Dr. Rachel Levine is making more history.
Levine, the former Pennsylvania health secretary, was ceremonially sworn in Tuesday as a four-star admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Corps. Levine becomes the nation’s first openly transgender four-star officer across any of the uniformed services of the United States.
Earlier this year, President Joe Biden chose Levine to be the U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health. She also became the top ranking officer of the USPHS Commissioned Corps, which includes 6,000 officers that serve vulnerable and underserved groups. She’s also the first female officer to lead the corps.
The USPHS Commissioned Corps helps deliver health care after emergencies and natural disasters and has been part of the effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The corps isn’t a military branch but it is one of eight uniformed services in the U.S. government and the only one focused on public health.
Levine, 63, said she was “humbled” to be the first openly transgender four-star office of a uniformed service.
“This is a momentous occasion and I am honored to take this role for the impact I can make, and for the historic nature of what it symbolizes,” Levine said Tuesday.
“May this appointment be the first of many like it as we create a more inclusive future.”
After her swearing in, Levine said she recognizes she takes the role to defend the nation’s public health as it faces the greatest health threat in modern times. She also said she is grateful for LGTBQ pioneers who paved the way.
“The time is now for our country to continue to move the bar forward for diversity and I am proud to wear this uniform and answer that call,” Levine said.
U.S. Surgeon General and Vice Admiral Vivek Murthy said in a statement he is “grateful to work alongside a kind, principled leader like Admiral Levine.”
“Her appointment represents an important step towards a more inclusive future, and her service will undoubtedly advance the USPHS Commissioned Corps’ mission to protect, promote, and advance the health and safety of our nation,” Murthy said.
Levine spent years leading Pennsylvania’s health department and gained a higher profile with her work coordinating the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Biden brought Levine into her high-ranking role in his administration in January. The U.S. Senate confirmed her nomination to the federal post in March.
In an interview with PennLive in August, Levine said she sees herself as an advocate.
“I specifically see myself as an advocate for health equity,” Levine said. “Although I now have different priorities in office, we still have COVID-19, we still have an overdose crisis, and we have health equity as part of the portfolio. That includes health equity for the LGTBQ+ community. Advocating for equality and fairness and health equity for LGBTQ+ people is part of my role.”
Alison Beam succeeded Levine and continues to serve as Pennsylvania’s acting health secretary.
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Lovely. Another “first”—the hell with qualifications and ability.
In the military nonetheless. I guess he will want to outfit our soldiers with water pistols and nerf guns.
Nerf guns are still triggering to anti gun leftists like IT!
@Son of Thunder,
It’s reported that “Levine, the former Pennsylvania health secretary, was ceremonially sworn in Tuesday as a four-star admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Corps.” It seems he-she is NOT a U.S. Navy officer. Indeed, I don’t even think Levine ever served in the Navy. Besides, the USPHS is not military.
Still, I wish Levine much luck. I also wish Levine would lose 50 lbs. and do something nice with her hair. Hey, shouldn’t a transgender woman at least look like an attractive non-transgender woman?
Hey… CathodeRayTuber… It’s not possible for transgender to look attractive… “sides” … we all ready can’t tell the players without a program!
This Joe Biden Administration hasn’t plowed new ground as the democrat marxist,Socialist political party has always looked for victims so that they could appear that the democrat party were the party who solly defended the Civil Rights of the oppressed and providers of Welfare and as a Consequences The votes for the democrat party occurred most offen .
Rachel Levin , a openly ” Transgender is a old policy that the democrat party has found beneficial to the Democrat Party.
The Question For America’s Military Wad Been ‘ ” Are they ready to defend this zCountry and Its Citivens, Now The queson to our Military is, Are they ” LGTBQ Enough.
George Patton is rolling over in his grave right now….
more like… spinning like a gyroscope
And China and N.Korea are in hysterics!
Respondence to ” FA UXICIFRAUD This Quote regarding Chinia And North Korea and their relationship with America, ” The Enemy of my enemy is my Friend. “
Patton was RIGHT< when he said "WE FOUGHT the wrong enemy."
George Patten was from a different Era when the president, and citizens believed that America was exceptional and worth fighting for, and not like our citizens of today. We have had democrat Presidents like Barack H. Obama who didn’t Feel that this country was ” Exceptional and to Paraphrase him, he said this about America, ” I Believe America is exceptional just like the Brits Believe Britian is Exceptional, in other words according to President Barack H. Obama, there wasn’t anything Exceptional, worth defending America from its enemies. Patten however, felt pride in being an American.
This LGTBQ pathological pioneer with Biden, just paved the way up Brokeback Mountain where the covered truth becomes their covered wagons, have turned the Democrat party, into the Donner party, with America perishing out in the cold in the Democrat political snow jobs of the mind, that in their unequipped, out of season attempts to FUNdeMENTALLY change, and socially conquer America in a winter of their self-created discontents. They will end up just like Napoleon’s and Hitlers attempts to take over Russia in the dead of winter, without failing to properly feed and cloth their army of darkness that always travels on its stomach, now forced to feed only upon its own flesh, just like the unprepared Donner Party were to eventually forced eat each other, where Donner destined states like California forget to learn from their history. Feeding upon each other always happens when Democrats run out of other people’s money, and sane workable solutions.
Socialists in Venezuela eat their pets!!
From your mouth to God’s ear, hermano mio.
The progressive d emocrat party obviously don’t demand reality, but, what If, will due for them, A fairyland, for the democrat party is a norm and not the exception.
Yes, the laughing stock of the world!
Our enemies are rolling on the floor, laughing at us.
You can thank our own Gov. Tom Wolf for this latest dumpster fire! He appointed Levine to run our Health Dept. Did such a wonderful job that Biden snapped “her” up for this gig. Like the one person said, qualifications be damned, this is all about tokenism.
She’s also the first female officer to lead the corps.
Not
I think that he is still a he. no matter what another man or woman did to him physically if at all.
count the ribs.
Looks like HE ate the whole cow!
First mentally ill person appointed to such a high position. May God have mercy on us.
Honestly, there’s a lot of mentally ill people really high up in government, and there have been for quite some time…!
I think, god has left the building….
Dude looks like a (REALLY ugly) lady!
The democrappic tokenist party climbs to a new mountain top of lunacy. Their hearts and minds swerving frantically in a fantasy realm that prayerfully be a temporary and forgotten. There is no limit to the ineptitude, corruption, perversion, false narratives and pure evil they display in their quest to transform and thus destroy our Republic.
Their collection of marxists, communists, socialists, racists, globalists, anarchists, atheists, jihadists, perverts, climate freaks, super fringe minorities, faux elite educators / celebrities. etc they have assembled along with billions of dollars of anti-American monies has them on a power binge the world has never witnessed before.
This “man in a dress” is the poster child to how far the once proud (and legitimate) party has fallen. with a close second to the clown president who sniffs women’s and little kid’s hair as he fondles them. Next up is to get a pedophile in charge of the Dept of Education and a beastiality pervert in charge of Dept of Agriculture (call them Director of Animal Husbandry).
I’m sure joe biteme already has these folks ready to go.
And there is your democratic party of today.
This is the result when children are not raised with “Christian” values. This type does not regard God as the reason they are here, what a shame that this is the norm now. This government has made it so easy for people to opt to spend eternity in hell. Wonder what those that disregard Gods plans for them will say on judgement day.
Can America get any more pathetic? Probably. I just don’t know how. These ‘Leaders’ will be the first to die after we have been overthrown by our enemies because of this kind of stupidity.
I wonder, how those who ACTUALLY WORKED TO EARN the status of general or admiral, think about IT being just MADE a four star???
One can only hope they will be the first to go.
this sickens me,we have lost our way in america and liberal progressives are the culprits.
Let me get this straight (no pun intended)…
The admiralty rank has been conferred, and four stars given, to a person who has never served in the Navy (nor, for that matter, in any military service), to an man who calls himself a woman (and we surrender by agreeing), and a secondary appellation is applied by calling him the first female to be conferred that rank.
Apparently, mental health is not a requirement to serve as chief “officer” of public health…
Or the Residency!
And worse, is there was ABSOLUTELY NO PUSH back, from the Dod on this..
@Go Deplatform Yourself,
You could relax. While you’re correct that Ms. Levine or Adm. Levine probably never served in the navy, the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) is NOT the Navy or even military. So this “admiralty rank,” of four stars, no less, was certainly not conferred on a U.S. Navy officer. Rather, the rank is just ceremonial BS, just like the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS), which is entirely BS, though tragically we taxpayers, transgender and non-transgender, have to pay for it.
Still, I wish Adm. Levine much luck, I also wish Adm. Levine would lose at least 50 lbs. and do something nice with her hair and get up to speed with her makeup. After all, shouldn’t transgender women try to look as attractive as non-transgender women?
Thanks for reading.
CRT
This man is masquerading both as a woman and as a 4-star Admiral. Does this mean that Stolen Valor is no longer any concern whatsoever…?
What does John “Band-Aid Purple Heart” Kerry have to do with this??
He probably shaved the “admiral’s” privates before the surgery. And Dick Blumenthal tried on the uniform, just to see how shiny he looks with all those ribbons and medals.
Apparently not…
What a joke. Someone tell me what she, he is good at? Leave it to Democratic to get so many queers,our sectuary of trans. is queer heaven help us.
Just looking at the fact the he calls himself a she, we have a science denier as Assistant Secretary for Health. She is not the first female to lead the corp because she is not a female. No amount of hormones or surgery can change your sex. A hundred years from now if they dig up his skeletal remains, he will be identified as a male. That is the science.
Also let’s not forget at the beginning of the pandemic, as PA Health Secretary, Levine, told Pennsylvania residents that nursing home were safe at the same time took his 90 some year old mother out of a nursing home and put her in a hotel.
Correcting my second sentence:
He is not the first female to lead the corp because he is not a female.
And just think. WOULD YOU TAKE health advice, from an IT that is that fat and ugly?
In this trsnsgenders case, the Quote That IWould Parapharase here, ” You can’t Fool Mother Nature” Into Reading, ” You Should’t Try To Fool Mother Nature, YOu Can’T, If It has Male Equipment hung on It, Its A Male no Matter If He puts on Beads and A Woman’s Dress.
I am SO very glad I wasn’t dumb enough to vote for the party that does this kind of **** at every opportunity.
Yeah, it’s qualified! What a freak. I don’t care if he, she is a transgender, it’s an adult. Live your life and God Bless you. But, just because some idiot, Dunce Biden, named you Admiral, doesn’t make you credible or worthy. Oh, and don’t demand that I accept you, he, she, it! We will never comply.
I am really looking forward to that official portrait of him/her in uniform. Will he/she be able to meet the dress code? Will be interesting to see.
WHAT dress code??
China just successfully tested a hypersonic missile. The US Military is focused on “Equity” and “Social Justice”. China now has the largest navy in the world. The US is crowing about giving four stars to a tranny. The Chinese are masters of cyber warfare. There are systems within the Department of Defense which still use 5.25″ floppy discs. ……..Did I just say how screwed we are?
More and more i am GLAD I retired out from the military, when i did…
How disgusting! Joe is just the empty compromised husk that will do anything to keep himself and family out of prison. You have to know Obama is behind this.
Stick it on the flight-deck of a carrier, that’ll scare the tripe out of China
I’m still hung up on the FACT that he is NOT in the military, therefore, he can call himself Admiral Zod, but it doesn’t mean anything. I do think this means that Biden has some shady plans for the Navy.
God made them male and female, so let him take up his issue with God.
God made ” Adam And Eve”, God made ” Male And ” Female , ” for a reason , to create the Human kind.