawkses as well as an additional man in Mexico, his former cellmate, which police later linked to Jacobs. In the murder of the former cellmate, Jacobson was able to get $50,000.

In a letter sent to the Washington Free Beacon, dated January 17, Jacobson wrote, "I did receive Gender Affirming Surgery and Breast Augmentation on April 5, 2023. I began transitioning when I first got to San Quentin. I started hormones in 2009 shortly after being evaluated."

"Next, I have changed my name back to Skylar Deleon and I changed my middle name to Sohpia. Just a name I have always loved. My transitioning was definitely tough but I have made it."

Speaking with ABC News in 2009 from death row, Jacobson said that the inmate had attempted to self-amputate the inmate’s genitalia. "I basically took a sheet and tied it around my lower extremity … I tied it around and I went to cut it off," Jacobson said at the time."

Jacobson told the Free Beacon that the inmate is awaiting transfer to a female facility. "As for SB132 I should transfer fairly quickly but the prison makes us go to committee to determine whether or not which prison we go to even though I have had both surgeries. Right now I am being housed in the hospital for my safety. My counselor and Dr.s refuse to release me anywhere except Central California Women’s Facility."

In her 2020 presidential run, Kamala Harris was seen celebrating her work to change policies in the state allowing trans-identified inmates under the Department of Corrections access to sex changes. Harris said that as California Attorney General, she learned that the state Department of Corrections was "standing in the way of surgery for prisoners."

"There was this specific case," she continued, "and when I learned about the case, I worked behind the scenes to not only make sure that that transgender woman got the services she was deserving, so it wasn’t only about that case, 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." California allows males who claim to be females to be housed alongside women in women's correctional facilities.