Joe Biden has appointed Rachel Levine as a deputy health secretary. You will be the first transgender person in a US government. “A very historic and qualified choice,” Biden says.
Rachel Levin is the face of the battle against the Coronavirus in her hometown of Pennsylvania. As the local health minister, she urged residents to stay home for Thanksgiving. Take a smaller turkey this year, advised the 64-year-old politician. It can now continue its policy at the national level. President-elect Joe Biden appointed her as deputy health secretary. That news agency reports a.
First, because Levine would be the first transgender person to hold a public office in the United States’ federal government. Dr. Rachel Levine will show the leadership and expertise to guide people through this pandemic – regardless of zip code, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability – and respond to the health needs that our country needs at this critical time. Biden announced. “It is a very historic and qualified choice to help lead our overall health.”
Levine is a well-known pediatrician with degrees from Harvard and Tulane University. Before becoming Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Health in 2017, she established a youth wing at the Pennsylvania State Medical Center Hershey. There she ran an eating disorder clinic. Then she was elected by her fellow physicians General Doctor Of Pennsylvania, a senior in fighting the opioid crisis in her state.
The pediatrician will become Representative Xavier Bercera, a former Democratic congressman in charge of justice in California. Both still need Senate approval. In her home state, that definitely didn’t stop Levine. It was approved there by the majority Republican Senate.
