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Pa.'s new physician general brings an LGBT point of view
Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | January 25, 2015 | Melissa Dribben

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: absolutemorals; familyvalues; homosexual; homosexualagenda; transsexual
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She was dressed conservatively in a tailored gray jacket and matching skirt, accented by rings, bracelets, and an amber necklace.

1 posted on 01/27/2015 12:06:09 PM PST by Zakeet
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Karl Rove...is that you? Or John McCain?


2 posted on 01/27/2015 12:07:48 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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The amber necklace is a nice accent to the bat-sh## crazy oozing out of him.


3 posted on 01/27/2015 12:08:10 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Malort, turning taste-buds into taste-foes for generations.)
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To: Zakeet
she he...

On a good day I may feel like a tiger, but I'm still not one.

4 posted on 01/27/2015 12:08:18 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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To: Zakeet

God forgive us and then help us. What an atrocity. Poor thing.


5 posted on 01/27/2015 12:08:20 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: Zakeet

He also brings a whole lotta ugly to the job.


6 posted on 01/27/2015 12:08:30 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Zakeet

It is sick.


7 posted on 01/27/2015 12:09:17 PM PST by exnavy (Got ammo, Godspeed.)
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To: who knows what evil?

Oops...another ‘posted before reading the story’ violation.


8 posted on 01/27/2015 12:09:23 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: Zakeet

Wasn’t that dude in CINDERELLA?


9 posted on 01/27/2015 12:10:15 PM PST by The Toll
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To: Zakeet

that visage could make a train take a dirt road.


10 posted on 01/27/2015 12:10:35 PM PST by SparkyBass
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To: Zakeet

Er....Yikes!


11 posted on 01/27/2015 12:11:26 PM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes mandatory ... Thomas Jefferson)
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What has been seen...

What has happened to PA???


12 posted on 01/27/2015 12:12:04 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: Zakeet

13 posted on 01/27/2015 12:12:09 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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Would have to be very, very ill.......


14 posted on 01/27/2015 12:13:26 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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Wow. That’s really extreme. Just so no one will every call you “Dick” again?


15 posted on 01/27/2015 12:16:36 PM PST by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America)
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To: Zakeet

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.


16 posted on 01/27/2015 12:19:19 PM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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Those are man hands!


17 posted on 01/27/2015 12:20:08 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: who knows what evil?

No, it’s Anderson cooper. Pre-op.


18 posted on 01/27/2015 12:21:00 PM PST by WakeUpAndVote
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To: Zakeet

It belongs in jail instead of in a position of quasi authority.


19 posted on 01/27/2015 12:22:15 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: Eagles6

LOL!


20 posted on 01/27/2015 12:23:43 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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