Tag: antitrans
Trump’s anti-trans effort is an agenda cornerstone with echoes in history
Odette Yousef Hours after an army helicopter and an American Airlines jet collided near Reagan National Airport last week, killing all on board both craft, social media erupted with the claim that the pilot manning the Black Hawk was a transgender service member. But it wasn’t true. Jo Ellis, a transgender, Black Hawk pilot with…
Dr. Rachel Levine focused on her job at HHS. Still, anti-trans politics followed her
Selena Simmons-Duffin In 2021, the country had one state with a ban on gender-affirming care for youth on the books — Arkansas. In March of the same year, Dr. Rachel Levine won confirmation by the Senate to lead the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps as the assistant secretary for health. She holds the rank…