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Pennsylvania Governor Appoints First Transgender Woman to Top Cabinet Position
RH Reality Check ^ | January 19th, 2015 | Nina Lizz-Schultz

Posted on 01/29/2015 12:57:07 PM PST by RBW in PA

Rachel Levine, a doctor dedicated to diversity and LGBTQ health who is a transgender woman, has been appointed physician general by Pennsylvania Governor-elect Tom Wolf. If chosen to serve in the governor’s cabinet, Levine, who has worked in the fields of pediatrics, psychiatry, and behavioral health for three decades, would become the highest-ranked transgender woman ever in the Pennsylvania government. Though he couldn’t say for certain, a spokesperson from Wolf’s office told Philadelphia magazine that “he believes Levine is the first transgender woman to hold the title of physician general.”

Levine is the chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine and Eating Disorders at Pennsylvania State University, where she also works for the Office of Diversity as the liaison for LGBT Affairs. Levine is also on the board of Equality Pennsylvania, an LGBT advocacy organization.

As physician general, Levine will advise Wolf, a Democrat, on medical and public health issues.

Levine told PennLive.com that being transgender has given her a unique perspective for the position, saying she thinks “it has helped me in terms of … understanding what all the issues are [for the LGBT community]. And I think I’ve been able to serve as a mentor and role model to LGBT individuals at the medical center as well as in the community.”

Aside from Levine’s appointment, Wolf announced on Saturday appointments for secretary of human services and secretary of health, both of whom are expected to advocate for Medicaid expansion and aide in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.


TOPICS: Government; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: cutadicoffmy; homosexualagenda; pennsylvania; transgender; wolf
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1 posted on 01/29/2015 12:57:07 PM PST by RBW in PA
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2 posted on 01/29/2015 12:59:30 PM PST by TexasCajun
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Pennsylvania Governor Appoints First Transgender Woman Disturbed and Mutilated Male Homosexual to Top Cabinet Position
3 posted on 01/29/2015 1:01:09 PM PST by kidd
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To: RBW in PA

Someone needs to post some eye bleach.


4 posted on 01/29/2015 1:02:37 PM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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It is confusingly hot. /S


5 posted on 01/29/2015 1:03:13 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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OMG

He needs to be committed.


6 posted on 01/29/2015 1:03:34 PM PST by Regulator
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I’m not sure about this. Letting eunuchs into positions of power always seems to lead to unpleasant intrigues.

Of course, back in the day, the eunuchs weren’t being given estrogen injections, so this is a test case as to whether that makes a differnce.


7 posted on 01/29/2015 1:04:50 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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State and local governments will save us by changing the Constitution and taking more control of federal funding and decisions.

[Load of irony and sarcasm there.]


8 posted on 01/29/2015 1:05:25 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: TexasCajun

If Tiny Tim had a sister ...
err, brother?


9 posted on 01/29/2015 1:05:27 PM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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10 posted on 01/29/2015 1:06:55 PM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Regulator

Be the first in YOUR state to appoint a sexual freak!!


11 posted on 01/29/2015 1:07:43 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: TexasCajun
He looks a bit like Robert Plant...without a moustache.


12 posted on 01/29/2015 1:08:44 PM PST by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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Not to be outdone by diblassio .. the newly appointed commie governor of Pennsylvania enters the “who is weirder” contest


13 posted on 01/29/2015 1:09:30 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true)
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It’s a Man FOOL !!!!


14 posted on 01/29/2015 1:10:28 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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If Alfred E. Neuman had a "sister"

"What, me female?"

15 posted on 01/29/2015 1:16:33 PM PST by GreenHornet
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...its the little pieces:

Males have two distinct sex chromosomes (XY)

16 posted on 01/29/2015 1:18:02 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: RBW in PA

It may thinks it’s a female, but it’s still, deep down, just a very disturbed male.


17 posted on 01/29/2015 1:19:09 PM PST by captain_dave
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Aside from Levine’s appointment, Wolf announced on Saturday appointments for secretary of human services and secretary of health.


Two fathers decide against sex-change but live together as 'transexual lesbians'

18 posted on 01/29/2015 1:20:06 PM PST by smoothsailing
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"Levine, who has worked in the fields of pediatrics, psychiatry, and behavioral health for three decades, would become the highest-ranked transgender woman ever in the Pennsylvania government. "

All anyone ever needs to know about psychiatry and behavioral health right here in one single thread.

19 posted on 01/29/2015 1:20:37 PM PST by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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Hurl Alert!


20 posted on 01/29/2015 1:21:11 PM PST by windsorknot
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