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Biden names Dr. Rachel Levine as Assistant Health Secretary, first transgender official confirmed by Senate

Christian Datoc
Daily Caller
Tue, 19 Jan 2021 07:59 UTC

President-elect Joe Biden announced Tuesday that Pennsylvania's Dr. Rachel Levine will serve as the assistant Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, making her potentially the first transgender official to be confirmed by the Senate.

Levine, who currently serves as Pennsylvania's secretary of health, will be the top deputy to HHS Secretary-designee Xavier Becerra of California. Biden said in a press release circulated Tuesday morning:

"Dr. Rachel Levine will bring the steady leadership and essential expertise we need to get people through this pandemic — no matter their zip code, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability — and meet the public health needs of our country in this critical moment and beyond. She is a historic and deeply qualified choice to help lead our administration's health efforts."

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris added that Levine is "a remarkable public servant with the knowledge and experience to help us contain this pandemic, and protect and improve the health and well-being of the American people."

The Biden team noted that Levine received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and her medical degree from the Tulane University School of Medicine. Additionally, she was thrice confirmed by the Pennsylvania's Republican-controlled Senate for both her current position and to serve as the state's physician general.

Reader Comments

LadyRad · 2021-01-19T20:21:57Z

God help us all

[Link]

life · 2021-01-19T20:39:21Z

LadyRad i fell off the chair when mrs doubtfire popped up ...geezez, laughing like a lunatic now. that made my day, thank you LR

balboa schwartz · 2021-01-19T20:41:34Z

LadyRad Hey, what's yur problem? Dude wants to be a lady, fine. Dude wants you to get shot up with DNA-scrambling poison, ain't no big thing. Dude wants boys in the girls bathrooms in schools, it's normal. Dude wants to date a dude, don't say no. Dude wants to run for President as a woman, why not? It's all normal.

Artex · 2021-01-19T20:56:32Z

balboa schwartz You got one point wrong. Dude wants to date a dude isn't okay. One of them has to chop of their dick and get a boob job. Being gay isn't okay, according to some trans activists. Also not being attracted to trans people makes you a bigot, according to some of those same trans activists.

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-01-19T23:26:44Z

Artex

Also not being attracted to trans people makes you a bigot, according to some of those same trans activists.

Well, I'm happy to say I ain't a bigot then, because Rachel Levine, pic above? ~~He's~~ Oops, she's HOT!

RC

P.s., "Levine', that's Irish, right?

RC

G.O., infra: (No doubt, that can't help the cause; I don't care about the policy matters.)

RC

ScottyFishman · 2021-01-19T20:36:16Z

That's exactly what you want... someone with a clear mental illness informing public policy.

Neizvestno ·

"health"

· 2021-01-19T21:38:22Z

Good Optics · 2021-01-19T23:25:50Z

Hon' do yourself a favour and pop the 50K for some proper FFS [Link]

ScottyFishman · 2021-01-19T23:32:25Z

Good Optics Not that I'm a proponent of encouraging people's mental illness, but some of these are pretty well done. Definitely tricked my brain to register "female"... others, not so much.

[Link]

Good Optics · 2021-01-19T23:35:40Z

ScottyFishman Well as I said, life's a least a little easier . . .

bbrebozo · 2021-01-19T23:30:42Z

I am glad I have 20 to thirty years left max, then I can check out of this insane asylum!

Fewtile · 2021-01-20T04:10:51Z

Hormones can't stop ugly...."what a world, what a world"!

Good Optics · 2021-01-20T05:02:45Z

Almost completely unrelated, this brilliance just appeared on a friend's FB page

Captian’s log…

I’m not sure I get what all the fuss is about sharing a bathroom with a trans, gay or straight person. I’ve seen a bunch of twisted opinions on this, it’s pretty absurd to me.

It’s the bathroom, the least sexy place in the world. What could one possibly be worried about? Why is this an issue all of a sudden? Did I miss something? I do now and again.

It reminds me of this time many years ago. I was about 19, and I took the train from Hamilton to Toronto, and went to what was then the “O’Keefe center” to see Richard Kiley, reprise his role as Don Qixote in the musical “Man of La Mancha”.

It was brilliant of course, but I had to pee really badly, and I didn’t think I’d make it until intermission, and as I knew the play by heart, I headed to the restroom in the middle of the first half of the show.

I was in the loo, which appeared empty... had done my business and was checking my pompadour in the mirror, when out of the stall comes , of all people William Shatner. If memory serves, I believe he was smoking. You could do that then.

Apparently he was in town, doing a narration for some show at “Lazerium” does anyone remember Lazerium? I hope I spelled it right.

He comes out of the stall and had a cast on his right hand..and was having one helluva time trying to do up his fly. I tried to make like I didn’t notice, but it was impossible not to watch. He tried his left hand, and his right..to no avail, he was getting pretty exasperated by the struggle..finally I looked over and said “Look...You’re not gonna make it. Lemme help you out. Okay?" I strolled over, and while he seemed taken aback, I think he was slightly relieved, but still hadn’t said a word. I grabbed his belt buckle, with my left hand, his fly with my right, and trying desperately not to lock eyes, I pulled up his fly.

I turned quickly and said “Our little secret..no worries.”

He nodded and walked over to the mirror, I had resumed checking my pomp just to ease the tension a little, he proceeded to do the same. He patted what was then, as now..the best toupee in the business. And looked over at me...and we both immediately started laughing out loud.

Ice-broken, we chatted for a second or two...he told me he loved the show etc. And then thanked me and we went our separate ways.

So...If I can share a bathroom, and yank up the fly of captain Kirk, without the two of us falling in lust and heading off to “Deep Space 9” I’m quite sure a trangendered person isn’t going to rattle my moral compass one way or the other.

It’s the bathroom. Every body uses it...park your fears at the door.

Kirk out.

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-01-20T06:25:19Z

Good Optics ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY!!!

It’s the bathroom, the least sexy place in the world. What could one possibly be worried about? Why is this an issue all of a sudden? Did I miss something? . . . (Et al.)

I also love this subtle wit:

Every body uses it...park your fears at the door.

Good Optics · 2021-01-20T06:42:31Z

Rowan Cocoan Yeah, Scotty's a very well and widely read one-time honky tonker, blues shouter and crooner who these days is perfectly happy driving a forklift on a Hamilton loading dock and catchin' a smoke at the breaks.

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-01-20T07:12:12Z

Good Optics I actually, tonight, opted out of a situation where I had every legal right not to . . . ARGH . . I'll probably write it up sometime for it is funny as hell - but that's after I get over the 'rs for me NOT . . . for me being beyond kind... argh. The angel on my left shoulder won out over . . .Strange and funny - I'll probably detail it later.

I've got to say that these friends that I have here? For at least the last four years - make it ten - (and yeah, that includes the PIA's) - that I have valued, and still value, those, THESE friends more than almost anyone around here - and I'm talking lots of people I have known my whole life.

I thank you; I thank SOTTites, I thank SOTT.

RC

balboa schwartz · 2021-01-20T05:42:43Z

The whole bathroom thing, to me, boils down to this: pedos and perverts in general will use the 'law' to their advantage to target and assault the vulnerable. Kids should be able to use public and school restrooms without that fear.

Sleepieth · 2021-01-20T06:44:08Z

...pedos and perverts in general will use the 'law' to their advantage to target and assault the vulnerable.

Is this exclusive to only those who identify as transgender? While we’re caught up regulating where people are allowed to pee we need to focus more on the academic personnel, daycare workers, priests, pediatricians, and family members that have far more access to children. I am all for unisex bathrooms but for the sake of all those sanctimoniously egalitarian policy writers adamantly pro-shared restrooms, pre-surgery trans should be fined and registered for entering the opposite sex bathroom. As for pedophiles, trans or not, I mean... lawful and permanent genitalia mutilation of convicted offenders would seem a fitting recourse.

balboa schwartz · 2021-01-20T19:27:05Z

Sleepieth not exclusive, no, simply pointing out this would codify and legalize further problems from all manner of deviants.....I feel sorry for those that identify as trans, seem like our whole biome has been damaged by chemical soups, folks started seeing it in frogs back in the 70's, and now it's come up the line to humans

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-01-20T19:30:09Z

Sleepieth & B.S., and et al., the problem is that I don't think that there's a crime that people get falsely convicted of MORE that what is called in the biz around here, 'kiddy diddling.'

It's super scary.

RC

balboa schwartz · 2021-01-20T20:12:33Z

Rowan Cocoan not surprising, actually, and I do trust you for information on the 'legal' side of things....so what to do, what to do?

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-01-20T20:56:17Z

balboa schwartz I dunno. I haven't defended one of those cases in over 25 years.

(For me, I always did and always will affirmatively REFUSE to be around kids who aren't family, and even family, as I think of it; that shit will teach one to err on the side of caution.) RC

HashAttack2 · 2021-01-21T00:04:50Z

Pennsylvania Health Department (Dr Rachel Levine) Issues COVID Guidelines for Orgies - [Link]

balboa schwartz · 2021-01-21T00:48:52Z

HashAttack2 I saw that when he/she/it put that out there a bit ago....wishful thinking on his/hers/its part?

HashAttack2 · 2021-01-21T00:51:46Z

balboa schwartz You would be disappointed if you got "her" in a wife-swapping party - but at least the sex would be Covid safe

balboa schwartz ·

HashAttack2

· 2021-01-21T01:12:54Z

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-01-21T01:19:46Z

HashAttack2 What if he got his ex wife who had transitioned into a male?

HashAttack2 · 2021-01-21T14:34:29Z

Rowan Cocoan Well I've seen what s/he ("Rachel ") looks like, so I'll take my chances with the ex wife (if it boils down to a choice between those two)

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-01-21T14:46:24Z

HashAttack2 I dare say there are darn few who would choose otherwise.

But, no. I'm talking about if they a "The Ice Storm" auto keys in the bowl (I thought it was The Big Chill, but what the hell do I know? ) and they ended up stuck with each other again? It ain't like his ex would be able to fob Rachel's keys off on anyone.

RC

Neizvestno · 2021-01-21T03:39:08Z

I have PTSD, it's quite bad. I'm told it's "violence" now for me to react in anyway fearfully towards a fat balding man who thinks he's a six year old girl with pigtails, or to simply leave and wait to avoid having my pants down in his general vicinity. It's hard to maintain empathy for people who show none at all for you.

I don't ask for the world to change to accommodate my mental illness, I should not have to participate in your delusion either.

They don't just want to urinate in there and go about their business, they want to play dress ups and exchange tampons and act like teenage girls in TV school dramas and you have to play too or they are telling mummy you were mean to them. If you are just doing a wee and leaving out it doesn't matter where you go, or who avoids you when you are there. If you want to force the girls to play with you, however. I don't think we need legislation, actual trans people having been pissing quietly in their piss pot of choice all along the legislation is only so bearded creeps can have their dick out in the ladies room and scream discrimination if anyone doesn't want to pretend it's a clit and it's totally normal to be waggling those in strangers faces too.

Idealy every toilet could be a lockable room with the toilet and a handbasin and no more stupid cubicles, but there's the cost of replacement, and drug overdosers locked in, and little kids unable to unlock the door... Etc etc...

I dunno, but maybe instead of getting angry at women who are afraid of a man in the bathroom, go get angry at the men who made them afraid, and the mothers who didn't woman the fuck up and leave arseholes for the sake of their kids, and the dad's who weren't there to protect their kids.

It all makes me extremely angry, and it's a struggle everytime this comes up to not feel hatred for trans people, most of whom are probably fine and don't want these nut bags screaming at people are threatening them in their name.

Also, if it's dangerous for a man in a dress to use the men's toilets, that seems like a problem men need to fix, not something women should have to give up private space for. Just a thought.

HVACTech · 2021-01-21T04:06:01Z

Neizvestno I got over PTSD , when a chick that I had a crush on in high school was giving blow jobs for blow.

and I was offered one.

Be My Lover - YouTube

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-01-21T04:53:10Z

Neizvestno

I don't think we need legislation, actual trans people having been pissing quietly in their piss pot of choice all along the legislation is only so bearded creeps can have their dick out in the ladies room and scream discrimination if anyone doesn't want to pretend it's a clit and it's totally normal to be waggling those in strangers faces too.

Sad. Insane. Peak Farce, Pinnacle innanity. And these idiots are still going to close their eyes when those guys in their kids' schools girls' room do what they're already doing there.

HVAC, supra:

RC

HashAttack2 · 2021-01-21T14:37:32Z

HVACTech You went to the same high school and Kumilla?

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