I sure am glad the adults are back in charge!
Our nation's health officials have decided to stop playing children's games and pretending that boys can be girls. And you can see that in the halls of the Department of Health and Human Services.
NPR got the "exclusive" scoop on this one:
As you walk down a particular hallway on the seventh floor of the Humphrey Building in Washington, D.C., you'll find a line of photographic portraits of all the people from years past who have led the Public Health Corps at the federal Department of Health and Human Services.
Only one of those portraits is of a transgender person: Adm. Rachel Levine, who served for four years as President Biden's assistant secretary for health ...
Levine's official portrait was recently altered, a spokesperson for HHS confirmed to NPR. A digital photograph of the portrait in the hallway obtained by NPR shows that Levine's previous name is now typed below the portrait, under the glass of the frame.
Richard.
That's the "previous name" that NPR dare not even mention for fear of deadnaming and causing trauma to the whole transgender community.
And our formerly taxpayer funded news organization thinks that this is some sort of great scandal that the Trump HHS is recognizing that Admiral "Rachel" Levine was born as a man named Richard.
Unless the nameplate shortened his name to "Dick" Levine. Because that would be 1000x funnier.
Levine told NPR that it was an honor to serve the American people as the assistant secretary for health 'and I'm not going to comment on this type of petty action.'
Translation:
Yes, it's "petty" to call a man by his birth name instead of pretending he's a lady, but forcing the entire country to respect your "pronouns" and not "deadname" you isn't petty at all.
The response from HHS is really the best part of this story.
NPR asked HHS who made the change and why. In response, HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon wrote: 'Our priority is ensuring that the information presented internally and externally by HHS reflects gold standard science. We remain committed to reversing harmful policies enacted by Levine and ensuring that biological reality guides our approach to public health.'
You got a problem with OFFICIAL policy of the Department of Health of the United States, NPR?
It sounds like somebody isn't trusting the science.
Of course, NPR goes to show us that there's a lot of swamp draining left to do.
An HHS staff member who asked not be identified for fear of professional retribution called the change 'disrespectful' and added that it exemplifies 'the erasure of transgender individuals by this administration.'
Bobby Jr., please find out who this subordinate anti-science individual within the HHS is and why they are spewing this crap to NPR.
There's a long ways to go in fixing the DC sewer. But they are certainly taking steps in the right direction with these sorts of actions.
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