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Male Pa. Health Dept. Head, Who Identifies as ‘Rachel,’ Addressing Public in Dress Amid Corona Crisis
Christian News ^ | 20 March A.D. 2020 | Heather Clark

Posted on 05/16/2020 8:35:55 PM PDT by lightman

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A man born as Richard who now identifies as Rachel, and who has officially led Pennsylvania’s Department of Health as secretary since 2018, is being broadcast on television screens across the commonwealth on a daily basis as he provides regular briefings on the status of COVID-19 in the Keystone state, exhorting residents on taking care of their physical and mental health.

“Your job right now is to stay calm, stay safe and please stay at home,” Levine said in a press conference on Monday, wearing a scarf, black dress with Mary Jane shoes, and nail polish.

“As our commonwealth moves forward through this, it is important to note that there are also mental health resources available,” he added. “If you or someone you know is experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the Crisis Text Line …”

Levine is a pediatrician who founded the Division of Adolescent Medicine and Eating Disorders at Penn State Children’s Hospital on the campus of the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. A graduate of Harvard and Tulane University, he obtained fellowships in pediatrics and adolescent medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York before making the move to Pennsylvania to work at the Penn State College of Medicine.

“Levine … has long focused on the connection between mental and physical health,” NBC News reports.

“I have always been interested in patients with eating disorders because it really is this medical-behavioral health intersection,” he also told Lancaster Online, outlining that when he worked at Penn State he “would see patients and try to help teens and young adults and their families.”

In 2015, Levine became the physician general and was named acting secretary of health in July 2017. He was confirmed as secretary by the Pennsylvania Senate the following year without a single objection from Republicans or Democrats.

“One of the things I’m most proud of is that I was unanimously confirmed by the Senate,” Levine told NBC, stating that he met with most of the lawmakers personally. “[They] judged me strictly on my professional qualifications.”

Writing on the opioid crisis, medical marijuana, adolescent medicine, eating disorders and “LGBT medicine,” Levine is also a professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the Penn State College of Medicine. He was named the grand marshal of the Philadelphia Pride Parade in 2015 and is on the board of the homosexual and transgender advocacy group Equality Pennsylvania.

BACKGROUND

According to the Washington Post, Levine, now 61, began seeing a therapist nearly 20 years ago after struggling with transgender feelings from his youth. He played football and hockey in an all-male private school and went on to marry and have children.

“Boy, did I have a midlife crisis,” he said of his 40s during a speech in which he emphasized support for youth who struggle with gender identity.

In 2007, at the age of 48, Levine decided to grow his hair long. In 2011, he officially began identifying as a woman and changed his name to Rachel.

In 2016, while serving as physician general for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Levine told CBS 21 that it is possible that gender incongruity begins in the womb — although acknowledging that data was inconclusive.

“Because of hormonal effects in utero, the brain has a gender identity which is different from the sex the child was born as,” he said. “If you look at the brain scans of a transgender woman, such as myself, then those scans, even before medical treatment, before hormones, [they] tend to look female.”

“It hasn’t been 100 percent proven,” Levine added, “and science continuously is advancing, and we need to learn more, but that is the current theory of why individuals might be transgender.”

HOPE

As previously reported, Christians believe that transgenderism isn’t just a medical or mental condition but primarily a spiritual issue — one that stems from the same predicament all men everywhere face without Christ.

In Matthew 19:4, Jesus noted that “He which made them at the beginning made them male and female.”

The Bible teaches that all are born with the Adamic sin nature, having various inherent feelings and inclinations that are contrary to the law of God, and being utterly incapable of changing by themselves.

It is why Jesus came: to “save His people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21).

Scripture outlines that Jesus came to be the propitiation for men’s sins (1 John 2:2; 1 John 4:10), a doctrine in Christianity known as substitutionary atonement, and to save men from the wrath of God for their violations against His law (Romans 4:25, Romans 5:9, Romans 5:16), a doctrine known as justification.

The Bible also teaches about regeneration, as in addition to sparing guilty men from eternal punishment, Christ sent his Holy Spirit to make those who would repent and believe the gospel new creatures in the here and now, with new desires and an ability to do what is pleasing in the sight of God by His indwelling and empowerment (Ezekiel 11:19, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Titus 3:5).

1 Corinthians 15:45 states, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul. The last Adam (Jesus) became a life-giving spirit.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: levine; paping; pasecretaryofhealth; pennsylvania; rachellevine; rachellevinebio; tomwolf; transgender; tyrannicaltrannie; wolf
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To: lightman

“Because of hormonal effects in utero, the brain has a gender identity which is different from the sex the child was born as,”


This was a theory...which has been pretty firmly disproven with twin studies.


41 posted on 05/17/2020 1:33:57 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: bagster

That is NOT a real picture.....is it?


42 posted on 05/17/2020 2:28:25 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Lurker

LOL!! IF there are ANY decent Democrats and Independents left, MAYBE, just MAYBE they will see the Democrat Party as the Party of FREAKS and CREEPS and CROOKS!


43 posted on 05/17/2020 2:29:58 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy
That monstrosity is in charge of public health in the State of Pennsylvania. Here's another.

#StrangerThanFiction

#PearlNecklace


44 posted on 05/17/2020 2:32:07 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: McGruff

Is THIS the same thing as the Rachel Levine that took His/her mom out of a nursing home?? Is this the same PERSON??


45 posted on 05/17/2020 2:32:11 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Eagles6
Massive civil disobedience is needed.


46 posted on 05/17/2020 2:35:16 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: lightman

These crossdressing males are mentally deranged. They are so enamored with a female ideal that they try to project it unto themselves. They are blinded to the fact that they are utterly pathetic creatures, who will never have a normal relationship with a woman, and thus create one. They are so selfish that they push their sickness upon people around them and force us to accept them using the “law” as a stick.


47 posted on 05/17/2020 3:44:15 AM PDT by kickstart ("A gun is a tool. It is only as good or as bad as the man who uses it" . Alan Ladd in 'Shane')
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To: Ann Archy

Yes, the same.

Very self centered, IMHO....and I can think of many other phrases.


48 posted on 05/17/2020 4:33:00 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

Unless he got it chopped off he is a common deranged male transvestite who takes loads of female hormones.


49 posted on 05/17/2020 4:54:16 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: lightman
A Guy Dressed Up Like A Sheila!
50 posted on 05/17/2020 4:55:11 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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To: bagster

Man beast alert, “it” removed her mother before she killed the rest


51 posted on 05/17/2020 5:00:52 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: bagster

Exactly


52 posted on 05/17/2020 9:18:04 AM PDT by Eagles6
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To: bagster

Every time I see this person’s picture, I hear in my head: “Live from New York! It’s Saturday Night!”


53 posted on 05/17/2020 9:23:41 AM PDT by nanetteclaret (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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