Posted on 01/27/2015 12:06:09 PM PST by Zakeet
Rachel Levine stood tall in the doorway, offered a polite handshake, and took a seat at the L-shaped desk in her drab, blank slate of an office.
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Levine, who has just been named Pennsylvania's physician general, spent most of her 57 years - at least outwardly - as a man. If the state Senate confirms her appointment, the doctor, who until a few years ago was known as Richard Levine, will become one of the nation's very few, openly transgender people in public office.
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She was dressed conservatively in a tailored gray jacket and matching skirt, accented by rings, bracelets, and an amber necklace.
Before accepting the job, she said, she had to carefully consider how she would balance her public exposure with her wish for privacy. She is willing to discuss her transsexuality in the interest of shedding light on a much-misunderstood community. But she is fiercely protective of her family and friends and puts strict limits on the questions she is willing to answer.
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She was dressed conservatively in a tailored gray jacket and matching skirt, accented by rings, bracelets, and an amber necklace.
Karl Rove...is that you? Or John McCain?
The amber necklace is a nice accent to the bat-sh## crazy oozing out of him.
On a good day I may feel like a tiger, but I'm still not one.
God forgive us and then help us. What an atrocity. Poor thing.
He also brings a whole lotta ugly to the job.
It is sick.
Oops...another ‘posted before reading the story’ violation.
Wasn’t that dude in CINDERELLA?
that visage could make a train take a dirt road.
Er....Yikes!
What has been seen...
What has happened to PA???
Would have to be very, very ill.......
Wow. That’s really extreme. Just so no one will every call you “Dick” again?
Telling a man that he is a woman because he believes it to be so is akin to giving a sword and a funny hat to a man that believes that he is Napoleon and telling him that if he invades Russia he’ll feel better about himself.
Those are man hands!
No, it’s Anderson cooper. Pre-op.
It belongs in jail instead of in a position of quasi authority.
LOL!
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