A transgender woman convicted of killing a couple in an attempt to get money for her sex change ultimately had the procedure covered by California taxpayers — thanks to radical policies backed by Vice President Kamala Harris.

The infamous so-called ‘Yacht Killer’ – born John Jacobson Jr. and now called Skylar Deleon – is currently serving life without parole after initially being sentenced to death for the murder of Thomas Hawks, 57, and his wife Jackie. 47, in 2004.

Deleon, 45, tricked the couple into letting them and several associates board their 55-foot yacht and take them on the ship after feigning interest in purchasing the vessel.

While 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 details and sign over the boat’s title – before tying them to the anchor and throwing them overboard .

After the gruesome crime, Deleon and the accomplices helped themselves to a few beers from the deceased couple’s refrigerator below deck and enjoyed an afternoon of fishing.

Last year, nearly two decades after the murders, the killer finally underwent gender reassignment surgery — courtesy of California taxpayers. She is now awaiting transfer to a women’s prison.

“I underwent gender affirming surgery and breast augmentation on April 5, 2023,” Deleon wrote in a letter to the Washington Free Beacon, which contacted her for an update on the status of her transition.

California’s policy to provide hormone treatment to inmates who identify as transgender predated Harris’ election as attorney general in 2010. During her tenure, the state’s prison system increased its offering of gender-related surgical procedures to convicts, resulting in In 2015, the first prisoner sex change in the country became possible.

That year, inmate Jeffrey Bryan Norsworthy, a convicted murderer serving a life sentence, sued the California prison system to force it to pay for his sex change. A federal judge sided with Norsworthy on the grounds that such a procedure was considered required health care for inmates under the state constitution.

In her capacity as the Golden State’s top cop, Harris argued that the surgery was not medically necessary, even vowing to appeal after a district judge ruled against the state. But it was never appealed, and then-Gov. Jerry Brown gave Norsworthy the green light to be released on parole before the state was on the hook for his operation.

It was the last documented time Harris showed a glimmer of common sense on the issue, critics say.

While the state was fighting Norsworthy in court, another convicted murderer – Rodney Quine – also sued the state, demanding that they provide coverage for his sex change. The state’s Justice Department — led by Harris — failed to stop a settlement agreement in which California taxpayers would pay not only for Quine’s sex change but also hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, the Beacon reports.

Later, during a 2019 campaign trail press conference, she took responsibility for the documents her office filed on the issue — while blaming her position on the state’s Department of Corrections, the Washington Blade wrote.

“I was… the attorney general of California for two terms, and I had a large number of clients that I was obligated to defend and represent, and I could not fire my clients, and there have unfortunately been situations where my clients took positions that were contrary to my beliefs,” she said.

Quine would become the first — and far from the last — convicted murderer in the state to undergo gender reassignment at taxpayer expense.

After announcing the settlement, California unveiled sweeping changes in how it handles the issue of trans prisoners, heralding even more radical policies.

“California has become the first state to adopt a policy offering gender reassignment surgery to certain prisoners,” the New York Times wrote at the time.

Covered procedures include mastectomies and genital reconstructions.

As her political ambitions grew, Harris fell over herself to support taxpayer-funded gender reassignment surgeries for prisoners.

In a 2019 interview with the National Center for Transgender Equity during her failed bid for the White House, Harris went so far as to boast that she played a key role in changing California policy “so that every transgender inmate in the prison system would have access to the medical care they want and need,” calling the policy “a matter of humanity.”

That same year, in a questionnaire distributed to candidates by the far-left American Civil Liberties Union, Harris pledged that if elected president, she would “use executive authority to ensure that transgender and nonbinary people who dependent on the state for medical care – including those in prison and immigration detention – will have access to comprehensive gender transition treatment, including all necessary surgical care.”

Between 2017 and 2022, California’s jail and prison population experienced a 234% increase in the number of inmates who identified as trans or “nonbinary,” according to a report in CalMatters last year.

The same report said the state expects 462 inmates will request gender reassignment surgery by 2024, while current medical staff can only perform three such procedures per week.

The Harris-Walz campaign has avoided talking in depth about the issue during the campaign. A representative told CNN last month that “(Harris) will take the same pragmatic approach as president, focusing on common-sense solutions for the sake of progress.”

The Trump campaign has used the issue to portray Harris as out of touch with the priorities of average Americans, regularly airing an attack ad accusing her of her support for taxpayer-funded sex change operations for prisoners with the slogan : “Kamalas for they/them . President Trump is for you.”

Reached by email Tuesday, a spokesperson for Harris-Walz referred The Post to a recent appearance on Fox News by the campaign’s communications director, Michael Tyler, in which he stated that the ACLU questionnaire “is not what (VP Harris) represents or what it is based on.

The campaign offered no further comment on the matter.